UCLA Law - Spring-Summer 1998, Vol. 21, No. 2

Calendar ofEvents

Tuesday, September 15, 1998

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting

UCLA Faculty Center

October 26-30, 1998

In-Home Dinner Program

November 14, 1998

Reunion Celebration

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Tuesday, November 17, 1998

6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Alumni Association Board of Directors Meeting

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December (tba)

Bar Swearing-In Ceremony

Schoenberg HallAuditorium

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Law Library Dedication

Law School

Dean Susan Prager, Former Dean Bill Warren and Dean Designate Jonathan D. Varat celebrate the transition in leadership at a staff party in Dean Prager's honor June 30. The fall/winter issue of UCLA Law will feature a report on the alumni dinner held in Dean Prager's honor in June.

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The Magazine of the UCLA School of Law

Vol. 21, No. 2 • Spring/Summer 1998

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Box 951476, Los Angeles, Calif. 90095-1476

Susan Westerberg Prager, Dean (through June 30, 1998)

Jonathan D. Varat, Dean (July 1, 1998)

Robyn B. Puntch, Interim Director of Development

UCLA Law Magazine Staff

Karen Nikos

Editor

Sheila Casey Staff Writer

Nancy Berkowitz, Roderick Sasis

Editorial Assistants

Mary Ann Stuehrmann

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UCLA Law Alumni Association Board of Directors

Richard D. Fybel '71

President

Donna R. Black '75

Vice President

Hon. George P. Schiavelli '74

Secretary/Treasurer

Richard W. Havel '71

Alumni Representative

John F. Runkel, Jr. '81

Immediate Past President

Kyle B. Arndt '94

Wendy D. Aron '96

Hon. Valerie L. Baker '75

-Harland W. Braun '67

Cynthia S. Conners '83

Beth K. Cranston '86

Shedrick 0. Davis '87

Lori Huff Dillman '83

David W. Fleming '59

David I. Gindler '84

Dee A. Hayashi '82

Glenn L. Krinsky '83

Josiah Neeper '59

Dennis L. Perez '82

Hon. Steven Z. Perren '67

Hon. Carolyn Richardson Owens '82

Carl C. Robinson '77

Sharon F. Rubalcava '75

Shan K. Thever '74

Marcy J K. Tiffany '77

William A. Vallejos '87

On the Cover:

Newly appointed Dean Jonathan D. Varat in front of the School of Law's new Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library

Photography by Mary Ann Stuehrmann

Table of Contents

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AN INTERVIEW WITH DEAN JONATHAN D. VARAT

VERONICA S. MCBETH: HER VIEW FROM THE BENCH

THE EULE SYMPOSIUM

MEET OUR STUDENTS

ON CAMPUS

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CLASS NOTES

AN INTERVIEW WITH DEANJONATHAN D.VARAT

BY KAREN NIKOS, UCLA LAW EDITOR

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FOR BEING BOTH DECISIVE AND A CONSENSUS-BUILDER, CHANCT!lOR A1BERI (ARNESALE ANNOUNCED TO THE FACULTY IN JUNE THAT HE HAD CHOSEN PROFESSOR JONATHAN D. VARAT AS THE LAW SCHOOLS SIXTH DEAN. DEAN VARAT, A CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR AND EXPERT ON THE FEDERAL COURTS, HAS BEEN AN EXEMPLARY SCHOLAR, TEACHER AND LEADER DURING HIS 22 YEARS ON THE FACULTY. BEYOND SERVING AS ASSOCIATE DEAN UNDER DEAN SUSAN PRAGER ON TWO OCCASIONS, HE HAS PRODUCED SCHOLARSHIP IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW THAT INCLUDES HIS CO-AUTHORSHIP OF A LEADING CONSTITUTIONAL CASEBOOK THAT IS UPDATED ANNUALLY. IN THESE NEXT FEW PAGES, YOU WILL GET TO KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DEAN VARAT IN AN INTERVIEW CONDUCTED IN THE FIRST FEW DAYS AFTER HE TOOK OFFICE INJULY. IN COMING ISSUES, YOU WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM AS THE LIBRARY OPENS, NEW CURRICULAR PROGRAMS AND FACULTY ARE INTRODUCED, AND THE MANY WORKS OF HIS DEANSHIP UNFOLD.

Asithappens,youarestartingyourdeanshipjust as theHugh and HazelDarling Law Library is completed andwillopenforthefallsemester. What is the importance ofthismilestone?

Our new library is an important and very beautiful landmark for the entire UCLA campus, but it is especially valuable to the law school community. It undoubtedly will elevate further our standing among the nation's great law schools. It provides us the space we have desperately needed for many years, particularly the study space that we have long wanted to be able to provide for our students and the shelf space for our extensive collections.

It is really difficult to convey just how excitinKa development in the school's history the library is. It will be as much the heart of our educational program as our classrooms have been. Every time I look at the student carrels near its many naturally lighted windows, and those in its comfortable interior spaces, I am pleased that our students will have available to them an atmosphere so conducive to reflection and inquiry. Every time I walk around the reading rooms, the alcoves, the seminar areas and the open spaces - all of which are elegant and professional and rich with possibilities -I imagine the intellectual curiosities, the research agendas, and the professional interests that will be satisfied here. And the sheer physical beauty of the architecture and interior design is frankly uplifting to the spirit. There's little doubt in my mind that the library will be a major recruitment tool for attracting the best faculty and students to become part of our special community.

Words alone cannot express how grateful we all should be to everyone who helped to make the library a reality. When we formally dedicate the library later this year, however, perhaps the ceremony can convey some small measure of the significance of this joint effort and of the gratitude we feel to all who participated in it.

"Wiiat doyoumostlookforward to doing duringyour tenure as dean?

It's pretty clear that we are entering a new stage of the law school's development, where the physical facility is suitable to the tasks of a distinguished center of learning and where many of the elements of that distinction are already in place - an energetic, capable group of students and a vigorously engaged and brilliant group of faculty in many fields chief among them.

Professionally, I am most eager to facilitate the work of the students and faculty, to advance their work and study as effectively as possible, to make the quality of what we do here at the law school known far and wide, and to bolster the academic program with a variety of programmatic initiatives - conferences, symposia, lectures, joint projects and the like - that will make the most of our collective talents and maximize our contributions to the profession and the public.

Personally, I look forward to a very different tole than I have played during my 22 years on the faculty here. It will be challenging, exciting and fun to see the big picture and work to further the mission of the law school as a whole. I enjoy people a great deal, and I welcome the opportunity to interact with the many different individuals and groups that the dean is fortunate to encounter - students, faculty, staff, alums and other friends of the school, academics and other university folks outside the law school, lawyers, judges, members of the community The chance to renew relationships with former students who now fulfill a variety of professional roles, and to develop new friendships with those who studied here before my arrival or whom I did not get to know after I arrived, especially appeals to me. So does the prospect of learning more deeply about the work of all my colleagues.

"%at doyou seeastheLawSchool's mostpressingneed?

The progress that we have made in less than half a century of existence is truly remarkable, and I am fortunate to follow magnificent deans who have built a legacy of distinction. Now that our building is basically in good shape, we must concentrate on amassing a substantial endowment that will provide the financial resources to secure and extend our academic program in the way that the other great law schools have been able to do. I want urgently to unleash the creative talents of our faculty and student body by providing them the support that is essential for their scholarly work and many professional and public activities. Virtually every other school of our caliberand of course they are all much older than our school - has more endowed professorships, more programmatic support, more funds for intellectual and professional activities than we do. It is a tribute to the people who have built and make up this school that we have done as well as we have thus far. If we are to achieve our poten-

Weareconfident thatDeanVaratwill continuetobuildon theresultsoftheprior deansandelevate theSchoolofLaw toanevenhigher degreeofexcellence.

RalphJ. Shapiro'58 MemberofDean's SearchCommittee

Hehasquiet strengthanddeep sensitivities-these traits willserve himwellandallow him to becomea respectedleader.

WilmaWilliams Pinder'76 Memberof Dean's Search Committee

Thevery

qualities thatearnJontherespect andleadershipofso many intheLawSchool arewhatmahehim anexemplary leader: unfalteringhonesty, thecapacity tolisten, andremarkable soundnessofcharacter andjudgment.

ProfessorGillian Lester MemberofDean'sSearch Committee

tial, however, we will need to improve our support for the basic scholarlyand teachingactivities of our faculty; and for thedevelopmentandsupport of programs of great promise, such as the recently begun Program in Public Interest Law and Policywhich is off to a good start - and the Business Law Program, still in an earlier stage of development. Much more in the way of program innovation, important scholarly projects, andambitiousteaching is within our reach if we canjustbuild the necessary base of support. Within the law school we have many good ideas in many fields to advance the contributions of lawand legal education to our country'smost intractable and interesting problems. We have ideas about promoting effective interdisciplinary efforts with a variety of academic units across campus, both in teaching and in research. Whatweneedisthewherewithaltotaketheseideasfromthedrawingboard to the constructionphase.

"7iiat

kindofanenvironmentdoyou

hope to encourageandpromoteatthe law school?

OverallIwanttomaintaintheimpressivecombinationwenowhaveofcollegialityand diversity of thought, assuring all the while that mutual respect and appreciation, as well asethicarand professional behavior, are the commoncurrencyof our daily interactions. Forthestudents, I'dliketo fosteracommunityoflearningwheremanypoints of view flourish and are shared in an atmosphere of critical, fearless examination of provocative, practicalandinterestingideas-wherereasonabledifferencesofopinion aretreatedasjustthat. I'dliketokeeptheinterestsof futureclientspresentinthestudents'minds, along with all those important ideas of serving the public and the cause ofjustice that most of them bring to law school. I'd also like them to have some fun, social as well as intellectual. We know that lifelong friendships, and sometimes even more intimate relationships, begin in law school. It's often hard for law students to maintain a three-dimensional perspective, but I'd love to be able to help the students see each other, their families, and even the facultyand staff that way.

For the faculty, I'd like to make iteasier to pursue their teaching and their scholarship bymaking available more assistance and byreducing the administrative responsibilitiesthataren'tcrucial to their primaryfacultypursuits. I'dlike to make themfeel empowered to be even more innovative and probing than theyalreadyare. Theyarea group of unusually distinguished and productive people who have all sorts of interesting ideas and big-picture perspectives. It would be great to be able to provide for them an atmosphere where they felt free and encouraged to unleash their energies, routinelyshare their insights, and aggressivelyexplore their most ambitious thinking.

For the staff, I'd like to enlist them even more in the sense of common enterprise that so many of them already feel and display in the course of their daily work. And forthoseofourextendedUCLALawfamilywhoaren'taroundthebuildingmostevery day, I would like to promote a warm sense of welcome, an inviting atmosphere that will make people want to come by when they are in the neighborhood to see what's doing at their school.

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H ow would you go about spreading the school's reputation more effectively?

We need to celebrate the splendid work of our faculty and the achievements of our students at every available opportunity A variety of publications can help us do that. Word of mouth can help us do that. More conferences or symposia focused on the scholarly products of our faculty, and more venues for the display of our students ' abilities , can help us do that. I plan to do all that I can to see that the varied and significant accomplishments of our students and faculty are recognized as they should be . Maybe we need to have more awards and prizes for distinguished work of all kinds - not just for the incentive , since so many in our community are strongly motivated without extra in du cements , but for the ceremonial value to the whole sc hoo l when one of our own does something important of which we shoul d all be proud. More people need to know just how good we rea lly are - and that we 're always working to become better.

lnJive years what would you like to say you had accomplished as dean?

I'd love to be able to say that faculty and students were more engaged with one another and more involved in the inte ll ect ual exchange of ideas than they ever had been before . I' d love to be able to say that UCLA Law had become more prominent in people's minds than it is now, and that when people t hought about us they conjured up an image of intellectual vita li ty, of deep and responsible attention to the major and emerging issues of our society, of exciting and provocative lec tures, conferences, symposia and other academic events of impressive quality, and of ho w often we enga ge and affect the many communities we touch , both on and off campus. I certainly wo ul d want to be able to say that we had achieved sufficient financial security that just tha t sort of energy and activity would be assured for future generations of fac ulty and stude nts and those many audiences we want to engage. And I'd especially like to be able to say that connections between our alumni and the law school had grown closer and more frequent. All these would be tremendously gratifying de velopments.

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B.A. 196 7 an d J D 1972, Un iversity of Pennsy lvan ia

Law Clerk, J ud g e Wa lt e r R Mans fie ld, Un ited Stat e s Co urt of Ap pe al s fo r th e Seco nd Cir cuit, Augus t 1972 - July 1973

Law Cle rk, Assoc iate Justice Byron R. White, United States Sup reme Co urt, August 1973 -A ugust 1974

Associa t e, O'Me lveny & Myers, Los Ange les, 1974 - 1976

Co -aut hor, Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials, w it h Bill Cohen '56, C. Wendell and Edit h M. Carlsmith Professo r, Stanfo rd Law School

Non -academ ic: Long d istance runni ng, ma rr ie d to Associa t e Dean Barba ra Va rat, fat her of t hr ee chi ldren

JONATHAN D. VARAT

REACHING BEYOND THE ORDINARY

Veronica S. McBeth '75 issuesmorethanrulingsfromher bench

BY KARENNIKOS, UCLAL4.wEDITOR

ucu!SCHOOL OF LAW CAN CLAIM MORE THAN 120JUDGES AMONG ITS GADUATES

- ALL HIGHLY ACCOMPLISHED INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE MADE AN IMPACT ON THE LEGAL SYS--TEM.UCLALAWMAGAZINEHASCHOSENTOFEATUREINTHISISSUEONEPARTICULARJUDGEVERONJCA S. MCBETH- WHO WAS APPOINTED TO AJUDGESHIP IN THE Los ANGELES MUNICIPALCOURT,THELARGESTCOURTOFGENERALJURISDICTIONINTHECOUNTRY,ONLYSIX YEARS . AFTER PASSING THE BAR. SHE IS NOW THAT COURT'S PRESIDINGJUDGE. FROM SENTENCINGSLUMLORDSANDREORGANIZINGTHEWAYTHECOURTSWORKTOREACHINGOUTTOINNERCITY CHILDREN, MCBETH HAS GARNERED NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR HER WORK. AMONG HER DOZENS OF AWARDS AND HONORS, SHE MOST RECENTLY RECEIVED THE WILLIAM REHNQUIST AWARD FORJUDICIAL EXCELLENCE, WHICH WILL BE PRESENTED TO HER IN OCTOBER BY U.S. SUPREME COURTCHIEFJUSTICE REHNQUIST ONBEHALFOFTHENATIONALCENTERFORSTATE COURTS.You WILL LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS DYNAMICJUDGE IN THESE PAGES.

Veronica S. McBeth garnered national attention in 1985 when she became the first judge ever to sentence a slumlord to live in his own building. Judges, attorneys and other people from throughout the country applauded what they called a commonsense adjudication. The sentencing triggered a new California Penal Code section allowing judgesto sentence slumlordstohouse confinement. McBeth, nowpresiding judge of Los Angeles Municipal Court, was surprised not only by the attention received bythesentence,butby the focus ofpeoples attention.

"Iwasastonishedbywhatgrabbedpeople'sattention.Thecommonthemeinthese more than 400 lettersI received, as well asthe editorials I saw, was that people were so glad to finally see a wealthy person being held accountable by the courts," said McBeth, who graduated from UCLA Law in 1975. "It made clear to me how widely held this perception is- that the court system favors wealthy, well-connected people,"McBethsaidinaninterviewinherdowntownLosAngelesoffice.Thisexperience furtherfueledMcBeth'sbeliefs-heldsinceherundergraduateyears,whenshedecidedtobecomealawyerratherthanadoctor-thatcommunityoutreachmustbeexercisedby allbranchesof governmentin order for peopletobeabletounderstandand utilizetheir government.

"Iwenttolawschoolaspartofallofthisstuffinthe70s," she said, smiling asshe walkedfromplacetoplacewhilebeinginterviewedinherdowntownoffice. "Thegoal wastomakeoursystemof government moreaccessibletopeopleandmoreequal for all populations and people of color. We wanted law and social services to be better, andI decided Icould makethings workbetter by becoming a lawyer."

By allaccounts, she has.

McBethattendedUCLASchoolofLawbecauseofitsclinicalprogram,andshewas able to take courses taught byPaul Boland, now a Los Angeles Superior Court judge

as well as friend and colleague of McBeth. Upon graduating from law school,whereshewasontheUCLALaw Reviewstaffand servedaseditorinchief of the National Blach Law Journal, she joined the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, then under the direction of Burt Pines, whom McBeth had heard speak and greatly admired. "I believed that Burt Pines was geared not toward just prosecutingpeople, but helping people. I wanted to be part of that." She hurriedly went about trying to make the systemworkbetter.Duringhersixyears at the City Attorney's Office, she not only prosecuted cases as a trial deputy and later as supervising attorney of the Van Nuys branch, but later served as Special Counsel to the City Attorney. In thatcapacity,sheproposedaspecialunit to prosecute domestic violence cases. She continued to serve on community

boards, includingserviceontheboard of the CaliforniaAssociationofBlack Lawyers, and was appointed to the Municipal Court inJuly 1981 by Gov.Jerry Brown.

During her time on that court, McBeth has participated in enough local, state and national committees and other projects to fill a page with a listing of them. Primarily, she has continued to emphasize public service, notjust for herself and her two teenage daughters in her family life, but for the entire courthouse in which she works. Whetherinchargeofthecriminalmastercalendarorfelonypreliminaryhearings,presiding over misdemeanor jury trials, arraignments or civil cases, or acting as supervisingjudgeforthe Central Criminal Courtorthe Central Civil Court,shehasaspired tomake everything work better. "I would characterize my goals as trying to make the courts more efficient, more effective and far more accessible."

Reaching outtochildreninthe courts

Perhaps one of McBeth's most successful efforts is her First Impressions program -or,as sheis quickto clarify-the FirstImpressionsProgram. "Thisisn't McBeth's program, this is the court's program," she says of her innovation, which since 1996 has brought more than 7,000 elementary school children from the inner-city areas

Onaday-to-day basis, judgestry theirbestto adjudicatecasesinthe mostfairandimpartial waypossible, butmany people-Iknowdon'tseeitthatway. Ihopetoincrease understanding.

Veronica S. McBeth '75

Veronica S. McBeth '75, presiding judge of Los Angeles Municipal Court, recently received the William Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence.

Iwouldcharacterize mygoalsastrying tomakethecourts moreefficient, more effectiveandfar moreaccessible.

Veronica S. McBeth '75

of Los Angeles into the courthouse for mock trial competitions and to learn about the court system. "It allows children to view the judicial system in a positive light." The program offers a mini civics lesson, and also supplies possible career ideas and role models to the children as they interact with bailiffs, judges and attorneys who voluntarily participate to teach the children about the court system. The program, which McBeth proposed in 1995 while serving as chair of the.Lo_s Angeles Municipal Court's Committee on the Courts and the Public, was honored with the Ralph N. Kleps Award from the Judicial Council of California as well as awards from the ABA and other entities.

First Impressions, which is highly dependent on volunteer attorneys from the community to coach students, has received attention from throughout the country, as well as New Zealand, for its outreach efforts. To make implementation in other court systems easier, all documents used to set up the program with area schools have been computerized so the Los Angeles Municipal Court can distribute materials on disk to any court that wants to start its own First Impressions program. "They can take my name off the letters, and everything else, and make it their program. That's what is important. I don't want this to be my program," added McBeth. The project already has been implemented in the North County Municipal Court in San Diego County, and McBeth hopes this program or others like it will become mainstays in all courthouses soon.

That may happen quickly As chair of a special task force on community outreach started by California Supreme Court Justice Ronald M. George last year, McBeth is part of a group working to identify outreach needs as well as existing projects in courts throughout California. The task force already has been preparing materials for model court/community outreach programs for use in courts across the nation. The task force is also looking at ways to improve the efficiency of courts - something in which McBeth has become somewhat of an expert in her various roles in the court system.

Changing the way courts work

After the "three strikes" law was passed in California, courts found themselves bogged down with more defendants choosing to go to trial because of the tough penalties they faced if convicted. The new law, in effect, meant that people convicted of felonies with two prior convictions for violent crimes face 25 years to life in prison, a sentence that makes a guilty plea much less attractive than before the law was passed. As supervising judge of the Municipal Court in the downtown Criminal Courts Building in 1995, McBeth began discussions with the Superior Courts supervising judge for criminal cases. They formed a task force made up of representatives from the various agencies affected - from the arresting agency all the way to probation, and the courts and agencies in-between - and started the CCB Early Disposition Court. The

program identifies case types that are most likely to settle before trial and channels them into a sp ecial courtroom where , whenever possible, the case is disposed of within thre e da ys of arraignm ent.

In a similar collaborative effort , Mc Beth assisted in creating the Southeast Enhancem ent Project , which channels no nviolent individuals convicted of misdemeano r crimes into work programs in their , eighborhoods .

McB eth still hasn't given up on ridding the city of slumlords , either. Rather than wait until housing difficulti es reach the criminal ros ecution stage , like that of Milton Avol -the defen da nt in her fam ous 1985 se nte1cing - McBeth has respond ed to suggestions from a blu e-ribb on citizens committ e~ p n Los Angeles to develop better ways to follo w these cases in t e courts. In a program that just be gan in July, court-ordered nepairs in habitability ca ses are monitored by a specific divisi o of the Municipal Court set up to hear these cases. "Its one thi g to ord er repairs be done, but there had been no follo w-up to make sure the repairs are made ," said McBeth , who praises the work of UCLA La w Professor Gar y Blasi and others who serve on the committee making the recommendations . (The work of Blasi and UCLA Law students in transforming housin g policy in the city was detail ed in a stor y in th e fall/wint er 1997 UCLA Law Magazine It can also be found on the La w Schools web site at : http ://www. la w. ucla.edu/Programs.Clinical/:i:1 ubpols.htm l.)

McB eth said she hop es that earl y int ervrn tion will help stop some of the slum problems in th e city "Thi s all ows the system to isolate the cas es that are problems befOlie they escalate to criminal pros ecutions ."

McB eth said her effor ts to increa se the co mrts ' role in society goe s back to her basic belief that people an di their government shou ld work together to make the world function better "I have benefited from being born in this country, and I beli eve we all need to gi ve somethin~ back ," she said "It goes back, really, to my famil y and religious upbringing. " 1 I

By bringing the community to the courtHouse and having the judiciary reach out more to the public , each will gain better understanding , McBeth explain ed. "On a da y-to -da y basis , judges try their best to adj ud icate cases in the most fair and impartial way possible , but many people -I k ow - don't see it that way I hope to inc reas e und erstanding. "

McBeth speak s at a recent UC LA Law Scho o l Bar Sw ear ing -In Ceremony

Great scholars gather to discuss Julian Eulef scholctrsnip at UCLA Law Review Symp~sium

During the oral presentation of these papers, we can imagine, somewhere Julian was scribbling on a celestial yellow pad. When the rest of us join the majority, he will be ready to tell us, in his good-humored way, where we got it right and where we didn't.

SYMPO SIUM TOP IC OF GR EAT INTEREST, BUT nus YEAR CHO SE TO FO CUS ON A FAVORITE PR OFE SSOR AND SC HOLAR. WHlLE THE DAY WAS FILLED WITH TRIBUTE S TO E ULE'S FR IEN DSHIP, CO LLE AG UE SHJP AND TE CHING, THE IMPRESSIVE GROUP FO CUSED ON EULE 'S SCH OLAR SHIP, PROVIDING A TRIBUTE BEF TTING THE MAN 'EVERYONE REMEMBERED. EULE, A FORMER ASSOCIATE DEAN AND CO NSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSOR ' WHO TAUGHT AT UCLA LAW FOR 12 YEARS, DIED OF CANCER LA ST YEAR.

In honor:ing Eule's scholarship, the speakers at the symposium focused largely on ideas about American democracy and representative government, the major themes of Eule's works for mos ' of two dec ades. As UCLA Law Professor and Eule colleague Kenneth Karst offered in an eloquent summary of the days presentations , Eule's writing "can be seen as a quest for constitutional principles to make American democracy work."

Karst described how the scholars repeatedly addressed "the three concerns that absorbed Ju1i an in his pursuit of constitutional democracy: keeping the channels open for the people's communications; keeping government actors accountable to the people ; and seeking institutional strategies 'to protect agaLnst group subordination. " He emphasized the significance of Eule's contributions to constitutional la\Y scholars ' thinking about constitutiona l democracy Eule was a scho lar, he said, with a passion for fairness that came across in his work and who wrote in an innovative and ambi<r tious manner about numerous doctrinal areas of constitutional law, including issues of governmental structure, the influence of structures on substantive justice , ancl freedom of expression. Karst deseribed Eule's scholarly J ork as adding "a refreshing dose

of reality" to the ·abstract body of literature on the is sue\ of freedom o:~eec:

UCLA Law Professor Kenneth L Karst

After an introductory address by Dean Susan Westerberg Prager, the symposium got underway with ProfessorJonathan Varat's discussion of the article that Eule had begun and Varat finished. The EuleNarat article, 'Transporting First Amendment Norms to the Private Sector: With Every Wish There Comes a Curse," (with a nod to Bruce Springsteen) argues that the broad-based imposition of First Amendment orthodoxy onprivatepartiesisitselfin conflictwiththe First Amendment. The article, using statutorilyimposed free speech obligations on private universities as a primary example, first examines a variety of constitutionaldoctrinespotentiallyavailabletoprivatespeechregulatorsto resist compelledadherence to First Amendment norms. It further suggests that categoricalgovernmentimpositionofFirst Amendment obligationson private parties presumptively conflicts with the First Amendment's core protection against government-compelled orthodoxy - including a government-compelled orthodoxy ofthe First Amendment itself.

Following Professor Varat's delivery of Eule's final article, Erwin Chemerinsky,SydneyM.IrmasProfessoroflawandPoliticalScienceatthe University of Southern California law School and a dear friend of Eule, commented ontheworkandcontinuedthediscussionofEule'scontributionstoconstitutionallaw scholarship. Chemerinsky described Eule's "love for dialogue and argument" and explainedthat althoughheandEulehadnotseeneyetoeyeonsomeissuesrelatedto freespeech,hewasalwaysimpressedbyEule'swritingandforcefularguments. 'Julian sharedwithmeadraftofhispaperand,asalways, Iwassoimpressedbytheelegance of his prose and the force of his arguments."

Kathleen Sullivan, one of the most well-known and respected contemporary constitutional law scholars and Stanley Morrison Professor of law at Stanford law School, then continued the day's commemoration of Eule's work. Sullivan's recent scholarship explores the rapid growth of communication across a worldwide web of computers and how this growing medium raises many challenges to our understanding of free speech. "First Amendment Intermediaries in the Age of Cyberspace" discusses Eule's interest in speech intermediaries that stand somewhere between the individual and the state. She describes how Eule made important contributions in this area of constitutional law and raised "provocative questions about the role of speech intermediaries in First Amendment analysis." In her article, Sullivan discussesspeech intermediaries inrelationtothe modern ageofcyberspace andexpandson and analyzes Eule's ideas on the subject. Sullivan concludes that "Eule would have loved arguing about the regulation of speech intermediaries in cyberspace because he found delicious irony in the notion that allowing the diversity of speech to be restricted actually might enhance it." Robert C. Post, Alexander F and May T. Morrison Professor of law at Boalt School of law at UC Berkeley, then offered commentary on Sullivan's presentation.

Kimberle Crenshaw, Professor of law at UCLA and Columbia University law schools, and Gary Peller, Professor of law at Georgetown University law Center, spoke about the contributions and constraints of a proceduralist constitutional law discourse.TheyemphasizedtheimportanceofEule'sworkinthisarea, explainingthat Eule's "functionalist" process analysis could help courts contribute to democratic socialchangethatcouldhelpthedisempowered.UniversityofPennsylvaniaSchoolof

· Eulewouldhave lovedarguingabout theregulationofspeech intermediariesin cyberspace ... because hefounddeliciousirony inthenotionthat allowingthediversity ofspeechtobe restrictedactually mightenhanceit.

Kathleen Sullivan

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Carole Eule and Julian's brother, Daniel

Preparingfor this occasion, Ifound that I could not reread Julian Eule's memorable essay, Judicial Review of Direct Democracy,' without the sense of being engaged by Julian in the conversation that he so much loved. The pages contain his voice. The earnestness, the wit, the wonderful irreverence of which Dean Prager spoke so feelingly at the opening of this Symposium: All of them are there. What follows is my side of the conversation. Julian put me up to it.

Frank I. Michelman (near left).

Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University, in his introduction to his UCLA Law Review essay, "'Protecting the People From Themselves,' or How Direct Can Democracy Be?"

(Clockwise, from top) Kimberle Crenshaw Kenneth Karst, UCLA School of Law; Steven H. Shiffrin , Professor of Law, Cornell Law School ; Hans A. Li nde, Senior Judge, Oregon Supreme Court (retired); Jonathan Varat, UCLA School of Law; Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard University; Robert C. Post, Boalt; Erwin Chemerinsky, USC Law School; Gary Peller, Georgetown University Law School; Kathleen M Sullivan, Stanley Morrison Professor of Law, Stanford University; and Lani Guinier, University of Pennsylvania Law School, (Harvard beginning fall 1998). Photos bv Marv Ann Stuehrmann.

Law Professor Lani Guinier then gave a commentary on the article they delivered. Guinier will begin teaching at Harvard in fall 1998.

Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University Law School, expressed the influence of Eule's scholarship in the field of direct democracy. Michelman, who opened his discussion by writing on the chalkboard, "This is a republic , not a democracy," drew on Eule's arguments about government structures and the rights and interests of those governed, questioning whether the democratic ideal itself is realizable through direct democracy. His talk was followed by comments from Steven H. Shiffrin , a professor at Cornell Law School, and Hans A. Linde, Oregon Supreme Court senior judge (retired).

Karst observed that Eule would have loved to have been there in the Law School 's large lecture room , engaged in a day of conversation about issues he cared about most, and that he truly would have enjoyed any criticism of his work as well. " We should remember that Julian was a realist, who insisted that any argument appealing to the ideal of constitutional democracy must be tested against the demands of a political world that is far from ideal." said Karst, in his piece , "Participation and Hope: Some Eulian Realism About the Material and Aspirational Underpinnings of American Democracy. "

'}ulian's quest for constitutional democracy continues along the free-speech path in his paper presented in this symposium, so lovingly brought to the finish line by Jonathan Varat," Karst said in his summary. "Characteristically, Julian identifies a current issue of public policy, recognizes that the issue is representative of a more general problem for constitutional law, and throws important light on both the issue at hand and the larger constitutional problem through a painstaking analysis of a series of concrete cases. This is vintage Eule

The articles from this symposium can be found in full in UCLA Law Review Vol. 45, Issue No. 6. To order, call the Law Review office at 310-825-4929, The symposium was made possible by th e Julian Eule Memorial Fund.

In Julian's words

LACKING ACCESS TO PROFESSOR E ULE 'S "CELESTIAL YELLOW PAD ," J ONATHAN VARAT EXCE RPTED SOME OF THE SE LAST WORDS FROM Euu 's NOTES, WHICH VARAT USED TO CONCLUDE HIS ORAL PRESENTAT ION OF EULE 'S FI NA L MANUSCRIPT:

I do not think that campu s speech codes are a goo d idea. I just th ink that government bans on them because IT thinks them a bad idea is worse. It is wo rse becaus e it raises th e 'specter of an insidi ous, thought-numbing standardization .' By legi slation such as the Leonard Law, th e state seeks to indo ctrinate , Th e fact that th e standard imposed is the Supreme Court's current version of th e First Amendment do es not mak e the specter more appea ling. Standardization impos ed in the nam e of promoting div ers ity of expression remains standardization, however ironic or paradoxical that may seem.

- Julian Eule

The partial statement he wrote for the conclusion to his article

The making of an article

an excerpt from the oral presentation of Jonathan D. Varat at the Eule symposium

I set for myself the objective of finishing Julian's article as he would have wanted to finish it himself - not in style, which I knew to be beyond my ability to duplicate, but in substance, so this his ideas would be conveyed as faithfully as possible. That meant not only that I would suppress my own disagreements with him and my own instincts to emphasize some matters more and some less 1 than he would have, but also that I would aim to render his ideas in the strongest fashion I could muster on behalf of his thesis and its various dimensions.

It proved more difficult to accomplish these goals than I appreciated at first. On the positive side of the ledger, I had several advantages. I knew that Julian's approach to scholarship was to build as article page by page, complete with substantive footnotes, so that the sections he had completed were virtually ready for publication as a final draft. Consequently, I could both leave those sections alone in the version to be published, allowing Julian's clear, strong voice to speak uneditedand project from the trajectory of his detailed, com-

pleted work the likely directions in which he was headed Knowing firsthand of the relent lessly organized quality of Julian's life and work, I also undertook, with Carole's permission, to peruse the piles of research and notes he had had placed in his workspace at home, and to play cyberdetective on his home computer looking for clues to his plan for completion of the article. I discovered a computer file titled "orthodox.out," [which] turned out to be an outline of the article which was saved just three weeks before the file containing Julian's last draft of the article was saved onto the disk. I later discovered a hard copy version of the outline file, replete with highlighted portions and a few added marginal notes.

When I ascertained that Julian had expressed ished, I felt a natural optimism about the prospects l to several people that his article was 90 percent fin-

for an expeditious effort that would be true to

LJulian's conception of the article and do it justice. t Alas, and ironically, the abundance of hints left for I me soon revealed that this sort of optimism was unwarranted. First, I soon discovered that Julian's 90-page doubled-spaced manuscript only generally follows the first part of the outline, leaving it uncertain how he would have filled in the details of the remainder of the outline -a completely understandable state of affairs, but one that created a bit of a challenge Second, and perhaps most important, the 90-page draft corresponds to just 61' pages of the 18-page outline Reconciling the idea that the draft was 90 percent complete with an outline two-thirds of which was not reflected in the draft posed a major riddle

The upshot of all this was that, to complete his project, I felt compelled to build the affirmative case seemingly reflected in Julian's outline and research, and now the nearly final draft is 135 dou- ii ble-spaced pages That third and last section has I the satisfying feature - to compulsives like me at ! least - of being about the same length as the first l J two sections that Julian had completed.

MEET OUR STUDEN�S

Becauseouralumnioftend n'tgettomeetourstudents, weincludeinthismagazineprofilesoftwoo{\Quroutstandingstudentsas wellasoneofthisyear'sgr duates. Theseindividualshavebeenfeaturedin recentrecruitmentmateri�l�istributedtoapplicantsto theLawSchool, and ethinkouralumnimagazinereaderswillenjoythetremendousbreadthofintereststhey represent.

Jeff Lifur '98

JffUfui one of 15 of UCIA Law's / '\. ...._ 192.&graduateswhowillpracticelawin "'-, NewYork, most ofthem in the field of Bachelor's degree in political science, Stanford University

Master's degree, University of Belgrano, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Editor in chief, UCLA Journal ofInternational Law & Foreign Affairs ('96-'97)

Will work in international business transactions at Chadbourne & Parke, New York, New York

Grew up in Reno, Nevada

'-,international law. Lifur's interest in, internationallawgrewoutofaninterest inLatinAmericanculturehedeveloped during his undergraduate years after taking on a political-science research projectinSantiago, Chile. "Ifellinlove with the Latin-American culture. I just couldn't learn enough about it, and I kept going back," says Lifur, who returned to Chile later to complete an honorsthesis: "TheRoleoftheRightin Chile'sTransitiontoDemocracy."

Insummer 1993 -ayearafterhegraduated fromStanfordwithhonors-Lifur setoutonanother adventure, traveling to Quito,Ecuador, toteach Englishtonative students at the Benedict Institute of Foreign Languages. The following year, Lifur obtained a Rotary Scholarship to the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina,whereheworkedtowardhismaster'sdegreeininternationalpoliticaleconomy.Aninterestininternationalpoliticssoonevolvedintoaninterestin internationallaw. LifurchoseUCLASchoolofLawbecauseofitsinternationalreputationandthe opportunitiesforstudyinginternationallaw. Lifurinitiallythoughthewantedtowork in the publicsector -perhaps for theU.S.StateDepartment Afterstudyinginternational business transactions at UCLA Law, however,he becameinterested in that field and obtained a summer associate job at the well-respected international law firm of Chadbourne&ParkeinNewYorkinsummer 1997.Hewillreturntherethisfalland engagein international businesstransactions,primarilyinArgentinaand Brazil.

In law practice, Lifur will work with clients in the United States and in Latin Americancountries, helpingthemthroughthetransactionsnecessaryto setup business,suchassecuringinfrastructure, permitsandfinancing. Lifursayshefeelsthathe willhaveahandincreatinganincreasinglyglobal economy, andhewillplayapartin helpingemergingdemocraciesgrow. 'Thisishowdemocracycantranslateintobetter livesforpeople," hesays.

While at UCLA, Lifur took advantage of many opportunities that helped him to explore and prepare for his career. He was the second editor-in-chief of the UCLA

JournalofInternationalLaw&ForeignAffairs, aninterdisciplinaryjournaldevelopedby law students. The journal has become one in which scholars throughout the world seek tobepublished. Lifurtried his handat several public interest projects duringhis first year of law school, including El Centro Legal, a student legal clinic for landlordtenant law; the Sunday Legal Clinic, a clinic started by UCLA Professor Michael Asimow in which students, faculty and attorneys from the community help inner-city residents in family, contract and landlord tenant law; and the UCLA Environmental Law Clinic. The summer after his first year, Lifur worked full-time at the clinic with other students under the direction of a clinical faculty member, researching, writing briefs, drafting memos and conducting client interviews in litigation involving air, water and environmental justice issues throughout Los Angeles. Lifur also took a courseinPortugueseatUCLAafterhelearnedhewouldbedoingbusinesswithBrazil in his first job out of law school.

Lifurspeakshighlyofallthefaculty, andhasenjoyedtakingclassesfrommanywho have helped hone his interest in international corporate law. He praises Professor Eric Zolt and Professor Stephen Bainbridge, who joined the faculty last year after serving asavisitingprofessor. Lifur notesthatProfessor Zolt, fromwhomLifurtook aclassin Taxation of International Transactions, utilizes a unique teaching style in which he occasionallystopsasentencepart-waythroughandexpectsastudenttofinishit. "You are constantly thinking in his class because you never know when he's going to stop, andwhereyouaregoingtohavetofillintherestofthesentence. Itisanintenselearning experience, and it works well," Lifur says.

Of Professor Bainbridge, from whom Lifur took Business Associations and Securities Regulations, he says: "Professor Bainbridge is an amazing lecturer. He approaches an issue from several directions, and by the end of class, he has tied it all togetherandmadeitclear." Intheinternationallawarea,Lifurhashighpraiseforprofessors Phil Trimble and Richard Steinberg. Lifur helped Professor Trimble research a book. He praises Professor Steinberg - from whom he took classes in International TradeLawandInternationalBusinessTransactions-notonlyforhiscommandofthe international law field, but also for his personal rapport with students. "Professor Steinberg (who joinedthefaculty in 1996) isa greataddition to the International Law faculty," Lifur says.

He says he also has been pleased with the job opportunities he sees open to him. "I worried about that when I was choosing a law school," says the Reno, Nevada, native. "ButUCLAhasaninternationalreputation.You reallycangetajobanywhere."

UCLA hasan international reputation. Youreally cangetajob anywhere.

Professor (Stephen) Bainbridge is an amazinglecturer. He approachesan issuefromseveral directions, andby theendofclass, hehastiedit alltogether and madeitclear.

Jeff Lifur'98

Laura Reider '99

Editor in chief, UCLA LawReview, Volume 46

Master's degree in philosophy from UC San Diego

Summerassociate, 1997, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Teaching assistant to Associate Dean Stephen Yeazell, fall 1997 and research assistant in spring 1998

Summer associate, 1998, Munger, Tolles & Olson, and Gibson, Dunn

DBv SHET!A CASEY, UCLA LAw STAFF WRITER

auy{Reider's ongmal plan was to be a philosophy professor, but four years inJ.Q.lhe-d'octorateprogram,theUC SanDiegostudentrealizedthatherhusband'slaw books held more appeal than her philosophy texts. Her husband, ScottAbrahamson, had begun his course work at UCLA School of Law only a few weeks earlier. "Even though being a first-year law student seemed grueling, I was intrigued," Reider said. By the next fall, she became a member of the Law School's class of 1999.

Reider's interest in the law can be traced back to her graduate student experience of working as a teaching assistant in an undergraduate Philosophy of Law course. "I sawinthelawmanyofthethingsthatIloveaboutphilosophy-theanalyticalthinking,theargumentation,thebroadpolicyconcerns, exceptit'snotsoabstractandtheoretical," Reider said. "In law, unlike philosophy, your thinking and reasoning will haveaconcreteeffectonsomeone-theplaintiffandthedefendantattheveryleast."

Reider'sgraduateworkspecializedinneurophilosophy, whichexploreshowrecent discoveriesinthe fieldofneurosciencespeakto philosophical theoriesofresponsibility In particular, she researched how a brain experiencing damage in its emotional center suffers an impaired capacity for rational decision-making. "Emotions play an integralroleindecision-making,"Reiderexplained."Astrokethatdamagesthebrain's emotionalcenterscancompletelyunravelaperson'slife.Evenifthepersonregainsthe useofherarms,legs,speechandsoforth,theliteratureisfullofstoriesofpeoplewho could no longer relate to their families and friends and otherwise function normally in society."

Reider has abandoned her plans to teach philosophy, but she still plans to pursue anacademiccareer-onlynowasalawprofessor.Sheworkedasateachingassistant toProfessor andAssociateDean StephenYeazellinfall 1997, andthenashisresearch assistant, updating his Civil Procedure casebook supplement, in spring 1998. "I learnedatremendousamount fromthework, andProfessorYeazellbecame my trusted mentor," said Reider.

Despite hergoaltoteachlaw, Reider recognizes thatherlawdegreeopensupother careerpossibilities. Afterherfirstyearoflawschool,Reiderworkedasasummerassociate at the Los Angeles-based law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. In summer 1998,shesplithertime,workingforthefirsthalfatMunger,Tolles& Olsonandthen returning to Gibson, Dunn for the secondhalf. "When I came to law school, I wantedonlytobeaprofessor,"shesaid. "IwassurprisedtofindthatIreallyenjoyedworkingin a large firm. Now my options have doubled."

Reider said that she relies heavily on family support in coping with the stresses of law school. In part, she credits hersevenniecesand nephewswithbeinga steadying influence. "AssoonasI'mdonewithanexam,Iliketogospendtimewiththem,"she said. 'Theyhelpmekeepmyperspective.Howeverwellorbadlytheexamwent,Ilike to remind myself what really matters is family"

A\

BySHEllA CAsEY, UCLA !AwSTAFF WRtm

ndre Qumtero has always had a pass10n for public office, yet his attempts .torunfc�.rsttidentgovernmentinhishighschoolwereunsuccessful "I wasnerdyand u;pop�lar," says Quintero. "When I stood up to give my speech, I was booed."

Although unrecognized by his classmates, Quintero's teachers nominated him for Boys State, a prestigious one-week appointment to learn about government at the statecapitolthat isbestowedupon only one boy from eachhighschoolnationwide. He was thenoneofonly two boys fromCaliforniachosento goontoBoys Nationin Washington, D.C.

When it came time to apply to colleges, Quintero had little family guidance. "Although my parents gave meloads of support and encouragement to go on to college, as immigrants from Colombia who have not been there themselves, they knew nothing about the process," says Quintero.

Quintero's high school honors program tookhim on a bus tour to University of Redlands and UC Riverside. Despite a 4.0 grade point average and his experience at both BoysState and Boys Nation, Quintero applied to only those schools, as well as a small religious college.

He choseUC Riverside, where his interestin leadership came to fruitionas he was electedpresidentofboththeAssociatedStudentsofUC RiversideandtheUCStudent Association. In the latter capacity, he testified before the California Senate Higher Education Budget Subcommittee against raising student fees. "That was the first year in ten that the Legislature voted to stop the student fee increase," he says proudly

Although only 22, Quintero already has his career goal firmly in mind: municipal law,preferably asadeputycityattorney "As acityattorney, I woulddealinevery area of law - tort issues, contract disputes, land use, employment and environmental issues. It would never be dull."

To prepare himself for this career, Quintero is pursuing a joint degree in urban planning. "In urban planning, they like to say: 'Attorneys tell you what you can't do, urban planners tell you what you must do,"' he laughs.

At UCLA Law, Quintero especially enjoyed his class in administrative law with Professor Jody Freeman, who also teaches environmental law. "She has such a clear understanding ofthe material that as she dissects it, lightbulbsgo on," says Quintero.

Despite the pressures of law school, Quintero hasn't been able to keep himself out of politics. During his second year at UCLA Law, he served as special project coordinator for Grace Napolitano for Congress.She won theJune 1998 primary "There are so many important issues being decided right now, I just have to be a part of it," says Quintero.

During the '98-'99 school year, Quintero will serve as a Senate associate in Sacramento, Calif, working fulltime for either a senator or a committee and taking classes at Cal State Sacramento with his fellow associates. 'The associateship will enable me to make a meaningful contribution to the process of lawmaking," says Quintero. "It's a great opportunity"

Andre Quintero 2001

Student in four-year joint degree program in law and urban planning

President, Associated Students of UC Riverside, '95-'96

President, UC Student Association, '94-'95

UCLA Law first-year Class President, '96-'97

Special Project Coordinator for the primary race for Grace Napolitano for Congress, spring'98

Field RepresentativeforAssemblywoman Grace Napolitano in Santa Fe Springs office, summer 1998

Senate Associate, '98-'99 academic year

ON CAMPUS

A CO ( ULECTION OF EVENTS AND SPEAKERS AT UCL \

Lawgradssworn in toBar I

(Above) Graduates Ingrid Myers and Marjorie Fisher, in the foreground, are among 124 UCLA Law graduates sworn into the Bar in December 1997, an annual UCLA School of Law event held at Schoenberg Hall. The event is sponsored by the UCLA Law Alumni Association.

Judge Pamela Rymer (far right) of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit admits applicants to the federal appeals court.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Emily Stevens '75, (right) of the Juvenile Division, admits UCLA Law grads to the State Bar of California.

Associate Dean Stephen Yeazell and Professors David Sklansky and Cruz Reynoso (above right) look on.

Photos by Todd Cheney, ASUCLA photo.

(Right) In January, Law School donors were treated to a special evening with Professor Ken Graham, who spoke on "Evidence Without Rules: Journalism, History, Science - and Law?" The talk examined the various levels of "proof" required by the different professions, the subject of Professor Graham's forthcoming book.

(Above) Colombian Ambassador to the United States Juan Carlos Esguerra speaks to students in March as part of the International Law Speakers Series. He addressed the problems of the global drug trade and United States policy toward Colombia and Latin America.

(Left) Grace Yeh '87, counsel for Exxon Inc. in China, speaks on "Exhuming Jurassic Remains from the Middle Kingdom: Practicing Oil and Gas Law in China," in February as part of the Law School's ongoing International Law Speakers Series. Yeh has since taken a job at Exxon's Houston, Texas office.

(Below) Kenneth Ziffren '65, partner with Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca & Fischer, makes a point to John Agoglia, former president of NBC Enterprises, at the 22nd Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium in January. The topic for this year's symposium was "The Full Monty: Exposing the Hollywood Money Trail." Ziffren is a lecturer at UCLA Law.

(Right) White House Fellows Francis James '90 and Jeff Prieto '95 chat with Dean Susan Prager. White House Fellows met with Prager and Professors Jerry L6pez, Rick Sander and David Sklansky as part of an educational trip they took to Los Angeles in March. Later that month, the Fellows met with President Clinton and discussed issues such as federal sentencing guidelines and Los Angeles social problems that were raised by UCLA Law faculty.

(Left) James Rogan '83, U.S. Representative for the 27th Congressional District (Pasadena area). speaks to students in February about how he got into politics and discusses his views on effective lobbying as part of the Dean's Speakers Series.

(Below) The UCLA Law Review won the book prize from the CPR (Center for the Public Resources) Institute for Dispute Resolution, along with a check for $4,000. Pictured are James F. Henry, president of CPR, Robert Robinson of Cigna, sponsor of the CPR Awards Program, and UCLA Law Professor Carrie Menkel-Meadow, who accepted the award on behalf of the UCLA Law Review.

Law Schoolpresentsannual musical

(Right) Sue Persillious (Pegeen Rhyne, 3L) is elevated above her classmates during the Law Review anthem by Trff and A. Paul Ling (Sean Nguyen, 2L).

(Below) The entire cast of "I.RAC. by George" with its creator, Professor Ken Graham. Students, staff and faculty adapted Gershwin tunes in this year's event.

Commencement '98

TheLaw Schoolcelebrates its 47thcommencement

IN 47 YEARS OF UCLA LAW COMMENCEMENTS, 1998 MARKED THE FIRST YEAR THAT THE CLASS HAD MORE WOMEN THAN MEN, AS 140 OF THE 269 GRADUATES WERE WOMEN. CEREMONIES WERE MARKED BY STUDENT-PRODUCED MUSICAL NUMBERS, LAUGHTER, TEARS OF HAPPINESS AND CALLS FOR GRADUATES TO USE THEIR TOP-NOTCH TRAINING FOR THE HIGHEST PURPOSES POSSIBLE.

"You have been told the whole world is open to you. You have opportunities other blacks in history did not have."

"Have a sense of history. It will give you the feeling that you can go forward. You won't repeat it, but you won't let it drag you down. Your bar exam is just another hurdle ... You are going to be great lawyers."

- Joseph Duff '71 at BLSA pre-commencement ceremony

Commencement photos by Mary Ann Stuehrmann

(Top) Associate Dean Barbara Varat and graduates Darron Flagg and Robin Jacobson. Flagg sang at the conclusion of the ceremonies: "Cielo e Mar" from the opera, "La Gioconda." which speaks of destiny and the future. Jacobson opened the ceremony with the national anthem.

(Above) Jonathan Read sings "Tax Court Memo 1983-667; Jenkins v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue." Fellow grad Martin Goldberg joined him in the farcical, musical introduction of Professor Jerry Kang, who was the 1998 Professor of the Year.

(Left) Black Law Students Association (BLSA) members gather for a pre-graduation ceremony.

"Consider at thebeginningofyour career how to end it with meaning andsubstance."

- Constance Rice

"Deepdownyoudonotwanttouseyourtrainingtomanipulate the lawshamelessly. Deep downyoudonotwanttouseyourtrainingto bullyothersintellectually. Deepdownyoudonotwanttouseyour trainingtosprintupthestaircaseofmaterialism,whereyouknow thepriceofeverythingbutthevalueofnothing."

"Lifeisaseriesofinvisible transitions, andinitsferventpaceweso rarelyget thechance toreally relish themomentinspaceandtime. Lookaroundrightnow, smelltheail; listen to therustleofthewindinthetrees,feel thesun pourngdownonyouandfeel thewavesoflove andpridethatcomefromyourfamily,friends and teachers. Itisthisthatshows thelie that is cynicism."

-Professor of the Year Jerry Kang

"Thetests thatawaitusinthefuturehave nocommercialoutlinesorprep courses. They demandcharacte1; willandintegrity. They wil1 challengeourrelationships, accomplishments andconfidence. Theywillgauge, overtime, whetherwehavethepassion,perseverance andhumility thatittakes tobegood."

- Claudine Martinez, student commencement speaker

Professors Kirk Stark and Jody Freeman place the J.D. hood on Michael Chun.

Constance Rice, Western Regional Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and keynote speaker, is introduced by thirdyear class president Sarah Dusseault.

Jerry Kang

(left) Professor Jerry L6pez with Claudine Martinez after she receives her La Raza stole at La Raza ceremonies the day before commencement. Martinez was the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony, as well.

The Nimmer Lecture

Senator OrrinHatch delivers annual lecture

BY KAREN NIKOS UCLA LAw EDITOR

A(lawmaker who has been responsible for much writing of and d�cussion on copyright legislation during his long political career, Senator Orrin G. Hatch told a tJCtA: aw audience this spring that he has witnessed copyright law's movement from courtrooms and board rooms to living rooms and classrooms.

Copyright and antitrust law, he explained during the 12th annual Nimmer lecture, was until recently the concern of business people and lawyers. "So it's no surprise that copyright law developed into an arcane mixture of commercial law, statutory law and decisional law," he said, adding that this made the law too complicated for its usage today Digital technology, videocassette recorders and the Internet make copyright an individual's responsibility "This is a new factor in legislating copyright."

Hatch, the first legislator to deliver the Nimmer lecture, gave his views from the legislative standpoint, likening "copyright land" to the land of Oz. In a speech given at the Law School, the 21-year veteran legislator from Utah wove together historical perspective, his own profession as a songwriter, and humor with occasional jabs at well-known nemesis, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.

In introducing Hatch, Dean Susan Westerberg Prager praised Hatch's lawmaking. "Senator Orrin Hatch is clearly an elected official who cares greatly about the legislators' role of actually developing legislation, and one who has a considerable record in shaping the law through the crafting of legislative solutions in multiple fields."

A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, Hatch, among other legislative duties, has long served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where he has had a hand in the confirmation of numerous judges and Supreme Court justices. He also has been highly involved in constitutional issues such as civil rights, immigration, antitrust and consumer protection.

Speaking to an audience of more than 100 that included alumni, students, faculty, staff, members of the

Itisnaturalthat UCLAshouldhave alecturedevotedto copyrightlaw, located asyouareinthe center ofthemotion pictureindustry.

United StatesSenatorOrrin Hatch 12thAnnual NimmerLecture

L_�community and the Nimmer family and their friends, Hatch praised the work of the lecture's namesake, Mel Nimmer. 'The treatise begun by Mel Nimmer and continued by his son, David, has made Nimmer the last word in copyright," the senator said.

Hatch said that early copyright law did not anticipate the digital age. "The words 'computer program' were not even included in the 1976 Copyright Act." The act, which was an update of centuries-old law, has itself become obsolete, he added. "The whole structure of copyright law is facing the challenge of the ability of the average American to engage in copyright infringement, albeit usually unwittingly," he said.

He said the evolution of copyright and antitrust law will require much more contemplation about the law, and will challenge legislators and the judiciary to grapple with balancing creativity, individuals' rights and proprietors' rights.

"I bring [this up) to show how legislating copyright in the digital age is so much more complicated very, very complicated. In fact, sometimes it can be frightening," Hatch concluded. "But we cannot click our ruby slippers and be transported into a simpler and more comfortable age. There's no going back. We are in copyright land to stay."

THE NIMMER LECTURE IS NAMED FOR MEL NIMMER, A DISTINGUISHED TEACHER, LAWYER AND SCHOLAR WHO TAUGHT AT UCLA FROM 1962 UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1985.

Thetreatisebegun byMelNimmer and continuedbyhis son, David, hasmade Nimmer thelast wordincopyright.

SenatorOrrinHatch

The Irving Green Lecture

RoxanneBarton ConlinpresentsIrving Greenlecture

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The Ir�g

H. Green Memorial Leet� named for a much-honored triallawyerwhowasatirelessadvocate fortheunderdoginahostofcasesin courtsacrossthecountry Throughhis trials, Irving Green had a significant impact on changing the law. After his death in 1990, his widow, Fay Bettye GreenMarcus,andhisson,UCLAmathematicsprofessorMarkGreen,choseto honorhimbycreatingthisprogram.The seriesbringsoutstandingtriallawyersto UCLAtoinspirelawstudentsandtoinitiatediscussionabouttheoftenunpopularimageofthelawyer.RoxanneConlin isthefourthspeakerintheseries.

FayBettyeGreenMarcushassaidof

herlatehusband: "Irvingwasneverafraidofalegalchallenge.Hewouldtrycases consideredbyotherlawyerstobe'un-winnable,'andhe'dwinthemandthereby changethelaw."

Studentoperaraisesmoneyfor PILF

Darron Flagg (below), a third-year law student and professional opera singer, transforms the law school's Room 1347 into a musical theater at a concert held in the law school in April to benefit Public Interest Law Foundation summer grants. Joel German (right) plays the cello in "Cello Sonata in G Minor, Opus 5, No. 2." More than 100 members of the law school community attended the concert.

Tractorsnowhaverollbars, constructionequipmentbeeps whenitbacksupandweno longeruseasbestos toinsulate buildings-why?Because oftriallawyers.

Roxanne Barton Conlin 1998 Irving Green Lecturer

Irving Green lecturer Roxanne BartonConlin, the firstwoman elected president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. regales students and faculty with tales from her long career as a plaintiff's trial attorney. Conlin, a former U.S. Attorney in Iowa's Southern District, focuses on litigation in personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability and business law.

The Rutter Award

Professor DavidDolinko '80 ishonoredwithteachingaward

E�avidDolinkooncewasso

unenam0red with teaching that he decidedfightingawarmightbeeasier.

Itwas 1969,Dolinkoexplained, and hehadjustgraduated fromcollege a status that could make him eligible for the draft. He decided to try teaching, hoping for an exemption. But a short stintathisformerhighschoolmadehim think differently. "After a whole week and a half . I decided to take my chances," he quipped. He never was drafted, thankfully, and he went on to obtain a graduate education. Dolinko againtriedtoentertheclassroom,firstat the undergraduate level and later at

UCLALawSchool.Thoseearlyyearsweremarkedwithdoubtsabouthisprofession, Dolinkotoldanaudienceoffaculty,studentsandstaffattheannualceremonyforthe RutterAwardforExcellenceinTeaching.

Sixteen years after beginning teaching at UCLALaw, as he accepted his award, ProfessorDolinkoremarkedthathenevercouldhavepredictedhewouldbelauded forhisteaching. "Mycolleagueswereverysupportive,"hecontinued."Theytoldme nottothrowchalkatthestudentsandnottostormoutofclass.Thatwashelpful,"he saidtoalaughingaudience. "Ilearnedtobehaveinclass."

Knownforhisnovelapproachtoteachingthatcleverlymixeshisphilosophyand lawbackgroundwithanincomparablesenseofhumor,ProfessorDolinkobecamethe 20threcipientoftheawardatUCLALawandthefirstalumtobegiventheaward.

BillRuttercreatedteachingawardsatUCLAandotherCalifornialawschoolsafter hisownlawteachingexperienceshowedhimhowdifficultthetaskwas. Healsocreated,amongotherthings,theGilbertOutlines,astudyguideforlawstudents.

InpresentingDolinkotheaward,Ruttersaid,"Itgivesmegreatsatisfactiontosee law teachers honored." The award focuses on an individual's teaching, rather than publicserviceorscholarship.

Dolinko, who began teaching at UCLA Law in 1982, regularly teaches Criminal LawandConstitutionalCriminalProcedure.Healsooccasionallyteachesseminarson topicsinthephilosophyoflaw,suchasthestatusofmoralrights,problemsoflegal ethics,andthemoralityofcapitalpunishment.Heisascholaronissuesrelatedtothe deathpenalty,thephilosophyofpunishmentandtheprivilegeagainstself-incrimination. Born in New York, he has a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and receivedhisdoctorate fromUCLA.Editorinchiefofthe UCLA Law Review whilein lawschool,hemarriedhislawschoolclassmate, Feris Greenberger,whowasacommenteditoroftheLawReview.

PreviousRutterAward Winners

Stephen Yeazell

DavidBinder

GeraldLopez

JesseDukeminier

LeonLetwin

William Warren

MichaelAsimow

Murray Schwartz

Gary Schwartz

JulianEule

GraceBlumberg

Jonathan Varat

KristineKnaplund

CarrieMenkel-Meadow

JohnBauman

KennethKarst

StevenDerian

AlisonAnderson

EricZolt

Past and present Rutter Award recipients join Bill Rutter (second from left, back row) at the 1998 ceremony. Among those present were, from left to right, Jonathan Varat, Kenneth Karst, David Dolinko, Bill Warren, Alison Anderson, Steven Derian, Eric Zolt, Gary Schwartz and Michael Asimow.

Professor David Dolinko accepts his Rutter Award.

Law School awards annual Public InterestAwards

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celebratedthe ninth AnnualE lieInterestAwardsceremonyinMayInadditiontorecognizingthe manystudentsandfacultywhoearned "Give35"publicinterestserviceawards forperforming35ormorehoursofpro bona workduringtheyear,theceremonyhonoredtherecipientsofseveralspecialpublicinterestserviceawards.

ElizabethOsthimer'82receivedthe Antonia Hernandez Public Interest Awardforalumniforheradvocacyon behalfoflow-incomeclients.Asasenior attorneywiththeSanFernandoValley Neighborhood Legal Services in Los Angeles,sheworkstoexpandaccessto healthcareforuninsuredadults.Sheisa memberoftheLosAngelesCountyBar Association Bioethics Committee,

HealthAccessSubcommitteeandserves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness.

Julia Figueira-McDonough '98 received the Nancy Mintie Award for a third-year law student. Prior to law school, Figueira-McDonough worked with homeless families in Portland, Oregonasasocialworker.Afterherfirst yearoflawschool,shespentthesummer working for the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE). She then joined withfellowstudentJuliaSuandalumnusSamSantanaofMALDEFtocreate workplacerightsworkshopsforSpanish speakers. She was an extern at the FederalPublicDefender5officeandwas

awardedaSkaddenFellowshiptowork withtheCoalitionforImmigrantRights inLosAngeles.

. While at UCLA Law, FigueiraMcDonoughhasbeenactiveintheEl Centro Legal Landlord/Tenant Clinic, the National Lawyers Guild, and the WomensLawJournal.

Claudia Ramirez '99, who received theJosephHairstonDuffaward,interned foroneyearatCARECEN (theCentral American Resource Center) where she providedlegalservicestoundocumented batteredwomenandchildren.Whileat UCLA,sheorganizedatrainingsession andcliniconimmigrantasylumissues. Thesuccessofthatclinicpromptedthe BatteredImmigrantWomen'sProjectof theLegalAidFoundationofLosAngeles

Elizabeth Osthimer, Joseph Duff, Claudia Ramirez, Julia Figueira-McDonough (standing) and Antonia Hernandez (seated).

to join with CARECEN in sponsoring another clinic the following semester. Ramirez is also active in the Immigration Law Society, La Raza and the Chicano/Latino LawReview.

Professor William Warren, in presenting the Fredric P Sutherland Public Interest Award to Professor Evan Caminker, said: "Heworkedtirelesslyon the campaign to defeat Proposition 209. I saw with my own eyes the effort he made. His office is right across the hall from mine." Caminker, who has taught at UCLA Law since 1991, served as cocounsel in the suit that challenged the Prop. 209 initiative as it progressed to a hearing before a panel of the U.S. Court ofAppeals, Ninth Circuit, wherethe initiativewas upheld.

(Left) Claudia Ramirez '99 receives the Joseph Hairston Duff award from Duff '71.

(Below) Professor William Warren (left) presents the Fredric P. Sutherland Public Interest Award to Professor Evan Caminker (right). who has been teaching at UCLA Law since 1991.

Photos by Mary Ann Stuehrmann

Alumni Awards

Alumnilaudedfor contributions to community

Ican'ttellyouhowgrateful Iamtomylawschool forgivingmethetoolsfor thisgreatworkofjustice andmercy.

- Nancy J. Mintie

Isleptanddreamtthat lifewasjoy; Iawokeand realizedlifeisduty. Then Iwenttowork, andbehold, dutycanbejoy.

- Justice Janice Rogers Brown, quoting Rabin Dranath Tagore

AsaHolocaustsurvivor, mymother learnedtokeep alowprofile. Shealways toldme 'Alex, bemediocre. Standingupisawayto getyour headshotoff' Althoughher advicewas greatinmany areas, in thisinstanceIdemurred.

- Judge Alex Kozinski

Abo t 150 alumm gatheredin downtown Los Angeles m Marchto honor theAlumnwftheYear for 1996 and1997.

JusticeJanice Rogers Brown '77 of the California Supreme Court andJudge Alex Kozinski of theU.S. Court ofAppeals for theNinth Circuit received the Professional AchievementAwards.

Nancy Mintie '79, founder and head of the Inner City Law Center, and Joseph Hairston Duff '71, a partner in Shockley, Duff & Hart-Nibbrig, received PublidCommunityServiceAwards.

The awards were presented by Renee Campbell '80, President of the Alumni Association Board of Directors for '95-'96, andJohn Runkel,Jr. '81, President of the AlumniAssociation Board of Directors for '96-'97.

Joseph Hairston Duff '71, Nancy J. Mintie '79, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown '77 and Ninth C1rcu1t U S Court of Appeals

Judge Alex Koz1nsk1 '75 are the Alumni of the Year

Photo by MaryAnn Stuehrmann

Funds & Scholarships

HumanRightsFellowship to honormemory offormerstudent

Gene Chao was a UCLA Law student dedicated to human rights whose life ended shortly before he was to graduate. His close friend, FrancisJames '90, a White House Fellow in the U.S. Trade Representative's office who has worked steadfastly for human rights, has started a fund in Chao's honor. The Gene Chao Human Rights Fund would provide summer fellowships to students who spend their summers doing human rights work.

"I want to encourage UCLA Law student to pursue human rights work, which both Gene and I found very rewarding," said James, who founded Legal Aid of Cambodia in a project he undertook shortly after law school.

Chao was active in the organization now known as Human Rights Watch, Asia. He also taught law in China during one summer while in law school.

James has organized a fund drive among those who attended school with Chao, and UCLA Law is hopeful that a broader base of alumni support will enable the fund to be endowed in perpetuity The Law School plans to offer the first fellowship in 1999.

Contributions may be sent to the UCLA School of Law, Office of Alumni and Development, P.O. Box951476, LosAngeles, CA90095. Checkscanbemadepayabletothe UCLAFoundation/LawAcct. #3608.

AwardnamedforBeatrice "Trix" Gendel

A scholarship for a UCLA Law student who demonstrates academic achievement and public service work has been named in honor of Beatrice "Trix" Gendel by the Law Guild of Beverly Hills. The Beatrice "Trix" Gendel Honor and Service Award of $500 will be given annually

The Law Guild of Beverly Hills, a volunteer organization that has been active with community service and education programs since 1967, named the award for Trix Gendel in honor of her 30th year of service to the Guild. Gendel, an active volunteer throughout her life, cofounded with the Law Guild the Stepping Stone House for troubled women, which was located in Santa Monica. She also has been active in lawrelated education projects and scholarship programs as well as various community service activities.

Gendel became active in the Guild when her husband, Martin, was an attorney in Los Angeles specializing in creditors' rights. Martin Gendel, a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley, headed the Los Angeles firm of Gendel, Raskoff, Shapiro and Quittner until 1991. Martin Gendel, who also served as ajudge pro tern in Beverly Hills, died in 1993.

"I am delighted to have this award dedicated in my honor," said Gendel.

The Law Guild of Beverly Hills has contributed other awards to UCLA School of Law. Their Eleanor Klein Merit Award is given to third-year women law students at UCLA and other Los Angeles law schools.

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1960s

JohnW. Crowley '66of Cyril & Crowley was one of four California lawyers recently electedfello ofthe American Bar Foundation. The fellows arean honorary organizationof attorneys,judges andlaw teachers whose professional, public andprivate careers , have demonstrated outstanding dedicationtothewelfare oftheir communities and to the highest principles of the legalprofession.

Daniel M. Caine '67hasjoinedthe Seattleoffice ofHeller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe. Hewill continueto emphasizecreditors' rights and bankruptcy

BarryA. Fisher'68wasfeatured in the March9 edition ofCalifornia Law Businessfound intheLosAngeles DailyJournal and the San Francisco DailyJournalfor hisworkwith Russian government officialsto protect religious freedom. Hespecializes in human rights andconstitutional law at Fleishman, Fisher & Moest in Century City Inthearticle, Fisher talks about theinfluenceofformer UCLA Law Professor MonroePrice, whois nowat Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

MichaelAlan Levett'69ispresident ofCitizensDemocracyCorps, an organizationthathelpstobuild openmarket economies, quality enterprises anddemocraticinstitutions in Central and Eastern Europe. Levettwrotetous after seeingthefeatureinthe fall/winter

CLASSNOTES

California State Senator Ken Maddy '63 received the public service award from the 70,000-member UCLA AlumniAssociationthisspring. KennethMaddywasfirstelectedas the state assemblyman for the San JoaquinValleyin 1970, apostheheld until 1978. He won his first State Senate seat in a special election in 1979, andwas re-elected tothatposition four times.

Before holding elective office, Maddy served as chairman of the Fresno Urban Coalition, andvicepresidentofthe Fresno Philharmonic. Hehas also served on the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission, the Fresno Unified School DistrictAdvisoryCommitteeonSchool Construction, and the City ParkingAuthority

The senior Republican member of the State Senate, Maddy served as its Republican leader for eightyears. He distinguished himselfby formulating a strong code of ethics for state legislators and supporting the Transportation Improvement Initiative to update the state's transportation system. His commitment to resolving California's annual budget crises brought non-partisan praise as well as editorial recognition. He has also been recognized on the national level, receiving the 1992 Lee Atwater Memorial Minority Leader of theYearAward fromthe National Republican LegislatorsAssociation.

In 1985, MaddywashonoredasAlumnusoftheYearbytheUCLASchool ofLaw.

magazine about 1997-98 WhiteHouse FellowsJeffPrieto '95 and Francis James '90. Levettservedas aWhite HouseFellow from 1969 to 1970. He writes, "TheWhite House Fellowship was a wonderful, powerful, life-shaping experience, and I'd love tosee people fromthelaw school applyeach year."

1970s

CharlesJ. Moore '72, theprincipal land-use attorneyfor thecounty of Los Angeles, has become of counseltothe lawfirm ofCox, Castle & Nicholson LLP.

Kenneth Maddy'63ishonored by UCLAAlumniAssociation

UCLASchoolofLawwasthe most-representedschoolinthe LosAngelesBusinessJournal's February 9, 1998 special section onthe50 most-powerfulwomen inLosAngelesLaw. The 13 UCLA alumsfeaturedwere:

NancyAbell '79

LeslieAbramson '69

MelanieCook '78

MariaD. Hummer '76

MiriamKrinsky '84

DeborahP Koeffler '75

Nancy Mintie '79

U.S. DistrictJudge

MarianaR. Pfaelzer'57

HarrietS. Posner '84

KarenRandall '76

LoisScali '86

Linda]. Smith '77

DianaL. Walker '69

Thearticlewastitled "Who'sWhoinLaw: WomenofCounsel."

JamesDe Bose '74 was featured on the cover of California Lawyer's April 1997 issue for winning a civil suit in which a black man sued for wrongful termination and race discrimination. The trial, which was presided over by U.S. Districtjudge Lourdes Baird '76, resulted in $1.3 million in punitive damages being awarded to De Boses client, radio station salesman Earl W Jordan,Jr.

Michael C. Kellar '77 has left the law offices of Hillsinger & Costanzo and now hasjoined the firm of Lynberg & Watkins in downtown LosAngeles.

MarcyTiffany '77 has been named general counsel of Hughes Electronics Corp. She was U.S. Trustee for the Central District of California since 1991.

Rogelio R. Flores '79 was appointed Municipal CourtJudge by Governor PeteWilson.Judge Flores previously held the position of Municipal Court Commissioner.

1980s

Julie Heldman '81 and her husband Bernard Weiss were featured in the business section of the LosAngeles Times in February: Their eyeglass company, Signature Eyewear, is one of the fastest growing companies in a $15.4 billion industry:

Elizabeth Mann '82 hasjoined McDermott, Will & Emery in its Los Angeles office where she will be a partner in the litigation department focusing on securities and general business litigation. Prior tojoining McDermott, Will & Emery, Mann was a partner at Hennigan, Mercer &Bennettwhere she specialized in complex commercial litigation.

Tom Agoston '83, Manager of IBM's Olympic InternetContent, was part of the team that created the official web site for theWinter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

David D. Powell, Jr. '83 received the 1997 Richard Marden Davis Award from the Denver Bar Association. The award is presented annually by Davis, Graham &Stubbs, the Denver Bar Foundation and the Davis family to an attorney under 40 who exhibits leadership in civic and cultural affairs. It is named in memory of Richard Marden Davis, a former Denver Bar Association president and civic leader. Powell practices employment law and is a partner with the law firm of Holland & Hart LLP. He is also president of theSam Cary BarAssociationand past co-chair of the Colorado BarAssociations Labor Law ForumCommittee.

Angelo N. Ancheta '86, former UCLA School of Law lecturer and former executive director of theSan FranciscobasedAsian Law Caucus, has written a book: Race, Rights, andtheAsian AmericanExperience.

Gary N. Frischling '87 was appointed to Irell & Manella's executive committee, which functions much like a board of directors. He specializes in representing high technology companies in intellectual property matters, is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience in patent, copyright and trademark matters.

Gary D. Koch, M.D. '89, has been elected to partnership in Foley & Lardners Tampa, Florida, office and t_he firm's health law department. Koch, who practiced as a physician before studying law, primarily represents health-care providers.

1990s

ThomasA. Clayton '91 wasappointed city manager of LasVegas, New Mexico.

VictoriaE.King'91,formerLosAngeles Countydeputypublicdefenderanda formerassociateatthelawofficesof JohnnieCochran,openedherownlaw firminApril topracticecriminaland civillitigationinstateandfederalcourt.

LuzNagle, LLM '92a former Colombianjudge, hasaccepted a teachingposition in the international andcomparative law program at StetsonUniversityCollege of Law in St. Petersburg, Florida.

William B. Slate '92joinedtheNew Haven, Connecticut law office of Wiggin& Dana. Slateisapatentlawyer with an emphasis onthemechanical artsand was previously with Fish & Richardson.

Kristin HeavnerNied '96 hasjoined theAnn Arbor, Michigan office of thelaw firm of Miller,Canfield, Paddockand Stone, PLC. As an associate in thepubliclawdepartment, shewill beinvolved in localand national public financematters. She waswith theLos Angelesfirm ofMusick,Peeler and Garrett.

Andrea Sloan Pink '96 hasjoined Gibson, Dunn &Crutcher asan associateinits OrangeCounty office, where sheisamember ofthetechnology group. Shealso distinguished herselfby beingthe only studentwriter featured inthe '96-'97 FirstAmendment Law Handbook. It reprinteda comment shewrote for the UCLALawReview titled "CopyrightPost-Isoquantic Shift: Should Bulletin Board Services Be Liable?"

KellyRozmus '97 published "Peer Mediation Programs in Schools: Resolving Classroom Conflict but Raising Ethical Concerns7" in 26 JournalofLaw&Education 69 (1997).

Heiner Buenting,LLM '97,published "The New GermanMultimedia Law A Model for theUnited States," 14 ComputerLawyer17 (Sept. 1997).

Cristina Fernandez '97hasanarticle forthcoming inVol. 8, No. 2 of the MarquetteSportsLawJournal, onthe rightof publicity ontheinternet

MarcoAntonio Firebaugh '97 won theJune Democratic primary election for theCalifornia StateAssemblyinthe 50th District of LosAngeles. Firebaugh hasspentmuch ofhis professional life as a staffer to State Senator Richard Polanco (D-Los Angeles).

INMEMORIAM

JamesWilliam Baldwin, Sr. '52,a member of the firstgraduatingclassof UCLA School of Law, died on March 27 from congestiveheartfailure. His career in law spanned46 years. Baldwinis survived by his wife, Rosalind, hissister,Marie, as wellas fourchildrenand four grandchildren.

Kathleen Bowman '84 died in February after a year-long battle with ovariancancer. Bowman had three careers in a dozen years: as an attorney, an advocate for thehomeless, and most recently,as aradiohost on National Public Radioaffiliate station KUOW in Seattle.

Edward C. Kupe '65,M.D.

David Cameron'69

BonitaT. Rudd '83

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Three UCLALawalums were listed in TheLos AngelesBusinessJournal's March9, 1998seriesof articles: "LA's Up &Comers." Thearticles profiled 25 ofL.A.'s hottest executivesand entrepreneurs whothriveoutsidethe corporatestructure.

Thethree UCLALaw alums featured were U.S. DistrictJudge Audrey Collins'77; Jeffrey Freedman '93, Directorof BusinessAffairs, Motion Picture Group, Paramount Pictures; and UCLALawProfessor Eugene Volokh'92.

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