Background
Moore, William Underhill was born on May 25, 1879 in New York, New York, United States. Son of William Oliver and Katharine (Underhill) Moore.
Moore, William Underhill was born on May 25, 1879 in New York, New York, United States. Son of William Oliver and Katharine (Underhill) Moore.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia, 1900, A.M., 1901, Bachelor of Laws, 1902.
Practiced law at New York City, 1902-1907. Professor of law, University of Kansas, University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago. Professor of law, Columbia University, 1916-1929, Sterling professor of law, Law school and Institute of Human Relations (Yale), 1929-1947, Sterling professor emeritus, Yale, since 1947.
Cons. practice, Madison, Wisconsin, 1908-1914, New York City, 1916-1927, and since 1947. Sole arbitrator in dispute arising from failure of Credit Anstalt, between International Acceptance, Brown Brothers, Chase, Irving Trust, New York Trust and other New York banks, on one hand and S. M. v. Rothschild and Amstelbank of the Netherlands, on the other, 1935.
Special mediation representative of the public National War Labor Board since 1942. Private 71st New York Volumes, in Cuba, Spanish-American War. Secretary Wisconsin State Bar Association, 1912.
Member bars of New York, Kansas, Wisconsin and Illinois, Association Bar City of New York, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Association for Symbolic Logic, American Sociological Society, American Statistical Association, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Phi.
Married Henelia M. Wilhelmi, September 1908. Children: Alwine Jane, Kent.