University of Virginia Library

Hurst Delivers Lectures
On Corporation History

One of the most outstanding
living historians of American law
will give the annual Page-Barbour
lecture series next week at the
University.

James Willard Hurst, professor
of law at the University of Wisconsin,
will deliver three lectures on
the general theme, "Corporations
and the Public Interest."

His topics for Wednesday,
Thursday, and Friday evenings of
next week are "From Special
Privilege to General Unity: The
Nineteenth Century," "The Legitimacy
of the Corporation in the
Twentieth Century" and "The
Corporation and the Separation of
Powers."

The author of a number of
books on law, Mr. Hurst's works
include "The Growth of American
Law," one of the standard texts on
legal history, and "Law and Social
Process in U.S. History." His "Law
and Economic Growth" is regarded
as the major publication on legal
history in the past 50 years.

Born in Rockford, Illinois, he
was graduated from Williams College
in 1932 and earned his
bachelor of law degree from Harvard
University in 1935.

Hurst is a fellow of Trinity Hall
at Cambridge University and was
Pitt Professor of American History
and Institutions there from 1967 to
1968. He is a member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Phi Delta Phi, and the Order
of the Coif.

The Page-Barbour lectures will
be held April 8, 9, and 10, at 8
p.m., in East Hall of the University's
School of Law and are open to
the public.