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The Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law was organized under the will of Judge Edwin B. Parker. Judge Parker had been a leading international lawyer and senior partner in the law firm of Baker & Botts, and had served on international adjudicatory bodies following World War I. He provided in his will for the establishment of a school devoted to the teaching and study of subjects relating to the international commerce and foreign relations of the United States. The original trustees of the Parker School were Harlan Fiske Stone, then Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson, Attorney General William D. Mitchell, Colonel Harry T. Klein, and Dr. Frank Fitts. They decided that affiliation with Columbia University, a leading institution of higher learning with an outstanding reputation in the field of foreign and comparative law and foreign relations, would best serve the purposes of the School. This association began in 1931. Although affiliated with Columbia University, the Parker School retains its own Director and Board of Trustees. On the present Board of Trustees are Richard S. Lombard, Chairman; J. Speed Carroll; James B. Hurlock; Michael E. Patterson; and Stephen M. Turner. The Director is Lance Liebman, William S. Beinecke Professor of Law.
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