James Barr Ames
Member board overseers Harvard University, 1962-1965. Member American Bar Association, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Common Cause (chairman 1980-1992), Health Effects Institute (chairman 1985-2001).
Background
Cox, Archibald was born on May 17, 1912 in Plainfield, New Jersey. Son of Archibald and Frances Bruen (Perkins) Cox.
Education
- AB, Harvard University, 1934; Bachelor of Laws, Harvard University, 1937; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Harvard University, 1975; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Loyola University, Chicago, 1964; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Cincinnati, 1967; Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Denver, 1974; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College, 1974; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Rutgers University, 1974; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Michigan State University, 1976; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Wheaton College, 1977; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Northeastern University, 1978; Doctor of Laws (honorary), Clark University, 1980; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hahnemann Medical College, 1980; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1981; Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Georgetown University, 1988.
Career
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General practice law Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg, Boston, 1938-1941. Attorney Office of Solicitor General, United States Department Justice, 1941-1943, solicitor general, 1961-1965. Associate solicitor Department Labor, 1943-1945.
Lecturer law Harvard University, 1945-1946, professor law, 1946-1961, Williston professor law, 1965-1976, Carl M. Loeb University professor, 1976-1984, professor emeritus, 1984—2004. Visiting professor Boston University, 1985-1997. Special investigator cases Massachusetts Legislature, 1972.
Director Office Watergate Special Prosecution Force, Washington, 1973. Co-chairman Construction Industry Stabilization Committee, 1951-1952. Chairman Wage Stablzn. Board, 1952.
Works
- Law and the National Labor Policy:
- A series of five lectures presenting a summary of critical problems in the development of the national labor policy, delivered by the author, at the University of California, Los Angeles in November and December of 1959, under the auspices of the Institute of Industrial Relations.
- Labor Law: Cases and Materials (University Casebooks)
- The Fourteenth Edition builds on the prior edition's expansion of materials in labor history and industrial relations, while outlining today's regulatory developments against the background of a changing economic situation.
- Court and the Constitution
- An "admirable job of weaving together the complex fabric of constitutional history" (New York Times) into a "comprehensive account of the (Supreme) Court's shaping of the nation by its shaping of constitutional law.
- Labor Law, Cases and Materials, 14th Edition, 2009 Statutory and Case Supplement (University Casebooks)
- "Since the publication of the casebook in the summer of 2006, there have been a significant number of developments that show our labor law in a period of important transition.
Membership
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1934
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1937
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1975
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1964
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1967
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1976
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1977
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1978
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1980
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1980
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1981
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1988
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1938 - 1941
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1941 - 1943
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1943 - 1945
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1961 - 1965
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1985 - 1997
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