UWLAW Alumni Magazine - Summer 2011

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Q. Name some of your stand-out students. A. Norm Dicks ‘68 entered law school as the great football hero, now the long-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives. I also remember Kent Carlson ‘67 who just received the Washington Law

comparative law and comparative thinking of law. Then the Marine Law program was developed and I was asked to include those students in my class. The class grew to include students from Europe, Mexico, and South America.

Review award was one of my students and Elizabeth

Q. What do you miss the most of the

Johnston ‘71. I remember her so well because she

law school?

came to law school after a successful career at the IRS. Older students were quite uncommon in those years. Justice Tom Chambers ’69 of the Washington Supreme Court was also one of my students. I shouldn’t single out a few because there were many. Q. You were among the pioneers of the Asian Law program. How did you become involved?

A. I once wrote a song about the law school and there were five things I missed. I missed the library and the staff. I missed my colleagues and of course I missed the students, but most of all I missed my salary. I felt very privileged to be a graduate of the law school. We say now what a great law school we

A. At the time the Asian Law program began I was

have. We’ve always had a great law school. It was

teaching first year students what was then called

smaller but it was great in my days too.

Legal Analysis and Research. I was asked to teach a similar course for the Asian Law graduates which I did. And I loved it. This was my first introduction into

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