He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University on June 1, 1953.
[1][3] He practiced law for a year[1] in New York City before clerking for Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis from 1929 to 1930.
[7] His scholarly work concerned torts, administrative law scholarship, and labor contracts.
[8] His lecture, "Reason, Contract, and Law in Labor Relations", has been cited hundreds of times.
"[8] His "greatest accomplishment", according to Eugene V. Rostow, was "the establishment of regular procedures for peacefully enforcing the provisions of labor contracts.
[19] He also helped arbitrate an aircraft industry workers' collective bargaining case in 1952, which resulted in a 14 cent an hour wage increase.
As a reporter for the American Law Institute on the restatement of torts, he dealt with unfair competition, trademark infringements and labor disputes.