John Webster Hardwicke was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 1927. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and studied law at the George Washington University Law School. After school, Hardwicke entered the Maryland Bar and became a judge in Baltimore, specializing in administrative law. He was president of the Harford County Council for many years and published many articles and textbooks on law. Hardwicke also taught business law at Johns Hopkins from 1955 to 1998. In this oral history, Hardwicke recalls his teaching law at McCoy College, the evening school of Johns Hopkins, and what the Homewood campus was like during his time with Hopkins. This oral history is part of the Mame Warren oral histories series.