Ashbel Green Gulliver

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Ashbel Green Gulliver
Born(1897-11-23)November 23, 1897
Connecticut, U.S.
DiedJuly 3, 1974(1974-07-03) (aged 76)
Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
Education Yale University (BA, LLB)
Known forFormer dean of Yale Law School
SpouseEugenia B. Porter Gulliver

Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897 – July 3, 1974) [1] was the dean of Yale Law School from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Pail"—from ashpail. [2]

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Early life and education

Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. [2] He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1919, [3] where he was secretary of the Elizabethan Club [4] and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society. [5]

Gulliver graduated with an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1922. [6] He was the class valedictorian. [2] While at Yale Law School, he was on the Yale Law Journal and served as its secretary. [7] [8]

Career

After graduating, he worked at Alexander & Green, which was founded by Ashbel Green, his grandfather. [1]

Gulliver became an assistant professor at Yale Law School in 1927, and a full professor in 1935. [1] In 1934, he became assistant dean of Yale Law School. [2] In 1939, when Charles Edward Clark resigned as dean to become a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, he was appointed acting dean. [9] He became dean in 1940, and held that position until 1946. During World War II, he recommended that other law schools merge or close. [10] [11] While dean, in 1941, he wrote his classic article on trust law, "Classification of Gratuitous Transfers", with Catherine J. Tilson.

During World War II, Gulliver was the chairman of the Alien Hearing Board for Connecticut. After the war, he was a member of the Connecticut Post-War Planning Board and chairman of the Yale University Post-War Planning Committee, and he worked for the Office of the Pardon Attorney. [12]

After his deanship, he continued to teach, and by 1967, had become the Garver Professor of Law Emeritus at Yale Law School. [13] In general, Gulliver was considered a solid, enterprising, [2] and uncontroversial administrator, [14] and a "mild-mannered man." [15]

The Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial Library Fund at Yale Law School is endowed in his name. [6]

Work as arbitrator

Gulliver was a chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations. [16]

Selected works

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Education: Yale Week". Time . 1940-02-26. Archived from the original on October 14, 2010. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  3. ↑ Report. 2006-10-12. Retrieved 2011-04-14– via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Yale Banner and Pot Pourri, New Haven, CT, Class of 1919, pg. 309
  5. ↑ Yale Literary Magazine. Herrick & Noyes. 1919. p.  269 . Retrieved 2011-04-14– via Internet Archive.
  6. 1 2 "Yale Law School | Library Endowments". Law.yale.edu. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  7. ↑ "The Effect of the Federal Safety Appliance Acts on Workmen's Compensation". Yale Law Journal . 30 (7): 732–735. 1921. doi:10.2307/788289. JSTOR   788289.
  8. ↑ "Constitutional Methods of Regulating Jitneys". Yale Law Journal. 31 (2): 183–187. 1921. doi:10.2307/789307. JSTOR   789307.
  9. ↑ Cattell, James Mckeen; Ryan, Will Carson; Walters, Raymond (2009-03-11). School & Society . Retrieved 2011-04-14– via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Education: Tyrants v. Lawyers". Time. 1942-11-02. Archived from the original on October 29, 2009. Retrieved 2011-04-14.
  11. ↑ Journal of Education. 2010-04-06. Retrieved 2011-04-14– via Google Books.
  12. ↑ Kronman, History of the Yale Law School, page 136
  13. ↑ Gulliver, Ashbel Green (1967). Cases and materials on gratuitous ... Retrieved 2011-04-14– via Google Books.
  14. ↑ Kronman, History of the Yale Law School, page 144
  15. ↑ Kronman, History of the Yale Law School, page 13
  16. ↑ "In the Matter of New England Iron Works - and – I.A.B.S. & O. Iron Workers Local #532, AFL"
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