Faculty Appointments

Four new faculty appointments for next year have been announced. William B. Gould, a distinguished scholar and teacher in the field of labor law, will become a professor of law on July 1, 1972. Mr. Gould is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and received an LL.B. in 1961 from Cornell. He also studied at the London School of Economics after he had served for a year as assistant general counsel of the United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO. He also has been an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board and a member of a major New York law firm. In 1968 he returned to teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit. His special field of interest is discrimination in employment and his scholarly writings in this field have been significant.

Professor William D. Warren will become the first Wm. Benjamin Scott and Luna M. Scott Professor at Stanford Law School beginning July 1, 1972. The Professorship is made possible by a gift of the Scott’s daughter, Josephine Scott Crocker A.B. ’23. Professor Warren has been Professor at Law at UCLA since 1960. He has also taught at the law schools of the University of Illinois, Ohio State University, Vanderbilt University and the University of Chicago. He visited at Stanford during the 1971 summer session. He is one of the country’s outstanding authorities in the field of commercial law, and has written four books and numerous articles on the subject. He also has been an active participant in legislative reform, especially on consumer credit. Professor Warren received an A.B. and J.D. from the University of Illinois and a J.S.D. from Yale.

Barbara A. Babcock, currently Director of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, has been appointed an associate professor of law effective July 1, 1972. Professor Babcock received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. After serving as law clerk to Hon. Henry W. Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, she spent two years in litigation practice with Edward Bennett Williams in Washington, D.C. She then worked for two years as a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Agency for the District, the predecessor to the Public Defender Service. She has also been an Adjunct Professor and Visiting Lecturer at Georgetown University Law Center and Yale Law School and is currently preparing a book concerning women and the law. Professor Babcock will be the first full-time woman member of the Stanford Law School faculty.

Richard J. Danzig will become an assistant professor of law on August 1, 1972. Mr. Danzig received a B.A. from Reed College and a B.Phil. and Yh.D. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He then earned a J.D. from Yale University. This year Mr. Danzig is law clerk to Mr. Justice White of the United States Supreme Court. Previously he has been Assistant to the President of the New York CityRAND Institute, an assistant in instruction at Yale Law School, and a summer associate of a Los Angeles law firm.

Justice Tom Clark Visits the School

Former Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark discussed “The Administration of Justice Can it be Done?” in a Law Forum sponsored speech on March 10. In response to the question in his topic, he asserted that the administration of justice could be done and that the courts were “able to provide the kind of justice that the Constitution requires.” Clark cited three areas, criminal rights reapportionment and integration of schools and public facilities, in which he felt the courts were proper and effective instruments for administering justice. Mr. Justice Clark sat for eighteen years on the Court before retiring upon the appointment of his son, Ramsey Clark, as Attorney General.

Other Law Forum guests during the Spring included Leonard Davis, a Denver attorney; Robert Hawkins, director of the California office of Economic Opportunity; Dan Lund, executive vice president of the National Lawyers Guild, and Richard Sims, legal counsel to San Francisco Sheriff Richard Hongisto.

Faculty Discusses Franklin Case

A panel discussion of the legal issues in the case of Bruce Franklin, recently dismissed English Professor, was held at the Law School under the auspices of the Law Association on January 27. Included in the panel were law Professors Gerald Gunther, Thomas Grey and William Cohen; Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz; and Joel Klein, counsel for Franklin.

Law Review Officers Elected

Jerrold J. Ganzfried, a Yale graduate from Flushing N.Y., has been chosen president of The Stanford Law Review for 1972-73. He is a former news editor with The Yale Daily News and has worked with the Santa Clara public defender. Edward E. Burmeister, Jr. of Palo Alto has been named managing editor; Bruce L. Cronander, Birmingham, Mich., executive editor; John N. Drobak, Apalachin, N.Y., associate managing editor; and Michael A. Kahn, Mt. View, book review editor. Serving on the board of editors will be Robert C. Colwell, Whiting, Ind.; Steven L. Dorsey, Pasadena; Cornelius J. Golden, Jr., Los Angeles; Robert K. Huffman, Naples, Fla.; and David C. Kenny, Redlands. Senior note editors will be Garrett L. Hanken Montebello; Kenneth J. Philpot, Memphis Tenn.; and Jonathan M. Weisgall, Great Neck, N.Y. Note editors will be Robert H. Andrews, Santa Rosa; Wilfred D. Bennett Sunnyside, Wash.; Andrew 1. Douglas, Palo Alto; Joan Gottschall, Nutley, N.J.; John Rowe Mackall, Greenwich, Ct.; and John R. Porter, Palo Alto. Research editors will include Lawrence S. Bauman, Rockville, Md.; Jonathan A. Dibble, Salt Lake City; Ronald K. Fujikawa, Long Beach; Robert P. Johnston, Ft. Wayne, Ind.; Phillip R. Pollock, Mt. View; and Robert Spanner Cleveland, Ohio. Article editors will be Susan L. Cooper, Lemoore; Robert C. Wilson, Palo Alto; and Richard R. Young, Omaha, Neb. Developments editors will be Patrick J. Barrett, Palo Alto; Thomas F. Handel, Cleveland, Ohio; and Jeffrey L. Yablon, Morton Grove, Ill.

Law School Film

Filming has begun for a 28-minute movie about the Law School intended to give alumni and other friends of the Law School a graphic view of life at the School. The film, under the direction of Randall Morgan of the Department of Communications, is due for completion on November 1.

Students Form Public Interest Law Firm

The formation of a new public interest law firm, Citizens Advocates at Stanford, Inc., was announced by a group of students at the Law School February 24. Citizens Advocates will not be officially connected with the University (or Law School) in any way. Creation of the firm was prompted by a “growing concern and recognition of the need for responsible advocacy on behalf of the public interest.” The students seek to focus awareness of social problems and to begin to develop remedies for them. A founding board has been formed, the group has been incorporated and has applied for tax-exempt status. Citizens Advocates received a majority in a Spring referendum seeking funding by way of a voluntary assessment of Stanford students but failed to achieve the necessary two-thirds vote. The group is now seeking other funding and re-evaluating the scope of the organization.

Serjeants-at-Law Hold Mock Trial

Serjeants-at-Law presented a mock trial April 13 in which a district attorney was charged with the murder of his wife and her lover. In the People v. Hamilton, Zan Henson and Jim Rummonds acted as counsels for the defendant while Russ Cook and Luther Orton represented the People. The Honorable Wilbur Johnson ’54 of the San Mateo County Municipal Court presided.

Highway Study Completed

A lengthy study by the Environmental Law Society dealing with the economic and ecological effects of California’s massive highway programs has been completed. The study, titled “The Environment and California’s Highway: Go Back, You Are Going the Wrong Way,” recommends that the federal government’s Highway Trust Fund for the construction of national highways should be abolished. The report also suggests that Congress should require the establishment of state transportation departments, which should exhibit a “multi-modal approach to all transportation problems” to qualify for federal funds; and that the U.S. Department of Transportation should require the replacement of each housing unit displaced by a freeway or highway, with funds corning from transportation budgets. The report made other recommendations as well including an increase in the level of financial support for mass transit and for states to maintain the present level of gasoline taxes; higher tax loads to be imposed on heavy trucks and their operators; a minimal tax structure imposed on mass transit operations to make them partially self-supporting· and the financing of all transportation programs and projects out of the state’s general fund and the cost of all mass transit projects to be shared by the federal, state and local governments. The study was directed by Henry Bernson, assisted by contributors Ed Burmeister, John Dudrey, Andy White and Jeff Colman. Recommendations were also made for the establishment of a State Transportation Organization, for freeway route selection programs, for judicial review of environmental and transportation legislation, and for additional safeguards to provide for agency review, more substantial inputs from public hearings at initial stages and guaranteed inter-model comparisons.

Tepperman in ALI-ABA Course of Study

Marvin T. Tepperman, vice president of Hyatt Corporation and lecturer at the Law School since 1960, was on the faculty for an ALI-ABA Course of Study on April 20, 21 and 22. The focus of the meeting was prevention of real estate project failures, the 18 rescue of troubled ventures and the protection of the parties who may have an interest in a troubled real estate project.

Moot Court Competition

At the 1971-72 National Moot Court Competition Stanford Law School students placed in the top five law schools for the second year in a row. Representatives were Jim Ware and Hal Lewis who defeated Memphis State and the University of Nebraska but lost to Boston University in the quarterfinals.

The Twentieth Annual Marion Rice Kirkwood Moot Court Competition was held at Stanford on April 22. Counsels for the petitioner, Ronald M. Oster and William Holland and counsels for the respondent, Robert W. McCulloh and Marshall H. Tanick, presented their arguments to a court composed of the Honorable Byron R. White, United States Supreme Court, the Honorable Stanley Mosk, Supreme Court of California and the Honorable Shirley M. Hufstedler, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. The question argued was: Whether an Oriental student was, deprived of rights secured by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment either because he was not included within a law school’s program of special admission for minority students or because of the very existence of such a special admission program. Mr. Justice White presented awards provided by the Stanford Law Society of Northern California. Marshall Tanick won first place in the competition; Ron Oster finished second in the tournament; and William Holland won the award for best brief and Tanick won best oral argument.

Fletcher Award

Richard T. Williams received the 1972 Fletcher Award from the Alumni Association of Stanford University for his extraordinary leadership in clinical education and extracurricular educational activities. Dick a 1972 recipient of both the J.D. and the M.B.A., who plans to practice in Los Angeles, was the motivating force behind the adoption of the California student practice statute. Under the Statute, a law student is now able to appear in court under the supervision of a practicing attorney and upon recommendation of his dean. The Fletcher Award is made in honor and memory of Mr. Lawrence Fletcher, a distinguished lawyer from Oakland and former trustee of the University to recognize a member of the Law School’s graduating class who has made the greatest contribution to the institutional life of the School.