J. Keith Mann served as chairman of a three-man arbitration board appointed by President Johnson in March to settle the dispute in the West Coast ship building and repair industry. The board, which announced settlement of the strike in June, included former White House press secretary George E. Reedy and Paul D. Hanlon, Portland attorney and arbitrator.

Charles Mansfield ’68 has become the first student from the West Coast to be elected president of the Association of Student International Law Societies. The election took place in late April 1967 in Washington, D.C. at the annual meeting of ASILS, the student branch of the American Society of International Law. Mansfield also serves as executive vice president of the School’s International Society.

In a recent article in the “Journal of Air Law and Commerce,” James Atwood, a first-year student, examined the “healthy price competition” created by intrastate air carriers. The article was a portion of a paper which shared first-prize honors in the Frank M. Patterson Competition for the best paper at Yale University in political science for 1966. Mr. Atwood took his B.A. from Yale in that year. The excerpt in the Journal was devoted chiefly to a study of Pacific Southwest Airline’s San Francisco-Los Angeles air route.

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On May 27, the Dean delivered the main address at the annual convention of the Alaska Bar Association held in Fairbanks. Many of the School’s Alaska alumni attended. Professor Herbert Packer and the Dean attended an Anglo-American conference on “Training for the Law” held at Ditchley, England, July 4-15. After the conference Dean Manning flew to Germany to deliver two addresses, the first in Hamburg dealing with legal education, the other in Munich, treating the role of legal process in American life. In August of 1967, the Dean returned to the field of state and local government in which he taught for several years to speak before an assembly of legislators from eighteen states brought together under the auspices of the Eagleton Institute of State Government in Miami. His topic was “Conflicts of Interest and the Legislature.”

During the annual convention of the American Bar Association, held in Honolulu August 3-5, Professor Joseph T. Sneed addressed Stanford Law School alumni attending the meeting. Assistant Dean Thomas E. Robinson spoke to the Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar on the subject of the implications of the Military Selective Service Act of 1967.

Officers of Law School student organizations for 1967-68 include: International Society: Robert Rosch, Granite City, Illinois, President; Law Association: Anne Kovacovich, Phoenix, Arizona, President; Law Forum: Joseph Dennin, Long Beach, California, President; Law Students Civil Rights Research Council: Edward Steinman, Chicago, Illinois, Chairman; Legal Aid Society: Read Ambler, Waco, Texas, Chairman; Moot Court Board: Jesse F. Bingaman, Silver City, New Mexico, Chairman; Serjeants-at-Law: Alan Levenstein, Detroit, Michigan, Chairman; Stanford Law Review: William Lake, Altadena, California, President; Yearbook: Anthony S. Freedman, New York, New York, Editor; Law Students’ Wives Association, Donna Carrell, wife of Daniel Carrell ’68, Louisville, Kentucky, President.

With financial support from the Federal Aviation Administration and in consultation with both the FAA and the American Bar Association, Professor William Baxter is conducting a special study of the legal aspects of aircraft noise around airports and of the sonic boom phenomena. Reports on Mr. Baxter’s findings will be submitted to the ABA and the Federal Aeronautics Administration.

On January 1, 1967, Associate Dean William T. Keogh ’52 retired from the Law School position he has held for five years to return to private practice. Mr. Keogh had been in charge of the School’s admission and scholarship, programs. He is now in the firm of Keogh and Lundgren in Palo Alto. Mr. Keogh’s admissions responsibilities are now being carried out by Assistant Dean Thomas E. Robinson.

A complete set of photographs of members of the United States Supreme Court has been presented to the School. The 95-volume collection is the gift of Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C. portrait photographers. Presentation was made at the School January 13 by Mr. Bryant Baker, vice president of Harris and Ewing. The collection is a duplicate of the collection displayed in the office of the Marshal of the United States Supreme Court.

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The Law Forum’s 1966-67 Guest-in-Residence was Thomas C. Hughes, Director of Intelligence and Research for the State Department. Mr. Hughes spent three days at Stanford in November, holding seminars and delivering addresses on United States foreign policy and national security. Much of Mr. Hughes’ time was spent informally with law students, though he did visit a number of places on campus, including the Institute for Advanced Research in the Behavioral Sciences and the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Professors John Merryman and Thomas Ehrlich directed six Chilean law professors in a special seminar on United States legal education this summer. The seminar is part of a three-year program of assistance in the reform of Chilean legal education sponsored by the International Legal Center. This fall, the Chilean professors will continue studies at separate law schools-Berkeley, Harvard, Wisconsin, Yale, NYU and UCLA, then meet in New York for an evaluation of their work.

The International Society of Stanford Law School held a three-day symposium on the role of law in the economic development of emerging nations March 1-3. Among the participants in the meeting were Joseph Greenwald, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for trade policy; Hans Singer of the United Nations Organization for Industrial Development; Ambassador Vasco de Cuñha of Brazil and Professors Kenneth Dam of the University of Chicago Law School, T. N. Srinivasan of the Indian Statistical Institute of New Delhi and Professor Thomas Ehrlich of the Stanford School of Law.

Professor Joseph T. Sneed was elected president-elect of the Association of American Law Schools at the AALS annual convention, held in Washington, D. C. in December 1966. Mr. Sneed assumes office at the December 1967 meeting.

The annual student-faculty picnic and baseball game was held Saturday, May 13 at Flood Park in Menlo Park. The score of the game, according to faculty sources, was 54-0, favoring the faculty. Student commentators called the report spurious. Nor was there a unanimity of opinion on the relative merits of Professor John Kaplan’s talents as pitcher and Judge Homer Thompson’s (’50) impartiality as umpire. Members of the faculty hit a regulation-sized baseball; students were pitched an oversized ball, “to give them a large enough target to hit,” declared one professor. “To give the old guys an edge,” countered a student athlete.

A three-year grant from the Association of American Law Schools is enabling students at the School to operate a legal aid program in Palo Alto. In conjunction, studies are being done by second and third-year students as part of a seminar conducted by Professor Jack Friedenthal. The students work in East Palo Alto in cooperation with the San Mateo County Legal Aid Society and the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity.

The Ford Foundation in May awarded Professors Herbert Packer and John Kaplan a five-year grant of $200,000 for study and research on policy issues relating to the administration of criminal law.

The Hon. Richmond M. Flowers, Attorney General of Alabama, visited the Law School as a guest of the Law Forum on November 2, 1966. Among his other activities, Mr. Flowers held a seminar with law students on legal problems in the South and delivered an address in Cubberley Auditorium on “Law and the Citizen in the Emerging South.”

In November 1966, Professor Herbert L. Packer was named a vice provost of the University by the Board of Trustees. Among other duties, he will chair a wide-reaching two-year study of undergraduate curriculum and life at the University. Professor Packer remains a member of the law faculty, though most of his time will be directed to his new administrative duties.

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Several of the School’s eighty-two students and alumni who received scholarship aid from the Chalmers Graham Law Scholarship, Fund have contributed to the Fund in Mr. Graham’s memory since his death at the age of 71 on March 16 of this year. Mr. Graham, a graduate of the Class of 1923, was a founder of the law firm of Graham, James and Rolph and a well-known admiralty lawyer, was at different times chairman and president of a number of corporations and held the French Legion of Honor medal.

Mr. Justice Brennan, United States Supreme Court, presided at the third-year finals of the 15th Annual Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court Competition on February 7. The moot case argument assumed a Supreme Court review of the decision of the California Supreme Court concerning the state’s initiative proposal on pay-television. Sitting with Mr.’ Brennan were Judge Ben. C’. Duniway ’31, of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco and Chief Justice Gordon Thompson ’43 of the Nevada Supreme Court. The Judges awarded first prize to David Henry Fox, second prize to William Joseph McCarren and prize for the best brief to Kristina Maria Hanson. Two additional prizes went to semifinalists Miss Hanson and Richard Whitmore. All prizes were donated by the Stanford Law Society of Northern California and Nevada.