Background
Stone, Ferdinand Fairfax was born on December 12, 1908 in Urbana, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Lukins Pidgeon and Lutie Vella (Ivins).
Stone, Ferdinand Fairfax was born on December 12, 1908 in Urbana, Ohio, United States. Son of Samuel Lukins Pidgeon and Lutie Vella (Ivins).
AB, Ohio State University, 1930. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Ohio State University, 1982. A.M., Ohio State University, 1931.
Bachelor in Juris, (Rhodes scholar Exeter College), Oxford University, England, 1933. Bachelor of Civil Law, Oxford University, England, 1934. Master of Arts, Oxford University, England, 1957.
D.Juristic Science (Sterling fellow), Yale University, 1936. Doctor honorary, University Grenoble, France, 1966. Doctor of Laws, Tulane University, 1982.
Member legal staff Supreme Court of the United States Court Advisory Committee on Rules Civil Proceedings, 1935-1936. Instructor law University Wyoming, 1936-1937. Visiting professor law Southern Methodist University, summer 1937.
Associate professor law Tulane University, New Orleans, 1937-1943, professor law, 1948-1963, W.R. Irby professor law, 1963-1979, professor emeritus, 1979-1989, scholar-in-residence, 1980-1989. Director Tulane Institute for Comparative Law, 1949-1978. Acting professor law Stanford, 1947-1948.
Professor Associate de la Faculté de Droit Grenoble, 1960, 66, 76, de l'Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Européenees de Turin, 1960. Fulbright lecturer law King's College, University London, 1957-1958. Gastprof. Rechtswissenschaftliches Fakultät University Kö ln, 1962.
Fulbright professor law department University Edinburgh, 1963. Visiting Ford professor American law University London, 1972. Visiting Simon professor, laws faculty University Manchester, England, 1975.
Visiting professor Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, 1977, 79, University College Wales School Law, 1978. Faculty Law University Exeter, England, 1980.
In addition to his teaching duties, while an active member of Tulane"s faculty from 1937 to 1978, as a visiting professor in other institutions and as the West. R. Irby Professor Emeritus after retiring, in 1949 he founded and headed until 1979 Tulane"s Institute of Comparative Law, served on the Board of Editors of the American Journal of Comparative Law, a member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and a director of the Society for Comparative Study of Law.
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