My New Faculty Appointment at the University of Texas at Austin

I am pleased to share the news that I have been appointed the William Stamps Farish Professor of Law here at the University of Texas at Austin. This Professorship was endowed in 1967 by the family fund in memory of Farish, who had become Chairman and President of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, known today as Exxon. The history of wealth-creation being what it is in this country, especially in the South, there are many questions to ask about what appears to be the Farish family's complicated past, to the say the least. But I am nonetheless very grateful to the University for this recognition.
--Richard Albert