Harry Willmer Jones

Background

Jones, Harry Willmer was born on March 4, 1911 in New York City. Son of Harry and Leona May (Coffin) Jones.

Education

Student, Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, 1929-1931; Bachelor of Laws, Washington University, St., Louis, 1934; Bachelor of Arts, Washington University, St., Louis, 1937; postgraduate, University of Oxford, England postgraduate (Rhodes scholar), 1934-1935; Master of Laws, Columbia, 1939; Doctor of Laws, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1967; Doctor of Humane Letters, Villanova U., 1972.

Career

Part-time law practice, lecture series on public and international affairs, 1935-1938; instructor, assistant professor of law, Washington University, 1935-1939; visiting lecturer in law, Columbia, 1939-1940; visiting lecturer in law, Stanford, summer 1940; associate professor of law, University of California, 1940-1941; professor, University of California, 1946; professor of law, Columbia, 1947-1957; Cardozo professor jurisprudence, Columbia, 1957-1979; Cardozo professor emeritus, Columbia, 1979-1993. Professor of law University of Chicago, 1963-1964. Director research American Bar Foundation, 1963-1964.

With O.P.A., Washington, 1941-1943. Successively as head, research and opinion unit, chief appellate litigation branch, assistant general counsel, director food enforcement division. Visiting professor Columbia, summer 1947.

Visiting professor law U. Delhi, Inda, 1968. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1981-1982. Chairman O.D.M. shipbuilding industry panel, summer 1952.

Research director American Assembly, 1953. Faculty Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, summers 1955-1959.

Achievements

• Harry Willmer Jones has been listed as a reputable Lawyer, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Cases and Materials on Contracts

    (Cases and Materials on Contracts, 1972 2nd Edition, by Al...)

  • Jones, Kernochan and Murphy's Cases and Materials on Legal Methods, Successor Edition (University Casebook Series)

    (This casebook provides detailed information on legal meth...)

  • Law & the Social Role of Science based on the proceedings of a conference under the auspices of the Rockefeller University & the Walter E. Meyer Research Institute of Law.
  • The American Assembly the Courts the Public and the Law Explosion
  • Jones, Kernochan and Murphy's Cases and Materials on Legal Methods, Successor Edition (University Casebook Series) 1st edition by Harry Jones, John Kernochan, Ronald Krotoszynski, Murphy, Ar (1980) Hardcover
  • The Efficacy of Law
  • The Courts, the Public, and the Law Explosion

Membership

Trustee W.E. Meyer Research Institute Law, 1957-1973. Served as assistant counsel Bureau Aercs. and counsel for Bureau Aeronautics general representative, Western District, with rank of Lieutenant (junior grade) and Lieutenant commander of The United States Navy Reserve, 1943-1946. Consultant on legislation research and drafting problems for conl. and state legislation committees Member American Law Institute, American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Bar Association, American Bar Foundation, Order of Coif, Phi Delta Theta, Phi Delta Phi.

Connections

Married Shirley O'Neal Coggeshall, November 21, 1935 (deceased 1955). Married Alice Neuburger Katz, July 11, 1956 (deceased 1984). Married Jean Brown Kinney, January 21, 1990.

Father:

Harry Jones

Mother:

Leona May (Coffin) Jones

Spouse:

Shirley O'Neal Coggeshall

Spouse:

Jean Brown Kinney

Spouse:

Alice Neuburger Katz