{"id":1832,"date":"2009-07-17T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2009-07-17T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T15:04:09","slug":"a-mad-dog-immortalized-at-baylor-law-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2009\/07\/a-mad-dog-immortalized-at-baylor-law-school\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Mad Dog&#8217; immortalized at Baylor Law School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/mad-dog-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"dawson-statue-july09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/dawson-statue-july09.jpg\" alt=\"Professor &quot;Mad Dog&quot; Dawson\" width=\"225\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a>Edd Hayes was a little worried when he was commissioned to create a statue of a lawyer nicknamed &#8220;Mad Dog.&#8221; Can you blame him?<\/p>\n<p>But his rendering of <a href=\"http:\/\/law.baylor.edu\/History\/Faculty\/dawson.htm\" target=\"_blank\">R. Matt Dawson<\/a> at the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center certainly captures the &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; spirit. As Baylor Law Dean Brad Toben said at the unveiling of the life-size statue on Tuesday, &#8220;if you faced Matt in Practice Court, you admire the sculpture &#8230; and are a little bit scared at the same time!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After all, Dawson created the modern <a href=\"http:\/\/law.baylor.edu\/Curriculum\/Curriculum_thirdYear.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Practice Court<\/a> program that now <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2007\/11\/why-baylor-law-stands-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">defines the Baylor Law experience<\/a>. Former students joke that Mad Dog&#8217;s bark was bad, his bite was worse &#8212; and the training, priceless. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/galleries\/mad-dog-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\">This photo gallery<\/a> full of smiling people at the statue unveiling shows that all is forgiven!<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, a group of alums have stepped forward to begin the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/give\/index.php?id=49837&amp;a=3&amp;f=438CAHW\" target=\"_blank\">R. Matt Dawson Endowed Professorship in Trial Practice<\/a>; they hope others will pitch in to honor this <a href=\"http:\/\/law.baylor.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Law School<\/a> legend.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Mad Dog, and all the Baylor Law pups you molded into accomplished Baylor lawyers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edd Hayes was a little worried when he was commissioned to create a statue of a lawyer nicknamed &#8220;Mad Dog.&#8221; Can you blame him? But his rendering of R. Matt Dawson at the Sheila and Walter Umphrey Law Center certainly captures the &#8220;Mad Dog&#8221; spirit. As Baylor Law Dean Brad Toben said at the unveiling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors","category-photo-galleries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}