dean coffman was able to recruit several distinguished faculty to ucla, including roscoe pound, brainerd currie, rollin m. perkins, and harold verrall. to build a law library, he hired thomas s. dabagh, then the law librarian of the los angeles county law library. the ucla school of law officially opened in september 1949 in temporary quarters in former military barracks behind royce hall, and moved into a permanent home upon the completion of the original law building in 1951.