Werdner Page Keeton (August 22, 1909 - January 10, 1999) was a lawyer and dean of the University of Texas School of Law for a quarter of a century.
Video W. Page Keeton
Education
Keeton was born in McCoy in Atascosa County, Texas son of William Keeton and Ernestine. He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he was a member of the Tejas Club and Texas Cowboys. He graduated first in his class at the University of Texas School of Law in 1931 and joined the law faculty of the University of Texas the following year at the age of 23 years. He obtained his Doctor of Law from Harvard University in 1936.
Maps W. Page Keeton
Career as the dean of the law faculty
Keeton served as dean of law school at the University of Oklahoma for three years (1946-1949). He was appointed dean of the University of Texas Law School in 1949, a position he held until 1974. During the academic year 1957-1958 Keeton was a visiting lecturer at UCLA Law School. At the University of Texas, he is credited with increasing funding for law schools and making it possible to gather faculty who rank among the best in the United States.
Keeton is a prolific writer and one of the foremost authorities on lawsuit lawsuits. He is the joint author of the most widely cited work in Tort, Prosser & amp; Keeton on Torts.
Over the years, Keeton deals with a number of individual instances where a prominent alumnus or powerful politician will urge him to silence or exclude faculty members who embrace unpopular or unorthodox political and social ideas. Dean Keeton will say:
"Well, we have people on the faculty who feel just like you about a particular [social issue] you're talking about except for one thing.They believe in the idea that we should have freedom of thought in the faculty, and we have to tolerate the people in faculty who disagree... In other words, they agree with your position on this issue, unless they disagree with your position that no one else should be in law faculty with a different position. "
Founder of the Foundation
Keeton considers his greatest achievement as the dean of the establishment of the University of Texas School of Law Foundation, a separate education company with a "powerful council, [one] that the government can not get rid of." The members of the Foundation Board are successful and successful lawyers who can contribute funds, raise funds, convince other alumni that their prizes will be used for law school and not for other purposes, and reject attempts by university and legislative administration to reduce law school funding in response to its success in fundraising. When Dean Keeton then sums up his thought, "You must have your own power structure." When the university chancellor objected to the fact that the existence of the Foundation Foundation Foundation Board and the University Board of Directors means "that you will have two boards to handle, and you will multiply your problem," Keeton replied: "Look, better have money and problems than not have money."
After his retirement, Keeton offered, "If I have to do it again, I do not know that I can also be close."
Awards
Keeton served as president of the American Law School Association; chairman of the national council of Legal Education Opportunities; and presented the Liberty Award Torch from the Anti-Defamation League. The city of Austin changed its name to 26th Street so the University of Texas School of Law is now located at 727 Dean Keeton Street.
The usual keeton in one of the bars in Austin. The drink of choice is one part whiskey, one part bourbon, and one part Scotch - better known as "Dean Keeton."
Family
Keeton is the father of former Texas Superintendent of Finance and candidate for governor Carole Keeton Strayhorn, and grandfather of Scott McClellan, former White House Press Secretary under US President George W. Bush, and Mark McClellan, who heads the Medicare and Medicaid Service Center and becomes Commissioner of Administration Food and Drugs in the second Bush administration.
The grandchildren of Keeton, Scott and Mark McClellan both quoted Keeton's words as an inspiration for public service: "This is not the dollar you make, that's the difference you make."
Keeton's brother, Robert Keeton is a leading federal judge and law scholar, who contributed to the writing of Prosser and Keeton on Torts.
Note
References
- http://www.law.du.edu/russell/lh/sweatt/docs/koh.htm
- http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/1999-2000/memorials/Keeton/keeton.html
External links
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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