ANTHONY AMSTERDAM – Professor Amsterdam continues work on his clinical seminar on defense trial techniques using video taping and other experimental techniques. Professor Amsterdam was assisted by a team of six Stanford students in the conduct of litigation to enforce and extend the United States Supreme Court’s June 29, 1972 decision banning the death penalty as a “cruel and unusual punishment” forbidden by the Eighth Amendment. The team also worked on school desegregation litigation, including the Richmond, Virginia case involving the first metropolitan-area desegregation decree in the United States. Mr. Amsterdam directs litigation projects for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund and the American Civil Liberties Union in several areas of criminal procedure (one of his areas of teaching) and civil rights.

BARBARA A. BABCOCK-Professor Babcock, who has just joined the faculty after serving as director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, is writing a book of problems relating to women and the law and is preparing materials for a course on that subject, to be offered in the spring semester. Professor Babcock attended three conferences in New York in October. The first was an AALS meeting in which she led a panel discussion on criminal law concerning women in prison, rape and prostitution. The other two meetings dealt with “The Crisis in Law and Order” and Affirmative Action for Women in Universities. She also recently appeared on the “Today Show,” discussing rape and the legal rights of women.

WAYNE BARNETT-Professor Barnett is spending his leave this year doing research and writing in the tax field at Harvard Law School.

JOHN H. BARTON-A book evaluating the usefulness of arms control occupies a portion of Professor Barton’s time. He has also been supervising the editing of the lectures from a recent undergraduate course at Stanford in arms control for a text of a course to be taught by 12 faculty members from various departments.

WILLIAM F. BAXTER-During Professor Baxter’s leave he is in residence at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences finishing a long-term project for the Brookings Institution-an economic and institutional analysis of legal protection of intellectual property. His principal efforts during the year will be devoted to bureaucratic control over the introduction into the environment of new chemicals such as food additives, drugs or inputs to agricultural or industrial processes.

PAUL A. BREST-Professor Brest is preparing a constitutional law casebook, Processes of Constitutional Litigation, organized around the techniques for adjudicating constitutional disputes rather than substantive doctrinal areas. He also is involved in some projects studying the effects of legal sanctions on behavior. He is a consultant to the Ford Foundation for whom he periodically evaluates the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund, and a consultant to the Fund on Civil Rights Litigation. In his spare time he flies a light twin-engine plane and plays the Renaissance lute.

ALAN R. BROMBERG-Professor Bromberg, a visitor from Southern Methodist University teaching in the field of corporations, recently completed an article on bootstrap sales of corporate control and is working on Volume 3 of Securities Law: Fraud (dealing largely with class actions). For the A.B.A. Committee on Partnerships he is heading a project to prepare legislation on the status of limited partnerships outside their states of organization. In Texas, he is court-appointed special counsel to the Chapter X trustee of a corporation seeking damages from former management and others for stock manipulation, securities fraud, and waste, which ended in bankruptcy of the corporation and losses by public investors. In the Ninth Circuit he is of counsel in litigating the question whether the shorter statute of limitations in the 1968 California Corporate Securities Law controls implied causes of action under the federal antifraud provisions. In federal court in Illinois, he is testing the scope of no-refund clauses in high-yield senior securities issued during the tight period of 1969-70.

MAURO CAPPELLElTI-Stanford is the second home for Professor Cappelletti who returned to the Comparative Law Institute of the University of Florence in December. He has just finished a book on Justice and Society, has published an article on legal aid in the January 1972 issue of the Stanford Law Review, and is editing a comparative law study on fundamental guarantees of parties in civil litigation for UNESCO. Professor Cappelletti is preparing a comparative law textbook on Constitutional Guarantees Governing Judicial Proceedings and was a reporter at the International Congress of Procedure in Mexico City last spring.

WILLIAM COHEN-Professor Cohen’s recently completed study of no-fault insurance was adopted in August by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. This summer he also completed another 22-minute film with BFA Educational Media (a CBS affiliate) on the subject of privilege against self-incrimination. This is one of several films Professor Cohen has helped to produce for high school use, in which a basic incident and a lawyer’s argument are presented. This film centered on whether a person should have to submit to questioning with a “perfect truth machine.” The next film on his agenda will concern the press and the newsman’s privilege.

RICHARD DANZIG-Prior to joining the faculty this year, Professor Danzig clerked for Mr. Justice White. lIe is preparing an article on the potential for decentralization of a metropolitan criminal justice system.

THOMAS EHRLICH-Dean Ehrlich recently completed a book with the late Professor Herbert Packer on New Directions in Legal Education for the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education. He also published an article on “Manners, Morals, and Legal Education” in the November issue of The American Bar Association Journal. He is currently working with Professor Lowenfeld of New York University Law School on a long-range project concerning international economic law.

M. CARR FERGUSON-Professor Ferguson, a visitor from New York University, has completed a supplement for his text on income taxation of estates, published an article on triangular corporate reorganization, and is in the midst of preparing articles on the income taxation of foreign trusts. He spent last year on leave from teaching in the full time practice of tax law with a New York firm. He is trying “vainly” to reduce his astronomical golf handicap and get in some sailboat racing-a bit difficult with his own boa.t left behind in Connecticut.

MARC A. FRANKLIN-Professor Franklin recently completed an article on liability for transfusions of diseased blood, and will spend the spring semester in New Zealand on a Fulbright research grant to study that country’s new statutory approach toward compensating victims of most personal injury accidents.

JACK H. FRIEDENTHAL – Professor Friedenthal recently drafted a bill for the California Legislature substantially altering California civil procedure regarding joinder of parties and claims and has lectured around the state explaining the changes. He also completed the 1972 Civil Procedure Supplement used with the casebook in first year pleading and procedure courses.

LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN-Professor Friedman’s one-volume History of American Law is scheduled for publication soon. The Russell Sage Foundation sponsors his forthcoming book on the sociology of law. Further, he has worked with John Merryman and a group of Latin American scholars on a research project concerning law and development and he has organized a project to compare English and American trial courts.

ROBERT A. GIRARD-Professor Girard continues his involvement in environmental issues such as his chairmanship of the Santa Clara County Committee on Open Space.

PAUL GOLDSTEIN-Professor Goldstein, a visitor from the Law School at SUNYBuffalo, is finishing The Law of Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines: Cases and Materials to be published this winter. He is also developing a project that will explore intersections between present legal institutions and systems of information transfer involving entertainment, marketing, educational and political subject matter.

WILLIAM B. GOULD-Professor Gould was a member of the law faculty at Wayne State University, and visiting professor at Harvard Law School for 1971-72, until his arrival at Stanford this year. He completed an article on the British Industrial Relations Act of 1971 and continued work on a book dealing with racial discrimination and the unions during the summer. He also worked on employment discrimination litigation in the Federal District courts in Detroit and Pittsburgh.

THOMAS GREY-Professor Grey is working on the legal aspects of the current welfare system and alternatives to it. He has written a review of John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice.

GERALD GUNTHER-Professor Gunther is teaching at Harvard Law School this year and examining the Learned Hand papers there for his biography of Judge Hand. He wrote the Introduction for Harvard Law School’s Catalogue on the Learned Hand Centennial Exhibit held in Cambridge. His 1972 Supplement for his constitutional law casebooks was published at the end of August. He again participated in a panel discussion of the Term’s work of the Supreme Court on KQED-Television. His assessment of Burger Court trends prepared for the Orange County alumni was published by the New York Times. Since then, he has elaborated his assessment in two companion articles: one was published in the fall by the Harvard Law Review as a Foreword to its annual review of the Supreme Court; the other will appear in the forthcoming issue of the Stanford Law Review. Late in October he participated with Barbara Babcock and Bill Gould in an AALS symposium on The Law School Curriculum and the Legal Rights of Women at New York University.

MOFFATT HANCOCK-Professor Hancock, who will be on leave for the spring semester, continues to work in the fields of property and conflict of laws.

J. MYRON JACOBSTEIN – The Law School Librarian, Professor Jacobstein, is working on two books-one on legal bibliography and the other an annotated bibliography of law books suitable for public library collections. He is also engaged in a study of the uses of computers in legal research. During a partial spring leave he will utilize a Council of Library Resources Fellowship to visit other university libraries.

JOHN KAPLAN – Professor Kaplan will publish Criminal Justice: Introductory Cases and Materials this year; the book is the first attempt to provide materials suitable for an undergraduate course in the criminal law area. In addition, he argued and won a unanimous decision in the Supreme Court of California holding a section of the California Bail Statutes unconstitutional. Professor Kaplan has been working on several projects involving international aspects of drug control and has written several articles on varying aspects of this topic. He is engaged in a long range project concerning the international control of criminal conduct ranging from arms smuggling to providing sanctuaries either for criminals or for the proceeds of their crimes.

VICTOR H. LI-Professor Li’s six-week tour of the People’s Republic of China included an extended interview with Chou En Lai and lengthy discussions with numerous Chinese officials (see p. 21). He is completing a book on legal aspects of China’s foreign trade and another on public administration in China.

HANS A. LINDE-A Fall visitor from the University of Oregon, Professor Linde teaches courses in Constitutional Law and in International Organizations. Outside the classroom he is completing work on two articles, appearing amicus curiae to defend an Oregon regulation of throw-away beverage containers against constitutional attack, and wrestling with policy issues of academic freedom and tenure for the AAUP.

J. KEITH MANN-Professor Mann, who as associate dean is responsible for academic affairs at the School, continues his work in the labor law field, such as his chairmanship last year of the President’s Board of Inquiry on labor disputes affecting the United States longshore industry.

RICHARD S. MARKOVITS – Professor Markovits is currently working on studies analyzing the effects of various policies on the allocation of investment in the economy as well as their impact on the extent of investment misallocation; the empirical and welfare effects of policies relating to the preservation of potential competition; and the legal justifiability and social desirability of bringing and encouraging Sherman Act suits against firms engaging in oligopolistic behavior.

JOHN HENRY MERRYMAN-Professor Merryman is directing a major multi-national comparative research project in law and development (SLADE) involving lawyers and social scientists from six nations. The project aims to establish a base for genuine empirical studies of the relations between legal systems and economic and social development and to contribute toward the development of a new social science of comparative law. He has also begun work on a book on comparative law and is teaching a new course on legal problems of the visual arts, including topics on looting, illegal export of cultural treasures, censorship, art fraud and forgery. He and Mrs. Merryman continue as dealers in fine contemporary prints and drawings.

CHARLES J. MEYERS-Professor Meyers has returned to Stanford after spending a year in Washington, D.C. as assistant legal counsel to the National Water Commission. As part of his work there he contributed chapters to the Commission’s report dealing with improvement of federal and state water laws, such as federal-state relations in the law of water, ground water management and interbasin transfers. In collaboration with Professor A. Dan Tarlock, class of ’65, Professor Meyers prepared a casebook, published in 1971, entitled Water Resource Management and a paperback book entitled Selected Legal and Economic Aspects of Environmental Protection. He is currently associated with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has recently established an office in Palo Alto, and continues as a member of the Committee on Public Engineering Policy of the National Academy of Engineering.

ROBERT L. RABIN-The Stanford Law Review will publish a report on prosecutorial discretion just completed by Professor Rabin for the Administrative Conference of the United States. Professor Rabin is now at work on an Administrative Law casebook. He also serves as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, periodically evaluating the work of the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, and the Center for Law in the Public Interest.

YOSAL ROGAT-Professor Rogat is working on some problems in recent American legal history. He recently published a short article in the New York Review of Books.

DAVID ROSENHAN – Professor Rosenhan, a joint appointee in the Law School and the Department of Psychology, has just completed a paper on legal and psychological aspects of psychiatric diagnosis. He is also supervising the development of a joint program in Psychology and Law at Stanford.

GORDON K. SCOTT-Professor Scott’s interests continue to be in the tax and municipal corporations fields.

KENNETH E. SCOTT – Professor Scott has been working on a study of the banking agencies for the Administrative Conference, and preparing materials on banking regulation for eventual publication.

BYRON D. SHER-Professor Sher is currently engaged in a study of methods of dealing with consumer complaints alternative to litigation.

PHILIP SHUCHMAN-Professor Shuchman, a visitor from Connecticut Law School, spent last year as Deputy Director of the Commission on the Bankruptcy Laws of the United States and, apart from work in the bankruptcy field, is engaged in revision of books on both civil procedure and jurisprudence. He also completed a study of the cost of service of civil process and an impact analysis of the 1970 Amendment of the Bankruptcy Act.

MICHAEL S. WALD – Professor Wald, who has just returned to the Law School after a two-year leave of absence during which he worked botb as a district attorney and as a public defender, is putting his experience to classroom use. He teaches a clinical seminar in juvenile law, which provides students with both classroom and courtroom training in all aspects of representing a minor. In addition he is writing an analysis of the treatment of minors in juvenile institutions in California.

WILLIAM D. WARREN-Coming to Stanford this year from UCLA, Professor Warren is reporter-draftsman on revision of the Uniform Consumer Credit Code for the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and serves as consultant to the California Law Revision Commission on creditors’ remedies and to the National Commission on Consumer Finance. He is currently working on a book on the federal Truth in Lending Act.

WILLIAM C. WHITFORD – Professor Whitford, a visitor from the University of Wisconsin Law School, is working on two law review articles concerning consumer protection.

HOWARD R. WILLIAMS-Professor Williams serves as a member of the California Law Revision Commission, which is currently at work primarily on problems relating to creditors’ remedies and eminent domain. Last summer he taught oil and gas law at the University of Texas Law School.

Former Faculty Member Named Justice Deputy

President Nixon has appointed former Stanford Law Professor Joseph T. Sneed as the new U.S. Deputy Attorney General.

A specialist in tax law, he served on the faculty here from 1962 until 1971 when he was made dean of Duke University Law School.

New Professorships

Gifts of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Phleger of Woodside have endowed the Herman Phleger Visiting Professorship in the Stanford Law School. These gifts make it possible for a person of great distinction in the field of law-the judiciary, the bar, government or public affairs-to teach at the Law School and also, when appropriate, to deliver public lectures at the University. The Herman Phleger Visiting Professor will spend a substantial period of time at Stanford, both in formal classes and lectures and in informal gatherings with faculty and students discussing his or her primary field of expertise. The Phleger Fund covers all costs of the professorship, including publication of lectures.

Herman Phleger, Trustee Emeritus of the University, was born in Sacramento, and attended the University of California and Harvard Law School. He has been with the firm of Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison in San Francisco since 1925. He was associate director of the Legal Division, Office of Military Government in Germany, legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Representative to the Thirteenth United Nations General Assembly, a U.S. member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and a member of the General Advisory Committee of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. In 1959 Mr. Phleger was chairman of the Antarctica Conference, which drafted the Antarctica Treaty. Mary Elena Macondray Phleger has long been active in many community affairs. The Phlegers’ three children all received Stanford degrees.

A new endowed professorship is being established at the Stanford Law School, thanks to gifts from Talbot Shelton, vice-president of Smith, Barney & Company, Inc., New York, investment bankers.

The chair will be known as the Louis Talbot and Nadine Hearn Shelton Professorship of International Legal Studies in honor of Mr. Shelton’s late parents.

In expressing the University’s thanks, President Richard W. Lyman said, “This ·new professorship will enable us to honor a distinguished legal scholar in a field of study that grows in importance with the increasing interdependence among nations. We are most grateful to Mr. Shelton for his generosity.”

Mr. Shelton’s gifts are being matched by funds from an earlier grant from the Ford Foundation to help support chairs in International Studies. Talbot Shelton, a member of the class of 1937 at Stanford, majored in economics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He also distinguished himself as a member of the University’s Debate Council. Following graduation, he attended the Harvard Law School, earning his LL.B. in 1940.

From 1943 to 1966, Mr. Shelton was an official of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Since that time he has been with Smith, Barney & Company.

Mr. Shelton is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Stanford Law School. He has also served Stanford as a fundraising volunteer for many years. He was chairman of the Allentown-Bethlehem regional committee during PACE, Stanford’s $100 million fund drive in the 1960’s, and is currently co-chairman of the New York Major Gifts Committee for the $300 million Campaign for Stanford.

Law School Dean Thomas Ehrlich stated that “Mr. Shelton’s gift is a great tribute, both to his parents and to Stanford. It will provide much needed support for a vital area of legal studies. Legal education and legal scholarship at Stanford will benefit immeasurably from this new endowment. We are most grateful.”

President Richard W. Lyman of Stanford Tuesday, February 20, announced an historic first for the University-the establishment of an endowment by Richard E. Lang of Seattle to support the position of Professor and Dean of the School of Law.

Believed to be the first chair in academic history to be endowed for a dean, it is made possible by gifts and pledges of almost $1.4 million to the Richard E. Lang Dean’s Fund.

The fund will also ultimately provide income for the use of the dean in support of faculty research, pilot educational projects, and other programs of importance to the Law School.

In making the gift, Mr. Lang said: “I personally gained so much both in living, educational and personal experiences as well as lasting friendships from Stanford that I feel it is one of the greatest institutions in the country. It is important that the University continue as such; I hope my support will help.”

President Lyman, acknowledging the gift, said: “Dick Lang is a staunch friend and supporter of Stanford and of the Law School in particular. Thanks to his generosity we already have the Lang Law Library Fund and the Lang Room-a conference/seminar room in the current Law School building. The Dean’s Office in the new Law School will also bear his name. Both Law School Dean Thomas Ehrlich and I are deeply appreciative of this new and impressive demonstration of his support.”

Lang is chairman of the board of Lang & Co., a company started by his grandfather in 1852 in Weaverville, California. The donor graduated from Stanford with an A.B. in 1927 and a J.D. in 1929. Both Mr. and Mrs. Lang are collectors of contemporary art and active in many cultural and social programs in Seattle. She is the former Jane MacGregor of Philadelphia.

The first occupant of the Lang chair will be Dean Ehrlich, who was appointed dean in 1971. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, books, and studies on international law and legal education. His most recent published work, coauthored with the late Professor Herbert L. Packer, is New Directions in Legal Education, a study sponsored by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.

Professor Li Visits China

Associate Professor Victor Li, born in China in 1941, fulfilled a long held dream to visit his native country when he spent six weeks there last summer with 15 other American scholars of Chinese descent. Having applied for a visa some time ago, it was not until after he escorted the Chinese ping-pong team, when they visited the United States last spring, that he was able to acquire an invitation.

Their tour began in Canton where they were met by a Chinese delegation of five who escorted them into the country. While the group was allowed to see almost anything they wished on request, they were unable to visit courts, law schools and government organs, because, according to the Chinese, the legal system has not completed the postCultural Revolution transformation.

One of the significant things that Li noticed was the lack of visible, legal authority figures. Li theorizes that some other group may be performing street patrol functions instead of a police force. However, he noted that there seems to be little need for public security because of the seeming lack of crime and street violence.

He also described the May 7 Cadres, a program in which office workers and bureaucrats must attend farm schools for six months every five years, so as not to lose touch with the masses. Rather than creating problems when ten percent of an office force moves to the countryside, the Chinese claim that after six months one’s thinking is so much clearer that it makes up for the lost time.

Another of his observations was on the sense of crowdedness in China which is being dealt with in several ways. There are programs for moving people into satellite cities and for reclaiming arid land for farming. Birth control is heavily promoted. Birth control pills are distributed freely by volunteer street organizations and records are kept on women of child-bearing age. The most memorable aspect of Professor Li’s trip was the group’s meeting with Chou En-Lai. During the five-hour meeting they discussed such matters as China’s reunification with Taiwan, the fate of Lin Piao and bitter feelings against the Soviet Union. In describing his final impressions, Li said that the Chinese sense of purpose, which is hard to find in America, “hit the sixteen of us hardest,” but he added that it is very difficult for a foreigner to interpret what he sees and should be careful about what conclusions he draws.

Professor Li hopes to return to China next summer with his wife.

Leonard DuBoff

Former Teaching Fellow Leonard DuBoff has joined the law faculty at Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon as’ an assistant professor of law. A graduate of Hofstra University and Brooklyn Law School, he has been the recipient of numerous academic awards. DuBoff turned to the study of law after an accident blinded him. He was. a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School during 1971-72.