Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklet - UI Charter of Freedom (1942) [PAGE 11]

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10 major proportions, to the general interests of the University and to the people of the Stat.', unprecedented in approved educational tli >ry or practice, if any outside officials could coerce the Board into an abandonment of this policy in any department or field or of knowledge of University administration i Pet., p. 18) ; 15. That relator Johnson was appointed Professor of Law on indefinite tenure with com) nsation fixed on an annual basis, effective September 1, 1926; pursuant to a policy, adopted approximately twenty years before that date, the Board also gave him the title of Legal Counsel, which title was in 1931 changed to University Counsel; that the late Judge O. A. Harker. formerly Professor of Law and Dean of the College of Law of the University, and a member of the Appellate Court of this State, had held the position of Professor of Law and Legal Counsel during substantially all the time since 1906; during the period from 1906 to 1942, the position held by the late Judg. Harker and his successor, relator Johnson, by appointment from the Board, has been variously described in the internal budget of the University as Professor of Law and Legal Counsel or as Professor of Law and University Counsel, the latter being the present title this was likewise the title of the position held by this relator during the academic year 1941-42, and specifically during the months of April, May, Jun. Julv at sometimes, compensation incumbent Legal Counsel, or University Counsel, has b< n Ul the internal budget of the University, apportion. I between the duties of Professor of Law and the duties Legal y sometimes not (Pet., pn