The New International Encyclopædia/Ames, James Barr

AMES, James Barr (1846—). An eminent American educator and legal scholar. He was born in Boston, graduated in 1868 at Harvard and in 1872 at the Law School of the University, in 1868–69 was an instructor in a private school at Boston, and from 1871 to 1872 was tutor in German and French at Harvard. In the same institution he was appointed successively instructor in history (1872), associate professor of law (1873), and professor of law (1877). In 1895 he became Dean of the Harvard Law School. He has published various articles in the Harvard Law Review an<l simihir periodicals, and has compiled and edited numerous valuable collections of eases on torts, trusts, and suretyship, and other legal questions. He received the de- gree of LL.D. from New York University (1808), the University of Wisconsin (1898), and the University of Pennsylvania (1899).