H.B. Robertson, Jr.
Horace B. Robertson, Jr., is Professor of Law (Emeritus). He came to the Law School in 1976 as Visiting Professor of Law, being appointed to the permanent faculty as Professor of Law the following year.
At Duke Law School
Professor Robertson taught a small section in torts every year, combining it in most years with instruction of the small section in research and
writing. Professor Robertson's primary research and teaching interests, however, were in the field of public international law, with primary
concentration in the law of the sea and the law of armed conflict. In this field he taught courses and seminars in public international law, law of
the sea, international organization and admiralty. Following the completion of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, Professor
Robertson served for a number of years on the Council on Ocean Law's Panel on the Law of Ocean uses, which produced a number of research papers
designed to encourage changes to the Convention which would make it acceptable for United States ratification, an effort which, combined with that of
other groups, resulted in the President's submission of the Treaty to the Senate for consent to ratification in 1995.
From 1986 to 1989, Professor Robertson served as Senior Associate Dean.
Subsequent to his retirement from Duke Law School at the end of 1989, Professor Robertson spent a year as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He continues to serve as a member of the Advisory Committee on Operational Law of that institution.
Prior to coming to Duke, Professor Robertson served 31 years on active duty in the United States Navy, first as a general line officer (surface warfare) and for the last 21 years as a Judge Advocate. From 1972 to 1976 he served first as Deputy then as the Judge Advocate General of the Navy with the rank of Rear Admiral.
Professor Robertson attended Davidson College from 1940 to 1942 prior to being appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy, from which he received his B.S. degree in 1945. He received his J.D. Degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1953. He also received a Master's Degree in International Studies from George Washington University in 1968.
Richard Maxwell
Presently Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law
Emeritus, Duke University, Dean of UCLA School of Law from 1958-1969; Professor and Connell Professor of Law, UCLA, 1953-1981; educated at the
University of Minnesota where he was president of the Minnesota Law Review; has taught at various times at the University of North Dakota, the
University of Texas, Columbia University, the University of Utah, the University of California, Berkeley, Gonzaga University, Texas Tech University,
Hastings College of the Law, and St. Mary's University; served to Lt. Comdr. USNR, 1941-1946; was counsel to the Amerada Petroleum Corporation during
the early development of the Williston Basin; Fulbright Lecturer, Queen's University, Northern Ireland, 1970; Alumni Chair, University of Minnesota,
1970-71; Ford Foundation Professor, University of Singapore, 1971; Thomson Professor, University of Colorado, Summer 1982; West Coast Editor, Oil and
Gas Reporter, 1954 to present; Past Chairman of the Board, Private Adjudication Center, Duke University; lecturer at various times for the U.S. State
Department's cultural program in Liberia, Nigeria and Yugoslavia. Assisted in the establishment of a law school in Ethiopia in the 1960's.
Served at various times with the following groups: American Bar Association Task Force on Professional Utilization; American Bar Association Special Committee on Youth Education for Citizenship; American Bar Association Special Commission on Public Education in Law; California State Bar Commission to study the Bar Examination; Employee Rights Board of the City of Los Angeles; National Executive Committee of the Order of the Coif; Chairman, Council on Legal Education Opportunity; President, Association of American Law Schools; Chair, Advisory Committee on Law for the Fulbright Program; Chair, Advisory Committee for the United Kingdom Fulbright Program; Board of Visitors, Duke University School of Law; Board of Directors, Constitutional Rights Foundation; Board of Visitors, Southwestern University; Board of Trustees, California Western University; National Research Council Committee on Gas Production Opportunities; American Arbitration Association Labor Panel; Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Labor Panel; Order of the Coif, 1947; UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 1976; UCLA Medal, 1982; LL.D. (Hon.), 1983, California Western; LL.D. (Hon.), 1993, Southwestern; Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Clyde O. Martz Teaching Award, 1994 (with Howard R. Williams and Charles J. Meyers). Co-author of Modern Social Legislation (1950); Cases and Materials on Oil and Gas Law (6th ed. 1992), and California Cases on Security Transactions in Land (4thed. 1992); author of many articles on legal subjects in law reviews and other publications.