Career
Rejected for service with British forces in World War I, 1914, he became a member of the American forces when USA joined the war in 1917; he became counsel to the American mission to Poland, 1919.
He was called to the bar (Inner Temple), 1919, and became a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and lecturer in jurisprudence; he edited the Cambridge Law Journal, 1921–5, and the Law Quarterly Review, 1926. He was Master of University College, Oxford, 1951–63.
As a member of the Law Revision Committee, he helped to promote improvements in various branches of the law.
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