Ashbel Green Gulliver (November 23, 1897,

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- July 3, 1974,

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) was the

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from 1940 to 1946. His nickname was "Pail"—from ashpail.

Early life

Gulliver went to Groton School for high school. He received a B.A. from

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in 1919, where he was secretary of the

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and a member of the Wolf's Head secret society.

Yale Law School

Gulliver graduated with an LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1922. He was the class

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. While at Yale Law School, he was on the '' Yale Law Journal'' and served as its secretary. After graduating, he worked at Alexander & Green, which was founded by Ashbel Green, his grandfather. Gulliver became an assistant professor at Yale Law School in 1927, and a full professor in 1935. In 1934, he became assistant dean of Yale Law School. In 1939, when

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resigned as dean to become a judge on the

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, he was appointed acting dean. He became dean in 1940, and held that position until 1946. During

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, he recommended that other law schools merge or close. While dean, in 1941, he wrote his classic article on

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, "Classification of Gratuitous Transfers", with Catherine J. Tilson. During World War II, Gulliver was the chairman of the Alien Hearing Board for Connecticut. After the war, he was a member of the Connecticut Post-War Planning Board and chairman of the Yale University Post-War Planning Committee, and he worked for the

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. After his deanship, he continued to teach, and by 1967, had become the Garver Professor of Law Emeritus at Yale Law School. In general, Gulliver was considered a solid, enterprising, and uncontroversial administrator, and a "mild-mannered man." The Ashbel G. Gulliver Memorial Library Fund at Yale Law School is endowed in his name.

Work as arbitrator

Gulliver was a chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations."In the Matter of New England Iron Works - and – I.A.B.S. & O. Iron Workers Local #532, AFL"
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Selected works

*''Cases and Other Materials On the Law of Estates'', 1932 *''Classification of Gratuitous Transfers'' with Catherine J. Tilson, 1941 *''Cases and Materials On the Law of Future Interests'', 1959 *''Cases and Materials On Decedents' Estates'', 1966 *''Cases and Materials On Gratuitous Transfers: Wills, Intestate Succession, Trusts, Gifts, and Future Interests'', 1967

References

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