The School of Law addition, scheduled for construction to start next Spring, is visualized in artist's rendering. The project includes a three-story addition at the northwest corner of the present law building (see continuation of rendering on back cover] and a second and third floor to be added above the first floor main corridor of the present building.
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he current generation of law students, according to popular generalizations, reflects a shift toward more conservative values and much greater interest in establishing financially successful careers. While there may be some kernel of truth in such generalizations, it becomes immediately apparent-when talking with students-that reality is much more complex.
To a significant degree, students reflect the pattern of the larger social fabric. It is no surprise, therefore, that student interest in such areas as environmental and poverty law has declined somewhat-while at the same time there is rising student interest at UCLA and other law schools in movements which are right-of-center politically.
That is still too simple a view. For with the emergence of new political and social perspectives, there also appears to be an ever greater multiplicity of special interests, group identities and alliances among students. While there may seem now to be vast enthusiasm for business and corporate law as careers, there are also more and more students who define their futures in much wider terms than those
of traditional law practice andwho see the parameters of the legal profession as being ever expanded.
Royanne Kashiwahara, president of the Student Bar Association at UCLA, notes that while "law students today tend to be more politically conservative," it must also be noted that the active presence of so many divergent organizations within the law school "says a lot." She believes that "there appears to be a high tolerance for other people's orientations and interests."
A decade ago, conservative-minded students tended to be rather quiet, observes Professor Steven Shiffrin. "One particular change is their visibility and articulation. Ronald Reagan's main contribution to society is that he has brought other people's viewpoints out of the closet," says Shiffrin.
Assistant Dean Barbara Koskela reflects that, recently, "the focus on rights of the individual has broadened rather than diminished. The student body as a whole has more tolerance for differences of viewpoints today that it had ten years ago."
Reid Hongijo, chair of the Asian Pacific Law Lily Torres '88 contributedto research on this article.
Students, thinks that generally "more people are really into themselves"-a reflection of the 1980s. But Gus Vargas, co-chair of La Raza, sees among Latino students "a commitment to the community which is still very strong."
From a perspective of several decades in the classroom, Professor William Warren says that the interests of law students today are perhaps more externalized than was true a decade or two ago, since there is of necessity a greater concern about finding jobs and passing the bar exam. As things change, however, he believes that mostly they remain the same.
"There are fads, styles, modes," says Warren, "but in terms of the essentials, students are exactly the same today as when I started teaching law 36 years ago. They are no smarter or dumber. They are the salt of the earth. With respect to the future, I don't clearly perceive any real changes. Students will continue to worry about getting good jobs and passing a very difficult bar examination."
The current UCLA law students profiled here speak for themselves.
GINA CARROLL began making plans for her legal career when she was a high school student. Her aspirations were encouraged by the fact that her mother is a clerk of court and her father a court officer in the Los Angeles County Probation Department.
"I was heading for law school to be a criminal defense attorney," says Carroll. Like many law students, her specific interests have been widened during her education. Her new responsiblities as a mother have prompted her to recast her career role in terms of her husband's career, her personal professionalinterests, and her family's future.
Gina entered Stanford University as an undergraduate in human biology. That major satisfied her interest in the sciences, while it also allowed enough flexibility to take many courses in fields such as sociology.
At Stanford she also met her future husband, a meeting which could have come directly from the pages of a storybook romance. He was a member of the varsity football team. She was a cheerleader. They both were majoring in human biology. (He was also majoring in economics, which laid the groundwork for his career in investment banking.)
When Jonathan and Gina Carroll resettled in Los Angeles, she began a year's work in the public defender's office in Long Beach. "I worked primarily with one attorney, and it was great experienceespecially for someone who wasn't even a law student yet." She sat in on cases and interviewed
clients.
She interviewed so many clients, in fact, that she beganto see the sameconstant underlying problems. "I dealt with a lot of clients, who were mostly juveniles. The goal was to involve them in school full-time and to put them into community service projects." Too often, she noticed, the unending stream of clients were shuffled into the system and out of it without really being helped.
When the Carrolls' son, Jonathan Jr., arrived during Gina's second year of law school she began rethinkinghercareerinearnest. "I amreallyinterested now in finding a path that will allow me more flexibility than is possible in criminal law."
Sheisexcitednowaboutcoursessuchas Professor Bill Warren's real property secured transactions"really an excellent course"-and very recently she completed the requirements for her real estate license. She believes she just might be on the track
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to a career complementing her husband's career path. "I am trying to get all the right courses, on a schedule that allows me to spend time at home with our son."
Gina has been an officer in the Black American Law Students Association and was on the staff of the Black Law Journal, where she wrote a profile on Superior Court Judge Billy Mills.
Both last year and this, she is a teaching assistant in the legal research and writing program. She's also served as a mentor for incoming students.
"I especially like to mentor other married students. When they first come to law school, they're very insecure about their time management. I advise students, whether they're married or single, not to leave their outside personal lives behind them.
"The real danger lies in thinking that you must abandon everything except the law. There is nothing worse than to delve into a field so overwhelming
as law and surround yourself with nothing else. If you do that, you lose perspective and balance. Family contacts and outside friends are worth finding the time you can to spend with them."
Y. P. "SONNY" LIM was born in Malaysia, the son of Chinese refugees; when he was six, his family fled the country to escape anti-Chinese riots. The Lims immigrated to England and later to America. Having lived in three nations by the time he completed his early education, Sonny felt the effects of "culture shock." He decided to study international relations at the University of California, Davis.
"I identify very strongly with the Asian American community," he says, "but I also undertake responsibility as a citizen of this world, 'a national of the globe,' as Nehru put it. I feel I should strive to comprehend as many cultures, as many ways of life as possible. I especially would like to enrich the understanding between Chinese and American peoples and deepen the empathy between the two societies. There are many stereotypes on both sides that need to be done away with."
International comparative law seemed the natural step for Lim, and after assessing his acceptances at several national law schools, he chose UCLA "because of a committed, progressive Asian American student community, and an excellent curriculum in Chinese law headed by Professor William Alford. A rare combination of factors exists here which I couldn't find anywhere else." The presence of Alford on the UCLA faculty was a heavy influence in Lim's decision. "In many ways, he is more Chinese than I am,'' Lim says.
This year, Sonny is studying in the People's Republic of China as a National Resource Fellow sponsored by UCLA and the U.S. Department of Education. He will spend half the year in Peking and half in Canton, his first visit to the city where his parents were born. "I think it will be a maturing experience for me. I hope to be a worthy representative for UCLA so that we will have more and more exchanges with the Chinese,'' says Lim.
In the first half of his China year, in Peking, Lim will brush up his written Chinese and �ill study Chinese foreign investment law. The second half of the year, it is likely that in Canton he will extern in a law agency. Affiliated with Zhongshan University, the agency is somewhat like a legal services program. Lim will be housed at the university and he looks forward to the agency work as an opportunity to get "some hands-on experience."
Another possibility is that next summer Lim will work as an assistant to Professors Alford and David Binder, who will be in China to head an orientation
for Chinese students who are coming to study in the U.S. "I was very privileged to be asked to be one of the two student assistants for that program," notes Lim.
In the fall of 1987, he will return to UCLA for his final year of law school, "probably much more mature from having had the experience" of externing in China. After completing his law studies at UCLA, Lim might return to China for further study.
At UCLA, Lim has served on the editorial staff of the Pacific Basin Law Journal, a publication which he sees as "giving direction to the future of legal scholarship," and he has taken an active role in the Asian Pacific Law Students' Association. During his law school summers, he has worked at the Los Angeles firm of Ono, Yamamoto, Morinaka & Horikawa and the Beverly Hills firm of Levinson & Leiberman.
At some point in the future, he hopes to write about Sino- American legal affairs. "I would like to bring a new, a refreshing angle to the subject. I might write a book about the Chinese way of life from a Chinese-American perspective. I also think it is very important that Americans get to know more about Eastern cultures and to integrate that new knowledge into their way of thinking.
In the study of Chinese comparative law, Lim sees "an effective instrument by which to comprehend vastly different heritages. Americans are characteristically litigious and have traditionally esteemed the rule of law. The Chinese, in contrast, have long disdained formal law, emphasizing instead the virtues of conciliation, informal mediation, and harmony. Yet because of such divergent values, the revelations gained by comparative study will be that much more striking, that much more telling."
His own experiences have taught him that "much needs to be done in improving human rights in China, home to one-fourth of the world's population. The Chinese character that comes closest in meaning to the Western concept of 'privacy' implies selfishness-and the idea that the personal good should always be sacrificed for the public good. Hopefully, Americans can amicably convince the Chinese of the indispensable, beneficial role that human rights and civil liberties should occupy in China's drive to modernize."
SANDRA SMITH focused on languages in her undergraduate education at Wesleyan University, and that focus provided her a foundation on which to build some remarkable achievements in law school.
In her second year at UCLA School of Law, Smith earned the distinction of writing the best brief in
the school's annual Moot Court competition. At the same time, she was executive editor of the Federal Communications Law Journal. She also completed a judicial externship with Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
While each one of those activities might seem entirely adequate alone, all three in fact are related and complementary.
The undergraduate study in Russian, Latin and Japanese honed Sandra's ability to communicate and to perceive the world in many different ways. "I have always liked writing," she says; in preparatory school, at the Phillips Exeter Academy, she had frequently written pieces for the literary magazine. It was useful background for achieving the honor of being judged best brief writer. The Moot Court competition centered on an issue in communications law-whether the government can regulate cable television in the same manner it regulates broad-
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Sandra's work on the Federal Communications Law Journal and a paper she had written in a communications lawcoursewereexperienceswhich fitted in nicely with the moot court problem. Meanwhile, she had been learning a great deal during the externship with Judge Pregerson. "I saw what a good brief looks like. I saw examples of good and bad advocacy. Mostimportantly,Ilearnedwhat goeson behindthescene. Itwasagreatexperiencebeing within the court system, and seeing how it operates. The writing experience was tremendous, as well. I learned a lot from the judge, and from his clerks."
Law school has produced a series of fascinating work experiences for Smith. Afterher first year, she worked for U. S. District Court Judge Alicemarie H. Stotler. This past summer, she worked for the firm of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran and Arnold.
On completing her three years at UCLA, she will clerk for Judge Pregerson. Her plans beyond the judicialclerkshipareverylikelytoincludelitigation and labor law.
"I know I want to go into litigation," Sandra says. "Moot Court was very helpful from that point of view. It teaches students a number of skills, not the least of which is remaining articulate under stress It taught me to think on my feet."
This year, Smith is enrolled in trial advocacy, a year-longclinicalcourse. 'Tmlookingforwardtothe spring semester, and the opportunity to develop and present a case. As an associate in a law firm, I may not have that opportunity as often as I'd like. Cases rarely make it to trial. Gaining the experience now will give me an edge in the future. That's one of the bestaspectsof theclinicalprogram."
Asexecutiveeditorofthe Federal Communications Law Journal, Smith works with 20 editorial board members and 30 to 40 associate members. (The journal's editor in chief has just completed an externship in Washington, D.C., with the Federal Communications Commission; other students in the communications lawprogramareexterningwiththe FCC and the U.S. House of Representatives.]
The publication, which is the official journal of the Federal Communications Bar Association, includes articles and student comments on a variety of topics, among them satellite communications, fiber optics, patent, copyright, and cable television. This year, the journal will publish a comprehensive history of telecommunications regulation, written by FCC Chairman Mark Fowler.
The communications law journal, Sandra adds, is purepleasure. "It meansworkingwith areallygood group of people. When I started law school, I didn't think that I would have time for outside activities. But the journal provides a refreshing break from classes, as well as a way to meet new people. It has also taught me skills that will be very useful to me as a practitioner. It's been well worth the effort."
BILL A. VALLEJOS almost from the earliest years he remembers wanted to be a lawyer. "When I was quite young, I decided to pursue legal education. I was fascinated by the law." His experience on debate teams at El Rancho High School in Pico Rivera, near Whittier, and his interest in grassroots politics deepened his desire to enter the legal profession.
Vallejos identifies strongly with his community, and for good reason. His great grandparents lived here in 1848 when the treaty deeding California to the U.S. was signed, and beginning with the gener-
ation of his grandparents, all of the Vallejos family have been born in this region.
Bill Vallejos was the first member of the family to attend college. After majoring in political studies at Pitzer College (with a semester at American University of Rome, where he researched his senior thesis on the Italian Communist Party), he earned a master's degree in public administration at USC through a Hispanic Field Services Fellowship. "I have always thought in terms of public service and law together. I'm still interested in government service and politics," he says. While working on his master's, he also worked full time in municipal government.
When the time came for law school, Vallejos wanted to maintain his roots in California, and UCLA was his first choice. In the summers, his work with the firm of Henry Barbosa (which represents various municipalities) has provided a continuity for his interest in government. Vallejos has represented Monrovia, Monterey Park and Montebello in a wide range of civil litigation-drafting ordinances, defending police in civil suits, and handling liability claims.
A high point in his academic program this year is a clinical in pretrial lawyering process; the clinical includes eight hours a week spent in a fieldwork component, and Vallejos is working in the Student Legal Services office.
Ranking high among his future interests would be litigation for a government agency or working as a prosecutor. Like most of his peers, he has not narrowly defined his career.
This past year, he was president of La Raza Law Students. The organization fills an important role at the law school by building a sopport network, especially for incoming Hispanic students. "Once the students are here, we try to insure that they stay here," Vallejos says.
Recently, a Southern California Raza Association has been established as a network among Latino students in eight law schools. Current projects include a law day in East Los Angeles, where the area law school students will identify legal resources for members of that community.
At law school, Vallejos has found time also for Moot Court, the Chicano LawReview and the rugby team-on which half a dozen law students combine forces with other UCLA prdfessional schools.
Vallejos' abiding interest in how politics can be used to shape the progress of his community is currently being expressed by his work in the Southwest Voter Registration Drive. He is part of a steering committee for voter registration this year
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in the entire San Gabriel Valley. His role involves identifying key people in each community to carry out the registration plan.
He sees it as a task calling for "grassroots politicar education and motivation," since less than 30 percent of eligible voters are registered and even fewer vote. Historically, the reason is that many Hispanics see no candidates with whom they can identify culturally. Politically, the problem as Vallejos sees it is that minority members are blocked from being candidates when elections are held on a city-wide basis rather than by district.
Vallejos has worked in politics since his high school years- congressional campaigns, assembly races, and as campaign coordinator for the most recent presidential race in the 3oth congressional district.
'Tm not sure where my political interests will take me," he concludes. "Right now, my primary concern
and interest is to be a good attorney-to develop my legal skills and to be an attorney first and foremost."
W.SCOTTZANZIGstudiedhistoryattheUniversity of Wisconsin, which was where he determined to become a lawyer. "I had noticed that a lot of the people influential in foreign affairs were lawyers," he says. At the time, he was considering a career in foreign relations·"and I thought being a lawyer wouldbeagoodspringboard."
Through his law school experiences, there has beenaconsiderableevolutioninhisowngoals.The ideaofbeingalitigatorseemshighlydesirablenow. "I would like to have a practice in which I would be able to do a lot of trial work, some form of litigationwhereIcangetintocourt.Ihadnointerest in that whatsoever when I came to law school, but I have really come to appreciate the work of a litigator."
A year-long trial advocacy course taught by Professor Albert Moore helped considerably in developingZanzig'sinterestinthefield.
In the first half of the year, through simulated exercises, students learned such skills as how to interview clients, examine witnesses and make opening statements. A mock trial came at the end ofthatsemester.Inthenexthalfofthecourse,most of the time was devoted to actual cases of clients, referredthrough legalaid,in thearea of unemploymentinsurancebenefits.
"We met with the clients, conducted all the interviews, and developed a theory in each case to presentbeforeanadministrativelawjudge.
"This was extremely useful experience for us, to be working through an entire case, and the cases
really meant something to our clients-people to whom benefits ofperhapsonly $100 a week meant alot.Itwasveryrewarding."
After his first yearin law school, Zanzig worked for a small firm in Riverside. Last summer, he worked for firms in Phoenix and Seattle. He has beenastaffmemberonboththeUCLALawReview and the Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, and was a teaching assistant in legal research and writing.
Zanzig has accepted a two-year clerkship with U.S.DistrictCourtJudgeJohnCoughenourinSeattle. Appointedonlyafewyearsagotothefederalbench, JudgeCoughenourhasgainedthereputationofbeing an outstanding trial judge. "I had a chance to meet his two clerks when Ivisited Seattle," says Zanzig, "and one of them told me that he found the judge to be the most open-minded person he had ever met."
While Scott clerks, his wife, Barbara, will be workinginaSeattlelawfirm.Lawschoolclassmates, theyweremarriedinJanuary.
Whenhecompletestheclerkship,Zanzig'sprincipal goal is to "practice law to find out what it is like." Beyondthat,he'snotreadytodefinelifelonggoals.
He is quick to state that his views of the world "havebecomemuchmorelimitedinscope"thanthey wereduringhisundergraduateyearsinWisconsin.
"I think that if I can affect people with whom I come into contact in my day-to-day life, then I can accomplishsomething.Before,Imighthavefeltthat ingainingsomestatus,somepower,apersonwould want to use that to change an entire community. At this point,my goal would be to help one person or one family at a time, or just to make some part of a friend's life easier. Smaller, though not less important,thingsmattermoretomenow." 0
Encyclopedia of Constitution: A Milestonefor Law Faculty
wocenturiesaftertheframingofthe American Constitution, an eminent group of the nation's scholars have produced the first comprehensive referenceworkonAmerica'scharter of government to commemorate the Constitution's bicentennial.
The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution was scheduled for publication on September 17, the day that began a year-long observance of the bicentennial. It was on September 17, 1787, that delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphiacompletedtheirwork.
Professor Kenneth Karstandotherscholarsatthe UCLA School of Law have played a major role in the eight years of work which began in 1978 and which was completed this year with publication of the four-volume encyclopedia by Macmillan PublishingCompany.
The encyclopedia's 1.4 million words and 2,200 articles written by 262 distinguished contributors cover every facet of American constitutional law, historyandpoliticalscience.
Nineteen of the authors contributing to the encyclopedia came from UCLA's law faculty. Professor Karst, in addition to his editorial role in the entire project,wrotesome 125,000words.Articlesofmajor length were also written by Melville B. Nimmer, Arthur Rosett, Gary T. Schwartz, Murray L. Schwartz, Steven Shiffrin, Jonathan Varat and Stephen Yeazell. Other members of the faculty represented in the encyclopedia, some with several articles,includeProfessorsBenjaminAaron,Norman Abrams,ReginaldAlleyne,AlisonAnderson,Michael Asimow, GraceBlumberg,CaroleGoldberg-Ambrose, Harold Horowitz, Leon Letwin, Daniel Lowenstein and Phillip Trimble. Former UCLA faculty writing in the encyclopedia include Professors Barbara Brudno, William Cohen, Theodore Eisenberg, James Krier, Gerald Lopez, Monroe Price and Stanley Siegel.
UCLA law alumni who contributed articles to the encyclopediaincludeJamesR. Asperger'78, Stewart A. Baker '76, William Cohen '56 and Kim McLane Wardlaw'79.
While UCLA played a major roleinthe ambitious
Encyclopedia ofthe A11iericarl Co1istitutiorl
LEONARD W. LEVY, editor Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
KENNETH L. KARST, associate editor University of California, Los Angeles
DENNIS J. MAHONEY, assistant editor Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
project, most of the encyclopedia's contributors camefromtheNortheast,including 12fromHarvard, 13 from Yale and nine from Columbia. Every region of the United States is represented in the work.
Amongthemanyauthorswhohavewrittenpieces in thefour volumes, therearefamiliarnames: Henry Steele Commager, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Archibald Cox and Anthony Lewis, among others.
Professor Karst notes the remarkablefact that "no encyclopedia of the Constitution has heretofore existed."ThebicentennialoftheConstitutionseemed the right time for this scholarly and patriotic enterprise.
Aimed at the general reader, the encyclopedia's articlesrangeinlengthfrom50to7,000words.From terms such as "class action" and "habeas corpus" to central phrases such as "due process of law," "rightagainstself-incrimination," and "equal protection of the laws," the encyclopedia explains the past 200 years of constitutional law and history.
The fundamental concept of "due process of law," for example, is the subject of three 6,000 word articles on civil due process, criminal due process and substantive due process. Another 1,500 words give historical background on due process.
There are articles on constitutional doctrines and concepts, periods of constitutional history, major legislation, writers who influenced the ideas of the Constitution, every Supreme Court justice and the most important Supreme Court decisions through the term which ended in July 1985.
When Charles Evans Hughes was governor of New York early in the current century, he observed that "the Constitutionis what the judges say it is."
That remark was an understatement, note the encyclopedia'seditors in a preface to the new work.
"If the Constitutionsometimes seems to be chiefly the product of judicial decisions, it is also what Presidents say it is, and legislators, and police officers, and ordinary citizens, too. In the final analysis, today's Constitution is the product of the whole political system and the whole history of the many peoples who have become a nation," the editors write.
"For some readers, an encyclopedia article will be a stopping-point, but the articles are intended to be doorwaysleadingto ideasand toadditionalreading, and perhaps to the reader's development of independent judgment about the Constitution. After all, when the American Constitution's tricentennial is celebratedin2087,whattheConstitutionhasbecome will depend less on the views of specialists than on the beliefs and behavior of the nation's citizens." D
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Carole Goldberg-Ambrose: Exactly Where She's Needed
by Ellen Klugman
n associate dean of a law school shares a lot in common with the producer of a CBS "60 Minutes" news segment. Though many may not know it, without them, the show couldn't go on.
Carole Goldberg-Ambrose is the associate dean of the UCLASchoolof Law. Sheassumedthe post two years ago, pursuant to her appointment by Dean Susan Westerberg Prager. Goldberg- Ambrose is no stranger to UCLA's law school, however. Fourteen years ago, she came to this institution to teach students hardly older than herself. That same year, UCLA had hired two other female rookies onto its law faculty, as well: Susan Westerberg Prager, the law school's current dean, and Alison Anderson, a tenured professor at UCLA School of Law, whose specialties are torts and business law.
"I've been here a long time and I expect to remain here for a long time," notes Goldberg-Ambrose matter-of-factly. Herstyleisa synthesis ofcontrasting qualities which unexpectedly blend rather than clash. She is at once sure, but unassuming-relaxed, yet singularly focused. Her casual apparel on the day of this interview fails to diminish the distinct impression that this is a lady to heed.
What's immediately apparent from talking to her is that unlike so many who have been in the same field for more than a decade, Carole GoldbergAmbrose is exactly where she wants to be.
Her associate dean's job, she explains, can be divided into three main categories. The first two involvethefaculty'sappointmentsprocess,including tenure, and overseeing curriculum development. "The third category of activities is anything else the dean wants me to do," she says laughing.
Her self-assessment, like her manner of speech, is decisive and direct. 'Tm an action oriented person," the associate dean explains. "I like to see things get done. In that respect, Susan and I are a very good team. She's deliberative and careful, and I'm a littleimpetuous. Mypreferenceis for action.
"After 14 yearsataplaceyoudevelopaperception
of what things need to be improved," she acknowledges. "The one thing I'd like to be remembered for is taking on things which people have been wanting to take a look at for a long time," she explains."
"Carole is not only a superb analyst, but an extraordinarilyconstructive,generousperson,"comments Susan Prager.
Herpreferenceforactionandpenchantfortackling formidable challengeshavetranslatedintoanumber of undertaking s which have markedly strengthened the UCLA School of Law in those areas under her purview of responsibilities.
Helping build a strong faculty remains her first priority, she says. She is quick to stress that her role in this process is not one of a decision-maker. The faculty makes all hiring (as well as curricular) decisions, she explains, "while the associate dean's authority in these matters is confined to the power ofpersuasion." Despitehermodestdescriptionofher role, the former chair of academic appointments at the law school, Professor Michael Asimow, recalls her as "an absolutely outstanding partner in the appointmentsprocess."
Promotion to tenure and external appointments are a "gigantic job," Asimow explains. "In fact, it was too big a job before Carole's involvement, so it didn't always get done properly. She really appreciated the importance oflawschool appointees and pitched in and handled many of the details involved in the administration of such tasks. We've appointed a lot of good people in the last two years, and Carole's concern anddedicationtothatgoalwas a major force behind it," he adds.
Goldberg-Ambrose is especially proud that this year the law school faculty chose to appoint two minority womentothetenureladderfaculty.Isabelle R. Gunning, a graduate of Yale Law School, will be teaching criminal law, using clinical methods, as
Ellen Klugman '84 has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, andotherperiodicals. She is a frequent contributor to this magazine.
well as international human rights. Kimberle Crenshaw, a Harvard law school graduate, will teach courses in criminal law and civil rights.
Theassociatedean nowhopestoturnherattention to fortifying the faculty appointments in real estate and property law. Professor Donald Hagman's untimely death, the retirement of Professor and former Dean Richard Maxwell, and Professor Jim Krier's decision to move to Michigan have left some gaps in that part of the law faculty which are currently being addressed.
Another project currently being spearheaded by the associate dean is to promote the entry of UCLA law graduates into teaching.
Each year, Dean Goldberg-Ambrose compiles a listofgraduatinglawstudentsinterestedin teaching law full-time. She sends the list to other law schools with brief biographical sketches of the candidates and UCLA references which they can contact.
She also sorts through employment applications for UCLA law appointments from late summer through mid-February, when the hiring decisions are made, andcoordinatesthe processof evaluations and references with the appointments committee.
Structuring and documenting the hiring process is more of a challenge than it may sound. "In an environment which is a community of independent thinkersandnotatypicalbureaucracy," sheexplains with a twinkle and a smile, "putting files together for each of the candidates and then having those files accessible ends up to be a major accomplishment!"
Anyone interested in a full-time teaching position at UCLA School of Law must have a very strong legaleducationandindicationsfromfacultymembers, or other respectedindividuals, that theapplicant has the capacity for independent research, creative thought, and first-rate scholarship. "This is usually displayed by authoring a paper, whether published or unpublished," she adds. "Without it we don't give very serious consideration to candidates for this faculty.
"Looked at one way, it appears to be a totally exhaustiveprocess," shesaysoffacultyappointments. "Looked at another way, it's a random process. It's probably somewhere in between."
The associate dean cites a demonstrated commitment to the enterprise of teaching as another important factor in vying for an academic position at the law school. Teaching part-time, being a teaching assistant in law school. or having had teachingresponsibilitiesin alawfirmareconsidered pluses.
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overlooked. "Sometimes it's merely the way they conduct themselves at an interview or faculty presentation that will make the difference," she observes.
Particularly when considering lateral hiring, the appointments committee examines the congruence between UCLA School ofLaw'scurricular needsand the candidate's curricular interest, as shown by his or her scholarship, area of practice, experience, or law school class load.
In addition to her capacity as an ex-officio member of the faculty appointments committee, Carole Goldberg-Ambroseisalsointimatelyinvolved in the tenure process. Her involvement in the promotion process also enabled her to become closely familiar with the writing of her colleagues on the faculty.
"Out of that experience, I am more familiar with and impressed by my colleagues' accomplishments than before my tenur� as associate dean," GoldbergAmbrose states.
As to her role in helping UCLA School of Law professors along the track to tenure, she speculates, "concern about their well- being drives me to want to understand the issues they're grappling with.
"To me, that's the essence of being a caring colleague-to be able to put aside what you're doing because someone is struggling and needs a second head, or needs feedback on what he or she is doing in class. There's a variety of kinds of advice the faculty may need. I'm asked questions like 'what do Ithinkofanideainitsearlystageofdevelopment'...or, 'is this article ready to go out?'
"One of the things I've enjoyed most is the role I'veplayedwithassistingournewerfacultymembers on the road to tenure. I view that as one of my highest priorities. I'll drop anything to help them."
Associate Dean Goldberg-Ambrose's sense ofdedication to newer faculty members may be grounded in her early experiences as a 24- year-old fledgling member of the UCLA law school faculty, at which time she received a lot of compassion and support from her colleagues.
"I was terrified," she laughingly recalls of her initial teaching experiences. "I used to lecture to myself in front of a full length mirror the night before classes would begin.
"What impressed me was the fact that my colleagues were prepared to treat me as a peer from day one. In fact, because of my age and my sex, I had more trouble with the students than with the faculty!"
When she's not concerning herself with faculty appoin_tments issues, the associate dean is paying
close attention to her second major responsibility: overseeing curriculum development.
When wearing that hat, she's working with Assistant Dean Barbara Koskela on curriculum scheduling. The effectiveness of those efforts sometimes hinges on other factors.
"For example, we've been trying to get a building addition to strengthen the clinical program and to expand it in a number of directions. The fate of that building project will depend on whether voters approve the November ballot measure, Proposition 56, the higher education bond initiative. UCLA School of Law's clinical building is one of the UC system's highest priorities in that bond issue."
Although the associate dean clearly respects the traditional fare that law school training is made of, she is also concerned about placing UCLA in the forefront of those schools which pay heed to the "hands-on" approach.
Innovative, 'problem-solving'-oriented coursesfor example, a course in transactional business law-will be added next year. A course on entertainment transactions is also a recent addition to the offerings at the law school.
"One of the things the curriculum committee did under my urging this year was to reconstitute the clinicalexternshipstructuretoincludeaconsiderable writing component," Associate Dean GoldbergAmbrose explains with some pride.
Never short on goals, Goldberg-Ambrose has selected a thorough examination of theschool's legal researchandwritingprogramasthenextcurriculum project she intends to tackle. Her personal goal is to better utilize the linkages between clinical methodology and the research and writing classes.
Clearly, she is committed to education, and has been for a long time. In fact, as far back as college, shefoundherselfdebatingbetweengoingtograduate school in education or in law.
Having graduated from Smith College in Massachusetts, where her undergraduate honors thesis was on the history of the liberal arts education, she went to Philadelphia to live.
"The University of Pennsylvania School of Law was vastly superior to their graduate school of education, so I went to law school," she says. She then transferred to Stanford Law School in her third year.
While there, she took a course in American Indian Law with Professor Monroe Price, who was then on the faculty at UCLA School of Law, and who is now dean of Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City. Part of a paper which she had writtenforthecourseendedupinMonroe'scasebook on Indian law. Price and her former professor of federal courts at Stanford, William Cohen, both subsequently recommended her to the UCLA law faculty after she completed a year-long clerkship withthe U.S. DistrictCourtforthe Northern District of California.
Since then, she has taught UCLA law students in subjects ranging from Indian law and federal courts to admiralty law and rape law.
Her resume spans no less than 12 pages singlespaced, and shows that she is eminently qualified to help any faculty member slug his or her way through the rigors of "publish or perish." Aside from a number of law review and journal articles, she is editor andco-authorof Felix S.Cohen's Handbook ofFederal Indian Law, a treatise.
How does she do it all? Working fast is essential, she says. "I happen to have the capacity to work very quickly, and I almost invariably bring work home-the mindless kind that can be interrupted by 'Mommy!' 600 times." Another crucial factor which helps ease a demanding schedule for the associate dean is that she lives within walking distance of the law school.
An understanding husband and family are other essential ingredients to her success, she says. Her husband, Dean Ambrose [thename isa coincidence], isatransactionalattorney.Shealsohastwostepsons, ages 14 and 20, and a 3-1/2 year-old daughter.
What will she do if and when she leaves her post as associate dean? "Go back to civilian life as a professor," she responds quickly with a grin. It's a natural response, a response that appears to be sincere.
"I miss the students," she explains. "As associate dean, I don't spend enough time with students. UCLA law students are very interesting people."
"I like it right here," she concludes. "This place is wonderful. I think that's why you do something like become an associate dean-partly because of my interest in education, and partly because of my affinity for UCLA." D
ASuccessStory
These pages tell a story of deepening loyalty to the School of Law by its alumni and friends. In numbers which have increased dramatically during the past year , alumni and friends have demonstrated a growing awareness that their support is vital to the law school's continued excellence.
The numbers alone truly reflect a major achievement in one year. Listed here are the names of 1352 donors to the Law Annual Fund in 1985-86-an increase of 48 percent over the number of individuals who contributed during the previous year. The dollar total of gifts to the Law Annual Fund was $468,626, which reflects a 15 percent increase over the prior year.
Equally encouraging is the fact that the School of Law is now approaching the half-way mark toward achieving its goal of $7.5-million in gifts through The UCLA Campaign, which will build an endowment for academic programs. Major gifts to the law school during 1985-86 are listed on page 16. The individuals, firms and foundations in that listing have greatly enriched the school's substance; their gifts also provide solid reason to believe that the entire $7.5-million goal will be achieved within the campaign's conclusion two years from now.
That success, like the remarkable 48 percent increase in the number of individuals contributing this past year , will be realized through the unified efforts of many people on behalf of the school
The reasons why so many alumni and friends do support the school are remarkably similar.
Hugo De Castro '60, who chairs the School of Law Campaign Committee, puts the matter in quite plain terms. "I view gifts to the law school as necessary to perpetuate the excellence of the school," says De Castro, "and to repay a personal debt of gratitude for a fabulous education and opportunity."
Ralph Shapiro '58, also a member of the committee, finds it "gratifying to see so many alumni who are recognizing the tremendous need of the law school for their financial support, in order to maintain the
quality and excellence to which we have become accustomed from the school. Since this is an ongoing need, hopefullyother graduates who have not participated to date will begin to do so. And those of us who are participating, as we get older and more secure, will continue to increase our level of support."
Everett Meiners '64, who chairs the Law Annual Fund, believes that "the increase in numbers bodes well for the future." This year's success, he observes, resulted from a major effort by committee members, a significant growth in the number of class representatives, and a general sense of enthusiasm for the law school which prevailed at annual fund meetings and social gatherings.
Philip S. Magaram '61 is another stalwart supporter of the law school; he also sits on the board of The Joseph Drown Foundation-which made a major gift to the school. "I think the reputation of the law school has been enhanced tremendously over the years; obviously , it is recognized as one of the nation's top law schools. It is to my benefit, quite selfishly that the school does so well and I want to help do whatever I can to keep it on the top. You feel a certain pride in having gone to an institution and then to see it grow and prosper, and I mean that in terms of reputation rather than just economically. I feel particularly strongly that the law school is serving a great public good in its program of admitting a diverse student body. That is a real plus for the community in which we live."
Wayne Smith '72 is a member of The Founders in addition to being on the board of the Law Alumni Association. "The primary reason I support the law school," he says, "is that I believe that unless alumni support it both financially and with their time, it cannot continue to be a great law school. People like me, who graduated a number of years ago, have benefited greatly from our education. I think we owe it to the school to support it so that students today will have theopportunity to benefit from the same levelof education as we did."
Karen Narasaki '85 served as one of the class representatives for the Law Annual Fund. She found that among young alumni there is a need to explain why private support is so important for a public law school. "We explained that need. In law school, students aren't always aware that alumni contributions have supported many things such as student journals, graduation, emergency loan funds. Once they know how much the alumni support benefits them as students, they're usually very interested in helping other students. In making calls, I found that people were pleasant and interested-and often very happy to give."
Construction of the School of Law addition, which will provide critically needed space for the clinical education program and which earlier was approved after legislative review, now hinges on the passage of Proposition 56 in the November election.
The $6.2-million construction project at the law school is scheduled to start next spring, pending California voters' approval of the higher education bond issue.
The project's major beneficiaries will be students in clinical courses. The clinical program was pioneered at UCLA two decades ago to fill a gap between theory and practice which had existed in legal education.
Until UCLA and other schools developed clinical courses, a young man or woman could spend three years in law school and never see aclient.The coursesnow taught at UCLA emphasize such areas as fact investigation, interviewing, counseling, negotiation, trial advocacy, mediation and alternative dispute resolution.
"There is great demand among our students for these courses," said Dean Susan Westerberg Prager. A recent survey showed that the demand is twice as large as the capacity of facilities now available.
Clinical education's success depends upon laboratory-type instructional methods, in which students and instructors can critique the work of each individual. The law school building project has been designed especially for such instruction.
Proposition 56, the higher education bond initiative, would authorize a $400millionbondissuetosupportconstruction projects throughout the University of California, California State
Universities, and at community colleges.
Construction of theUCLA law building addition is scheduled to begin in March 1987, with a completion date of July 1988. The $6.2-million project will provide 22,000 square feet of new space, mostly assigned to the clinical program. Other new space will be used for faculty research and offices. There will be a three-story addition at the northwest corner of the present law building (near the James E. LuValle Commons}. A second and third floor will be added above the first floor main corridor of the present building, connecting the north and south wings.
Most of the present law building was completed in 1951, with an addition in the 1960s. The construction project will correct mechanical deficiences in the current structure, while adding space for the clinical program.
The UCLA clinical program draws heavily on participation by volunteers from communities surrounding the university. Each year, a core of 50 to 75 volunteers-manyof them retired persons-serve as "witnesses" in classroom simulation exercises and in mock trials. Many of the volunteers return year after year, since they are convinced of the program's value in training lawyers to become sensitive to the needs of clients.
The law school construction project was approved by the legislature, but funding was lost when the state's tidelands oil revenue declined.
The higher education bond measure was placed on the November ballot to help replace the tidelands oil revenues, which in the past have paid for much of the construction at the state's universities and colleges.
Fund in Memory Of Jay Zvorist
Jay Zvorist '77 died on August 16, 1986. To perpetuate his memory, a memorial fund has been established to benefit students of the law school. Contributions may be sent to the Law Alumni Office payable to "UCLA School of Law-Zvorist Fund."
Kimberle Crenshaw
Three New Faculty Bring Strengths In Several Fields
Three new members of the law faculty this year- Professors Kimberle Crenshaw, Isabelle Gunning and J. Mark Ramseyer-add strength to the academic program in diverse areas: criminal law, civil rights, pre-trial lawyering, international human rights, Japanese law and business associations. Professor Kimberle Crenshaw's primary interests center around race and the law, and the direction in which she sees the U.S. Supreme Court moving on these issues. She's also interested in criminal law, especially public perceptions of criminal behavior, and how courtsin considering cases related to new technology-are making use of "old tools" to resolve new problems. This year, she is teaching courses in criminal law and civil rights.
Last year, Crenshaw served as a clerk to Justice Shirley Abrahamson of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, an experience which she says helped her "to appreciate the meaning of hard work."
Prior to that, Crenshaw was a William H. Hastie Fellow at the University of Wisconsin School of
Isabelle Gunning
Law, where she received her LL.M. degree. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Crenshaw's work at the University of Wisconsin strengthened her earlier desire to enter teaching. She enjoys the challenge of "keeping my ideas relevant."
She also takes time to keep up an ongoing correspondence with a group of ten former classmates. Her outside interests (though she hasn't found much time yet to enjoy them at UCLA) include playing the piano, cooking and weight training.
Professor Isabelle Gunning brings "front-line" experience to the students in her international human rights and pre-trial lawyering classes. Gunning came to UCLA from Washington, D.C., where she served as staffattorneyfor the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Before working in that position, she spent four years litigating felony and misdemeanor cases for the Washington, D.C. Public Defender Service. A graduate of Yale Law School, Gunning also served as a law clerk for Judge William Bryant, then Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Gunning relates that, while in her previous positions she was confronted by numerous legal and social issues of significance, she often lacked the time to research and write about these issues. She looks forward to discussing both the theory and
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practice related to such issues with her students.
At Yale, Gunning served on the Yale LawJournaland wrote "Namibia, South Africa and the Walvis Bay Dispute" 89 Yale LawJournal903 (1980). Gunning intends to keep abreast of legal and social developments in South Africa as possible subjects of research and writing.
Professor J. Mark Ramseyer's background gives him a special perspective on Japan and on internationalbusiness practices. After spending 14 of his first 18 years in Japan, Ramseyer came to the U.S. and attended the University of Michigan, where he received an A.M. in Japanese studies. He then earned a J.D. degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard LawReviewand taught part-time in the international tax program.
Following law school, Ramseyer clerked for Judge Stephen Breyer of the U.S. 1st Circuit Court of Appeals. He entered law practice with Sidley and Austin in Chicago, and during that time published "The Costs of the Consensual Myth: Antitrust Enforcement and Institutional Barriers to Litigation in Japan," 94 Yale Law Journal 604 (1985).
Most recently, Ramseyer completed a year as a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Tokyo's Faculty of Law.
At UCLA, Ramseyer will teach business associations and Japanese
law. Ramseyer plans to return to Japan periodically to continue his research. His writing has involved anti-trust issues, the economics of the Japanese legal profession, and corporate acquisitions in Japan.
Ramseyer takes advantage of the moderate climate in his new environment by riding his bicycle to work each day. He also tries to find time for two of his favorite extracurricular interests, operas and old movies.
Joel Handler Book Explores Cooperative Decision Making
One city's special education program is the framework for a discussion on how cooperativerelationships can be built between ordinary people and large public bureaucracies, in a new book by Professor Joel F. Handler of the School of Law.
Professor Handler's book, The Conditions ofDiscretion (published by Russell Sage), notes that when the special education needs of a handicapped child must be determined, parents and school administrators often face an especially painful confrontation.
The book focuses on one successful approach to educational decision making, developed by the school district of Madison, Wisconsin, in order to illustrate how such interactions can be restructured and enhanced.
Madison's plan treats parents as part of the solution, not the problem, and uses "lay advocates" to turn conflict into an opportunity for communication. Arrangements such as these, in Handler's analysis, exemplify the theoretical conditions under which discretionary decisions can be made fairly and with the informedparticipationof all concerned.
From this case study and related legal and social policy implications, Handler outlines a theory of cooperative decisionmakingthat integrates thepublic and the private,
recognizes the importance of values, and preserves autonomy within the community.
During the past 20 years, Handler has been recognized widely for his work in the area of poverty law and for his efforts to foster more cooperative relations between the government and the individuals it serves.
His other books include Lawyers and the Pursuit ofLegal Rights, Social Movements and the Legal System and Last Resorts.
An Eminent Panel Judges Moot Court
The annual Roscoe Pound Moot Court Competition in April culminated
another highly successful year in the Moot Court Honors Program, with more than 100 second-year students participating during the year.
The four finalists in the competition were Patti Donahue, Gary Frischling, David Schindler and Sandra Smith, who argued a complex problem involving a city's rights to condition the grant of a cable television franchise.
Donahue and Frischling were judged the top two advocates, while Smith was named best brief writer.
Judging the competition were Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Frank Easterbrook of the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, and retired Associate Justice Otto Kaus of the California Supreme Court.
Dean Susan Westerberg Prager described the judges as "a superb panel" who "exemplified great qualities as teachers."
A UCLA School ofLaw Alumni Directory will be published in late 1987, bringing up to date the first such directory which was published in 1983.
In addition to individual listings of alumni, there will also be a geographical listing by city, state and country-making the book a useful way to locate classmates.
All information in the directory will be researched and compiled by the Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company and will be obtained through questionnaires sent to alumni, with a follow up by phone for
verification. Alumni will have the opportunity to order the directory when their information is verified, and only UCLA law alumni will be able to purchase the book.
The project will be completed virtually without cost to the school, since the directory is financed through the sale of copies. While the law school will not benefit financially from directory sales, the work will be beneficial in updating alumni records.
Benjamin Aaron Fund
Is Established
The Benjamin Aaron Fund has been established at the School of Law by alumni and friends, honoring Profes-
sor Aaron on the occasion of his becoming emeritus.
Professor Aaron joined the faculty of the law school in 1960 and that same year became director of the Institute of Industrial Relations at UCLA, a position he held for 15 years. He has taught labor law, industrial relations, and comparative labor law in institutions around the globe and has written prolifically in those fields.
The Labor Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association was instrumental in initiating establishment of the fund. Contributions have been received from law firms and individuals.
It is planned that the fund will be used to benefit students, most likely in the area of labor law. Contributions to the fund can be made payable to "UCLA School of Law-Benjamin Aaron Fund," and directed to the Alumni and Development Office, UCLA School of Law, 405 Hilgard, Los Angeles CA 90024.
Murray L. Schwartz Is Twice Honored
Professor Murray L. Schwartz recently has been honored for achievements in the two distinct areas of teaching and University service.
At the School of Law, he was named recipient of the 1986 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Attorney William A. Rutter established the annual award to recognize excellent teaching in a profession which places major emphasis on research and writing. Professor Schwartz teaches courses in criminal law, criminal procedure, and the legal profession.
In announcing the selection of Professor Schwartz, Dean Susan Westerberg Prager commented on "the importance to a law school of senior faculty who continue to be among the
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school's finest teachers, as well as the role they play in encouraging fine teaching."
In the area of service to the University at large, Professor Schwartz has become vice-chair of the Academic Assembly and one of two faculty representatives to the UC Board of Regents. The two top officers of the statewide assembly sit as non-voting members on the board to represent the faculty of all nine campuses.
Professor Schwartz, who joined the UCLA law faculty in 1958, was dean of the law school from 1969 to 1975.
Charles S. Vogel '59 Receives 'Alumnus Of Year' Award
Charles S. Vogel '59, a member of the law firm of Sidley and Austin in Century City, was presented the UCLA Law Alumni Association's alumnus of the year award at the School of Law's annual All Alumni Day on September 28.
Vogel was president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association in 1985-86.
During the afternoon, U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Dorothy Wright Nelson '53 and Alex Kozinsky '75 responded to questions from a panel of faculty and alumni. Professor Kenneth W. Graham Jr. gave the Michael Palley Lecture on "Politics, Procedure, and Other Pseudo-Profundities." Professor Julian N. Eule spoke on "AIDS: Public Health and Personal Liberties."
The traditional barbecue came at the program's conclusion.
Alumni on Bench: Additions Noted
Lists are seldom complete, and our list of Alumni on the Bench in the last issue of this magazine was no exception. We are grateful to readers who
took time to note the following additions to the list which was published earlier:
Martha Goldin '63
Los Angeles Superior Court
Martin A. Hildreth '65
San Bernardino Municipal Court
Craig S. Kamansky '73
San Bernardino Municipal Court
David C. Merriam '66
San Bernardino Municipal Court
Norman P. Tarle '76
Los Angeles Municipal Court
Gary L. Taylor '63
Orange County Superior Court
Gerald Winerman '64
Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board
Classnotes
The 1950s
Mervin N. Glow '56 has retired as a workers compensation judge and has become associated with George & Buch in Santa Monica, specializing in representing injured workers.
The 1960s
Philip S. Magaram '61 of Valensi, Rose and Magaram has received the Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award from the Arthritis Foundation of Southern California. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the foundation. Magaram has also become a member of The UCLA Foundation Board of Trustees.
William D. Gould '63, formerly a partner of O'Melveny & Myers, specializing in mergers, acquisitions, corporate finance and general business matters, has become a member of the firm of Troy, Castlen & Gould.
Gary L. Taylor '63 has recently been appointed to the bench of the Orange County Superior Court.
Dawn G. Friedman '66 has become associated with the firm of Stutman, Treister & Glatt.
E. Gene Twitchell '66 is a member of the panel of arbitrators-construction for the American Arbitration Association. He was an alternate delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business in 1986.
John C. Spence III '67, as a U.S. Army reservist, has been serving as the staff judge advocate to Corps Support Command in West Los Angeles. In this position, he serves as the chief legal counsel for a unit of over 800 reservists, and holds the rank of lieutenant colonel.
Thomas E. Warriner '67, a deputy cabinet secretary for Governor Deukmejian, will be teaching a program entitled "Effective Representation Before State Administrative Agencies," this fall for California Continuing Education of the Bar.
Susan G. Schaefer '68 was installed as vice president of the Century City Bar Association.
Jan C. Gabrielson '69 is currently on the executive committee of the Los Angeles County Bar's family law section and on the board of governors of the Century City Bar Association. He is the chair of the family law section of the Century City Bar Association, and was recently admitted to fellowship in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Elwood Lui '69 was elected president of the California Judges Association for 1986-87.
The 1970s
John F. Mounier Jr. '70 is active in commercial fraud cases and recently chaired a CEB program on "Commercial Bad Faith." He is a partner in the Sacramento firm of Hansen, Culhane, Mounier & Doyle.
Thomas E. Stindt '70 has founded Stindt & Gold, with offices in Warner Center and Beverly Hills. He will continue to concentrate in probate litigation and estate planning. Trial lawyer Harry Gold, co-founder, is a UCLA alumunus.
Richard J. Stone '70, a trial lawyer and partner of Sidley & Austin, was recently elected an at-large trustee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Barry Axelrod '71 was recently listed by San Diego Ranch & Coast Magazine
as one of the top 20 attorneys in San Diego.
Gary L. Gilbert '71 has been a partner in the firm of Mason & Sloane since 1981. He has become a named partner and the firm name is now Mason, Sloane & Gilbert.
Gene Backus '72, a principal shareholder in Thorndal, Backus, Maupin & Manoukian in Las Vegas, Carson Valley, and Lake Tahoe, has as a new partner the former chief justice of the Nevada Supreme Court, Noel E. Manoukian. Backus has been appointed to the Nevada Law Foundation and elected a director of Big Brothers/ Big Sisters.
Patricia Tenoso Sturdevant '72 has formed a partnership for the practice of law, emphasizing complex commercial litigation and unlawful business practices. The firm of Sturdevant & Elion opened in June 1986 in San Francisco's financial district.
Joyce Ogawa Yoshioka '72 has served as chief deputy for the Office of the Public Defender of Ventura County since 1984.
Donald P. Baker '73, a partner with the firm of Latham and Watkins, has been installed as president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
Joshua Dressler '73, professor of law at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, is writing a criminal law treatise titled Understanding Criminal Law, to be published in 1987 by Matthew Bender. He has received a Wayne State Career Development Chair for the 1986-87 academic year while working on the treatise.
Gregory M. Hansen '73 has become a partner of Case, Kay & Lynch, Honolulu, Hawaii, specializing in taxation and employee benefits. The firm has offices on four of the Hawaiian Islands.
Craig S. Kamansky '73 was recently appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Municipal Court in San Bernardino. He was formerly a chief deputy district attorney in San Bernardino County.
Kenneth Ross '73 was elected to the American Law Institute in December 1985.
Carl Shusterman '73 has become a partner of Barst & Mukamal. Formerly a trial attorney for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, he continuestospecializein immigration law.
Robert J. Wayne '74 has been elected to his second term as chairman of the criminal law section of the Washington State Bar Association. He has been a part time instructor of trial advocacy at the University of Washington for the last nine years while practicing full time as a triallawyer.
James D. C. Barrall '75, formerly with Ervin, Cohen & Jessup in Beverly Hills, has become a partner of Latham & Watkins, where he will be resident in the Los Angeles office and continue to specialize in employee benefit and executive compensation matters.
M. Douglas Close '75 has recently been promoted to the position of vice president and assistantgeneral counsel of Executive Life Insurance Company.
John B. Golper '75 has resigned as partner of Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian to become a partner of the law firm of Ballard & Rosenberg. He also completed his service as a gubernatorial appointee to the California Comparable Worth Task Force, submitting a report to the California Legislature-in which he recommends against changing California's equal pay statute fo include mandatedcomparableworthpaymethodology in the public and private employment sectors in California.
Robert A. Green '75 has become a partner in the firm of Nilsson, Robbins, Dalgarn, Berliner, Carson & Wurst in Los Angeles. The firm continues to specialize in patent, trademark and copyright matters.
Joseph Kibre '75 has become associated with the firm of Stanton, Oberstein & Doniger.
Steven M. Klein '75 has been promoted to senior vice president at Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. The company designs, develops, markets and distributes a variety of toy products sold worldwide.
John L. Beers '76has become a partner at Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May in Oakland, where he specializes in employment litigation.
Patricia S. Brody '76 has become associated with the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels & Butler.
Gregory K. Boone '77 has recently been promoted to vice president of studio legal affairs for Columbia Pictures Television.
Wayne C. Collett '77 has become senior vice president/general counsel of Family Savings & Loan Association, the third largest black-owned financial institution in the United States.
Dan S. Schechter '77 has been teaching commercial courses since 1980 at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and has just published an article in 19 U.C. Davis LawReview875 (1986) titled "The Principal Principle: Controlling Creditors Should be Held Liable for Their Debtor's Obligations."
Denise M. Beaudry '78 has recently assumed a position as counsel for Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. after seven years in the Los Angeles City Attorney's office, the last four of which involvedrepresentingthe city's department of airports.
Walter G. Coppenrath Jr. '78 has started a new firm, Mahoney & Coppenrath, located in Century City.
It specializes inmaritime, business and real estatelitigation. Coppenrath was a visiting lecturer on maritime law and marineinsurance in spring 1985 at the International Development Law Institute in Rome, Italy.
Richard D. Freer ·73 was selected "Most Outstanding Professor" for 1985-86 by the Student Bar Association at Emorv Law School. This is the second ye�r he has received the avvard.
Frida Popik Glucoft '78 is a partner of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, primarily engaged in immigration law.
Susan Jure Hazard '78 has becme a partner of Musick, Peeler & Garrett. Her practice emphasis includes estate planning and probate.
Mark A. Kuller '78 has left the government to become a partner of the firm of King and Spalding in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was special assistant to the chief counsel of the IRS and before that on the staff of the office of tax policy, U.S. Treasury Department. He is an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center.
Linda M. Lasley '78 has been admitted as a member of the firm of Buchalter, Nemer, Fields, Chrystie & Younger.
Robert W. Boos '79 has become associated with the litigation department of the law firm Taub & Williams.
Roxanne Lippe) '79 has been promoted to vice president, music business affairs for Universal Studios. She joined Universal in 1985 as director of music business affairs.
Michael A. Morris '79 has become a member of the firm of Stutman, Treister & Glatt.
Andrew S. Pauly '79 has become a member of the firm of Stern & Miller.
Henry S. Weinstock '79 has become a member of the firm of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox & Elliott.
The 1980s
Everardo Abrego '80 became a partner in the law firm of Rodriguez, Partida, Pruneda & Abrego in McAllen, Texas.
The firm specializes in criminal law, workers compensation and personal injury litigation.
Becky L. Burnham '80, formerly associated with Brown & Bain, is now of counsel to the firm of Gammage & Burnham.
Amador L. Corona '80 has been in private practice in Santa Ana since 1981, specializing in criminal law.
Gordon A. Goldsmith '80 has become a member of the firm of Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles.
Jeff Krause 'so has become a partner at Stutman, Treister & Glatt and will be an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School during the 1986-87 school year.
Anita Ross Van Petten '80 has been appointed to the newly created position of senior vice president, business and legal affairs, MGM TV group.
Juana Velazquez Webman '80 has returned to her position as a Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney assigned to the criminal branch, after a two year leave of absence during which she spent one year with a private law firm in New Orleans and time off with new daughter, Sabrina Leigh.
Norman Aladjem '81 is currently practicing at Armstrong & Hersch in Los Angeles.
David B. Babbe '81 has become a member of the firm of Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles.
Lawrence M. Jacobson '81 has become associated with the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels & Butler.
Karen Matteson '81 has been appointed deputy regional counsel, Western Regional Office, Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Los Angeles. She was previously located in the Washington, D.C., office of the CFTC. She prosecutes consumer fraud cases relating to commodity futures on behalf of the federal government.
Julie S. Mebane '81 has become associated with the new San Diego office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, where she specializes in real estate law.
Craig P. Sapin '81 and Steven M. Strauss '81 have become partners of Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch in San Diego.
Lance A. Selfridge '81 has joined the firm of Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard.
Diane Sherman '81 has joined the Century City law firm of Rintala, Smoot, Jaenicke & Brunswick where she specializes in civil litigation and labor law.
Patrick Charles Wilson '81 is now associated with the law firm of Geary, Shea & O'Donnell in Santa Rosa, California. He was formerly associated with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco.
David A. Ackert '82, formerly associated with the New York law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, has joined the investment banking division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a new product specialist in the capital markets group.
Henry Beck '82 was recently elected to serve a three-year term (1986-89) on the computer law committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Larry S. Dushkes '82 has become associated with the law firm of Baker, Ancel, Morris & Hruby.
Charles K. Knight '82 has become vice president and corporate counsel for Cardis Corporation in Beverly Hills. Cardis is one of the largest independent warehouse distributors of automotive parts, supplies, tools and accessories in the U.S.
Daniel M. Mayeda '82 has returned to Los Angeles after practicing communications law in Washington, D.C. He has become associated with Leopold, Petric;h & Smith in Century City. The firm specializes in copyright and defamation litigation.
Donnell Magarita Rubay '82 was married to Hubert H. Heuer Jr. on May 10, 1986. She remains associated with Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro.
Robin M. Stutman '82 has become associated with the law firm of Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti in Washington, D.C., and is to be married in the spring.
Dirk W. van de Bunt '82 has been named senior attorney for network television at Paramount Pictures Corporation. He joined Paramount in 1985 as attorney in video programming and distribution.
Geoffrey A. Berkin '83 has become associate counsel of Ashton-Tate, the world's third largest microcomputer software company. He specializes in domestic contracts, copyright and trademark matters, and software privacy.
Robert K. Olsen '83 has become associated with the Orange County office of McKenna, Conner & Cuneo, practicing banking law.
Nancy L. Vanderlip '83 was married April 12, 1986 to James A. Ellis and continues to practice in the corporate department of Palmieri, Tyler, Wiener & Wilhelm [formerly the Newport Beach office of Kindel & Anderson).
Joyce I. Craig '84 has become associated with the firm of Selvin and Weiner in Los Angeles.
Richard Cray '84 has been promoted to director of music business affairs at Universal Studios.
Lawrence Goldberg '84 remains associated with O'Melveny and Myers. We regret that an erroneous item was printed in the last issue.
Betsy R. Rosenthal '84 has left the U.S. Department of Justice honor law graduate program and has become the western states counsel for the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith.
James Steinberger '84 has opened a law office in West Los Angeles, specializing in patent, trademark and copyright law.
Thomas M. Bondy '85 is clerking for Judge Anthony M. Kennedy on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. This fall, he will be moving to Washington, D.C., where he will be with the Department of Justice, civil division, appellate staff. Tom and his wife, Morgan, became parents of a baby boy in November 1985.
Sean Cassidy '85 has become associated with the law firm of Sauger, Grayson, Givner & Brooke, specializing in pension and estate planning. "Still tall," he notes.
Regina Liudzius '85 is associated with the firm of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, where she practices business litigation.
Daniel B. Spitzer '85 has become associated with the firm of Alschuler, Grossman & Pines.
Konrad L. Trope '85 has completed a one-year clerkship with Judge H. Robert Mayer of the U.S. Claims Court in Washington, D.C. He will now begin a one-year clerkship with Judge Wilson Cowen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C. The Beverly Hills Bar Association Journal published his article on the "The Fireman's Rule" in its Fall 1985 issue.
IN MEMORIAM
William Walter Livingston '54, February 14, 1986.
Dennis Shapiro '66, January 1986.
Calendar of Events
Saturdav, October 18, 1986-Class of '81 R;union, Sunset Canyon Recreation Center, UCLA, 3-7 p.m.
Wednesday, October 22, 1986-The \feh'ille B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture by :'\e\\' York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, Schoenberg Hall, UCLA. 8 p.m.
Thursday. October30, 1986-San Francisco Ba\' Area Alumni Luncheon, Sheraton-P�lace Hotel, Noon. Guest speaker-Professor Jonathan Varat.
\\"ednesday, November 5, 1986-San Bernardino County Alumni Luncheon, Red Lion Inn, Ontario, Noon.
Friday-Saturday, December 12-13, 1986-1lth Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium.
For further information regarding e\·ents. please call the Law Alumni Office. (213) 825-2899.
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Proposition 61: An Issue ofGrave Concern
There is an issue on the November ballot in California which is of such potential gravity for our law school, for the entire University and for the state that I am asking all alumni and friends of our school to become familiar with the public policy q�estions at stake.
Proposition 61, which is often called the Gann Initiative, has a number of elements. It would limit the total annual compensation of state and local government employees to no more than 80 percent of the Governor's salary. Given our benefit structure, the University estimates that the most faculty could be paid would be about $50,000. Future increases in the Governor's salary could only be effectuated by vote of the people in a statewide general election, not by legislative action. The proposition would place severe restrictions on governmental hiring of outside specialists, including law firms. It would prohibit public employees from accumulating vacation and sick leave, thus triggering in the first year a buy-out of benefits which the Legislative Analyst's office estimates would cost the state 7 billion dollars.
In the view of many of us here at UCLA, if Proposition 61 passes and is interpreted to apply to the University, the effect on the University will be devastating, especially in the sciences and in the professional schools. Because benefits are included in the salary limitations which would be put in place by Proposition 61, all of our full-time law faculty would be affected. Some faculty would not gamble on the University's ability to ultimately uphold its position that it is not covered. To protect their retirement benefits many of our senior faculty would retire early; others would leave UCLA for other law schools or for private practice. UCLA is already experiencing some difficulty in recruiting because faculty at other institutions have heard about the initiative and are feeling understandably cautious. Even if the University is ultimately held exempt, we believe that many disciplines, including law, would sustain permanent faculty losses during the uncertain interim. In many respects but perhaps particularly in law, we would also suffer from the broader impact on state and local government and the judiciary.
Chancellor Young and many of us in the University are deeply, gravely concerned over the far reaching consequences of Proposition 61 for the University and for the State. In the Chancellor's view, "for all practical purposes the University of California as we know it would be destroyed by this measure." As individuals interested in law, I hope that you will feel a special responsibility to familiarize yourself with the substance of Proposition 61.
Susan Westerberg Prager Dean
University of California
School of Law
Office of the Dean 405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles, California 90024
