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William W. Bishop, Jr., '28, J.D. '31, for eight years with the United States Department of State, joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in October, 1948. His special field of teaching is international law, but he also teaches conflict of laws. In 1946 he served as legal adviser to the United States delegation to the Paris Peace Conference and the Council of Foreign Ministers, in London, Paris and New York, drafting the Italian and Balkan peace treaties.
Professor Bishop was born at Princeton, New Jersey. As an undergraduate he be came a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi and Coif, besides serv ing on the staff of the "Law Review." He also studied in the law schools of Harvard and Columbia. Professor Bish op's first affiliation with the teaching staff at the University began after he earned his law degree, when he was appointed as a research and teaching assistant in the Law School, remaining until 1935 when he joined the New York law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner and Ballantine. After a year there, he served as lecturer in politics at Princeton University from 1936 to 1938.
In 1939 he assumed his position as As sistant Legal Adviser in the United States Department of State. Just prior to returning to the University of Michi gan as a Professor, he had been Visit ing Professor of International Law at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia University. He is one of the Board of Editors of the "American Journal of International Law," being in charge of the department of Judicial Decisions which collects and digests cases involving international law de cided by American and foreign courts.
Among his publications is a mimeographed casebook on international law, which is used at the University of Michigan and other universities. Pro fessor Bishop is a member of the American Bar Association, the Michi gan State Bar, the American Society of International Law and the Inter national Law Association. He is the son of William Warner Bishop, '92, A.M. '93, Librarian Emeritus of the University of Michigan, and is married to the former Mary Shreve, a graduate of the College of William and Mary and of George Washington University Law School. As a hobby, he is interested in and has done a great deal of work in Boy Scouting, enjoys hiking, swim ming and reading.