Barton Writes on Arms Control

Professor John Barton spent the summer continuing work on a book concerning legal aspects of arms control. He visited a number of developing countries to gain their perspective on the problem he is analyzing. He is also helping to ·prepare general text on arms control and is writing a volume about energy problems with Professor Thomas Connolly of the Engineering School.

Thomas Ehrlich

This summer Dean Ehrlich and two co-authors finished a supplement to their volumes on International Legal Process. Dean Ehrlich also worked on a book about international economic law with Professor Lowenfeld of New York University School of Law. Franldin’s Torts Studies Professor Marc Franklin spent spring semester 1973 as a Fulbright research scholar at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand studying that country’s new statutory approach toward compensating victims of most personal injury accidents. He is also the author of a recent article on liability for diseased and faulty blood transfusions, “Hepatitis, Blood Transfusions and Public Action,” 21 Cath. Univ. L. Rev. 683. Professor Franklin’s Comment on Vermont’s 1971 Statute, “Duty to Aid the Endangered Act,” appeared in 25 Stan. L. Rev. 51. He noted that a duty to give reasonable assistance is “common in Europe, and a special physicians’ duty exists in New South Wales, but the Vermont statute is unique in American law.”

Gould Wins Employment Discrimination Case

Professor William B. Gould spent the past summer working on a major study of racial discrimination in labor management relations. Professor Gould, an expert in labor law who joined the Law School faculty in 1972, hopes to finish the book this year. This fall he won a landmark decision as chief counsel in an employment discrimination case under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The suit was begun when Professor Gould was teaching at Wayne State University Law School. The trial judge in the case awarded $4 million punitive damages against the Detroit Edison Company and an additional $250,000 against a union. Back pay was awarded for (1) incumbent employees; (2) rejected applicants; and (3) those with skilled trades experience and education who would have applied but for Edison’s discriminatory reputation.

Campus Judicial Panel Headed by Keogh

Associate Dean William T. Keogh has been named chairman of the Campus Judicial Panel for 1973-74 by University President Richard W. Lyman.

Mr. Keogh succeeds Professor William Cohen as chairman of the panel, which makes recommendations in student disciplinary cases to the President. The Panel includes three faculty members and three students.

A 1952 Stanford law graduate, Keogh became associate dean in 1961. He resigned to practice private law in Palo Alto in 1967, returning to the Law School two years later. A 20-year Army veteran, he was a judge advocate for three years after graduation, then served as chief of international law at the Army’s European headquarters from 1955 to 1957. He was military judge for the Army’s Ninth Judicial Circuit from 1959 to 1961.

Li Visits China

Two studies on Chinese Law are in progress by Professor Victor Li who made his second trip to the People’s Republic of China last summer. One is on the public health system in China and the other involves enterprise management in China. He and his wife, Diane, are also making a movie on health care delivery based on their most recent trip. Professor Li also lectured to the Summer Alumni College on China.

Kaplan Makes TV Appearance

On November 15, Professor John Kaplan appeared on the “Tomorrow Show,” NBC’s sequel to the “Tonight Show,” to discuss the Marijuana laws, former Vice-President Agnew’s resignation, and the Watergate tapes controversy. Kaplan, a specialist on marijuana and drug laws generally, is the author of the widely-acclaimed Marijuana, The New Prohibition.

Mann Appointed to Aerospace Special Panel

Cost of Living Council Director John T. Dunlop named Associate Dean J. Keith Mann to a special panel to assist in disposing of aerospace wage cases. William E. Simkin, former director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service heads the panel, created on September 13, 1973. Also serving is Ralph Seward, professional labor arbitrator and impartial chairman for Bethlehem Steel and the United Steelworkers of America.

The basic case arose from a January 5, 1972, decision by the Phase II Pay Board to reduce by 17 cents per hour the wage rate increases specified in certain collective bargaining agreements and memoranda for about 120,000 aerospace workers, some of whom are represented by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the United Auto Workers. The aerospace companies directly or indirectly involved in the dispute are Boeing, Lockheed, LTV, McDonnell-Douglas, and North American Rockwell. On June 21, 1973, the United States Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals remanded the case to the Council for “further consideration.” The unions had previously appealed the Pay Board decision.

After discussions with representatives of the parties at which the various agreements and understandings on the issue which exist in the industry were discussed, the panel issued guidelines as bases for negotiation of the matter. The panel reconvened on October 30 for a report by the parties as to the progress of negotiations and terms of their settlements.

Richard Markovits

Professor Markovits is currently working on a series of studies analyzing the effects of various legal policies on the allocation of investment in the economy and the effects of legal policies relating to the preservation of potential competition.

John Henry Merryman

In October, Professor Merryman attended an international seminar on legal education in Perugia, Italy, where he gave a paper comparing legal education in the civil law world with legal education in the United States. Prior to the Perugia conference, Professor Merryman met with the Director of the United Nations Social Defense Research Institute in Rome to develop a research program investigating the international traffic in stolen and illegally exported works of art. The Institute, an agency of the United Nations, is concerned with deviance and crime and their control.

In September, Professor Merryman led an informal seminar on comparative law at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.

Sneed on Court of Appeals

Former Stanford Law Professor Joseph T. Sneed was appointed in August to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco. Judge Sneed came to Stanford from Cornell in 1962. He taught and wrote in the tax field, and in the words of Dean Ehrlich, “quickly established himself as one of the most effective teachers, productive scholars, and delightful colleagues on our faculty.” While at Stanford he was active in both the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools, and was elected president of the latter body in 1968. During his presidency he established. t~e arrangements that ultimately led to one of the most signficant reports on legal education in recent years, the so-called Carrington Study.

Judge Sneed left Stanford in early 1971 to become dean of Duke University School of Law. In 1972 he was chosen as deputy attorney general of the United States, and was in that post until his appointment to the bench.