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Theologian, Alabama Dean

Distinguished Professors Join Faculty

The dean of the University of
Alabama Law School and a well-known
theologian will join the University faculty
next year.

Daniel J. Meador, on the University
law faculty from 1957 to 1966 when he
was named to the Alabama post, will
succeed Hardy C. Dillard as James
Monroe Professor of Law in September.
Mr. Dillard is new American representative
to the International Court of Justice
at the Hague.

Joseph Fletcher, whose main interest
is social ethics and medical ethics in
particular, will be visiting professor of medical
ethics beginning July 1.

He is the author of several books, including
"Morals and Medicine," "Situation Ethics,"
"Moral Responsibility" and, with Harvey Cox,
"The Situation Ethics Debate." The last three
are on the theory of ethical analysis and
decision making and its application to such
areas as medicine, business management and
social roles.

Currently professor of social ethics at the
Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge,
Mass., Fletcher is former dean of the Graduate
School of Applied Religion in Cincinnati and
former director of the Musser Seminar at
Harvard Business School and of the Secretary
of Commerce's Business School and of the
Secretary of Commerce's Business Ethics
Advisory Council. He holds degrees from West
Virginia University, Berkeley Divinity School,
London University and Kenyon College.

A frequent contributor to national legal
publications and a former law clerk to Supreme
Court Justice Hugo Black, Mr. Meador argued a
case before the Supreme Court in 1962 in
which he defended the right of an indigent to
counsel. That case was an important predecessor
to the 1963 decision concerning the
necessity of providing defense counsel for
indigents.

A native of Alabama, Mr. Meador is a
graduate of the University of Alabama Law
School and holds a master of law degree from
Harvard Law School.

While a Fulbright lecturer at Southampton
University in England, he studied comparative
procedural problems in the litigation of public
law cases in England and in America. He is
considered an expert in Federal court procedure,
evidence and constitutional litigation and
in fields involving the writ of habeas corpus.

Other faculty elections by the Board of
Visitors include Dr. George Cooper Jr.,
professor and chairman at the University of
Tennessee College of Medicine, as visiting
professor of radiology.