| Peter C. Manson Professor Emeritus LL.B., University of Virginia School of Law, 1951 A.B., University of Florida, 1940 In addition to serving as a professor at the Law School for more than 20 years, Peter Manson was director of the Joint Committee on CLE of the Virginia Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar from 1960-83, organizing numerous institutes for Virginia lawyers during his tenure. Manson was born in Georgia in 1918 and graduated from the University of Florida with a B.A. in English in 1940. Shortly after graduating, he joined the Army as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery. He attended the University of Virginia Law School from 1948 to 1951 and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After graduating in 1951, he transferred to the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and served in Maryland, Korea, and Japan. Manson returned to Charlottesville in 1955 and spent the next five years at the Judge Advocate General’s School. He retired from the Army in 1960 to join the law faculty at the University of Virginia. Manson taught courses on criminal law, criminal procedure, and agency and partnership. Manson was a charter member of the National Association of Continuing Legal Education Administrators and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education. He helped create a model CLE program and curriculum maintaining a close association between practicing lawyers and law schools in the state. In the mid-1970s Manson began to teach Legal Ethics and his interest in professional responsibility led him to become a member of the Virginia State Bar Committee that spent several years drafting the 1983 Revised Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility. He also belonged to committees focused on professional responsibility, including the Committee on Ethics of the Virginia Bar Association, and the Virginia State Bar Committee on Lawyer Discipline. Additionally Manson was secretary-treasurer of the Virginia Bar Association from 1969 to 1974 and was chairman of the Publications Committee. Manson was a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Virginia Law Foundation as well as being editor and co-author of the CLE handbook, Defending Criminal Cases in Virginia (1975). Manson and his wife, Nancy, had four sons, two of whom went on to practice law in Virginia. | |
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