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Dean John Webster Wade, Robert J. Farley
Dean John Webster Wade, Robert J. Farley
Vanderbilt Law Review
John Wade began his teaching career at Ole Miss the next year after graduation from Harvard. It was a difficult initiation because many of his students were former contemporaries and all of the faculty were his former instructors. He handled this situation with natural dignity and the assurance of superior capability, yet modestly and conscientiously. Although during the next several years he was offered visiting position elsewhere, both Chancellor Butts and Dean Kimbrough found that they could not spare him. Perhaps they would not recommend him for a leave of absence because they were afraid of losing such a prize. …
John W. Wade: Friendly Critic And Sensitive Scholar, Wex S. Malone
John W. Wade: Friendly Critic And Sensitive Scholar, Wex S. Malone
Vanderbilt Law Review
The teacher could boast only three or four years of maturity over his students; hence, he was vulnerable and was often at-tacked with considerable spirit. From the beginning John Wade faced me with the kind of challenge that can be both the delight and the despair of a beginning law teacher. His characteristic mode of attack by way of imperturbable but relentless prodding will be recalled with admiring pleasure by more than a generation of his own law students. This role of the friendly, reflective skeptic, which is so fundamental a part of the intellectual make-up of John Wade, has …
John W. Wade: Gentle Scholar, Pilot Lawyer, Roger J. Traynor
John W. Wade: Gentle Scholar, Pilot Lawyer, Roger J. Traynor
Vanderbilt Law Review
His contributions to the work of the American Law Institute, his career as the dean of a first-rate law school, and his essays on restitution,torts, and conflict of laws would be more than enough to place John Wade in the first rank of American lawyers. The very constructiveness of his work makes him pre-emininently a modern teacher and lawyer.
John W. Wade And The Development Of The Vanderbilt Law School, Paul H. Sanders
John W. Wade And The Development Of The Vanderbilt Law School, Paul H. Sanders
Vanderbilt Law Review
John W. Wade made a decided imprint upon the Vanderbilt Law School in the years before he became Dean in 1952. His contributions to the development of the institution were impressive, not only as a skillful "case-method" teacher in the classroom, but also as Faculty Editor for volumes two through five of the Vanderbilt Law Review at a time when this position entailed responsibilities for all phases of the publication greatly in excess of those imposed upon the Faculty Adviser in later years. Without question he was the person most responsible for the firm and early establishment of the Vanderbilt …