Professor to be honored at law retirement banquet
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James Barclay Smith, professor of law at KU for 31 years, will be honored at a retirement banquet 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Attending will be members of Green Inn of Phi Delta Phi National Law Fraternity, whom he has advised, and students from the School of Law.
SMITH, WHO has become a "legend in and out of the classroom," obtained a B.S. from the National University, Washington, D.C., in 1924, an L.LB, from the
Faculty members get $160,000 in grants
Research grants totaling nearly $160,000 have been awarded to KU faculty members so far during the month of May.
The Office of Research Administration reports nine grants during the period with a total value of $159.848.
The largest grant was made by the Atomic Energy Commission to Peter Richards, assistant professor of physics, for $41,500 in researching magnetic resonance and relaxation.
The professor began his career as a practicing lawyer in New York City. Only one year later, he became associate professor of law at Louisiana State University, a position which he held one year, at which time he received a full professorship there.
KU School of Law in 1926, and an SJ.D. from Yale in 1927.
SMITH TOOK his present position as professor of law at KU in 1935 when he left Louisiana State University. He has served here since then except for a military leave of absence.
He assumed this position from 1929-1935, during which time he took one year's leave of absence as valuation attorney for the International Commerce Commission from 1931 to 1932. In 1932, Smith was valuation expert counsel for the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia.
He published "Some Phases of Fair Value and Interstate Rates" in 1932 and "Studies in the Ade- in
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quacy of the Constitution" in 1939. He has also written many law review articles and book reviews.
Smith has been admitted to the bar in Kansas, New York, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the New York, Kansas, American and Federal Bar Associations.
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