Huger Jervey

Huger W. Jervey (September 20, 1878 – July 27, 1949) was an American lawyer, professor, and dean of Columbia Law School.[1] Jervey assumed the position as dean at Columbia Law after Harlan Fiske Stone in 1924.[1] He resigned from the position in 1928.[2] He was a professor of law at Columbia from 1923 to 1949,[3] and also became the head of Columbia's Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law in 1931.[3]

Early life

Jervey was a native of Charleston, South Carolina.[3] He attended college at Charleston College and the University of the South. He graduated from the University of the South in 1899 and received his masters in 1900. He then studied Greek at Johns Hopkins University.

Career

Jervey taught Greek as an assistant professor at the University of the South until 1909. The next year he entered Columbia Law School where he served as editor of the Columbia Law Review.[4]

Jervey served in the U.S. Army in France during World War I[4] and later with the General Staff Corps of the Army. He became a professor of law at Columbia Law in 1923.

At his induction as dean of Columbia Law School[5] U.S. Attorney General Harlan F. Stone spoke.[6]

Legacy

The National Portrait Gallery has a painting of Jervey by Deane Keller. [7]

References

1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-11-23. Retrieved 2008-02-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. Columbia Law Review, Vol. 28, No. 7 (Nov. 1928), pp. 939-943.
3. The News and Courier, Charleston, SC, Apr 11, 1953, page 14.
4. Alfred Findlay Mason, Samuel Epes Turner, American Law School Review, Volume 5, West Pub. Co., 1922, p. 325.
5. "Law: A New Dean". Time. December 1924.
6. "STONE AT COLUMBIA URGES BETTER LAWS; Declares There is a Growing Complaint That Enforcement is Breaking Down. PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED Attorney General Advises Students at Induction of Dr. Jervey as Dean of Law School". The New York Times. 18 November 1924.
7. "Huger Wilkinson Jervey".