I 01. 6 NO. 4 AUGUST 196

Law School Visitors' Committee

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Francis Allen Joins Law Faculty in Fall

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In September, Francis A. Allen will join the Michigan Law% School faculty as professor of law, teaching constitutional, crimi- - - '

Appointment of a Committee of Visitors for the Law School rial, and family law. He comes to Michigan from the University has been announced by University President Harlan Hatcher and of Chicago, where he has been a professor of law since 1956. Dean Allen F. Smith, of the Law School. The group will meet for Professor Allen has a national reputation in the field of crimi- - the first time Nov 9 and 10, at the call of Ralph M- Carson, na1 law. He was formerly associate editor of the Journal of president of the Lawyers Club. Criminal Law, Criminology, and Police Science. He served on the -

Establishment of the Visitors' Committee is in accordance Illinois sex Offenders Commission in 1952-53 ; was &airman of ,;?- with the new bylaws of the Lawyers Club, which provide for such a joint bar association sub-committee to draft a criminal code for. a committee to "meet at the Law School at least Once a year to Illinois; and is a member of the Illinois Academy of Criminology examine the Law School's program of undergraduate, graduate and the American Correctional Association. and continuing legal education, and legal research, its contribution A native of Kansas City, Kans., Professor Allen received his : to the legal profession and the improvement of law and society, A.B. degree from Cornell University in 1941 and the LL.B. from : iC , and its relationships to its alumni. I t shall make a report of its Northwestern University in 1946. He holds an honorary M.A. lyi.<c findings to the President of the University, to the Board of degree from Harvard University and an honorary J. D. degree ~overnors (of the Lawyers Club). and to the..fyulty ofdthe Law- from Cornell. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order' School." - - 3 S t .,by 2L! :.IJ -T--,L :;- :+:-'<- L -'L ! 2 of the Coif.

+ - k 4 * = The tentative agenda mnounced by Mr. Carson lor the first From 1946 to 1948, Professor Allen was legal secretary to the - ). .,5 meeting includes visits to classes, reports from faculty On vari- late Chief Justice Vinson of the U. S. Supreme Court. He taught ' . s,'') 7 OUS phases of the Law sch001'~ program, and a meeting with the in the Northwestern University Law school, 1943-1953, and a t a :'<.$ Law School administrative officers. Among topics listed for con- Harvard, 1953-1956, prior to joining the Chicago faculty six , , 8 :4

- . sideration are faculty appointments, placement of graduates, years ago., , .: , .+ .;. . ... 7 - .I .I .i, .- .. 7 4 - -. +, quality of students, curriculum, and research. - . 1.

Members of the Committee of Visitors are: Paul L. Adams, _ ,,-. - 4

- L Lansing ; A. H. Aymond, Jr., Jackson; Henry A. Bergstrom, Pitts- - & . . *-::;;. y'n ::.! :Ti'-!..-1 tr :; .- -'' , .u: -2 . -

burgh, Pa. ; John R. Brown, Houston, Tex. ; Harvey W. Clarke, 0. ; J. Don Lawrence, Ypsilanti; David R. Macdonald, Chicago, I d

Spokane, Wash. ; Stephen H. Clink, Muskegon; Glenn M. Coulter, Ill. ; Edward C. McCobb, Grand Rapids; Frank M. McHale, In- . . Detroit; Allan B. Diefenbach, Akron, 0 . ; George E. Diethelm, dianapolis, Ind. ; Donald F. Melhorn, Toledo, 0. ; Edgar M. Mors- 4 New York; Carl E. Enggas, Kansas City, Mo.; Benton E. Gates, man, Jr., Omaha, Neb.; John P. O'Hara, Detroit; John H. . -*-

Columbia City, Ind.; Harry G. Gault, Flint; William D. Gowans, Pickering, Washington, D. C.; N. Michael Plaut, Keene, N. H.; . '

Detroit; W. A. Groening, Jr., Midland; Philip A. Hart, Washing- Ira M. Price 11, Los Angeles, Calif.; Donald L. Quaife, Dearborn; ton, D.C.; Hazen J. Hatch, Marshall; H. Winston Hathaway, Benjamin M. Quigg, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.; Edward D. Ransom, Muskegon; Charles P. Henderson, Youngstown, 0.; Carl R. Henry, San Francisco, Calif. ; Ronald M. Ryan, Battle Creek; Talbot Alpena; Allen C. Holmes, Cleveland, 0 . ; Jason L. Honigman, De- Smith, Detroit; George A. Spater, New York; John S. Tennant, troit; L. Douglas Hoyt, Denver, Colo.; Edward Hutchison, Fenn- New York; Stanley G. Thayer, Ann Arbor; Paul R. Trigg, Jr., ville; Clayton F. Jennings, Lansing; W. F. Kenney, New York; Detroit; Samuel G. Wellman, Cleveland, 0. ; Renville Wheat, Alan R. Kidston, Chicago, Ill.; Thomas V. Koykka, Cleveland, Detroit; Herbert E. Wilson, Indianapolis, Ind.J=J.+:' -' - - .-