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Show Harvard Prof To Discuss Law, Economy "Legal Institutions of the International In-ternational Economy" will be the subject of the seventh annual an-nual Leary Lecture on May 1. Professor Abram Chayes, former form-er legal adviser to the U.S. Department De-partment of State, will deliver the traditional address in the College Col-lege of Law Courtroom at 8 p.m. The public is invited. A professor of law at Harvard University, Chayes spent the academic aca-demic year 1965-66 in England on a "reflective year" grant from the Carnegie Corp., writing in the field of international law. He held down the State Department Depart-ment assignment from 19 61 through 1964. Legal Adviser Chayes joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1955 after four years in private practice with two law firms in Washington Washing-ton D.C. Prior to that he was legal adviser to Gov., Chester Bowles, Connecticut. He also served as associate general counsel to the President's Materials Ma-terials Policy Commission and as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. He holds both bachelor of arts and bachelor of laws degrees from Harvard, both magna cum laude. He was president of the "Harvard Law Review" ' and stood first in his , graduating class. From 1943 to 1946, he was on active duty with U.S. Army field artillery units in France, Holland, Germany and Japan. Honor Dean The annual Leary Lecture was established to honor the memory of William H. Leary, late Dean of the College of Law. Sponsors include the Utah chapter chap-ter of the Order of the Coif, highest national scholastic honorary hon-orary legal society; the College of Law; the Division of Continuing Contin-uing Education and many members mem-bers of the Utah State Bar. Previous lecturers have included in-cluded Chief Justice Roger J. Traynor of the California Supreme Su-preme Court; U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Bren-nan Bren-nan Jr.; Dean Erwin N. Gris-wold Gris-wold of the Harvard Law School; Professor Walter Gellhorn of Columbia University; Dean Eugene Eu-gene V. Rostow of the Yale Law School, and Justice Charles D. Breitel of the appellate division of the Supreme Court of New York. Lecture chairman for 1967 is John J. Flynn, University professor pro-fessor of law. |