Paul Sanders was the first Duke Law alumnus to join the faculty since Dean Justin Miller reorganized the law school in 1930. Sanders was hired to teach criminal law and other courses as needed. He also assisted David Cavers with Law and Contemporary Problems as an associate editor.
Sanders received an A.B. from Austin College in 1931 and an LL.B. from Duke in 1934. He spent two years as an Assistant to the Director of the ABA’s National Bar Program before returning to Duke as an assistant professor of law. During World War II Sanders worked for the government in Atlanta. At the end of the war he returned to Duke but soon left for private practice, again in Atlanta. However during the 1947-1948 academic year he was a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkley. In 1948 he joined the faculty of the Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he remained for the rest of his career. He assumed emeritus status in 1974.
Sources:
AALS Directory of Law Teachers 615 (1974)
Duke University, School of Law, Bulletin of Duke University School of Law [serial]
Robert F. Durden, The Rebuilding of Duke University's School of Law, 1925-1947 (Part I)[https://perma.cc/K4QM-XH3A], vol. LXVI, no. 3, July 1989 North Carolina History Review 321
Robert F. Durden, The Rebuilding of Duke University's School of Law, 1925-1947 (Part II)[https://perma.cc/V2QP-KHR2], vol. LXVI, no. 4, October 1989 North Carolina History Review 443
- Criminal Law and Its Administration
- Labor Law
- Insurance
- Labor Law Seminar
Articles & Essays
- Types of Labor Disputes and Approaches to Their Settlement, 12 Law & Contemporary Problems 211-219 ()
- Foreword, 9 Law & Contemporary Problems 179-180 (Spring )
- Foreword, 8 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Foreword, 7 Law & Contemporary Problems 543-543 (Fall )
- Book Review, 3 Federal Probation 26-29 () (review of Volume III on Pardon, etd. Wayne L. Morse et. al. U.S. Department of Justice 1939)
- Foreword, 6 Law & Contemporary Problems 321-322 (Summer )
- Foreword, 5 Law & Contemporary Problems 1-2 (Winter )
- Procedures for the Punishment or Supression of Unauthorized Practice of Law, 5 Law & Contemporary Problems 135-170 ()
- Proceedings of Annual Meeting of American Bar Association held at Cleveland, Ohio, 699 699-712 ()
- The Unauthorized Practice of Law Controversy, 5 Law and Contemporary Problems 135-174 () (No. 1, 1938)
- Federal Aid for State Law Enforcement, 1 Law & Contemporary Problems 472-483 ()
Issues Edited
- The Wage and Hour Law, Law and Contemporary Problems () (No. 3, 1939)
- Duke Alumni Register, Duke Alumni Register, Supplement to the Law School () (with others) (No. 4, 1938) (with others)