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The InternationalLawProgram: A Diverse, Strong Composite
by Ted Hulbert
hen several students in UCLA's internationallawprogramsketched the outlines of their itineraries for summerworkandstudy,theydrew avivid composite of the maturity, diversity and strength which the program has achieved in its ties to nations which rimthe Pacific Ocean.
UCLAlawstudentDavidKay,fluentinMandarin Chinese andagraduateof Brown University'sprogram in Asian history, was headed to Hong Kong where his summerwith the international law firm of Baker and McKenzie would give him a taste of the Pacific Basin'smushroomingcommerce.
The summer was equally exotic for Chen Mingmian, one of two People's Republic of China students now studying law at UCLA. He worked in the downtown Los Angeles office of Kindel & Anderson, dealing with conflict of laws cases in the international department. "I think it is quite exciting," Chen said in modest understatement of hisimmersionin Westernlaw.
Linda Wong, who in 1984 was the first U.S. law student placed in an externship in the People's
Republic, wasagainonherwaytoChina-thistime to attend the trade fair in Canton, which for hundreds of years has been a center of international commerce. Wong, who completed her UCLA law degree last December, sees the Pacific Basin as an areaof unlimitedcareer opportunity.
Each of thesestudents brings a unique perspective to UCLA's program of Pacific Basin studies. All of them agree that their personal perspectives have become vastly enlarged, partly through the process of legal education andpartly just by sharingexperienceswithothersinchallengingenvironments.
UCLA law Professors William Alford, Arthur Rosett and Phillip Trimble provide the academic depth for the international law program; Alford teaches Chinese law, Japanese law is expanding
under Rosett's direction, while Trimble leads the program oflaw, diplomacy, and national security. The School of Law offers one of the few programs inthecountrythatfocusspecialattentiononAsian law, and UCLA's location in Los Angeles situates thelaw school inamajor legal center whichisalso a focal point of world trade. This combination of factors has attractedstudents of topcaliber.
"These students are very impressive; they areas goodasanystudentsanywhereintheU.S.interms of their background, training and intellect. We're fortunatetohavethem,"saysProfessorAlford."We are attracting many students with extensive languageskills,"addsProfessorRosett,"someofthem recent immigrants from East Asia, while others have specialized in East Asian studies as part of their academiccareers."
David Kay '86 is acase inpoint. While at Brown University, hebecamefluentinMandarinChinese; he also acquired a background in Japanese, as he continued his studies in Oriental languages and Iiteratures at Berkeley.
"I realized early on that language was the key to things,"saysKay."WhilereadingabookonChinese historyintwotranslations whichwereverydifferent,Irealized Iwouldhavetomasterthelanguage." Kayreceivedagraduatefellowshipto continue his study at the Stanford Center in Taiwan from 1977 to 1978, at a time when "there was no opportunity forany Americantostudy on themainland."
The breakthrough in U.S.-China relations came the next year. "Scholars had recognized that the U.S. China policy would eventually change, but therehadbeennoguaranteethatitwouldbeinour lifetime."
Kay hasjustcompletedanarticleforpublication in the UCLA Law Review on a topic which, in its own realm, represents a remarkable breakthrough inChineselaw. Kay'sarticleisonthepatentlawof thePeople'sRepublic; thefactthatabodyofpatent law now is evolving in China once would have seemed beyond imagining.
"It is very unusual for a Communist country to go to the length which China has to protect intellectual property," Kay notes. "Foreign scholars were waitingdesperatelyforsomethinglikethisto come from China. It is a massive project, which beganseveralyearsago;China'spatentlawbecame effective in April 1985, and the Chinese are doing everythingright, intheopinionofAmericanpatent experts."
Kay's law review article will be published in October, a well-suited event to welcome theyoung China scholarhomeforhisfinalyearatUCLAafter
DavidKay
a summer in Hong Kong. "Professor Alford was very helpful on the article," Kay says. He, in turn, has been assisting Alford's research focused on American trade regulation and the problems encountered when nations with market and nonmarketeconomiesdo businesswith one another.
"My great interest is inChinese law," says Kay. "I would like to practice inthatarea, startingwith commercialmattersand,Ihope,growingintoother things. I would like to watch the development of Americanpolicy."
With other UCLAlaw students, Kay has had the opportunity to know two mainland Chinese students as friends during this past year. ChenMingmian of Zhongshan University and Lin Ketong of the Chinese University of Political Science and Law, UCLA's law students from the People's Republic, will be completing their American legal education thisFall.
Linda Wong
"ThestudyoflawasitistaughtinAmericanlaw schools is such a new experience for Chinese students,"observes Kay. "And China'slegalsystemis undergoing incredible change. Students like Chen and Lin will be able to contribute to a remarkable extenttothewaylawisgoingtobeimplementedin China. Their interest is patriotic in the best sense; they really do believe in China, and in the new government'sideathattheruleoflawwillbebeneficial to Chinesedevelopment."
Lin's studies at UCLA are supported by a grant from the Committee on Legal Education Exchange With China; benefactors inthegrant havebeenthe Ford, Luce, Chinn-Hoand Asia Foundations. Chen is supported by agrant from the U.S. Information Agency.
"Whenwefirstcameto UCLA,wehaddifficulties with languagein the sense of speciallegal terms," saysChen. "Ourlegalsystemsaresodifferentfrom
each other." He smiles as he explains this deep frustration of language, and the smile conveys warmth and humor-qualities which surely are invaluable for surmountingcultureshock.
Nearthe endofhissummerposition in the international department of Kindel & Anderson's office indowntownLosAngeles, Chensaysquileopenly, "I am still trying to solve the language problem. I shouldbe honestandsayithasnotbeeneasy. One year of law schoolis not enough; there is so much lo be learned, and for me this has been a learning experience.
"IthinkIlearnedalotfromthisjob. I havebegun to realize how an American law firm operates, which will be of great value to me as a Chinese lawyer. By working here, I have gained useful experiencesincetherearesomanylawfirmsbeing started in China."
The entire structure of law as it is taught in a Western law school has been a new experience for Chen. "The American law school's case method is verydifferentfromtheChinesemethodoflegaleducation. In China, the student only takes notes; in theAmericanlaw school, discussion occupiesmost ofthe class time. That is the major difference.
"In America, studentsaremuchmoreinvolvedin class discussions; they often raise questions that give views opposing the teacher. Of course, students in China sometimes argue with teachersbut not so often as American students. This is a goodpointthat we shouldlearnfrom.
"My personal feeling," continues Chen, "is that the case method is not always systematic. I think this arises from the fact that the American teaching'spurposeisforstudentstobecome futurelawyers, and so they should be trained to think like lawyers. In China, law students are assigned lo do different jobs-to be officials in government organizations, or legal advisors in factories or corporalions."
Among his courses last year were International Business Transactions taught by Professor Rosell andInternationalEconomicOrganizationtaughtby Professor Trimble. "These courses were very useful," Chen says, "because I was able to see international law and business transactions from an American point of view." Has it been a lonely experience, being a Chinese law student in an American law school? No, Chen responds. "American students have been quitenice. They are helpful, andalso verykind."
While China is sending its best students to the U.S., it is also more and more willing to receive Americanstudentsand faculty.
Linda Wong '84 is a prime example. A graduate of San Francisco City College, she studied social work at Berkeley and Michigan. After a year as a social worker in a San Francisco agency serving the elderly, shedecidedthathergoalscouldbefulfilled more effectively throughlaw.
In her third year at UCLA, she became the first American law student placed in an externship within thePeople's Republic ofChina. She became alawstudentforasemester atZhongshan University in Canton, a sister school to UCLA, and was sent with three Chinese law students to work in thecity'sLegalAdvisoryBureau.Thebureauserves the functions of a law firm, dealing with foreign economicaffairsforbothChineseandnon-Chinese clients. Manyofthemattershandledby Wongwere related to business from U.S. and Japan, documented in bothChineseand English.
As a Chinese-American, Wong found that her hostsatfirstassumedthatshespokeonly English. "Itold them inChinese that itwasn'tnecessary to speak to me in English," but in time away from work shewouldoftenhelpothers to practicetheir English.
In a second trip to China, Wong set her first priority to attend the Canton Trade Fair, where every Spring and Fall representatives from provinces throughoutChinacome to selltheirproducts in the international market. The gigantic expo seemed a natural background for Wong's personal interestsin internationaltrade.
Cecilia Wu Hsu, whose family ties are strongly linked to Taiwan, brings adifferentperspectiveto UCLA's international law community. Hsu's personal career path was a remarkable progression fromlanguageteachingtointernationalbankingto real estate, beforeshe began herlaw studies.
"Ienteredrealestateattheheightoftheboomin 1977, but as transactions became more and more complicated, and with so many Chinese moving here from Taiwan, I felt that I should become knowledgeable in law so that I could help new immigrants become assimilated to the U.S.," explains Hsu. "Peopleneedtobeshownanewwayof life, andlaw ismuch moreimportantin the U.S."
HsuexternedlastyearwithJusticeJoanDempsey Klein '55 of theCaliforniaCourtof Appeal. "She is a wonderful woman, a role model for me," says Hsu. "I am interested in various fields. l like real estate law, and also internationallaw." Asummer position justcompletedat Hahn & Hahngavehera field to work invaried areas.
At UCLA, Hsu has become friends with the students from mainland China. "It has been very
Chen Ming-mian
helpful formeto meet them. l tendto be conservative because of my family background," says Hsu, whose father is in Taiwan's diplomatic corps. "I still sticktoour point ofview. Forastrong society, there isnothinglike democracy. ButIcannowperceivethatthepeopleontheothersideoftheTaiwan strait are alsoChinese; I don't think now that they are aggressive.
"I am very concerned," she summarizes, "and I want to beable ifIcan to do something formutual understanding."
"I find it a heartening affirmation of our role as an educational institution," observes Professor Alford,"thatourstudentsfrommainlandChinaand Taiwan (including a judge from Taiwan in last year's enteringclass), havebeenabletolearnfrom one another both about China and the U.S., even though they have very different views as to what the future ofChina should be."
Cecilia Wu Hsu
Alford also underlines the fact that the People's Republic is now "striving earnestly to develop its system of legal education at all levels. There are morethan 30universitiesandinstitutionsofhigher learningthathaveestablishedlawdepartmentsand are turning out lawyers atanacceleratedpace. The Chinese universities are making remarkable progress in terms of becoming more sophisticated aboutwhatconstitutesthelegaleducationthatwill preparetheirstudentswelltoplayapartinChina's development efforts."
Whilethe UCLAcampusat largehasbuilt strong relationships throughout the Pacific Basin, the School of Law has established mutually beneficial ties with East Asian institutions. A program with Zhongshan Universityresulted in exchange of faculty and students, and for the next two academic yearsanaffiliationbetweenUCLAandtheNational University of Singapore has been funded by the
U.S. Information Agency.
AJapaneseprofessorfromKobe,ShiroKashimura, was a visiting scholar at the law school last year and will continue his work at UCLA this year in the sociologydepartment.
The Pacific Basin Legal Studies Program which Professor Arthur Rosett directs will be increasing itsfocuson Japaneselawinthecomingyear. Visits by distinguished scholars will include a distinguished commercial law scholar from Japan, ProfessorSawada.Aresearchcolloquiumon Japanese law has beenmeetingregularly.
Colloquia of this type are often only of academic interest, but the Japanese program on a regular basis includes practicing lawyers, among them severalJapanesewithofficesinLosAngeles.Topics have ranged from the developing law of computer software to the use of art in the service of law duringJapan'sMeijiperiod,whenthemoderncodification of lawbegan.
RosettisalsodevelopingacurriculuminJapanese lawforAmericans,aproject whichwillbesupplementedbyaseriesof workshops forteachersfrom NorthAmericanlawschools,fundedbythe UCLA/ USC Joint East Asian Language and Area Studies Center.
Professor Phillip Trimble, who visited the National University of Singapore last year, has also lectured in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand to law schools, bar associations, foreign ministries and internationalstudiesinstitutes.
Professor Alford, in addition to time spent in China for his own research, has lectured at a numberofChineselawschools. Heisworkingona comparative law casebookfocused on China.
Important resources in Pacific Basin studies recently have been added tothe UCLA Law Library. GiftsofChineselegalmaterialshavebeenreceived from StanleyLubman of the San Francisco firm of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe and from the Committee on Legal Education Exchange With China. AnothermajorsourceofAsianlawmaterials has been the Roth Family Foundation's gift to the school.
"One of the priorities of the school," says Dean Susan Westerberg Prager, "is to build a library collection to support this growing center of international law."D
Leon Letwin: Compassionate Scholar
by Ellen Klugman
o ahead," Leon Letwin laughingly urgeshiswife,Alita."Justpretend this isone big gravestone and you have a hammer and chisel." He's talking, of course, about the interview question I had just finished asking his wife, which is, "What's so special aboutLeonLetwin?"
"I thinkoneofthenicestthingsabouthim," Alita remarksthoughtfullyandeasily, "ishedoesn'thave a glib answer for everything. He listens. Students feel he gives weight to their points of view. Leon conveys a certain respect for human intellect and dignity."
Professor EdgarJones,afacultycolleagueatthe UCLASchoolofLaw,phraseditsomewhatdifferently. In a memo to Dean Susan Westerberg Prager on Professor Letwin's nomination for the 1982-1983 University Distinguished Teaching Award, Jones remarked: "Leonjoinedusin1964.OvertheyearsI haveformedanopinion,shapedbythevariousinputs whicharecommontolawprofessors,thatLeonexcels 'in the pit.' That he does so with warmth and compassion does not lessen his impact on the studentsintheirgraspoftechnicallegalmaterials.
It enhances their realization that even the most technicallegal problem reduces to a human oneof competing interests and claims for preference, requiring the exercise of human judgment under the stresses of conscience and professionalism."
For readers accustomed to sex,controversy,and violence,what can be written about someone who issouniversallywell-liked,well-respected,andso good as Leon Letwin?
Sex.
With thirty years of marriage behind him, he's had some. As a professor of Evidence at UCLA, however, Leon Letwin knows the criteria for evidence, so he's gone and put together proof: Danny, age 26, currently pursuing a doctorate in historyatYale; Michael,age29,soontobecomean attorney for the criminal trial branch of the Legal Aid Society of New York; and David, age 25, who istobecomeastudentofactingat SUNY's Purchase, N.Y., campus.
And if that weren't enough, Leon Letwin thinks
Ellen Klugman '84 has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and other periodicals. She is an attorney al Shea & Gould.
of himself as a feminist, too. He has been, and remains, an outspoken advocate of female representationamongthefacultyandstudentbody of the law school. However, his commitment to women'srightsextendsbeyondtheclassroom. Had you flicked on the television on May 13th at 10 p.m., youcouldhaveseen LeonLetwinasoneofthe individuals in a candlelight vigil for abortion rights sponsored by the pro-choice organization, CaliforniaAbortionRightsActionLeague (CARALJ.
Leon Letwin's concern for civil liberties of the underrepresented has also led him to take an early andactiveroleinminorityissues. Professor Letwin was instrumental in establishing the first Council on Legal Education Opportunity (CLEO) summer program at the UCLA School of Law in 1968, and acted as its director. The purpose of the program was to assist minority students in their transition to the study of law. Up until that point, few had attended the law school.
Remarks UCLA alumnus Ralph Ochoa, partner in the Sacramento law firm of Ochoa and Sillas and former special assistant to the speaker of the State Assembly: "In 1969, I was the only Mexican
American in California to graduate from an accredited law school-UCLA. Leon Letwin made me appreciate the opportunityI had, first of all, to help myself. He helped me understand the anger, the · hostility, the shame, the frustration, the ambition, and the goals. Leon Letwin showed me howtofocusmytalentsintherightdirection. Most of all, my friend Leon Letwin understood my need to help other Hispanics who found themselves trappedbytheirinabilitytocopewiththesystem."
Althoughmostofthefuroroverminorityadmission& has abated, Professor Letwin sees the issue as far from being settled. "I think the biggest problem in theminoritysituationisthatweadmitafairnumber of minorities, some of whom don't have the same kindofpreparationastheothers,andthenweleave them to their own devices. It's sink or swim, and far too manysinkwho shouldn't."
To help these students, Letwin advocates more extensive support programs once the law school program has begun, and increased financial aid. Professor Letwin is equallyfrustrated by what he views as the law school's relative lack of minority faculty. "Thelawschoolisreceptivetosuchhiring
but does not place as high a premium on it as it woulddeserve,anddoesn'textenditselfasitmight in hiring minorities," hesays with intensity. Controversy.
Some law professors confine their talents and experiences to academic treatment of the law. But the "how to do it stuff," as Letwin calls it, fascinates this professor of Evidence and Civil Procedure asmuchas thetheory seems to. "Iwent to law school [at University of Wisconsin)in1950 becauseIthoughtasalawyer,Iwouldbeabletodo politically useful things like defend causes under attack that needed defense during a period which seemed tobe repressive," he explains.
He didn't get that chance immediately. For the first ten years after graduation, Letwin practiced tort law in a small Milwaukee firm. "I was beginning to evaluate every personal injury that walked in with glee," he remembers with self-amusement, "so I figured it was time to go somewhere else." The "somewhere else" was a graduate program in law at Harvard, because, as Letwin puts it, "ifyou weren't going the route of a SupremeCourtclerkshiporaprestigiousWallStreet firm and wanted to teach law, Harvard was the placetogo."
AfriendfromHarvard,whowasteachingatUCLA, went to bat for Letwin. That friend was the late ProfessorDonaldHagman.LetwinstartedatUCLA, in1964,asalegalwritinginstructor.Sincethen,he hastaughtContracts,Evidence,andCivilProcedure, with the latter two as his academic mainstay. It certainly seemed a far cry from doing "politically useful things like defending causes under attack." Thencame the Vietnam War years.
Along with former UCLA law Professor Dick Wasserstrom, Letwin took on several "pro bona" cases including representationofa professor from UC Santa Barbara who had been fired from his postforanti-waractivities.Letwinalsotookpersonal interest in the right of public school students to distribute uncensored "underground" [unofficial) newspapers on campus. The case came to him by way of someonehe'dknownfor a long time - his son.
Michael,astudentatUniversityHighatthetime, wasinvolvedinwritingandrunningthepublication at issue. In Brightv. Unified School District, Dick WasserstromandLeonLetwintookthecaseagainst the Los Angeles school authorities straight on through to the California Supreme Court.
"It was fun arguing the case before the court," Letwin says. "Put a law professor in an appellate court and all you're doing is what you'd normally
do in a classroom - take statutes and cases apart and put them back togetheragain."
During the early '70s, Leon Letwin would find himselftearingapartstatutesandcasesandputting thembacktogetherbothinandoutoftheclassroom on far more thanone occasion. Violence.
When violence struck the campus, Letwin again found his legal education helpful for doing "politically useful things like defending causes under attack." During one enormous anti-war demonstrationinfrontofthelawschool,thepolice orderedthecrowdtodisperse.Oneoftheprotesters, astudentnamed HarryAlexander,refusedtoleave. AccordingtoLetwin,thepolicebrutalizedAlexander with clubs and charged him with about a dozen misdemeanors.
Bycoincidence,about50lawstudentshadwitnessed the event. With the help of Leon Letwin and Dick Wasserstrom,some30affidavitswerecollectedfrom these law students to contradict the police's justification of "self defense." What's more, Letwin'swife,Alita,hadaco-workerwhohadbeen on campus at the time and who had actuallytaken pictures of the beating. Wasserstrom and Letwin took over, andledthe student'sdefense.
The '80s are a more placid time than the '70s, though perhaps as perturbing in their own way. Some of Professor Letwin's activism went into actingaschairandlaterasadvisortotheAcademic Senate's Committee onPrivilegeandTenure, which conducts hearings into alleged violations of professors' rights inthese areas.
Leon Letwin's publications tend to be based on his experiences in the trenches defending those values he holds as crucial. A sampling of his publications includes: "Education and the Constitutional Rights of School Children," 1 Thinking, The Journal of Philosophy for Children 11 (1978); "The Preliminary Hearing in Los Angeles: Some Field Findings and Legal Policy Observations," 18 UCLA Law Review636-757and 18 UCLA Law Review 916-961 (1971), which was co-authored with Ken Graham; "Administrative CensorshipoftheIndependentStudentPress-Demise of the Double Standard?" 28 South Carolina Law Review 565 (March 1977); "Regulation of UndergroundNewspapersonPublicSchoolCampuses in California," 22 UCLA Law Review 141 [October 1974); and "Unchaste Character, Ideology, and the California Rape Evidence Laws," 54 USC Law Review (1980).
inthelattercoursewhichheiscurrentlypreparing forpublication.Manyoftoday'sstudentsareperhaps not aware of Leon Letwin's social and political interests. Buthisgentlenessandhisjoyinteaching - especiallywhen the class is as heady a subject as Evidence -alwaysmakesLeonLetwin'sclasses afun,peaceful,yetchallenging,place to be.
When, duringthespringof 1983,Letwinwonthe Rutter Award for excellence in teaching, the classroominwhichtheawardwaspresentedbrimmed with students, colleagues, and staff whom Leon Letwin had touched in some way. Explains Dick Wasserstrom,nowheadofthephilosophyprogram at Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, "You might say that Leon Letwin is one of the few people around who actually acts out of those principles he supports, and he does so with remarkable consistency."
ThisremarkseemsreadilydemonstratedinLeon Letwin's daily interaction with people in general. When called to be interviewed for this piece,Leon Letwinsuggestednothisoffice (asmostprofessors areapt to doJ but dinner at his home, instead. The bare, polished wooden floors and the tasteful, attractiveNativeAmericanfolkartaresomehowa perfectsettingforthis unpretentious couple.
A casual conversation is interrupted by a call from a colleague ofLetwin's at UC Berkeley. They discuss efforts to coordinate protests throughout the UC campuses concerning apartheid in South Africa. ProfessorLetwinmentionsthemeetinghe'll behavingthatweekendwithagroupcalled"Concerned
Faculty," comprised of faculty across the UCLA campus.
Upon Letwin's return to the room, conversation drifts to the quality of legal education. Letwin advocates change. I ask him why, given the fact that although many of his colleagues have voiced the same dissatisfaction, the basicsystem of legal education remains unchanged. "Gee now, that's a greatquestion,"heexclaims,sittingup. Herepeats the question slowly, examining all sides and combinationsofit,as if hehadjust been handed a Rubik's cube.
"You know," he says, "I don't have a very good answertothat. Onethingisthatwewerealltrained in the same three year system of legal education, and it may be hard to break out of that pattern. I thinktheremust beanelementofselfdeceptionon the part of faculty members, including myself. I don't fully understand it," he says, slowly, deepin thought. His face suddenlybreaks open intoa grin as if he's just discovered the opening, if not the answer. "I think it's an interesting challenge to try to make my teaching conform more with my underlying values," he muses. And for some inexplicablereason,youbelieve hewill.
Leave it to Leon Letwin to come up with a nondefensive, thoughtful answer where a lesser man might bristle. Whether or not you agree with his politics, you have to admire Leon Letwin's willingness to look at life, and himself, with the very compassion we all seek from ourselves and others.D
Upper left: Chief Judge James R. Browning of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court, and Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court, silting in the UCLA Moot Courtroom.
Lower left: The Roscoe Pound advocates, left to right, Robert Teeter, Kathryn Karcher, Susan Alexander, and Sandra Seville-Jones.
Upper center: At the reception fallowing the competition, UCLA law students Carolyn Compare/ and John Moscarino, who headed the Moot Court program as ChiefJustice.
Upper right: Justice White enjoys a reunion with two farmer law clerks, one of them now on the UCLA faculty, Professor Jon Varal.
Lower right: Susan Alexander receives a plaquewith warm congratulations from Justice White.
EminentJuristsHonor Students
tudents in the Roscoe Pound competition, the final round of the UCLA Moot Court program, had thehonorofarguinginAprilbefore a distinguished panel including Justice Byron R. White of the U.S. Supreme Court, Chief Judge James R. Browningof the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Cornelia G. Kennedy of the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
PresentingoralargumentswereSusanAlexander, Kathryn Karcher, Sandra Seville-Jones and Robert
Teeter.ThejudgeshonoredSeville-JonesandTeeter as best advocates. James Burns received the best brief award. Those three students will represent UCLA inthe national MootCourt competition during the year ahead.
At a reception which followed the competition, the panel of judges presented awardstothe Roscoe Pound adovcates and to Denise Meyer as Roger J. Traynor brief writer; Sheila Bankhead, most improved advocate; and Scott Solomon, best third yearadvocate. AlsohonoredasdistinguishedadvocateswereSusan Abraham, Pamela Brown, Pamela
Corrie, Mark Dicks, Eileen Duffy, Jerri Hoi, Nancy Kraybill, Margaret Linscott, Janis Nelson, Robert Noriega and James Swanson.
Thefourfinalistswho entered the Roscoe Pound competition competed among 160 of their classmates in the rigorous year of competition within the school. More than 350 members of the Los Angeles legal community, most of them UCLA alumni, participatedonpanelsjudging MootCourt advocacy skills.
Officersoftheprogramduringthepastyearwere John Moscarino, Charles Fanning, Andrea Fishand Chris Vail. The Moot Court program is partially funded through royalties from the Handbook of Appellate Advocacy, which will be published by West early in 1986. Members of the Class of 1985
who worked on that book are Frank Acuna, Dan Casas,Clair McCrea!, JohnOssiffand Roger Rosen. Successoftheprogramwasevidentincomments atthereceptionwhichconcludedthe Roscoe Pound competition. "If all oral argumentswere presented aswell as this one, itwould be farmore enjoyable beingajudge,"saidJudge Kennedy. Expressingthe school's gratitude to the judges, Dean Susan Westerberg Pragernotedthat"thispaneltodayhas been extraordinarily warm and supportive. Today was a day of pure pleasure.Historically, the Moot Courtprogramhasbeenstrong,andintheserecent years it hasexceeded all ourexpectations."O
The Faculty
Benjamin Aaron was on sabbatical leavefor the firstsix monthsof the academic year1984-85. During that period,he lectureatthe Law School ofthe Universityof Sao Paulo, Brazil; presented a reviewof laborlaw research inNorthAmerica ata seminar atthe Center forWorking Lifein Stockholm; andpresenteda paper on industrialdemocracyin the UnitedStatesataseminaratthe Universityof Messina in Sicily. He alsoattended a labor lawconference in Szeged, Hungary, at whichhe was elected president-elect of the International Society for Labor Law and Social Security fora three-year termcommencingin September1985, andan industrialrelationsconference in Vienna.
In January1985, Professor Aaron participatedin aconferenceon labor lawand social securityin Bangkok, Thailand.
He is currently working on the following articles, all but oneto be published this calendar year: "Controls of Union Elections and Use of Political Funds in Selected Countries;" "The NLRB, Labor Courts, and Industrial Tribunals: A Selective Comparison;" "The Public Sector,Unfair LaborPractices Statutes and the Rightto Strike: Has the National Labor RelationsAct Been a Good Model?" "Rights of Individual Employees under the NRLA;" and "Fifty Years of Labor Law and SocialSecurity in the United States: Main Developments and Prospects." His article, "Union Security inAustraliaand the United States," willappear in Vol. 6, No. 4 of ComparativeLaborLaw.
This Spring, Aaron was honored by his colleagues in the LosAngeles County Bar Labor Law Section at a dinner, with former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtzas principal speaker.
Richard Abel co-chaired a conference on comparativesociology of legal professions at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, atwhichsome 30 lawyers and social scientists from20 countries presentednationalreports
andcomparative and theoretical studies. The papers willbepublished in threevolumesby the Universityof California Press. Professor Abelis contributingthree essays to those volumes.
ProfessorAbel presented a paper on "Informalism: A Tactical Equivalent to Law?" to a conference in Madison, Wisconsin, on "Poor Clients without Lawyers." He also edited a specialissueof theJournalof Law & Policyentitled "Lawyers and the Power to Change," containing essays by lawyers and social scientists in England, Canada,the UnitedStatesandAustralia. His essayon"Custom, Rules, Administration, Community" willbe published in theJournalofAfrican LawandtranslatedintoPortuguese forpublicationin a bookinPortugal. Anotheressay "Should Tort Law Protect PropertyAgainst Accidental Loss?" willappear in a book published by Duckworthsin England. An article "Law WithoutPolitics: Legal Aid UnderAdvanced Capitalism," willappear in the UCLA Law Review.
ProfessorAbelwilldeliver the ChorleyLectureat the LondonSchool of Economics in June on "The Decline ofProfessionalism;"a revised version willbe published inthe ModernLaw Review nextyear. Heis also completing a examine the reduction in the crimerate. This yearhe completes athreeyear stintonthe UCLA Councilon Academic Personnelwhichhechairedin 1983-84.
William Alford published "Of ArsenicandOldLaws: Looking Anew atCriminalJusticein Late ImperialChina" in 72 California Law Review1180 (1984). He is writing extensivelyon thenature of Chinese lawprior to the imperial unification of 221 B.C.
ProfessorAlford deliveredapaper entitled "When is China Really Paraguay?Observationson the Application ofthe Trade Lawsofthe United States to China andOther Nations with So-called 'State-
controlled' Economies" at an international conferenceheld in the city of Wuhan, Chinain January of 1985.
He lecturedduring January 1985 on questions of importand export controllaws oftheUnited Statesat Chinese universities, includng the China Universityof Political Science and Law in Beijing andat Zhongshan Universityin Guangzhou [Canton]. He also conducted research on issues of Chinese law and legal history atuniversitiesin Beijing and Guangzhou and at the Instituteof History and Philology of the Academia Sinica inTaiwan.
Alford wasinvitedto testify about Chinese legal developments before the Subcommitteeon Trade with China of the Energyand Commerce Committee ofthe U.S. House of Representatives.
He organizedandspoke ata panel on trade and protectionism with specific reference to the textile trade as partof a conference entitled "The Pacific Rim: New Waves on Ancient Shores" held atUCLA on April 24, 1985.
Professor Alfordwas awardedthe 1984 China Prizebythe Dutchlegal publisher Kluwer forcontributionsto Chinese relationsin the area of law.
Thomas Allen isworking on an article on the problem of limiting the definition of discriminationon the basis of handicap, as prohibitedby slate and federallaw.
Reginald Alleyne's paper, "TheNew National Labor Relations Board" was delivered as the keynote address at the Orange CountyIndustrial Relations ResearchAssociation's labor lawconferencein October. His article, "Shifting Reactions To Public Employee Collective Bargaining" will appear in the nextissueof Public AdministrationReview. Professor Alleyne's article, "Reflectionson the Ethics of LaborArbitrators" hasbeen published in the Occasional Paper Series ofthe Societyof Professionals In Dispute Resolution.
Michael Asimow published "Nonlegislative Rulemaking and Regulatory Reform"in the DukeLaw Journal. Hehas written several paperson the taxconsequencesof marital dissolutionand has lectured on that subject to groups of lawyers and judges. He isatwork on an administrative lawcasebook.
ProfessorAsimowis chairof CaliforniaCommonCause, a public interest lobbywithmore than 40,000 members, and ischair ofthe tax section of the AmericanAssociation ofLawSchools.
John A. Baumancompleted thefourth editionof his Remedies casebook with K. H. York and Doug Rendleman.
He is nationalsecretary-treasurer ofthe Orderof theCoifand is onthe Finance Committee of the LawSchool AdmissionCouncil. Professor Bauman also servesonthe CommitteesonCourtsand on the Annual Meetingofthe Associationof AmericanLawSchools. He is president-electofthe UCLA Faculty Center.
Paul Bergmanlectured at theAALS Conferenceon"Teaching Evidence" inAlbuquerquethisspring. Bergmanhas alsocompleted a manuscripthavingto do with harmless error entitled, "It's Not
What You Think But How YouThink It: A NewApproachto Harmless Error." He is developing a paper with Professor Avrom Sherrof the University of Warwick inCoventry, England onteaching through experiential exercises.
Professor Bergmanwillbe teaching anevidence course inthesummer at the Notre Dame London LawCentre.
Richard Delgado was a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Fall. He published an article on governmentallycreated elites inthe UCLA LawReview, anarticleonthe languageof the armsrace in Boston UniversityLaw Review, andone on religious deprogramming in Vanderbilt LawReview.
Works inprogress include acritical studyof alternative dispute resolution, an article on economic deprivation and crime, and an article onthe concept of equality.
Thispast year, he servedonthe steeringcommittee of the Association
of AmericanLawSchools Section on Minorities andwasco-chair of the program committee forthe annual meeting.
Jesse Dukeminier published the third editionofhiscasebook, Wills, Trusts, and Estates, co-authored with Professor Stanley Johanson of Texas. In February 1985, hespoke at a conference ofwillsand trusts teachers atSanAntonio, sponsored by theAssociationof American Law Schools. He alsocontinued to serve as an advisorto the California Law RevisionCommission onthe new probatecode.
Professor Dukeminier has in press, forsummerpublication, a supplement to his Property casebook, co-authoredwith Professor Jim Krier of Michigan, anda new 12th edition of Gilbert's Summary ofProperty. He hascompletedan article, "Perpetuities: The Measuring Lines," to be publishednext fall, and is now engaged inprogrammingthe Rule AgainstPerpetuities into a computer.
Julian Eule becamethefifthrecipient oftheAmerican Bar Foundation's Samuel Pool Weaver Constitutional Law Essay Prize. The essay will appear in a futureissueof the American Bar Foundation Research Journalanddeals withtemporal limitations onlegislativepower. The fourprevious recipients ofthe prize are Geoffrey Stone [Universityof Chicago); Vincent Blasi [Columbia); Kent Greenawalt [Columbia)and Walter Hellerstein [University of Georgia).
William Forbath completedan article titled "The Ambiguities of Free Labor: Labor andthe Law in the Gilded Age" whichwill appearin the Wisconsin Law Review this Fall.
At a symposiumatthe University of Miami Law School,hepresented a paper on the labor movement's changing visionsofthe Constitution, lawand the usesof stale power over the past century. The paper willbe published in abookarisingfromthe symposium.
Forbath presented apaper onthe social history of the labor injunction lo the InterdisciplinaryLegalStudies Colloquiumat the University of WisconsinLawSchool.
He led asimulated collective bargaining sessionatthe Annual Conference on Industrial Relations sponsoredby theInstitute of Industrial Relations, UCLAand the BureauofNationalAffairs, Washington, D.C.
Forbath will beontwo panels al theLaw and Society Association's annnual conference in San Diego in June.
Charles M. Firestonehas been selected as presidentof theLos Angeles Boardof Telecommunications Commissioners, which has jurisdictionover regulationof cable television and long-range telecommunications planning for theCity of Los Angeles.
He also participated in the Fourth Biennial CommunicationsLaw Symposium withthe International Bar Association on "International Satellite and Cable Television"onthe UCLA campus. Heeditedthe extensive430-page Legal Resource Manual on the subject.
Professor Firesloneserved as a discussant al anInstitute of Governmental Studies/California Policy Seminar in Berkeley. In Washington, D.C., hepresented a
workshop al a conference given by Telecommunications Researchand Action Center. He testified beforethe CaliforniaAssembly Utilities and Commerce Committee in thefall of 1984. He also gave testimony before the Federal Communications Commission on The Fairness Doctrine.
Carole Goldberg-Ambrose presented a paperentitled "The Curious History of PublicLaw 280" atthe UCLA AmericanIndianStudies Center conferenceon "TheAmerican Indian in ContemporaryLife, An Examination of Relationships Between Cultural Values and AmericanIndian Policy."
Robert Goldsteinhas beeninvolved in the areaof protecting the rights of human subjectsof academic and medical researchby serving on UCLA'sHumanSubject Policy Committee, the campus-wide oversightcommitteeon human experimentation, and on an Institutional Review Board for psychiatric research.In additionhe consults atthe BrentwoodV.A.'s lawpsychiatry case conference. His current research concerns the legal status of the fetus.
Joel F. Handler recently completed a book titled The Conditions of Discretion: Autonomy, Community, Bureaucracy whichwill bepublished by the Russell Sage Foundation. The book uses special education to explore cooperativedecision making in themodernwelfare slate.
Professor Handler participated ina conferenceonLaw, Private Governance and Continuing Relationships andwill be publishing a paper, "Continuing Relationships and theAdministrative State: Social Welfare.'' He was a co-sponsor ofa conferenceon Poor Clients Without Lawyers: WhalCan Be Done?
Hehas recently been appointed to a National Research Councilcommittee on thestatus ofblack Americans.
Olivia Ibarra wasa keynote speaker at thefirstImmigrationLawSeminar offered by the Orange County Bar Immigration Law Sectionduring December 1984. She served aseditor of the syllabus as well. She wasalso a featured speaker at a recent labor certification symposium sponsored by theLos Angeles County Bar AssociationImmigrationLawSection.
Kenneth Karstdeliveredthe William T. Joyner Lecture in Constitutional Law at theUniversityof North Carolina School ofLawonApril 12. The lecture wason"The Constitution and Cultural Diversity." His work as associate editor ofthe Encyclopedia ofthe American Constitutioncontinues.The encyclopediashouldbepublished near the end of 1986.
William Kleinhas completed a supplement forhiscasebook on federal income taxation. He servedon a planning committee for an AALS workshop on teaching federal income taxation to be held in Washington, D.C., in the Fall.
Leon Letwin published anarticleon the impeachmentof criminal defendants withpriorconvictions. He is currently working on a setof teaching materialsin thefield of evidence.
Wesley J. Liebeler's recentremarksal a conference onAntitrust and Economic Efficiency sponsored by the Hoover Institution will appearin the Journal of Law & Economics. His paper, "A Property Rights Approach lo Judicial Decision Making," presented to aconference on economic liberties and the judiciary sponsored by the Cato Institute, will be published in theSummer 1985 issue of the CatoJournal. Healso took partin a two-day conferenceon trade and industrial policy sponsored by theAmericanIron & Steel Institute.
Hisforthcoming 1984Annual Economic Reviewof Antitrust Developments willanalyze the problems the SupremeCourthas beenhaving in determining thescope of the perse rule as applied to horizontal contractrestrictions on competition. Heis writing abook on the economic analysis of antitrust law which willbe published by Little, Brown & Co.
Christine A. Littletonhas been elected to theboard of directorsof the American CivilLibertiesUnionof Southern California. Last November, shewasinvitedto presenther work-in-progress on "Alternative Models of Sexual Equality" at the Clara Brett Martin workshop series at the Universityof Toronto.
Daniel Lowenstein's article entitled "Political Bribery and the Intermediate Theory of Politics" is beingpublishedin the April 1985 edition of the UCLA Law Review. He is helping to organize a symposium al the law school in October on legislative districting and gerrymandering. Papers (one of whichwillbe co-authoredby Professor Lowenstein) and commentaries willbe published in the UCLA LawReviewin the Fall. Thesubjectwillbeparticularly timelybecause the United States Supreme Court hasplacedonits docketfor the October 1985 terma case raising the question whether partisan gerrymandering is unconstitutional. Thesymposium will be sponsoredby the UCLA Law Reviewandthe California Policy Seminar.
Professor Lowenstein serves on the boards of Californiansfor Nonsmokers' Rightsand the Shakespeare Societyof America. He recently completed six yearsof
service on the Common Cause nationalgoverningboard. He willbe onleaveduringthe1985-86academic year.
Rod Margo gave an addressonrecent developments in the United States relating to personalinjury claims, including claimsfor deniedboarding anddiscrimination, at the 38th Annual Conference of the Worldwide Airline Customer Relations Associationin Buenos Aires, Argentina. Margo also gave a keynote addresson the relationship between insurer, broker and insured, and the expanding liability of insurers and brokers in the United States at a dinnersponsoredby the British Columbia branch ofthe Canadian Bar Association in Vancouver. In April he delivered a paper onrecent developments in aviation lawand insurance at anaviation law and claims conference in London. Margoispreparing thesecond editionof his work on Avialion Insurance and Reinsurance Lawto be
published in Londonin the spring of 1986.
Carrie Menkel-Meadowpublished "Personalizedor Bureaucratized Justice in Legal Services: Resolving SociologicalAmbivalencein the Delivery of Legal Aid for the Poor" in LawandHumanBehavior "The Transformationof DisputesBy Lawyers: What the Dispute Paradigm Does and Does NotTell Us" in 2 Journal ofDispute Resolution. Her article "Portia ina Different Voice: Speculations on a Women's Lawyering Process" will appear in the inauguralissueof the Berkeley Women's LawJournal.
Professor Menkel-Meadow delivered "The Paralegalization of Legal Services" for the Wisconsin Law School's conference on Poor Clients Without Lawyers. She presented"Forand Against Settlement: For What Purpose the Mandatory Settlement Conference?" to the annual Earl Warren Conference of the Roscoe PoundTrial Lawyers
Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia.
She serves as a consultant to the UniversityofMissouriCenterfor the Studyof DisputeResolution, NationalInstitutefor Dispute Resolution and Centerfor Public Resources. She ison the American Bar Association's, Council onLegal Education subcommittee on skills training. She also servesonthe advisory committee to UCLA's Center for the Study of Women,a newlyapproved organized researchunit.
She is currentlyworking ona book entitled Beyond the Adversary Model-Materials on Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, designed forlawschool teaching.
Stephen R. Munzer published "Realistic Limitson Realist Interpretation," 58 Southern California Law Review 459 {1985). During aSpringsabbatical,he worked ona draft of a bookon the theory of property.
Melville Nimmer's treatise Nimmer on Freedom of Speech was published in June1984inan edition for practicing lawyers. A paperback edition forlaw students was published in November 1984. Nimmer hascompleted the manuscript for the thirdedition ofhis casebookon Copyright and Other Aspects of Entertainment Litigation tobe publishedin June1985. Hewill lectureunder theauspicesof the MelbourneFacultyof Law and the MonashFacultyofLaw in Australia during the monthsof Juneand July. Professor Nimmer was chosen by the National LawJournal to be includedin its listingof the "100 most powerful lawyers" inthe nation.
Frances Olsen published "Socrates on Legal Obligation: Legitimation Theory and Civil Disobedience" in18 Georgia Law Review 929 {1984) and "Statutory Rape: A Feminist Critique of Rights Analysis" in 63 Texas Law Review 387 [1984). Anarticle version ofa talk she gave al HarvardLaw School on "The Politics ofFamily Law" appearedin 2 Law & Inequality 1 {1983). a new journalpublished by theUniversityofMinnesotaLaw School.
Professor Olsenpresentedpapers at the Universityof Wisconsin, American University and the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in
Washington, D.C. Shealso made presentationsto theannual meeting of theLaw and Society Assocation in Bostonand at the summer workshop of the Conferenceon CriticalLegal Studies in Glouster, Massachusetts. Olsenwas elected to theexecutive committeeof the Association of AmericanLaw Schools section on womeninlaw teaching,and shehas beeninvitedto be a seniorfellowof the WisconsinLegal History Program, where shewasa fellowlast summer.
She is currentlycompleting two papers, "The Myth of State Intervention inthe Family," for the Michigan Journal ofLaw Reform, and "Toward a New Family Law History: Child Custody," as partof the WisconsinWorking Papers series.
Susan Westerberg Prager is serving as a member of the California Commission for CampaignFinancing. She is president-electof the AssociationofAmericanLaw Schools, andwillbeginhertermas presidentin1986. The AALS is the nation's major association inlegal education.
Arthur Rosetthas published two articles, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and given several speeches this year regarding the proposed ratification by the United States of the United Nations Conventionon Contractsfor the International Sale of Goods. Hehascontinued lo devote substantial attentionto the development of thegraduate, international and comparativelaw programs at the School ofLaw. A successfulresearchcolloquium of Japaneselaw involving academics and practitionershas beenmeeting regularly, and curricular workshops on leaching Japaneselaw to Americanlawstudents are proposed. InMay, the School graduatedits fiftieth participantin the LL.M. program.
Gary Schwartz spoke ata conference on accident compensationat the Australian National University in August 1984. He was also a speaker al a conference at Yale Law School on Critical Issues in Tort Law Reform. Schwartz was a commentatorata recent conference on Buildinga New Tort Scholarship atLoyola Law School. Hewasinvitedas a speaker althe mid-year conference of the
California Judges Association. In May 1985, hewasa commentatorat the American Bar Association's national conference ontort liability.
Murray L. Schwartz was a fellow at the Center forAdvanced Study inthe Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, California, from1983-84.
Hehas published the1984 cumulative supplement to his casebook, Lawyers and the Legal Profession; a second edition is in press. He also published "Foreword lo the Symposium onAttorneyFee Shifting," 47 Law & Comtemporary Problems 1 [1984). His article"The Zeal of the Civil Advocate" was published in1983 in the American Bar Foundation Research Journal.
Professor Schwartzhas become a member of the subcommissiononlaw of the American Council ofLearned Societies, and the Soviet Academyof Sciences Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. He has also become amember of the Harvard University Board of Overseers' committeelo visit Harvard's Department of Government.
Througoul theyear, he delivered lectures at Stanford Law School, UC Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley, theSection of Negligence and Insurance Practice of the American Bar Associationin Houston, andatthe Annual Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in West Virginia.
Avrom Sherr, visiting for theyear from the Universityof Warwick in England, has completed a video production and training manual on "Lawyer-Client Interviewing" forthe English Law Society.
Al UCLA, hehas been workingon a book on client interviewing andhas completed anarticle summarizing some earlier empirical researchon new lawyers'abilities and competence to carry out functionsin the lawyer-clientrelationship.
Sherr has beenorganizing an internationalclinicallegal education conference tobeheld at UCLA in October 1986.
Stanley Siegeldeliveredaninvited paper on United States Taxationof Multinational Enterprises at the annualmeetingof the Associationfor the Advancementof Comparative Legal Studies, andapaperonState Regulation ofAccounting Principles
atthe Arthur Young Roundtable. In addition, he gavetalks onthenew California Limited Partnership Act forthe Los AngelesCountyBar Association, andon developmentsin partnershiptaxationforthe Practicing LawInstitute. He wasa principalspeakeronthe subject of financialaccountingatthe fourth annualInstitutefor Corporate CounselinLos Angeles. Last summer, hetaughta course on comparativecorporationlaw at KingsCollege, Universityof London.
ProfessorSiegel continues forthe fifthyear asamember ofthefaculty of the Academyof Americanand InternationalLawofthe SouthwesternLegalFoundation. He servesalso as amemberofthe advi.sorycommitee to the California CommissionerofCorporations.
Siegelis writingatext onbusiness planningto be publishedby Little, Brown, andwithhiscollaborators is preparing the fourth edition of Enterprise Organization, published by Foundation Press.
Phillip R. Trimblepublisheda review essay"InternationalTrade andthe Rule of Law" in the Michigan Law Review. He completed anarticle "A Revisionist Viewof Customary International Law."
Professor Trimble lecturedonarms control topics atthe UCLA Center for InternationalStrategic Affairs, for UCLAExtension, tothe Chancellors Associatesandatthe Los Alamos
National Laboratory. Hespokeat a conference onthe Third Worldatthe RAND Coporation. Trimble lectured inSri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailandto law schools, bar associations, managementschools, foreignministries, andinternational studies institutes.
Phillip R. Trimblepublished a review essay "International Trade and the Rule of Law" inthe Michigan Law Review. He completed an article "A Revisionist View of Customary International Law."
Professor Trimble lectured on arms control topicsatthe UCLA Center for International Strategic Affairs, for UCLAExtension, to the Chancellors Associatesand at the LosAlamos National Laboratory. He spoke at a conference onthe Third Worldatthe RANDCoporation. Trimble lectured inSri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Thailand tolaw schools, bar associations, managementschools, foreign ministries, andinternational studies institutes.
Jonathan Varat participated ina panel discussion of "Congressional Powerto Curtail Federal Jurisdiction" at the Center for theStudyof DemocraticInstitutions, University of California, SantaBarbara. He testifiedbeforethe California Assembly Committee on Intergovernmental Relations onthe proposed balanced budget amendmenttothe U.S. Constitution.
William D. Warren co-authored with Professor RobertL. Jordan a casebook entitled Bankruptcy, published by the Foundation Press in May.
He spoke onthe 1984 bankruptcy amendmentsinSeptember beforea joint meetingofthe Financial LawyersConferenceandthe Los AngelesCountyBarAssociation. He wasmoderator ofthe annualthreedayseminarofthe Financial Lawyers' ConferenceatLa Quinta in February on "Selected Topics in FraudulentConveyances, Equitable Subordination,andBulkSales."
He spokeon "RecentTrends in FraudulentConveyance Law" in March inLos Angeles before the Committee on Financial Services of the ABASectionofCorporation BankingandBusinessLaw. He also spoke on "Good Faith and Fair Dealing" inNewYorkinApril andin LosAngelesin Juneaspart of a program entitled "Emerging Theories of Lender Liability," sponsored by the ABASectionofCorporation, BankingandBusiness Law.
Stephen C. Yeazell delivered a paper on the history ofgroup litigation at the thirdannualAustralianLawand HistoryConferencein May 1984.He spoke at the Association of American LawSchools Teaching Conference in Austin in June.
Professor Yeazell continues to work on hisbook on the history and theory of the class action.
Congratulations, Class of '85!
Warmfeelings of achievement bythegraduatesandproud congratulationsfrom their families andfriends filled everycorner of the Los Angeles Tennis Center at UCLA on the special day. If wordsand hugs weren'tenough, there were bannersandballoons-andsmiling facultymembers, amongthem Professors William Alford, Charles Firestone, Grace Blumberg and Patrick Patterson [center photo], and Professorof the Year Stanley Siegel [upper right].
Miriam Walker, flanked by Debe Martens andAlyBaratta, opens a giftof appreciationfromher friends, and latera chorus line sings a Ken Graham original set totune of "Thanks forthe Memories."
'Thank
You, Miriam' Her Devoted Friends
Sing at Retirement
It's not easy toimaginethelaw school without Miriam Walker, who answered millionsofphonecalls during 17 years as receptionist, somehow managing totreatevery caller with the same warmand friendly tone.
Miriamretiredat theend ofthe academicyear, butit won'tbe a surprise toher countless friends ifshe keepsreappearingat law school events for years to come.
Faculty, staff andstudents organized acolossalparty in the student lounge tomarktheoccasion of Miriam's retirement. Poster-sizedpictures on the wallshowedher ather first job inLosAngeles,and laterat her familiar stationbehind thelaw schoolinformationwindow-where she helpfullydispensed notonly information but alsopaper clips and
Annual Alumni Day Oct.
6 to Include Films, Discussions
Thelaw school'sAllAlumni Day,one of the school's most popular gatherings, is scheduledon Sunday, October 6, with a special programfrom the UCLA Film Archives, classroom discussions on legal topics of current interest, andthe traditional Santa Maria barbecue.
The Alumnus ofthe Year award will be presented, during abrief program after thebarbecue, to State Senator Kenneth Maddy '63of Fresno.
The screening ofrare footagefrom the UCLA Film, Television and Radio Archives, documenting the rise ofthe Americanfilm, willbegin theAll Alumni Day. Alumniand their guests should go directly to Melnitz Hall at 3:45p.m. to register for the entire program and toviewthe films from the preservationcollection.
The classroom segment willstartat 5:15p.m.in the SchoolofLaw, with Professor MichaelAsimow speaking on Income Tax and Marital Dissolution and Professor Carrie MenkelMeadow speakingon TheArt of Negotiation.
A reception startingon thelaw schoolpatioat 6:15p.m. will be followed by the Santa Maria barbecue.
Senator Maddy, who was selected unanimously as Alumnus of the Year for 1985 by the board of directors of the LawAlumniAssociation, willbe presented the award by the association'spresident, Justice Elwood Lui of the California Court ofAppeal.
aspirin toallinneed.
Ken Graham wrotea special song tothe tune of "Thanks for the Memories," which was sung and danced by achorus line representing theentire law school community.
Miriam Walker'stypically generous tone wasevidentin the thankyou note which she sentin response: "I believe thattohavebeen accepted and appreciatedtothe extent whichI haveis truly unusual," she said. "You are a supportive and caring group."
Classnotes
The 1950s
Judge Richard C. Hubbell '58 has been appointed totheLos Angeles SuperiorCourt. Previously, heserved on the MunicipalCourt.·
Charles S. Vogel '59has been installedaspresident of theLos AngelesCountyBar Association.
The 1960s
David G. Price '60is chairmanof the board and chief executiveofficerof AmericanGolfCorporation, which operates 52 private golf country clubs, tennis clubs, and otherhealth facilities throughout the nation.He and his wife, Dallas, werecocommissioners ofbasketballforthe 1984 Olympics.
Leonard J. Meyberg, Jr., '65has formedthepartnershipofLichtig, Ellis& MeybergwithGerald E. Lichtig and JohnA. Ellis, specializing in family lawandrelated matters.
E. Eugene Twitchell '66, whois corporatecounselfor Barton-Malow Company, Detroit, Michigan, has beenelectedfirstvicepresidentof the AmericanCorporateCounsel Association'sEasternMichigan chapter.Twitchellteachesclassesin beginning cartooningfortheTroy adulteducationprogram.
Daniel M. Caine'67 isa founding partnerof the new Seattle law firmof Merkel,Caine, Jory& Donohue.
Michael D. Marcus '67, formerlya senior trial deputywith the officeof the Los AngelesCounty District Attorney, has become ofcounsel to the firm ofSanger, Grayson, Givner & Booke.His practice willemphasize
Calendar of Events
Saturday, September7, 1985Class of '65 Reunion, homeof Fred Selan, 3p.m.
Sunday, September 8, 1985-Class of '80 Reunion, UCLA SunsetCanyon Recreation Center, 4p.m.
Saturday, September14, 1985Class of '75 Reunion, NortonSimon home in Malibu, 6 p.m.
Sunday, September 22, 1985-Class of '70 Reunion, Norton Simonhome in Malibu, 4p.m.
September 27 throughOctober1, 1985-State Bar Association Conventionin San Diego. Monday, September 30, luncheonhosted by the UCLA Law Alumni Association with Professor Murray Schwartz asguest speaker, Town & CountryHotel, Sunset Room, noon-1:30p.m.
Saturday, October 5, 1985-Class of '60 Reunion, Le Bel AgeHotel, 1020 S.San VicenteBlvd., 7p.m.
Sunday, October 6, 1985-FifthAnnual Law SchoolAll Alumni Dayand Barbecue, beginningat 3:45p.m.in MelnitzHall withrarefilms screening, followed byprogram andbarbecue at Schoolof Law.Alumnusof the Year Award will bepresented to Senator Kenneth Madd_v '63.
Thursday-Friday, November 21-22, 1985-UCLA SchoolofLawand the Center for Public Resources present theFourth AnnualCorporate Dispute Resolution Institute, UCLA Faculty Center.
Friday-Saturday, December 13-14, 1985-Tenth Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium, RalphFreud Playhouse, Macgowan Hall.
Sheldon Michaels '67has recently relocated fromNew YorktoSan Francisco with AT&T Communications, specializingin
antitrust law.
Judge Howard J. Schwab '67has been named to theLosAngeles Superior Court. Formerly, he served asaLos AngelesMunicipalCourt judge. Prior tohisappointmentto the bench, he served asaCalifornia Deputy Attorney General.
Thomas E. Warriner '67has recently beenappointedbyGovernor Deukmejiantobe DeputySecretary of theHealth and WelfareAgency.
Jeffrey J. Bosshard '68has recently beenelectedpresidentof theSanta CruzCounty BarAssociation for 1986.
Francis J. Lanak, Jr. '68 has relocated the firm ofLanakandHannafrom Los Angelesto Orange. The firm specializes in construction and surety law.
George M. Turner'68 hashad his second bookpublished byShepard's McGraw-Hill inthepast twoyears. The firstbookisentitled Revocable Trusts and acompanionbook Irrevocable Trusts isbeing published during1985.Heisalsoaparticipant on the USCFactsand Probate forum.
Jeffrey C. Freedman'69hasbeen nominatedfor apositionon theLos AngelesCountyBarAssociation board of trustees.
Owen D. Petersen'69 isapartnerin the law firmof Pass, Petersen, Walton andCarlsoninTorrance.
The 1970s
Edward A. Woods '72has formed the partnership ofBrowne & Woods in conjunction withtwo others.The nine-lawyer firmwill confine its practice tobusiness litigation with an emphasisonunfair competition.
Randolph M. Blotky '73has been appointedvicepresidentbusiness affairs forCBS Productions.
Kathryne Ann Stoltz '73has been appointed byGovernor Deukmejian to theLosAngelesMunicipalCourt. Formerly, shewasan Assistant United StatesAttorney inLos Angeles.
Robin A. Gorelick '75 has joinedthe lawfirm of Jeffer, Mangels & Butler asanassociate.
Steven M. Klein '75 is general counsel ofLewis Galoob Toys, Inc., headquarteredin South San Francisco. Thefirmis one ofthe largest independent, publicly held toycompanies inthe nation. Klein served as outside legal counsel for several years before joiningthe company in 1984.
Marc I. Steinberg'75 hasbeen appointedprofessoroflawwith tenure at UniversityofMaryland School of Law.
James P. Donohue'76 is afounding partner of the new Seattlelaw firm ofMerkel, Caine, Jory & Donohue.
Glenn D. Nelson '76 hasbecome associatedwiththeLosAngeles officeof Wilson, Elser,Moskowitz, Edelman & Dickerof New York, specializinginbusinesslitigation, architect, accountant andengineer malpracticedefense, professional liabilitycoveragematters and insurance defense.
David M. Simmonds '76hasleftthe practice oflawinordertopursue personal investments.
Marilyn Smith '76 hasbecomea director ofthefirmof Knapp, Petersen & Clarkein Universal City. Shespecializes incivillitigation, including torts, copyrightand paternity.
Norman P. Tarle '76 hasbeen appointed a Commissioner oftheLos Angeles Municipal Court.
Paul E. B. Glad '77 hasrecently become a columnistforthe nationwideinsurancemagazine, Insurance Adjuster. His column will focus on Californialegal developmentsaffectinginsurance companies.
Gregory Marshall'77 is the staff attorney in the San Diego officeof the American CivilLiberties Union.
Thomas Nitti '77, a certified specialist in taxationlaw, hasopened new offices in Santa Monica,
emphasizingtax, real estate, and estate planning.
John R. Pennington '77 is a partneral Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton inLos Angeles. He specializes inbusiness litigation.
Linda Smith'77 has become a member ofthe firmof O'Melvenyand Myers.
Tamar C. Stein '77 has becomea partner ofMemel, Jacobs, Pierno, Gersh & Ellsworthin Century City. Formerly apartnerof Pacht, Ross, Warne, Bernhard, & Sears, Inc., she continues lo specialize inreal properly,landuseand business litigation.
Jeffrey S. Benice'78 hasbecome a memberof the firm of Lawler, Felix & Hall.
Bruce M. Cohen'78 hasbecomea partner in the law firm of Memel, Jacobs, Pierno, Gersh & Ellsworth.
W. Gregory Day'78 is serving aterm as president of the Inyo-Mono Counties BarAssociation. His practice in Bishop emphasizes civil Iitigalion.
Alumni Highlights
TheLaw Alumni Association hosted a gathering of 60 Tri-CountiesAlumni from Santa Barbara to Thousand Oaks on April 11at the Harbortown Marina Hotel. Justice ElwoodLui '69, associationpresident, encouraged alumniinvolvementin valuableareas such as theAlumni Advisory Program. Professor Arthur Rosellspoke on the school's extern program.
The Class of'74 gatheredfor its tenth reunionApril 27al the James E. West Center, where 130 alumniand guests enjoyed a barbecue, a magician, anda band of fellow attorneys called "Use a Guitar, Golo Jail," playingtunes from the '60s, '70s and'80s.
A UCLA LawAlumni partyatThe Chronicle in SantaMonica on June 27 featured Professor Kenneth Karst as speaker.More than 100 guests attended.
Lorna C. Greenhill'78 hasbeen elected chair oftheFamilyLaw Section oftheLong Beach Bar Association for 1985.
Lisa Greer'78 hasbecome amember of the firm ofLawler, Felix & Hall.
Edmundo J. Moran'78 has recently become an associate counsel in the general counsel's officeat Stanford University.
Don G. Rushing'78hasbecomea partner at thelawfirmof Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye.
Matthew H. Saver '78 and FredericE. Schreyer '78 havebecome partners of the firm ofRosenfeld,Meyer & Susman in Beverly Hills.
Steven Shuman'78 hasbecome a partner al thelawfirm of Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lackin Los Angeles.
Douglas L. Walton '78 is a partnerin the law firm of Pass, Petersen, Walton andCarlson in Torrance.
Robin Wright '78 has beenelectedto the Washoe County DistrictCourt Bench in Nevada.
Michael Barclay '79 has become associated with thefirm of Spensley, Horn, Juhas & Lubitz.
Michael J. Festa '79 is nowa principal of the firm of Condon, Condon & Festa in SantaMonica, emphasizing real estate, business and corporate matters and relatedlitigation.
Joel M. Grossman '79 hasbecome associated with thefirm of Selvin and Weiner. Grossman willspecialize in civil litigationwith emphasis on labor law.
Nancy Mintie '79 hasreceiveda specialawardfrom Public Counsel for her work onthe behalf of the homeless in Los Angeles. She is director of the InnerCity Law Center, which serves indigentclients.
The 1980s
Victoria M. Bunsen'80 hasbecome associated with thelawfirm of McMartin, Burke, Loser & Fitzgerald in Englewood, Colorado. She will
Mary Mac Gonzalez congratulates Eileen Spadoni and Brooke White, first recipients ofthe Manuel G. Gonzalez Memorial Scholarships.
specialize in municipalland development andwater development.
Renee L. Campbell '80 has been elected to the National Board of Directors of GirlsClubs of America for a two-year term. She is a community redevelopment lawyer with the law firm of Weiser, Kane, Ballmer & Berkman. She is also active inthe NAACP and the Black Women Lawyers' Association.
Gerald 0. Carden'80, formerlylegal counsel for American Healthcare Management, Inc., has become associatedwith the firm of Sanger, Grayson, Givner & Booke. His practice will emphasize health care matters.
Mark A. Garmus '80 has become assistant general attorneyfor Santa Fe SouthernPacificCorporation at LosAngeles. He has workedfor Santa Fe since 1980.
Feris M. Greenberger '80 has become associatedwith the firmof Greines,
Martin, Stein & Richlandin Beverly Hills. The firm specializes inappeals, writs and law andmotionin state andfederal courts.
Craig G. Riemer '80 has become associated with Dye, Thomas & Luebs in Riverside. His practice continues to emphasize business and realestatelitigation.
Laurel S. Terry '80 has accepted a position as an assistant professor at The DickinsonSchoolof Law in Pennsylvania.
Steven J. Untiedt '80 has become a partner withthefirm of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitchin San Diego. He specializes as bank counsel in bond financings.
Derek M. Alphran '81is a teaching fellow at Stanford Law School, while concurrentlyworkingon a J.S.M. degree. He has been appointed aclerk to Judge Elbert Tuttle of the 11th CircuitCourtof Appeals duringthe Summer and will serve again for ayear in that position beginning July1986.
Barry Carlton '81is now a deputy districtattorneyin San Diego.
Michael J. Finkle'81 has become associatedwiththe firmof Reish & Davis in SantaMonica. He will continue to specialize in corporate and business transactions.
Benjamin D. Scheibe '81, formerly with Ervin, Cohen & Jessup, has joined the newlyformed firmof Browne & Woods. The firm will specialize in business litigation, with particularemphasisonunfair competitivebusinesspractices.
Kenneth J. Stipanov '81 has become a partner of the firm of Aylward, Kintz, Stiska, Wassenaar & Shannahan in San Diego, specializingin commercial real estate transactions and taxexempt bondfinancing.
Frank P. Angel '82 has become associatedwiththe firm of Graham & James in Los Angeles.
Mary Catherine Ford '82 has become associated withthe firmofMitchell, Alley & Rubinin Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Theresa A.LeLouis '82 isassociated with the firm of Thomas C. Fallgaller.
Daniel Poremba '82 has been promoted lo general manager of the Prudential DevelopmentCompany (a subsidiary of the Prudential Insurance Company of America), responsible for managingthree major mixed-usedevelopmentprojects in Denver, Colorado.
Justin Ezzat Budare '83 hasopened law offices in West LosAngeles. His practiceemphasizesfamilylaw, personalinjuryand immigration law.
Cynthia S. Conners '83completeda year as an Armyprosecutorin Korea working with troops assignedlo the demilitarizedzoneand is now the senior defensecounselal the Presidio of San Francisco.
Larry S. Lee '83 has been appointed a Staff Research Attorney for the
Calfornia Supreme Court, specializing in criminal lawand procedure matters.
Lisa Dee Meyerson '83 has become associated withthe firm of O'Melveny & Myers in Los Angeles.
Rose Helen Perez '83 has become associated withthe New York firmof LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae. She practices inthe firm's Washington, D.C., officeandconcentrates in communicationslaw.
H. Deane Wong '83 hasjoined Hewitt Associates, anational consulting firm specializing in employee benefits and compensation, as an account manager in the Los Angeles office.
Nancy Vanderlip '83 has recently become associated with the firm of Kindel & Anderson.
Robert C. Ceccon '84 is presently associated withthe firmof Harrington, Foxx, Dubrow, Canter & Keene. He waspreviously associated with the lawfirm of Ughi & Nunziante in Milan, Italy. Hehas been appointedby Governor
Deukmejian to theCalifornia delegation forthere-evaluationof Americanplacement ofdefense weapons in Italy.
John A. Crose, Jr. and Joy Murakami '84 were married in March of this year. He is an associate al O'Melveny & Myers while she is an associateal Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.
Richard Cray '84 has become associate counselfor Screen GemsEMI Music, Inc.in Hollywood.
Charles B. Crowder'84 hasbecome associated with the firm of Lanakand Hanna in Orange.
Michael J. Gibson'84 has become associated with the firm ofBurkley, Moore, Greenberg & Lyman.
Michael P. Lewis '84 and Susan E. McClymonds '84 haverecently become associated with thefirmof Kindel & Anderson.
Scott D. Radovich '84 has become associated with the firm ofCase, Kay & Lynch in Honolulu.
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Millon Baird Herring
Rober! Frank Reynolds
1953
Henry Eric Krol
1954
Frank Richard Levin
Gerverdl John Muller
1955
Jess Dean Cannon
Richard Bowman Jones
Sanford Dean Schwartz
James Wilmer Shumar
1956
Rober! Freyer
1957
Rober! Duncan Emmons
Franklin Kay Jones
Sally Jane Smilh
William Jordan Joseph Smilh
Frank Rober! Yeakel
1958
Sidney Bradpiece
Waller Frederick Brown
Rhoda Jean Gordon
Gilmore Napier
Richard W. Stein
1959
James Roger Bramble
Ury Gluckman
Jack F. Hannig
Horace W. Lillie
Philip Leslie Miller
Donald Karl Wadsworth
Fred Kee Wong
Charles Duffel Wood
1960
Gayle Marvin Plummer
Jack Lawrence Willis
1961
Dudley MortonHelm
AlfredoHorta
F. Ellioll Leonard
Richard Alan Mills
William JohnsonMitchell
Donald BarnellSacks
Bernard M. Smukler
1962
Bernhard George Frenznick
Angus Wright
1963
Barry Steven Marlin
Hans Henrick Norre
Frederick J. Schwartz
Henry Dave Van Leeuwen
1964
Philip J. Haskins
1965
Douglas DonaldGross
Norma Schweitzer Jahnke
Ronald FranklinKeller
1966
Roy Dankman
Rober! A. Joyce
DalStanfordKing
Stanley Michael Price
Terry J. Sands
James Ellis Wadleigh
William G. Zoller
1967
Frederick A. Barnes
RandallK. De Lave
JosephHaber
Frederick EllsworthHopper
Jack Kauffman
Gerald JayKlawans
James McKeeRawley
Richard Verchick
1968
Jordan Arlen Potash
Terry MichelShagin
fames Linnell Sutherland
1969
Stuart Louis Baron
RichardCharles Burton
Jonathan Lewis Pullon
Richard John Pomikala
Cecil M. Proulx
John Patrick Rogan
Steven ArlenSaltzberg
1970
Nancy L. Briggs
Ellen Braver Friedman
Joseph S. Hill
David D. Kpomakpor
Sean M. O'Hara
PaulSweeny
1971
HenryRober! Espinoza
James WilliamKendricks
LarryRoy Kloman
Linda Jean Pallerson
1972
Bruce Bemis Abramson
Lowell David Chatburn
Leroy Matthews Fykes
Andrew Geofrey Gindes
George Vidin Krisle
HollisH. Larkins
Michael Andrew Malure
Gordon Randall McDowell
Charles W. Moore
Charles WilliamSchneider
Sam Stevens
William JohnSulm
Michele Denise Washington
Gary Alexander While
John E. Williams
1973
Patricia Joan Balchkoff
Joseph Blakeney Brown
Annie Pearl Davis
James Ernest Gonzales
Edith Jackson
Mary FrancesKeller
Paul Alan Manoff
Lawrence Dale Myers
G. Steven Jack Silvern
1974
RobertHenry DeGrale
Francis Xavier Lamebull
Franklin M. L.ouda
Robert Poyourow
Jeffrey Jonathan Preefer
HenryRamirez
Timothy T. Tokumolo
Maria Cristina Travis
Paul Kenneth Wesler
Sally Nan Willell
1975
DavidH. Chudnow
John Robert Clewell
Thomas William Cohen
Cornelio Contreras Ynson
1976
Freddie Lee Connell
Lindsey Scoll Feldman
Alex Lopez
Algene Nash
1977
James George Kirk
Renee Fay Williams
1978
Manuel Leon Martinez
Daniel LeRoy McCormick
Robert Michael Ozell
Wesley Williams
1979
Wanda Elizabeth Flowers
Clifford Keith Cates
William David Klibanow
Gary P. Long
Katherine Fay Pierson
Cheryl Lynn Richardson
1980
Nancy Lynne Anderson
Patricia Fukushima Cager
Patricia Ann Davidson
Rober! Greene
Cynthia Wells
1981
Derek Mason Alphran
Marco Antonio Palma
Marla LynnSmith
Michael Alan Steinmann
1982
Duncan Twiford Holloman
Seth·Maxwell
David William Reimann
Candace Love Rushiddin
David Alan Solilare
Phyllis Denise Tabon
Mary Mi-Suk Yi
1983
Richard GerardCampbell
William RoyHartman
I.auraSalant Lamb
LawrenceScolt Levitt
Gary Lee Renz
Maria Theresa Silva Vasques
Cynlhia Richardson WoollacolI
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