Background
Gulliver, Ashbel Green was born on November 23, 1897 in New York City. Son of William Curtis and Louisa (Green) Gulliver.
Gulliver, Ashbel Green was born on November 23, 1897 in New York City. Son of William Curtis and Louisa (Green) Gulliver.
Student Groton (Massachusetts) School, 1910-1915. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1919, Bachelor of Laws, cum laude, 1922, Master of Arts (honorary), 1935.
His nickname was "Peyl"—from ashpail. Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. He received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University in 1919.
He was the class valedictorian.
While at, he was on the Yale Law Journal and served as its secretary. Gulliver became an assistant professor at in 1927, and a full professor in 1935.
In 1934, he became Assistant Dean of In 1939, when Charles Edward Clark resigned as Dean to become a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he was appointed Acting Dean. He became Dean in 1940, and held that position until 1946.
During World World War II, he recommended that other law schools merge or close.
While Dean, in 1941, he wrote his classic article on Trust Law, Classification of Gratuitous Transfers, with Catherine J. Tilson. During World World War II, Gulliver was the Chairman of the Alien Hearing Board for Connecticut. After his deanship, he continued to teach, and by 1967, had become the Garver Professor of Law Emeritus at In general, Gulliver was considered a solid, enterprising, and uncontroversial administrator, and a "mild-mannered manitoba"
The Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial Library Fund at is endowed in his name.
Gulliver was a Chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations.
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While at Yale, he was a member of the secret society Wolf"s Head. After the war, he was a member of the Connecticut Post-War Planning Board and Chairman of the Yale University Post-War Planning Committee, and he worked for the Office of the Pardon Attorney.
Married Eugenia B. Porter, December 18, 1926. Children: William Curtis, Anne Porter, Ashbel Green.