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ORAL MEMOIR OF UT LAW PROFESSOR GUS HODGES
PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LAW LIBRARY
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- A half-century of transformations at The University
of Texas School of Law are retold by the late Gus Hodges in an oral
history interview just published by the Jamail Center for Legal
Research.
"Gus M. Hodges: An Oral History Interview" contains three extensive
interviews conducted in 1986. "Gus Hodges was one of the most
colorful and best loved professors in the history of The University
of Texas School of Law," said Professor Roy Mersky, Harry M. Reasoner
Regents Chair in Law and Director of the Jamail Center.
In his Foreword, former UT Law Dean M. Michael Sharlot describes
Hodges as "a key participant in the enormous growth of the School of
Law in terms of students, faculty and facilities." Hodges (1908-1992)
discusses student life at UT during the Depression, the rise of the
Law School to national prominence, and the increasing diversification
of both the faculty and student body.
The interviewer, H.W. Brands, is the author of several highly
acclaimed biographies, including "The First American: The Life and
Times of Benjamin Franklin", a 2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and
"T.R.: The Last Romantic", a biography of Teddy Roosevelt. Brands is
now professor of history at Texas A&M University.
Brands conducted five series of interviews for the Tarlton Law
Library in 1985-1986 as part of the UT Law School's contribution to
the 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial Celebration. The interviews with
former Texas Supreme Court Chief Justices Robert Calvert, Joe
Greenhill, and Jack Pope (in the three-volume "Texas Supreme Court
Trilogy"), and with the UT Law School's outstanding dean, Page
Keeton, have already been published by the Jamail Center for Legal
Research.
The editor of the Tarlton Law Library Legal History Series is Michael
Widener, Head of Special Collections at the Jamail Center for Legal
Research.
This publication (and all other Jamail Center publications) can be
ordered on the web at <http://www.law.utexas.edu/pubs/>, or by
contacting the Publications Coordinator (Publications Coordinator,
Jamail Center for Legal Research,University of Texas School of Law,
727 East Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX 78705-3224; phone 512/471-7726;
fax 512/471-0243).
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Tarlton Law Library Legal History Series, No. 3:
Brands, H.W. GUS M. HODGES: AN ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEW. Austin,
Tex.: Jamail Center for Legal Research, 2002. vii, 38 pages. ISBN:
0-935630-56-2. Price: $15.00