"Hemadeherpromise thatifsheeverdid becomeajudge, she wouldbeinaugurated inhisrobe."
FrederickR. Bennett'70
FOR JESSICA BENNETT, CLAS$ OF 2000, THE ADMISSI9N LETTER FROM USC LAW CAME FIRST. To CELEBRATE THE OCCASION, SHE WORE A USC CAP HOME FROM COLLEGE. "l TOLD HER IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO WELCOME CARDINAL AND GOLD INTO MY HOUSE," JOKES HER FATHER, FREDERICK R. BENNETT '70, WHO INSISTS THAT HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ALL RIGHT WITH WHATEVER LAW SCHOOLJESSICA CHOSE. BUT, THE FAMILY PEDIGREE WAS AT STAKE.
Dad is the son of the late Judge F. Ray Bennett. Judge Bennett, who died in January at age 88, earned his bachelor's degree from UCLA's old Vermont Avenue campus. He then graduated from Boalt Law School in 1935 only because - family members insist - UCLA did not have a law school yet. But the one-time state legislator who represented East Los Angeles helped to organize the first UCLA Law Alumni Association in 1949 and served as its inaugural president.
"This is the type thing that just brings tears to your eyes," says Frederick Bennett, Assistant County Counsel for Los Angeles and a Bruin to the core, bursting with pride over his family tradition. Theirs is the only three-generation legacy in the history of UCLA School of Law.
Frederick Bennett, who with his wife, Mary Bennett, attended UC Santa Barbara as an undergraduate, admits he thinks he was born to be a lawyer. So was his daughter,Jessica, he says, based on the arguments she raised and discussions in which she became ihvolved while growing up.Jessica, who did eventually get that acceptance letter from the family's own law school and did not have to keep the USC cap, wasn't always so sure about her career choice. But, grandpa helped her focus. One Thanksgtving during her junior year at UC Davis,Jessica remembers, he took her aside and shared a bottle of wine with her. Somewhere between the turhy and pumpkin pie, they decided she was going to law school and that he woµld pay for it.
ButJessica had feared she would not get into UCLA Law (her first choice, of course). Her grades were O.K., "but it wasn't going to be automatic," she explains. "It meant I really had to work hard to get that LSAT up. And, I did it."
She loves law school, and holding a degree in Spanish and international relations, had intended to go into international law. Her first summer, she worked in the Los Angeles City Attorney's special prosecution unit. "I loved it, and decided I wanted to practice criminal law," she says. This summer, she is working in the Riverside County District Attorney's office, gaining actual trial experience. Her sister and roommate,Jennifer, is a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy. (Their mother is a teacher.) "So I guess among us we could arrest them, prosecute them and handle their appeal," jokes Frederick Bennett, whose clients once included his father. In the scope of his employment, he represents the county's judiciary.
Law has brought the family together on more than one occasion. A few weeks into law school,Jessica panicked over a research assignment. She reached for the phone and dialed her father.
Clockwise from top: Jessica Bennett 2000 and father, Frederick Bennett '70, pose at the entrance to the School of Law - the site where Jessica's grandfather, the late Judge F Ray Bennett, participated in the law school's ground-breaking. Judge F. Ray Bennett, UCLA Law Alumni Association president, third from right, joins others in laying the cornerstone at the site of the new School of Law building on February 15, 1950. From leftare Dean L. Dale Coffman, Regent Edward A. Dickson, Professor Roscoe Pound, Bennett, A.M. Mull Jr. (president of the State Bar of California), and UCLA Provost ErnestCarrol Moore. Judge F. Ray Bennett.
"This was 10 o'clock on a Sunday night," remembers Jessica, slightly embarrassed at her plea for help. "I was thinking: 'I shouldn't be in law school,I'm no good at this,I don't understand.' " But dad met her at her apartment building and drove her to his office. The two pulled a near-all-nighter at the county library. "I gave her a little class in legal research," he adds.
In May, between classes and final exams,Jessica received on-the-job training when she served as her father's law clerk in a case before the California Supreme Court, NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV), Inc. et. al. v. Superior Court. The case involves whether news media have a right of access to civil proceedings. He says he was glad for Jessica's insight and sttategizing. He has been impressed with the sophistication of Jessica's studies, and those of her classmates. "The quality of law students is at a much higher level that it used to be. They are able to discuss issues and think like lawyers much sooner."
Frederick Bennett says his father would ha\'.e been very proud. "I think it was one of the proudest times of his life, seeing Jessica in law school," he says. "Because I never had any interest in serving on thejudiciary, I alwaysjoked to him that]essica was his only hope," he says of his father,a Los Angeles County judge until his death. "He made her promise that if she ever did become a judge, she would be inaugurated in his robe."
To celebrate Jessica's graduation from law school next year, the family had planned to open a posh law office together in downtown Los Angeles.It was to be called Bennett, Bennett and Bennett, of course. They could have added a fourth Bennett to the shingle, since Judge Bennett's brother, Elwyn Bennett, is a retired Los Angeles judge as well.
"It was my dad's dream," says Jessica. "We didn't really plan to take on any clients or anything. It was just going to be a celebration of our family tradition. We were going to do it for a few weeks.''
"I guess that is not to be," adds Fred Bennett, who plans to retire from the .�C@Wl.tY Counsel's Office next year. "But maybe the next generation ."
LiJmother, likeson/ Ihe�6uras attend law schooltogether
FOR THE GURAS, UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW HAS BEEN A SECOND HOME. THE RALPH AND SHIRLEY SHAPIRO COURTYARD THEIR BACK YARD. THE LAW SCHOOLS STUDENTS, FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATORS, THEIR FAMILY. JONATHAN GURA '99 SAW HIS MOTHER GRADUATE FROM LAW SCHOOL AS HE HAD JUST COMPLETED HIS FIRST YEAR - THE ONLY PARENT-CHILD ALUMNI COMBINATION KNOWN TO ATTEND THE LAW SCHOOL AT THE SAME TIME.
Having raised her two sons,Nancy Gura '97,an entrepreneur who has run several food and other retail franchise stores in the Los Angeles area for much of her life, decided a few years ago that the one regret she had was not getting a college education.She started at UCLA,receiving her English literature degree in 1992. "I loved school," says Gura,of Santa Monica,who was more involved in poJitical and social causes than in her schooling as a youth. She decided to get ari advanced degree,and figured law would supplement her business interests well.
She entered UCLA School of Law in 1994, and fell in love with legal education. She immediately felt a camaraderie with her younger counterparts. "They were veryinclusive. I never felt awkward, and I always felt that I belonged," she says of her experience in attending class and studying with students who were not much older than her own children.
"I felt really at home here, always," says Gura, who practices realestate lawin Los Angeles.She started bringing to class her two sons, Jonathan and Daniel, who both were obtaining their undergraduate education at the time. "They loved it. They felt at home here."
Her oldest, Jonathan, was attending UC Berkeley, majoring in economics. He began to think he wanted to join mom at law school. "I knew the student body here was made up of the type of people I wanted to be associated with," saysJon, who was accepted at many other top-rate law schools before deciding to come to UCLA. "I knew fromher experience this is where I wanted to go to law school."
Jon had made friends with his mother's friends, and soon began collecting his own pals. He flourished in the environment, quickly absorbing every experience and trying to take every course that interested him. He secured two prestigious summer associatejobs (Irell & Manella and Latham & Watkins), and he will hold a coveted yearlong clerkship in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles nextyear.Jon soon learned that he had UCLALaw andfamilyconnections in the legal community. "My mentor at Irell was in my mother's first-year section," he says.
He took advantage of the many corporate law course offerings, his area of interest. Before long, Jon's brother and college roommate, Daniel, caught the law bug too, and moved south to join his family. He began his first year at Pepperdine Law School during Jon's third year in 1998.
Apparently not satisfied that three out of four family members were or soon would be lawyers (Bob Gura - husband, father and non-lawyer, still runs the family businesses), Jon decided to expand the family tradition. He became engaged to Kate Peterson, another UCLA Law '99 graduate, the day before commencement ceremonies.
Nancy Gura says she is very proud of her sons' pursuit of higher education, regardless of the field. "I didn't want myfirst child blindly doing whatI had done. I hadbeen a little concerned aboutthat.Buthe didn't. I don't think either of them really went into it blindly. They love law."
"Astheirmother,I cansayI thinklawisanexcellent educationforlifeandthat itwill increase theirknowledgeoftheworld. I like the factthattheywillbearmed with that education."
• Editor's note: As we prepare for the Law School's 50th anniversary, we want to collect stories of other multi-generational alumni. Please let us know about your UCLA Law family histories.
Nancy Gura '97 and her son, Jo[@than Gura '99
FORMER DEAN SUSAN PRAGER
BECOMES DARTMOUTH PROVOST
Thelawschoolhelda receptioninhonoroffarmer DeanSusanPragerafter shewas namedProvost ofDartmouthCollege lastfall. Aplaque commemoratingher contributions to the law schoolwasdedicatedin thenewHughandHazel DarlingLawLibrary
Former deans Murray L. Schwartz (1969-1975), Susan Westerberg Prager (1982-1998) and William D. Warren (1975-1982) join current Dean Jonathan Varat, center, at reception honoring Prager in March.
Susan;\
est«b«g Prng« '71 , who smed the bw school as dean from 1982 throu 998, was named Dartmouth College Provost last fall, an appointment that became effective in February.
As Provost, she is Dartmouth's chief academic officer and has direct responsibility for libraries , computing and other academic support programs that transcend the work of a single faculty.
In a memo written to the law school community on the day of her appointment , UCLA School of Law Dean Jonathan D. Varat said : "Susan's special colleagueship, friendship and leadership here at UCLA will be sorely missed I know, however, that she is excited, as we are for her, to be able to share her many valuable talents with another great institution of higher learning, and its faculty, students and alumni ."
In appointing Prager to the post , President Jim Wright of Dartmouth College praised many of Prager 's accomplishments at UCLA Law, including her oversight of important building projects ; her enhancement of academic programs for faculty and students ; her strong , visible advocacy for diversity in higher education ; her prominent effective leadership in legal education nationally; and her longtime work as a Trustee of Stanford University.
Wright said: "As a legal scholar, dedicated teacher and bold academic leader, Susan Westerberg Prager brings to Dartmouth the right combination of experience and commitment. She will have an opportunity to put her vision and leadership skills to work at an important time in the life of this institution ."
Dartmouth is a member of the Ivy League and is the ninth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States. With a focus on undergraduate liberal arts studies complemented by 16 graduate programs in the arts and sciences and three of the oldest professional schools in the country (a medical school , engineering school and business administration school), Dartmouth enrolls about 4,300 undergraduates and 1 ,200 graduate students .
Prager stepped down after 16 years as dean of the law school in summer 1998 (See the fall/winter 1998 and the spring/summer 1998 issues of UCLA Law, the alumni magazine.)
Prager said : "While I'm happily deep in new challenges here at Dartmouth, I like the idea that there is still only one law school in my life. "
"I like the idea that there is still only one law school in my life."
Susan Westerberg Prager
SCHULMAN '78 FINDS FULFILLMENT LEADING
CITy's AIDS/HIV DISCRIMINATION UNIT
BY CAROL BIDWELL, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
EDav·d L Schulman '78, the law nem has been about choosing the tight Latin plrrases and putting the most clever spin on a brief. It has always been about people
"As I worked on these cases, I kept thinking about the internment of Japanese people in America during World War II. Then, the law was us ed to legitimiz e the scap egoating of peopl e who had don e nothing wrong. I didn 't want the sam e th ing to happ en with AIDS cas es."
David Schulman '78
This is why he's proud to have been named the first municipal AIDS discrimination attorney in the United States, fighting for those too weak or too unaware of their rights to fight their own battles , advising Los Angeles City workers on antidiscrimination policies, and even offering advice on the subject of AIDS and justice to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Schulman, 4 7, of Los Angeles, is supervising attorney of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office AIDS/HIV Discrimination Unit , which in 1986 was the first such unit ever to be formed by a public agency.
"I really went to law school concerned about law and social change," Schulman said "This is a chance to do what I've alw ays wanted to do. "
Prosecuting cases involving drunken d rivers and domesti c abuse in th e City Attorney's Offic e, Schulman nev er had been personally touched by AIDS. But once he was named to head the special unit (almost immediately after the city passed the nation's first AIDS antidiscrimination ordinance), a close undergraduate friend of his from Stanford Universi ty died of AIDS So did a hig h s chool fri end of his brother's .
His n ew job sudde nly had a face b ehind it. In his new role , h e not only enforced the city's new law, but acted as an educator. If, for example, a landlord knew what the law was and how AIDS could and could not be transmitted , the landlord was u sua lly i;nore und er standing , and that ben efited a prospective tenant with AIDS.
"It was crea ting a safe sp ace so people didn't h ave to have the ir fears drive the p ro c ess ," said Schulman , who is marri ed to J ewish femini s t writer Rachel Adler, a professor a t Hebrew Union College
"As I worked on these cases, I kept thinking about the internm ent of Japanese peopl e in America during World War II. Then, the law was used to l egitimize the scapegoating of p eople who h ad done nothing wron g I didn't want the same thing to h appen with AIDS cases."
H e h o p es his a micus bri ef, fil ed with th e U .S. Supreme Court in Bragdon v. Abbott out of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, help e d th e co urt set asid e fear an d unc ertainty and decide the ca se on th e bas is o f l aw and huma nity Last Jun e , the court ruled 5-4 in fa vor of an HIV-infecte d woman w h ose d entist refused to trea t h er - unl ess h e worked on h er t eeth in a hospit al in a compl etely sterile e nvironme nt , and unless s h e paid th e additional cos ts that would en t ail. The case was reman d ed to the appeals court.
In his brief, he told the court that too often, people's fright in the face of a potential epidemic overrules their good sense - and the law. To combat that, he wrote , standards for medical care must be set "that express a practical , able-to-be-lived version of how to behave when we are frightened Our research suggests this is an unprecedented role for law."
Last October, for his efforts on behalf of AlDS/HIV-infected residents of the city, Being Alive, an organization of people living with AIDS and HIV, presented Schulman with a Spirit of Hope award.
It's an honor he treasures - and for which he largely credits his UCLA training , specifically Professor Kenneth Karst, whose strong constitutional teachings and value for justice rubbed off.
Over the years, Schulman's role as an AIDS legal advocate has changed as more people live longer with the disease - and since public education programs have allayed people 's fears somewhat. After years of being an enforcer, he's become an advisor, a role he relishes because it shows him times have changed
"I've kept a journal, and the very first thing I wrote about this work was that I felt I was trying to empty the ocean with a spoon," Schulman said. " I don ' t feel like that anymore. When I first started, I wanted to fix everything in one grand, sweeping gesture because there's still a 15-year-old inside me that wants to make it all better. But I've learned that you can't, that you have to live with tragedy and inadequacy. And that it gets better, a little at a time, if you work at it. "
David Schulman, with Los Angeles City Hall in background, enforces the city's AIDS/HIV anti-discriminat io n la ws.
BY KAREN NIKOS EDITOR, UCLA LAW
FACULTY
PROFESSOR KENNETH
KLEE IS UCLA LAW' NATIONAL VOICE ON BANKRUPTCY
"From his perch at UCLA Law School, he vigorously pursues scholarship , teaching, law refarm and professional service, all with unfathomable energy. In 25 years, nothing significant has happened in the world of bankruptcy scholarship, law refarm, or practice without Ken making an important, and not infrequently, decisive contribution."
UCLA Law Professor Daniel Bussel
law. Until a few years ago, neither bankruptcy nor Klee got much notice, even in the legal community. Steven Bochco didn't write television shows about bankruptcy, and few beginning law students professed it as their dream practice area.
But what once seemed arcane and even stigmatized is popping up on the nation's radar screen in the wake of concern about rising personal debt and ever-increasing bankruptcy filings by consumers. Personal bankruptcies filed in the United States last year numbered nearly 1.5 million, almost doubling since 1994 To stem the tide, members of Congress have vowed to adopt a reformed code by next fall.
And as Congress has struggled for the past several months to reform the country's bankruptcy laws , Klee has endeavored to teach the lawmakers - and judges , lawyers, voters and students in his many lectures, in testimony, and in appearances in news media - that a massive overhaul may not be the best route He has testified before Congress , for the Conference , that while there are elements of the current code in need of change, lawmakers should take care not to throw out the proverbial baby with the bath water. "Bankruptcy reform legislation should revise the law to hold both debtors and creditors accountable for their actions, " Klee says. He is concerned that the current reform effort is dominated by the consumer credit industry, which has spent millions of dollars to lobby Congress. Klee notes, "There is no effective debtor lobby to hold the credit industry accountable. "
Provisions written into current reform proposals will not decrease bankruptcy filings, he says He has told Congress that bankruptcy reform~ll not fix the problems of overextended credit or reduce the interest rates consumers pay on credit cards .
UCLA Law Professor Daniel Bussel says Congress , and the country, would do well to heed Klee's well-informed advice
"From his perch at UCLA Law School , he vigorously pursues scholarship , teaching , law reform and professional service, all with unfathomable energy In 25 years, nothing significant has happened in the world of bankruptcy scholarship, law reform, or practice without Ken making an important , and not infrequently, decisive contribution, " says Bussel , who teaches bankruptcy and commercial law.
Klee , who joined the faculty full-time in 1997 after serving as a visiting lecturer for 18 years while practicing law, says Congress needs to look beyond the bankruptcy code "Lawmakers need to look at how people get to the point of filing bankruptcy. Studies show that most people do not look at bankruptcy as an easy way out of debt , but file after encountering unemployment , a medical condition , or a divorce that reduces their income ."
Next , Klee says, legislators need to look at credit card companies who hand out credit to people who cannot manage debt. "A lot of these people are not sophisticated enough to understand that they have to think beyond their ability to make the
monthly payment. They don't understand the pitfalls of introductory rates , low minimum monthly payments , cash advance fees and high credit limits These companies prey on the poor and less educated people. That's a big problem in this country"
"The bill (as currently written) is deficient in addressing creditor abuse and overreacts in addressing debtor abuse ," says Klee, who has worked directly with members of Congress and congressional staff to draft, and redraft , some of the proposed legislation. The National Bankruptcy Conference, a group of judges , lawyers and academics that has advised Congress since 1932, agrees that abuses in bankruptcy filings n eed to be addressed. The Conference, with Klee as its spokesman before Congress, supports auditing of filings to ensure accuracy, using a totality of the circumstances test to give judges discretion to prevent individuals from filing for Chapter 7 when they can p ay their d ebts using Chapter 13, building in more mechanisms to prevent repeat filings, and capping the homes tead exemp tio n, for example. The Co nference disagrees, however, with other provisions, including u se of IRS expense formulas that would strip courts of discretion in determining which debtors can and cannot pay their debts. The conference also opposes proposals to make credit card debts and cash advances nondischargeable
"We sh o uldn't make it more difficult for poor people to file for bankruptcy," Klee adds, deeply concerned tha t lower-income people are in d anger of losing their ability, through bankruptcy laws, to start over in their finan cial lives "Congress h as n't thought through what happens if millions of people living under mountains of debt can't get a discharge in bankruptcy, " says Klee. He worries that many people will be forced into the underground economy to avoid creditors.
Klee h as tried to spread his messages as widely as possible In addition to serving in the legisla tive post for the Confer ence (he will step down from his role as ch air in July to become vice chair and devo te more time to teaching and scholarship), Klee recently has made presentations to the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, is a founding member of the Internatio nal Insolven cy Institute and h as served on the U.S. Judicial Con ference's Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules sin ce his appointment in 1992 by Chief Justice Rehnquist. He h as written numerous articles and h as commented frequ en tly in the n ews m edia
During the past year, Klee also h as participated as amicus counsel in a signifi cant bankruptcy decision of the U.S. Supreme Court (Ba nk of Am erica v 203 N LaSalle Street Partnership, Ltd.), where his writings were cited by the majority, and h e served as lead appella te coun sel b efore the h igh es t court of N ew York for the prevailing party in a case in w hich New York adop ted the ru le of explicitness, a rule affectin g billions of dollars of public debt governed by New York law
Interest in bankruptcy was a fluke
Klee developed an interest in b ankrup tcy complet ely by accident wh en at Harvard Law Sch ool he signed up for the course so that h e cou ld keep an eye on a Moot Court teammate . "I h ad no inter es t in bankruptcy It was pure happ enstan ce," Klee m u ses, remembering that his m ain concern was for the team h e captained to k eep winning competition s. Eventually, the team won the Ames Moot Court competition , and Klee has h is name on the wall of the Harvard Law Sch ool law library: "the closest I'll co m e to immortality," h e says .
Professo r Ke nn eth Klee
"We shouldn't make it more difficult for poor people to file for bankruptcy . . . Congress hasn't thought through what happens if millions of people living under mountains of debt can't get a discharge in bankruptcy."
Among Kenneth Klee 's publications are Business Reorgan ization in Bankruptcy, Cases and Materials, (West Publishing Co 1996) and Fundamenta ls of Bankruptcy Law (A LI-AB A, 1986, 1988, 1993, 1996), as well as the U.S Bankruptcy Code.
Klee had been concerned that a Moot Court oratist might run into academic difficulty in the course, which was taught by Vern Countryman, a Harvard law faculty member known for his challenging teaching style . Klee figured if he took the class with his teammate, he could help him and operate in the best interest of the team ' "He dropped out of the course after five weeks, and I went on to make a career out of it," Klee adds , smiling. Professor Countryman became a mentor to Klee, and continued in that role until his death in May.
In choosing his career, Klee also had observed that in law practice, bankruptcy lawyers seemed to enjoy more action than their more "cerebral, insular" counterparts in tax law, a field he had considered.
"In the bankruptcy firms, the phones are ringing off the hook There's a lot of hubbub, " Klee explains exhuberantly, smiling and showing the energy with which he writes, teaches, litigates and lectures in his area of expertise And, Klee noticed, bankruptcy Was one of the few areas of law where practitioners were able to do litigation, negotiation and document preparation - utilizing legal skills he enjoyed.
He had a job lined up at a Los Angeles practice after his graduation in 1974, but an opportunity arose to serve on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee . Klee postponed his arrival at the firm for a year. But one year on Capitol Hill turned into three, and he continued to serve as associate counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, becoming a primary drafter of the 1978 U.S. Bankruptcy C:ode After finally coming to Los Angeles to practice law, he continued as consultant to the committee until 1982 , and then consulted for the U.S . Department of Justice in 1983 and 1984 Nearly every year between 1979 and 1997 when he joined the UCLA law faculty permanently, he taught a Chapter 11 business reorganization seminar at UCLA. He also served as a visiting professor at Harvard in 1995-96.
Bringin~ expertise to the classroom
Throughout his career in practice as well as in teaching, Klee has been continually frustrated that law students didn't get more training in negotiating transactions . Although he incorporated into his bankruptcy courses the type of legal training that would serve his students well , he saw the need to expand that training. With the encouragement of UCLA law administrators, Klee developed an advanced course called "Creating Value through Renegotiating Business Contracts ."
It is the longest course title in the law school schedule. Klee calls it "law school boot camp ," for short.
The unique , six-unit clinical course takes law students on a spin through real-life practice by putting them into simulated exercises that mimic real-life negotiationsexercises that Klee maintains give his students at least a one-year head start on their
colleagues when they land in practice . The students spend nights without sleep and grab sandwiches on the go while finishing up deals They meet stringent deadlines, and during the semester they write seven 10-page strategy memos - the requirements for spacing, length and font size rivaling the local rules that challenge practicring attorneys in federal court. "I give them strict guidelines because they need to learn to write concisely," he says without apology.
"It's a six-unit course that's probably eight units of work, " Klee says "Its students are self-selecting. Those who don't want to do the work get out; those who do, stay. " Nonetheless, the course has been over capacity both times it has been offered Next spring , he will limit it to 16 students.
Klee maintains one of the reasons students learn so much from the course is that they have to think through each complex negotiation they are assigned and perform the necessary research needed to finish the deal - whether it be a lease , a loan agreement or a junk bond indenture. Additionally, ethics and good negotiation skills necessarily pervade the exercises Klee also lectures on theory and practical skills, invites guest speakers to supply real-life anecdotes , and uses outside lawyers, bankers, and investment bankers to role-play in simulations . Students prepare written analyses proposing strategic and tactical objectives and implement their plans in the negotiating sessions and drafting exercises After some of the exercises , they write postmortem memos . For their final project, they complete a three-way negotiation, and learn the importance of coalition building as well as hone their abilities to process complex matters on deadline , Klee explains .
After the class is over, students continually thank Klee, in e-mail notes , letters and visits , for making them work so hard Wrote one student : "Your clinical last semester, as challenging and often confusing (for me) as it was . . . has prepared me for what I'm doing. For example, yesterday I was looking at a loan guaranty agreement and a land lease for a complex upcoming deal , and although I had trouble understanding some of the provisons , at least I knew what those documents were. Imagine if I didn 't. "
Molly Holman '99, who took the course during her second year oflaw school with no business law background, says the class did an excellent job to prepare students for their careers. 'These exercises provided the valuable lessons that, one, you don't know everything (in fact, you're in way over your head) and, two , you can figure it out if you try really hard and ask a lot of questions," says Holman, who will work for the Pasadena firm of Christie, Parker & Hale.
"Professor Klee used real contracts, in all of their horrifying thickness and complexity, and situations ," she said.
Holman says that to add more reality, students were often paired in teams with people with whom they were not necessarily compatible They were given clients who were unreasonable and opponents who were illogical.
"This is life," Klee says about his method of teaching "In practice, there will be all-night negotiations. You will have to juggle your life with your practice. I tell them right up front it's better to experience these things for the first time in law school than it is with a client. "
Holman agrees . " It was the most practical course I took in law school "
"These exercises provided the valuable lessons that, one, you don't know everything (infact, ' . you re m way over your head) and, two, you can figure it out if you try really hard and ask a lot of questions."
Molly Holman '99, who ~ill work for the Pasadena firm of Christie, Parker & Hale
PROFESSOR PETER ARENELLA IS HONORED WITH TEACHING AWARD
( filuded
,nd ribbed fot , teaching style l,beled ,s "intense" ,nd some/ '-~ m l}t-lmidating - and now well-known for his yearning to receive ' the Law School's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching - Professor Peter Arenella graciously accepted the coveted award this spring before a full audi ence of faculty and students .
In what somet imes was a roast-style tribute, Dean Jonathan Varat told students , faculty and staff present at the April ceremony an oft-repeated story of how Arenella had made known his wishes to receive the Rutter Award many years before. "Not everyone here knows that in a brash yet prescient moment, Peter Arenella introduced himself to Bill Rutter as a future Rutter Award winn er ," Varat said. "In spite of, and cer tainly not because of this introduction, we have arrived at that future date that others anticipated and Peter had hoped for."
Bill Rutter, in presenting the award, said that in the 21 years of honoring faculty with his award - whi ch h e also gives at USC and UC Davis - he continually is amazed at the quality of UCLA faculty and the differences they make in students' lives. " If you stay in the practice of law, you're going to remember this guy as well as the other teachers on this list," he told students. "You teach us to think differently than we thought before we met yo u . Great law teachers leave an indelible impression " Continuing the joke, Rutter added : "I am ple ased to present this award to Peter, w h o - call ed it on the spot. "
Arenella joined the faculty in 1987 after teaching at Rutgers, the University of Pennsy lvania and Boston University, where h e won that sch ool's prize for teaching excellence. A nationally recognized criminal law scholar, he lectures a t judicial conferences, speaks to civic groups, tes tifies b efor e Congress on a numb er of issues , discusses criminal law issues frequently in the media, interpreting complicated legal issues for a public audience Before entering academia, he practiced in a public defender's office and as a private co unsel. A graduate of Harvard Law School , h e clerked for the Chi e f Justice of th e Massachu se tts Supreme Judicial Court.
"To receive this honor and be named in the same breath as these people that I've watched and admired - It is daunting."
Professor Peter Arenella
Varat said that the word most often used in evaluations of Arenella by students and faculty is "intense." "Intensity of purpose, intensity of engagement, intensity of analysis, intense enthusiasm - all of these characterize Professor Arenella's teaching and the descriptions provided of it. Although his intense and passionate demeanor are sometimes experienced as intimidating, judging by his evaluations most students experience it as reflecting commitment, engagement and intellectual provocativeness." Varat quoted student evaluations to the effect that: "Professor Arenella takes teaching seriously. '' "I felt like an active participant in my education." "I know I'll learn the material. He'll pound it into my head." Wrote another student, "He is ready for every question, usually with another question or two. He is a very talented teacher."
Not only are Arenella's evaluations filled with such comments, but some students took the time to write letters to Varat praising Arenella's teaching. One student wrote earlier this year about his "active teaching of students outside of class;" and "the same high standards and methods found in Ph.D. programs." This student also commented on Arenella's "willingness to engage in rigorous debate with students," and that he "takes my education just as seriously as I do."
Heartened by the presentation, Arenella apologized for being in the rare circumstance of not knowing what to say. "To receive this honor and be named in the same breath as these people that I've watched and admired - It is daunting."
He praised his first-year criminal law class, who he said had at first been intimidated by his teaching style and later embraced it as valuable. "Intense is the correct adjective, adverb to describe it. It is a sign of my respect for my students, my respect for their talents.
"I make my students vulnerable; I do it deliberately, not to intimidate them but to make them responsible for their own ideas," he added. 'This year's class was remarkable for their generosity in responding to this technique."
TheRutter Award for Excellence in Teaching was createdby William A. Rutter, who conceived of and wrote all of the original Gilbert's Outlines, a study guide for law students. He formed the highly successful Rutter Group, which he sold to West Publishing Co. Since 1979, the award has recognized outstanding commitment to teaching at three law schools - his own alma mater at USC, UC Davis and UCLA, from which his son, Paul, graduatedin 1978.
PAST RUTIER AWARD RECIPIENTS
StephenYeazell
David Binder
Gerald Lopez
Jesse Dukeminier
Leon Letwin
William Warren
Michael Asimow
Murray Schwartz
Gary Schwartz
Julian Eule (deceased)
Grace Blumberg
Jonathan Varat
Kristine Knaplund
Carrie Menkel-Meadow
John Bauman
Kenneth Karst
Steven Derian
Alison Anderson
Eric Zolt
David Dolinko
William Rutter
"Peter
Arenella'sintellectual vitality shouldbeobviousto anyone who meets him. His restlessmindenggeswitha widerangeoftopicsenthusiastically andinsightfully. Andhegenerouslyshareshis intellectualexcitementwith thestudentsheteaches."
An e-mail message written by a student to Dean Varat the day ofthe Rutter Award ceremony
Editor's note: Thefaculty notes published in the spring/summer magazine reflect only the most recent, noteworthy awards and achievements. Look in the fall magazine for a more complete report of faculty activities, research, speaking engagements, books published, new classes being taught and biographies on our new and visiting faculty.
Michael Asimow
Michael Asimow received the CenturyCityBarAssociation'saward for Public Interest Lawyer of the Year for his Sunday Free Legal Clinic, which he co-founded five years ago in South Central Los Angeles. The clinic, staffed by UCLA law student volunteers, paralegals and attorneys from the community, provideslegalhelpandreferralprimarilytoresidentsofSouth Central Los Angeles. The clinic has served more than 3,000clientssinceitscreation. Theclinicisapartnership of First AME Church, Temple Isaiah, UCLA School of Law and Public Counsel. The award was presented to AsimowattheBar association's annualawardsdinneron March4, 1999.
Joel Handler
Joel Handler received the ACLU Distinguished Professors Award for his pioneering work on law and poverty, exemplified by his work ontheACLUlandmarkwelfareresidencycase. Healsowasawardedthe HarryKalvenPrizeoftheLawandSocietyAssociationfor DistinguishedResearchonLawandSociety,1999.
Stephen Munzer
For an essay that appeared in Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review in 1997, Stephen R. Munzer was awarded the American Philosophical Association's Berger Prizein PhilosophyofLawinApril. The essay was: "Ellickson on 'Chronic Misconduct' in Urban Spaces: Of Panhandlers, Bench Squatters, and DayLaborers."
Grace Blumberg
The UCLA Academic Senate Committee on Teaching selected Grace Blumberg to receive its 1999 Distinguished Teaching Award in June. In receiving this award, Blumbergjoinsaveryselectgroupof faculty from the entire UCLA campus. Watch for a story about Blumberg's teaching and scholarship i.n the fall editionofUCLALaw.
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Eugene Volokh
Eugene Volokh was awarded the Paul Bator Award, given yearlybytheFederalistSociety. Past recipients have included Jonathan Macey (Cornell University), Akhil Amar (Yale) and Randy Barnett
See Page 32 for report on the Fredric P Sutherland Public Interest Award given to Professor Carole Goldberg.
ON CAMPUS
A COLLECTION 'OF EVENTS AND SPEAKER£ AT UCLA LAW
COI_VIMENCEMENT 1999
The Law School celebrates its 48th commencement
In the law school� 48th commencement on May 23, 321 students received their JD degrees and 10 students received their LL.M. degrees. In speeches that blended humor and thoughtful reflection, graduates were inspired to carry the courage oftheir convictions throughout their lives.
Graduate Rheeah T Yoo sings \he National Anthem as the ceremony begins.
"Recent state law developments in the form of Proposition 209 and high profile Regents' resolutions impede quite drastically our ability to enroll, in particular, significant numbers of African American and Latino law students. Fully conscious as we are of our obligations as a public law school to educate students of all racial backgrounds, particularly in this remarkablydynamic, racially heterogeneous state (though most of us would feel no less strongly if we were employed by a private law school) we maintain a deep and abiding commitment to pursue and promote racial diversification within the law school and the legal profession.
Whatever one's position on race-conscious affirmative action - and the range of views within the law school community on this matter is as wide as it is in the broader community - our state's and our nation's rapidlychanging racial mix, much less our troubled heritage of racial injustice, poses enormous challenges for all of us to preserve and expand our sense of community and common humanity
Out of those challenges, however, come possibilities to demonstrate to each other and to the world how we can make of the wonder of our diversity, not division, but unity Not fear or avoidance, but respect and engagement. We have the potential to be a beacon of multi-racial participation and harmony rather than the harbinger of conflict whose seeming inevitability all too many rush to predict or accept with resignation.We at the UCLA School of Law will continue to strive to provide the energy for that beacon."
UCLA Law Professor DevonCarbado, third-year class President Lora Blum, and Acting Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Bill Lann Lee, Commencement Speaker.
Dean Jonathan Varat
Bill Lann Lee
Acting Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Commencement Speaker
"All of us need to be involved in the great issues of our day. We can all be in the broad sense public interest lawyers. Public interest is too important to be left to the threepercent of your class that will end up in fulltime public interest careers in the narrow sense. While you may end up in the private sector, what is important is that you have the determination and dedication to bring to bear what you have learned in law school and in legal practice for the public good. The public interest is not restricted to one end or the other of any political or ideological spectrum. We can and should disagree on what particular matters are or are not in the public interest. But no one has a monopoly on the public good."
Professors Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati greet graduates as they distributeJ D. hoods.
Top: RussellWetanson, student speaker. Above: Assistant Dean for Students Elizabeth Cheadle and VisitingProfessorMichael Small ready J.D. hoods for graduates.
Russell Wetanson, student speaker
Professor of the Vear Kirk Stark
"In line with the view that this is a duty-laden profession that you've chosen, I'd like to mention yet another duty that I think you implicitly accept as you receive thedegree you are about to receive ... It is a duty that in my view has been underadvocated in the legal community and one that desperately needs new champions.It is the duty thatyou owe yourself, to havefun with your career.
Everyone knows that Oustice
Thurgood] Marshall was a great lawyer, butJuan Williams' recent biography of thelateJusticerevealsthat one ofMarshall'sgreatesttraitswas the greatgustoand the fun that he brought to the lawyering enterprise.Williams' description of Marshall's work on the Brown case is especially revealing ...
The conference rooms were always crammed, often 60 or more people shouting.It was smoky, with Spott Robinson's pipe sending aromatic puffs into the air, followed by steady streams from Marshall's cigarettes and several cigars.Law books were strewn everywhere, and some people had to sit on the edges of tables because there weren't enough chairs. In this atmosphere, tempers occasionallyflared, and Marshall hadtodiffuse thetensions. Sometimes he would tell ajoke [and he'd] get everyone laughing and back to work.
Despite thearguments and egos, Marshall, like the spirited conductor of a swing band, orchestrated lively meetings of legal talent.The meetings became renowned as great fun, even though they involved hard work and little or no pay.
You're probably thinking: What about those sunny Sunday afternoons when I'm in the office having to finish up a memo on Wyoming's Blue Sky laws? Or in a warehouse doing discovery, digging through boxes? Or at the printer proofreading the 78th draft of the S-4?
Tothat, Icanonlysay: Theselawyersdidn'tjust bumpinto funin their careers, they made law fun."
. . . Ibeginthese ceremonies, asIwill concludethem, withan emphasisonapplauding whatyouhavedone, commendingyouand yourlovedones, and wishingyouthesatisfactionandrewardsthat your education, putto gooduseintheservice ofothers, canbring."
Dean JonathanVarat
Professor of the Year Kirk Stark
UCLA Law Review presentssymposium on
Scholars from throughout the world in law, philosophy and public policy gathered at UCLA School of Law in March for a daylong series of panels on punishment, an emotional and timely issue the UCLA Law Review chose as its symposium topic this year.
The law Review presents an annual symposium on a current issue in law The papers from the daylong event will be published in the 1999 Symposium Issue, Vol. 46, Issue 6 (August 1999).
"We wanted to have an interdisciplinary discussion of the changing goals and practices of criminal punishment at a time when many people have lost faith in the justice system," said laura Reider, editor in chief.The discussions, moderated by UCLA law faculty, centered on interdisciplinary discussion ofvariousforms ofpunishment and its relationship to the regulation of crime - as a form of atonement and as a form of retribution.
Professor David Dolinko introduced the symposium topic. " It requires a special brand of courage - or perhaps a dollop of madness - to prophesy the future of a social institution as volatile, as controversial, and as prone to unforeseen change as the institution of criminal punishment," Dolinko stated.
Dolinko remarked on, among other trends in punishment, the "growth industry" that has enveloped punishment issues. Tough-on-crime policies such as the three-strikes laws, sentencing guidelines, massive prison building and the war on
drugs were a few of the phenomenons cited."This zealous drug war helps explain why nearly one of every 150 persons in this country is injail or prison, why state prisons are operating at between 15 and 24 percent above capacity and the federal prison system at 19 percent above capacity, and why an American born this year stands a one in 20 chance of spending some part of life in a correctional facility -a one in four chance if that American is black."
During the day, legal scholars, philosophers and sociologists addressed the various punishments and their relationships to the defendant and society - from punishment's lack of real behavior control to issues such as deprivation of voting rights, economics, and the race and gender of the accused.
Typography design by Frank Lopez
The symposium was divided into three panels - Predicting Punishment; Punishment and Community; and Punishment and the Offender.
Scholars presenting papers to the more than 100 people attending included John Bradford Braithwaite, professor at Australian National University Law School; Michael Tonry, professor of law and public policy at University of Minnesota Law School; Stephen Garvey, professor at Cornell Law School; Dan Kahan, professor at University of Chicago Law School; Paul Butler, professor at George Washington University Law School; George P. Fletcher, professor at Columbia University School of Law; and Mark A.R. Kleiman, professor of policy studies for UCLA School 9f Public Policy and Social Research.
Other speakers offering commentary and moderating discussions were professors Peter Arenella, Devon Carbado, Dolinko, Laura Gomez , Herbert Morris and David Sklansky, all of UCLA School of Law; and Carol Steiker, associate dean for academic affairs and law professor at Harvard Law School.
In concluding the symposium, UCLA's Professor Morris remarked that the debate on punishment and its most effective forms would undoubtedly continue, and that such debates would be necessary, mainly because social conditions would continue to change in the future.
"If the future resembles the past, we can reasonably imagine that we shall have fluctuations in the severity of punishments and the degree of respect for principles of fault in the allocation of responsibility," he said. "As anxiety intensifies, whatever might be the cause, so, it is likely, will the disposition to strike out in response with punishments that compfort less with conceptions of just proportion."
To order the Symposium issue, which will publish the papers delivered at this symposium, call the UCLA Law Review office at (310) 825-4929. The issue costs $10.50. A subscription to the UCLA Law Review (October-August) costs $35 domestic, $40 foreign.
Clockwise, from top: John Bradford Braithwaite, professor at Australian National University Law School; UCLA Law Professor David Dolinko; Carol Steiker, associate dean for academic affairs and law professor at Harvard Law School; Stephen Garvey, professor at Cornell Law School; Dan Kahan, professor at University of Chicago Law School; Mark A.R. Kleiman, professor of policy studies for UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research; Michael Tonry, professor of law and public policy at University of Minnesota Law School; UCLA Law Professor Laura Gomez; UCLA Law Professor Devon Carbado; UCLA Law Professor Herbert Morris with George P. Fletcher, professor at Columbia University School of Law.
Moot Court Champs
Dean Jonathan Varat, center, pays tribute in April to the Roger J. Traynor California Moot Court 1999 Champions from UCLA School of Law: Paul Garo Arshagouni, Liisa Nogelo, Antonio Lopez and Eran Lagstein. This is the first time UCLA has won the competition in 26 years. The team, which competed against 18 other California law schools at Boalt Hall at UC Berkeley, also won second place in the competition for the Wilkin Award, which is based on both brief writing and oral advocacy. Faculty who helped coach and counsel the team included Ann Carlson, Shelley Levine, Al Moore, William Rubenstein, David Sklansky, John Wiley and Stephen Yeazell.
The23rdAnnual UCLAEntertainment Symposium
ABAdeans
American Bar Association Law School Deans tour the new Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library during their annual dean's meeting at UCLA Law School in February. Also pictured is UCLA Law Professor Alison Anderson, second from left.
Bertram Fields, a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger, delivers the keynote address at the 23rd Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium in January.
Keynote speaker Bertram Fields, Symposium co-chair Nicholas La Terza, and UCLA Law School Dean Jonathan Varat pose for a photograph between sessions of the 23rd Annual UCLA Entertainment Law Symposium. More than 500 people attended the two-day event at UCLA's Schoenberg Hall.
Katha Pollitt speaks at UCLA Law
Renowned journalist, essayist and poet Katha Pollitt speaks with UCLA students, staff and faculty at a discussion sponsored by the UCLA School of Law Program in Public Interest Law and Policy in November 1998. Pollitt's interests bridge the field of politics, literature, and journalism, and she engages issues central to contemporary political debate such as abortion, "family values," and "difference feminism."
Thefutureofintegration
Professor Ken Karst answers questions after delivering his lecture "Does Integration Have a Future?" at a lecture for law school donors in January.
Administrative law reformin China
Professor Donald Clarke, University of Washington Law School, and Lu Xiaobo, assistant professor of political science, East Asian Institute at Columbia University, discuss administrative law issues at a symposium in March: Administrative Law Reform in China. The symposium was one in many events offered this year in UCLA's International Law Speaker Series.
Navajo nation
Chief Justice Robert Yazzie of the Navajo Nation Supreme Court speaks to students Chad Gordon '99 and Kane Lisker, an undergraduate student who attended the event, on "Indian Justice in the 21st Century" at UCLA in April. Appointed in 1992, Chief Justice Yazzie has been a strong advocate for victims' rights, has campaigned against domestic violence, initiated a sentencing commission of trial judges, and expanded the Navajo Nation Peacemaker Division, which serves to settle disputes using traditional teachings. His presentation was sponsored by the School of Law, the American Indian Graduate Student Association and the American Indian Studies Center. American Indian Law Professor Carole Goldberg, left.
17thannual Law School Musical presented
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Teaching Procedure (Tune: "Getting to Know You")
ANNA: (spoken) Though in other law school classes, There are rules that take some thought, Still the rules deal with some action, That you don't have to be taught. (sung) Take a murder or a car crash, Even contracts to insure, These things you know from MTV But-Madonna don't demur.
Teaching procedure, Trying to teach you demurrers. You've never seen oneYou dunno what they can do.
STUDENTS: Minimum contacts, Subject matter jurisdiction, ANNA: It's all a fiction -just like venue.
STUDENTS: Drafting a pleading, ANNA: Gotta have a cause of action. STUDENTS: What about joinder? What about interpleader7 These are the conceptsdriving us to distraction.
ANNA: Although procedure certainly seems queer, You can learn to say "voir dire" If you try!
STUDENTS: Civil Procedure!
ANNA: ALL: How da ya serve a subpoena? Summary judgment? Is it like J.N.O.V.? What about judgments? What about res judicata? Say-have you gotta F.R.C.P.!
Civil Procedure1
Learning about jurisdiction, Seeking admissions. Helping increase lawyers' fees! Claiming a privilege, Calling it hard core work product, You learn to dodge a hundred and one rogs, Avoid judicial mad dogs, And JD s!
Civil Procedure, Learning about interpleader, Joinder of parties, Learning how to intervene.
Filing a cross-claim, Moving to quash a subpoena File a class action-spurious or true Diverse or with a Fed. 0. S.D.T
ANNA: Learning procedure, Starting to think it is easy.
STUDENTS: Buying an outline, Readingyour Emannuel!
ANNA: Now its exam timesuddenly you're feeling queasy!
STUDENTS: That's when you start to blame it on Yeazell! Civ. pro-cursing it to hell!
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Top: Student cast members of the 1999 UCLA Law School Musical "Thinking an 'I,"' directed by UCLA Law Professor Ken Graham, sing the praises of studying civil procedure. Lyrics at far right.
Above left: Chaise Bivin as Professor Nathan King gives the thumbs up to Giordani, played by Sean Nguyen, while UCLA Law School Musical director Professor Ken Graham consults his notes.
right: UCLA Law Professors Alison Anderson and Ken Karst, and Law School Dean Jonathan Varat, masquerade as seraphim in the 1999 UCLA Law SchoolMusical "Thinkingan 'I.'"
Right First row, left to right: David Dawson as Mike Hammer and MeghanYamanishi as Ida Zhoury plot against those who do not agree with their radical animal rights views. Second row: Chaise Bivin as Professor Nathan King and Sean Nguyen as Giordani eavesdrop on the plans.
Successfulapplicants tothe bar taketheir oaths inceremony at UCLA
Surrounded by friends, family, alumni, and members of the UCLA law community, 117 members of the class of 1998 were sworn in to the state, federal, and appellate courts in December. Administering the oaths were three UCLA Law alumni: Associate Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Second District, Judge Norman L.
Epstein '58; U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Judge Lourdes G. Baird '76; and Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw '79. UCLA Law Alumni Board President Richard Fybel '71 welcomed everyone, while Dean Varat moderated the evening's proceedings at the Freud Playhouse, MacGowan Hall, at UCLA.
Above: Nicole Duckett '98 is joined by other classmates as she is sworn in to the Bar at UCLA's ceremony in December. Left: Family and friends of Lisa Koven '98 join in the swearing-in ceremony. Below: 1irzah Lowe and Evan Spiegel celebrate their bar passage.
VINCENT BLASI DELIVERS NIMMER LECTURE: "FREE SPEECH AND GOOD CHARACTER"
nonpoliticalaswellaspoliticalspeech, evenwhentheimpactofsuchprotectiononthefunctioningofsocialinstitutions remains the principal concern "saidBlasi,theCorlissLamont ProfessorofCivilLibertiesatColumbia LawSchool,andtheD.LurtonMassee, Jr.ProfessorandHunton&Williams Research Professor at University of VirginiaSchoolofLaw.
"Thisisaspecialkindofargument fromcharacterthatbuildsfromthe claimthataculturethatprizesandprotectsexpressivelibertynurturesinits memberscertaincharactertraitssuch as inquisitiveness, independence of judgment,distrustofauthority,willingnesstotakeinitiative, perseverance, andthecouragetoconfrontevil,"he toldanaudienceof150people.
Blasi,aleadingexpertontheFirst Amendmentandonthelegalhistoryof freedom of expression, evoked the philosophies ofJohn Milton,John StuartMill,OliverWendellHomesand JusticeLouisBrandeis,amongothers, inhistalk.
ProfessorBlasi'snumerousarticles haveappearedintheColumbia,Duke, Michigan, Minnesota, Notre Dame, Texas,UniversityofCalifornia(Boalt), UniversityofColorado,andCollegeof WilliamandMarylawreviews.Hissubjectsarediverse.Hisarticlescomment on prior restraint, various areas of
speech and press freedoms, the Bakke case, interstate commerce, and issues of artistic freedom. He recently has written about the Supreme Court's handling of campaign finance reform. He was editor and a contributor to the anthology: The Burger Court: The Counter-Revolution that Wasn't (Yale University Press, 1983), and editor of Law and Liberalism in the 1980� (Columbia University Press, 1990).
Holding a bachelor's degree fn:im Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Chicago, Blasi began his academic career as an assistant professor of law at the University of Texas in 1967. This was followed by a visiting professorship at Stanford Law School. He taught law at University of Michigan from 1970 to 1982, serving as a visiting professor at Boalt Hall (UC Berkeley) in 1978-79. His teaching interests center on constitutional law, including church and state and First Amendment law, and torts.
After serving as the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia University in 1982-83 he was named the Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, a position he still holds.
In 1991, Blasi was the Lee Visiting Professor at College of William and Mary Law School. He was the Ewald Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law from 1997 to 1998. Since 1998, he has been the D. Lurton Massee, Jr. Professor of Law and Hunton & Williams Research Professor at Virginia. He recently was elected a fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of his intellectual leadership in law.
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Blasi's lecture appears in UCLA Law Review, Volume 46, Issue 5 Qune 1999).
THE MELVILLE B. NIMMER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Melville B. Nimmer dedicated his life to the shaping of law in the largest sense. He did so through his distinguished teaching at UCLA from 1962 until his death in November 1985, through his path-breaking writing and in his creative work as a lawyer. As a celebration of Mel's life and as a continuation of his work, his family and friends have endowed the Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture.
ELIZABETH (ABRASER DISCUSSES HOW AMERICANS USE CIVIL LITIGATION TO ENFORCE SOCIAL CONTRACT
"Litigation is anadversary processwhereafairresultcan bereached." //""- '/
oVthe kading plaintiff's attorneys in the nstion told a UCLA School of Law audi�nte of students, faculty and staff in March that civil litigation has become a primary forum for enforcing society's social contract.
"Civil rights have come and will continue to come in this country through civil litigation, not civil war," Elizabeth Cabraser said in the annual Irving Green lecture. "The social contract, as enacted in the original articles of confederation, did not encompass all humanity," she said, adding that slaves and women, for example, were left out. She said civil litigation, particularly in this century, has helped broaden the scope of rights for individuals.
Cabraser has taken on a host of cases in investment and consumer fraud, product liability, toxic contamination, employment discrimination, civil rights violations, and mass tort litigation. Her litigation and trial experience on behalf of clients includes highly publicized cases related to the Exxon Valdez, breast implants, the tobacco industry, Telectronics and Fen-Phen, among others.
"Common law changes and is meant to change, demands change," said Cabraser, of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, which has offices in San Francisco and New York."In less than 200 years we went from a system ...that did not, would not include all of us in this room today to a system of government that does include us - at least in theory, at least in principle. We got here from there through a slow, incremental, difficult, discourageing process not of war, not of rebellion, not of political process but through civil litigation."
Cabraser's talk, "What we Owe Each Other: Enforcing the Social Contract through Civil Litigation," was the fifth annual lecture in a series established by the family of Irving Green to bring outstanding trial lawyers to UCLA to inspire law students and to engage in an exchange with them focused on the often unpopular role of lawyer.Cabraser told the audience she was honored to be considered in that category. "Irving Green was a great advocate in a century, in a country, of great advocates."
Cabraser almost happened upon class-action practice.She received her bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley in 1975, and went on to receive her law degree at Boalt Hall in 1978. Shortly after graduation from law school, she began representing elderly clients who had been defrauded in investment schemes. She and
Fay Bettye Green Marcus, Mark Green, Joseph Green, Elizabeth Cabraser and Dean Jonathan Varat. Joseph is the grandson of Fay Bettye Green Marcus and the late Irving Green. Cabraser delivered the Green lecture and spoke to Professor Bill Rubenstein's Complex Civil Litigation class during her visit in March.
Robert Leiff filed their first class action in 1978 because it seemed the most efficient way of solving the particular legal problem. They formed Leiff and Cabraser a few years later, and have continued to take on class-action lawsuits in a variety of areas. Cabraser lectures and conducts seminars for the Federal Judicial Center, the American Law Institute, the National Center for State Courts, the Practicing Law Institute and the American Bar Association National Institute. She has testified before Congress on class-action litigation. She has served as court-appointed lead or co-lead counsel in 25 multi-district and coordinated proceedings, and has participated in the design, structure and conduct of seven nationwide class action trials in securities fraud, product liability, mass accident and consumer cases.
She has written articles for scholarly journals and other publications and has lectured extensively on federal civil procedure, complex litigation, securities litigation, class action trials and settlement, environmental claims, mass tort litigation, substantive tort law issues and tobacco litigation strategies.
In 1995 and 1996, she served as the co-chair of the ABA Mass Torts Class Actions Subcommittee and will serve this year as Co-chair of the ABA Section of the Litigation Committee on Class Actions and Derivative Suits. Cabraser was appointed in 1994 to serve on the California Constitution Revision Commission. In 1996, she was appointed to the California Senate Blue Ribbon Task Force on Shareholder Litigation. Cabraser is active in many professional organizations, including the American Law Institute and the American Inns of Court.
In 1997, she received the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice Achievement Award for her work as class counsel in the Polybutylene Pipe Litigation, which successfully sought relief from manufacturers of defective pipes installed in homes across the country. Cabraser recently received the Consumer Attorneys of California's 1998 Presidential Award of Merit for her commitment to consumer protection. In 1997, she was named one of the National Law Journal's "100 Most Influential Lawyers in America;" and in 1998 she was included in their list of "40 Most Influential Women Lawyers." In September 1998, she was included in the Daily Journal's "California Law Business Top 100."
ABOUT THE GREEN LECTURE
IrvingH. Greenwasamuch-honored trialattorneyknownfor representing the underdog in a series of cases in courts across the country.During his career, Green received numerous awards - including the Ted Horn Memorial Award, an honor given by the Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Association. He also was a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, a group whose membership is limited to 100 outstanding trial lawyers in the United States.
Irving Green's enthusiasm for his work, his determination to help those who had no other champion, and his excellence and creativity serve as an inspiration today. Of his father, UCLA Professor of Mathematics Mark Green has said: "He lived his convictions while having a successful career.In a letter written about her late husband prior to the inaugural lecture, Fay Bettye Green noted: "Irving Green never forgot his background The trial of a case was his 'raison d'etre.' His research was thorough, and his skills enabled him to convince the jury of his client's cause."
The Green family has chosen to honorIrving Green, whopracticed in LosAngelesuntil 1981, bycreatinga programdesigned to bring truly outstanding trial lawyers to UCLA to inspire law students and to engage in an exchange with them focused on the often unpopular role of lawyer. Elizabeth J. Cabraser is the fifth speaker in the series of annual lectures given in Irving Green's honor.
Elizabeth Cabraser confers with students after her speech.
'THERE IS A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE AND UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW IS THERE TO DO IT
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mack,d th, 10th annivmary of th, School of Law's annual Public
Awards Ceremony. In addition torecognizingthemany students andfaculty who earned "Give 35" public interest service awards for performing 35 or morehoursof pro bona workduringtheyear,theceremonyhonoredtherecipients of several special public interest service awards. Joseph Hairston Duff, '71, for whom the award presented to a second-year student is named, pointed out one noticeable differencein theceremony's10th year- thethicknessofthe program listing the names of students and faculty who engaged in public interest work. "Thisjustkeepsgettingthickerandthicker," saidDuff,wavingtheprogramabove thepodiumashespoke. "That'stheimportantthing."Indeed,asDirectorofPublic Interest Programs Catherine Mayorkas noted: "This year also saw an unprecedentednumber ofSchoolofLawstudentsreceiveprestigious post-graduate, academicyear,and summer publicinterest fellowshipsandgrants."
Professor William Warren presented the Fredric P Sutherland Public Interest AwardtoProfessor CaroleGoldbergforheroutreachtoAmericanIndiancommunities and her work in American Indian Law. Professor Goldberg, who heads the SchoolofLaw'sJointDegreePrograminLawandAmericanIndian Studies,pioneeredaSchoolofLawclinicalcoursethisyear,"Tribal LegalDevelopment." Clinicstudentsprovidedsorelyneededlegal assistance to often impoverished Indian communities in California.Theirefforts include developingmodelsfortribaljustice systems in California, modifying a comprehensive environmental code for the Torres Martinez Tribe in Imperial and Riverside Counties, and reviewing and developing constitutions for other tribesin California.
Servingasaninspirationtostudentswasthisyear'srecipientof the Antonia Hernandez Public Interest Award, Bruce Iwasaki '76 ExecutiveDirectoroftheLosAngelesLegalAidFoundation.Upon graduation, he went to work first for San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services and subsequently for the Legal Aid FoundationofLosAngeles.In1988,hewenttoworkatO'Melveny&Myers,where for the next nine years he demonstrated how public interest work could be performedinaprivatepracticesetting. DuringhisyearsatO'Melveny,hewastherecipientofnumerouspublicserviceawardsandworkedonanumberofsignificantpublic interest cases, including one involving litigation to restore health and welfare benefits to children denied such benefits under Proposition 187. In 1997, he left O'MelvenytobecometheExecutiveDirectorofLAFLA.
After receiving the Antonia Hernandez Public Interest Award from Professor GaryBlasi,thepublicinterestlawyercalleduponstudentstojoinhim. "Thereisa lot of work to be done," he said. "I look forward to seeing you someday in the future, workingshoulder toshoulder withyou."
Professor Carole Goldberg accepts the Fredric P. Sutherland Public Interest Award.
Professor Gary Blasi presents the Antonia Hernandez Public Interest Award to Bruce Iwasaki '76.
THE WORK AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES OF EACH OF THIS YEAR'S STUDENT AWARD RECIPIENTS ARE CHARACTERIZED BY A DEEP AND ABIDING COMMITMENT TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST.
Sonya Schwartz - Sonya worked after her first year of law school with the HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, where she developed a "Know Your Rights" brochure for youth living with HIV and AIDS and helped compile a legal needs assessment for people living with HIV andAIDS in Los Angeles County. This past fall semester, she founded the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic as part of the School of Law's El Centro Legal student organization. In its first year, the Clinic trained more than 25 School of Law students to perform legal checkupsand conductclient intake, and students performed more than 200 legal checkups over the course of the year. This past year, Sonya was also the chair of the School of Law's Public Interest Law Foundation. This summer, Sonya will continue her public interest work at the ACLU in Los Angeles.
Aileen Alfonso Duldulao - Last summer, after her first year of law school, Aileen worked with the Immigration Unit of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, helping battered women file for immigration relief under the Violence Against Women Act. Aileen also helped coordinate community legal clinics with LAFLA's Asian and Pacific Islander Community Project. She continued her work with LAFLA this past academic year, providing direct client services across an array of legal issues, conducting community outreach, staffing the Filipino/Tagalog hotline, and
volunteering with clinics for battered immigrant women. Aileen will continue her work at LAFLA this summer, coordinating legal outreach to the Cambodian and Lao refugee populations in addition to other direct client and community outreach work.
Lorna De Bono - Lorna first became interested in immigration issues before law school when, as a paralegal for a small immigration law firm, she prepared an application for asylum on behalf of a Rwandan man who helped save that man's life. When she arrived at the School of Law in 1996 and learned that the School did not havean immigration lawsociety, she founded oneand began involving law students in volunteer work. Last summer, Lorna worked with the Central American Resource Center, researching and preparing documentation regarding the political, economic, social, educational and health-related conditions in Guatemala and El Salvador. Her work helped immigration practitioners and service organizations assist Guatemalans and Salvadorans who, if deported, would suffer extreme hardship in their home countries. After Hurricane Mitch ravaged CentralAmericathis past fall, Lorna planneda series ofstudent-runSaturdaylegal clinics to assist citizens of Honduras and Nicaragua who were living in the United States apply for temporary protected status.
THE FOLLOWlNG GRADUATES RECEIVED PUBLIC INTEREST POST-GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS THIS PAST YEAR:
MICHELLE AHNN, 1998, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, CRIMINAL AND JUVENILE JUSTICE CLINICS, E. BARRETT PRETTYMAN/STILLER FELLOWSHIP
MEREDITH BLAKE, 1995, ECHOING GREEN PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIP
JANEEN McMILLAN, 1999, ECHOING GREEN PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIP
CLAUDIA RAMIREZ, 1999, THE Los ANGELES CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PUBLIC INTEREST LAW FELLOWSHIP
Above: Aileen Alfonso Duldulao and Sonya Schwartz, second-year students and co-recipients of the Joseph Hairston Duff Public Interest Award. Both are members of the inaugural class of the School of Law's Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. Below: Nancy J. Mintie '79, founder of the Inner City Law Center in Los Angeles, presents the Nancy J. Mintie Public Interest Award to third-year student
U.S.RepresentativeHowardBerman'65 andDavid Price'60,founderofAmericanGolfCorporation-thanked UCLA Law for making a difference in their lives at ceremoniesheldinMarch.
"SomuchofwhateversuccessIhavehadhascomefrom whatIlearnedthosefewyearsinlawschool,IshouldbegivingtheUCLAlawschoolanaward,"Bermansaidinaccepting his award for professional achievement. Price, whom outgoingAlumniBoardofDirectorsPresidentRichardFybel '71 saidwas "probablytheonlyjetfighterpilot we've honored," likewise praised his alma mater after receiving the public/communityserviceaward.
Iaccomplished with his success, rather thandirectly for his achievements. "He has enjoyed a great deal of success in business Manygraduateshaveenjoyedsuccess.Wehave decidedtohonorhimforwhathe'sdonewiththeresources hissuccesshasbroughthim."
PersuadedduringhislastdaysinlawschoolbyProfessor Murray Schwartz to go to an interview at O'Melveny &: Myers,heworkedatthatfirmupongraduation.Morethana yearlater,hewenttoworkforJosephDrown,whoownedthe HotelBel-Air,BiffsCoffeeShops,DontheBeachcomberand otherrestaurantsandhotels.WhileworkingforDrown,Price fine-tunedhisbusinessacumenashebegantoleadsomeof Drown's holdings. Price later purchased the Yorba Linda CountryClubfromDrown,andin1972, turnedthatenterpriseintothehighlysuccessfulAmericanGolfCorporation, agolfcoursemanagementcompanyPricefoundedthattoday operates300golfcoursesacrosstheUnitedStatesandinthe United Kingdom. He also is chairman of the board of NationalGolfProperties,arealestateinvestmenttrust.This REITowns 151 golfcoursesin26 states.
Hehasachievedsimilarsuccessinhisworkforphilanthropic organizations, his community and his law school alma mater. He has served as a director or chairman of major gifts campaigns for a number of charitable organizations, and he co-chaired with Stanley Fimberg '60 the School of Law's library campaigninitsall-importantformativestages.He hasworkedinasimilarcapacityfortheChildren's Home Society, Children's Institute International and thePriceFamilyFoundation.Heiscurrently building OaksChristianHighSchoolinWestlake Villageandprovidedthefundsforthecreationof an emergency shelter for children for Boys' Town in South Central Los Angeles. Hehas endowed a facultychairatUCLA,currentlyheldbyProfessor Kenneth Karst. In1998, Price received theJerry Buss Humanitarian Award on behalf of the MuscularDystrophyAssociation.
RaisedinLosAngeles,DavidPriceservedthree yearsasanofficerintheU.S.Navyaftergraduating fromUSC with abachelor'sdegreeineconomics. Heearnedhiswingsasajetfighterpilotin1955
U.S. Representative and Alumnus of the Year Howard Berman, second from left, is congratulated by Stan Levy '65, Kenneth Ziffren '65, Andrea Sheridan Ordin '65 and Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Bernard Kaufman '53.
He spent two of his Navy years in Pensacola, Florida as a flight instructor, receiving the SecretaryoftheNavy'sawardfor 1,000accidentfreeflyinghours. Heservedforthreeyearsinthe U.S. NavalReserve,flyingGrummanCougarjets.
His love of flying has carried over into other facetsofhislife. PriceservedontheSecretaryof the Navy's Advisory Board on Education and Training (SABET) during theReaganpresidential administration.
Healsohasagreatloveforthehistoryofaviationandtherestorationandpreservationofhistorical aircraft, which inspired him to build and support the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, which houses numerous Donald Douglas Company and World War II aircraft, many of which he flies. He is chairman of the museum's BoardofDirectors.
Congressman Berman has represented his hometown of Los Angeles in both the California Assembly and Congress for more than 25 years, imprinting his influence through bipartisancoalitions.
BornandraisedinLosAngeles,Bermanreceivedbothhis bachelor's and law degrees from UCLA. After graduating fromlawschool, heperformed hisfirst work inpublic service as a volunteer for VISTA. From 1967 until 1973, he practicedlawinLosAngeles, specializinginlaborrelations, beforebeingelectedtotheCaliforniaStateAssembly.
In his first term in the state Legislature, thenAssemblymanBermanwastheyoungestpersoneverelected Assembly majority leader. During his time on the Legislature, he also served as chair of the Assembly Democratic Caucus and the Policy Research Management Committee of the Assembly. In 1982, he was elected to Congress.
Knownforreachingacrosstheaisletoform coalitionsin Congress,Bermanhasexertedhisinfluenceinagreatvariety of legislative issues. Together with Republican Rep. Henry Hyde,Bermanwrotealawauthorizingembargoesonnations that condone terrorism. With Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, hewroteamendmentstotheFalseClaimsAct.
HeisamemberoftheInternationalRelationsCommittee andtheJudiciaryCommittee,andisrankingminoritymemberoftheEthicsCommittee.Hehasgainedincreasinginfluenceonsuchissuesasforeignaid,armscontrol,antiterrorism, human rights, technology policy, trade legislation, copyrightlegislationandimmigrationreform. HewrotelegislationthatrestoredremediestoAmericanswithemployerprovidedhealthbenefitswhoseinsurancecompaniesdenied their claims.
As ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on CourtsandIntellectualProperty,Bermanoverseescopyright law,anareaofgreatimportancetotheemertainmentindustry, a key industry in the area he represents. He also has worked for the protection of trademarks and patents, and haslegislatedintheareasofbiotechnology,pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and consumer electronics. Also within thejurisdiction of thesubcommitteearemattersrelating to thefederal courts.
In presenting the award to Berman, Fybel said: "He has made us all very proud. He has a distinguished record of leadershipinCongress,inintegrityinservingthepublicand honorablyandeffectively representing hisconstituentsand inservingournation."
Alum of Year David Price celebrates with Jon Artz '71, Richard Ellis '59, Leonard Kolod '60 and Melvin Lebe '60.
CLASSNOTES
Reunions!
Don't miss next year's reunions, for the classes ending in "4" and "9" between 1954 and 1994. Bring your family to the UCLA School of Law Reunion Barbecue. Watch your mailbox for further details. The event will be held September 18.
Membm of the dssses of 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988 and 1993 gathered at UCLA last November for a reception and dinners where they reconnected with old friends, visited with their former and new faculty and met with the newly appointed Dean Jonathan Varat. Many took tours of the new Hugh and Hazel Darling Library for the first time. Tours were given by students who were able to point out to alums their favorite study areas, most comfortable chairs and the most scenic views. Alums also learned of the day-old appointment of former Dean Susan Prager as Dartmouth College Provost (see related story, page 6).
Former professor Edgar (Ted) Jones (center) was among the guests at the reunions last fall.
ProfessorJesseDukeminierandDr. DavidSanders pledge $2 million estategift toendowtwoprofessorships
Efesso/Jesse
Dukeminiec,anationallyknownprnpnty �ftandbelovedmemberofthelawfaculty,andDr. David Sanders, a psychiatrist, have pledged $2 million to UCLA School of Law in their estate plans to create two endowedprofessorshipsattheLawSchool.
"Icannotstressenoughhowgratefulweare,allofus,for their commitment and devotion to the law school," bean JonathanVaratsaidinannouncingthegiftinMarchatthe AlumnioftheYear luncheon. "Thatabelovedmember of ourfacultywouldgivesomuchbacktothisschoolfromhis estilteisatributenotonlytohisgenerositybuttothecolleagµes and students who have made him feel so fondly aboµthislifewithus. ThatDavidSanderswouldleaveso muchtouswhenheisnotevena graduate oftheschool speaks equally loudly about the kind of special and welcomingplacetheUCLASchoolofLawis."
Dukeminier, the Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law Emeritus,writestheleadingtexts,orcasebooks,inproperty lawandinlawconcerningwills,trustsandestatesusedby lawschoolsthroughoutthecountry.Healsoisanadvisorto the American Law Institute Restatement of Property. Restatementssetforthasynthesisandanalysisofthebest legal principles in a particular field. Dukeminier holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard College and a law degree fromYaleLawSchool,andhastaughtatUCLAsince1963. He was the first law faculty member to receive UCL% school-wide DistinguishedTeachingAward, which hewas given in 1976. He has received the Law School's Rutter AwardforExcellenceinTeachingandwaselectedProfessor oftheYearbytwograduatingclasses,mostrecentlyin1992.
Sanders earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia College, a medical degree from Long Island College of Medicine and a master's degree in public health from ColumbiaUniversity. DuringhismedicalcareerinNewYork and Los Angeles, he has been a lecturer and anassociate clinicalprofessorofpsychiatryatUCLASchoolofMedicine. HeheldaseriesofpositionsatCedars-SinaiMedicalCenter in Los Angeles, including serving in the past as associate director and acting director of Thalians Mental Health Center.Sandersistheauthorofnumerousarticlesthathave appearedinmedicaljournals.
DukeminiersaidtheydecidedtoincludeUCLAintheir estateplansbecausetheybelieveinthevalueofeducation. "UCLAhasmeantaverygreatdealtome.UCLASchoolof Lawhasgivenmeanopportunitytoteach,aprivilegeIhold dear,andithassupportedmyscholarship,"hesaid."Ithas have given me something, and I wish to give something back."
SchoolofLawDeanJonathanVaratpraisedthegift.'This isapowerfulstatementoftheirbeliefinthefutureofthe UCLA Law community and in its intellectual ascendancy. WearedeeplygratefulforJesseandDavid'sgenerosityand commitmenttotheUCLASchoolofLaw."
Photo byJohn Rose
Dr. David Sanders
Alumni from three decad es are profil ed in the Los Angel es Daily Journal
B" "Y Russell '66 was featm,d in th, Aptil 12, 1999 issue. Twenty-five years ago, Russell, 34, was the youngest judge to be appointed to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court; today, at 58, he is the district's senior judge. Russell is the author of the "Bankruptcy Evidence Manual " (West , 1987). He has garnered a reputation as an innovator of bankruptcy court procedures, such as allowing lawyers to conduct trials on declaration. In 1994, Russell was instrumental in creating the bankruptcy court's alternative dispute resolution committee , which he also chaired In July 1995, the committee inaugurated a bankruptcy mediation program in which 200 lawyers and business people, acting as mediators , resolve 64 percent of the Central District's massive bankruptcy caseload out of court. After graduating from UCLA with a bachelor's degree in engineering , Russell worked for Hughes Aircraft for a year to earn tuition for law school.
St e ven D. Belas co ' 75 was profiled in the April 1 , 1999 issue. Belasco is one of only 33 full-time referees employed in California's 60 court districts. In this capacity, Belasco settles small claims and issues fines in traffic court. Hired by the judges of Santa Maria Municipal Court in 1995 , Belasco was elevated to Santa Barbara County Superior Court in 1998 when the courts unified Belasco worked his way through UCLA law school selling hot dogs at the Forum in Inglewood at night. After graduating, he worked briefly as an executive assistant with the Agricultural Labor Relations Board in Sacramento , then as a staff attorney for the California Rural Legal Assistance Program (CRLAP) in Santa Maria. Belasco entered private practice with Adria n Andrade ' 76 , a colleague from the CRLAP, in 1982. After they dissolved their partnership in 1992 , Belasco practiced criminal defense law full-time for three years . He was confirmed unanimously in 1995 as court referee.
Em ily A. Stevens ' 75 was featured in the April 30 , 1999 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. A Los Angeles Superior Court Judg e who sits on the bench of the Children 's Courthouse in Monterey Park , California , Stevens has been hailed as " the epitome of an outstanding judge " by
Dependency Court Supervising J u dge Terry Friedman. The Daily Journal reports that Stevens is proud of the court she has chosen , and that she cons iders helping children who appear in her courtroom the highest goa l. As an advocate and employee of the Juvenil e Court sys tem , Stevens believes that the media shou ld have a role in exp laining the workings of the Juvenile Court to the public To this end, she recently allowed the media into her courtroom for a recent highprofile case remanded from the state appeals court , In re D__, CK25237 , in which Debra Reid, the mother of a child who died while in foster care , was attempting to regain permanent custody of another son who had been p laced in foster care Stevens is a frequent participant in UCLA Law activities.
Whittier (California) Municipal Court Judge Philip Gutie rrez ' 84 was profiled in the March 2 , 1999 issue of the Los Angeles Daily Journal. Gutierrez credits his interest in law to visits as a child to the East Los Angeles courthouse , where his mother worked as a clerk. Gutierrez received his bachelor's degree from Notre Dame , returning to Los Angeles for his law degree at UCLA. After graduating, he worked in private practice for 13 years , the last nine spent as a partner at Catkin & Collins in Santa Ana, where he buttressed the firm 's malpractice defense practice. In August 1997 , Governor Pete Wilson appointed him to the munic ipal court bench. The son of an alcoholic and heroin-addicted father, Gutierrez says that his persona l experiences with an addicted family member incline him to put convicted offenders in a counseling program as a "wake-up call." "If the y fall off that program ," he said in his interview with the Daily Journal , "I will prescribe jail , but minimal jail. " Gutierrez makes it a point to reach out to students who come to visit the courthouse , or when he visits schools. He says he hopes that in relating his experiences and background , children who are going through what he went through as a child will come to the realization that they can either "remain a victim and a part of that chaos, or they can do something to get out of it and make something of their lives. "
GARY TAYLOR '63 AWARDED 1998 FRANKLIN G. WEST AWARD
In recognition of his long, distinguished career as a litigator and judge, the OrangeCountyBarAssociation (OCBA) hasawardeditshighest distinction, the Franklin G. West Award, to U.S. District Judge Gary Taylor '63. Featured in the February 1999 issue of the Orange County Lawyer, Taylor was praised by 1996 OCBA president Jennifer L. Keller for his decency, modesty, thoughtfulness, hard work, service to the Orange County community and his genuine concern for the human conflicts underlying legal proceedings. While at UCLA Law, Taylor captained the Moot Court team, which won the Roscoe Pound Law Day Moot Court event. After graduating from law school, Taylor prosecuted and defendedcourt martialsasanattorneyinthe U.S. ArmyJAG Corps, afterwhich he practiced law with Wenke, Taylor, Evans & lkola until 1986. As an attorney, Taylor was very active in the OCBA. In 1986, California Governor George Deukmejian appointed Taylor to the Orange County Superior Court. In 1991, President George Bush appointed him to the U.S. District Court for the Central Districtof California.
1960s
Ronald W. Anteau '65 was named as one ofa selectgroupoftopcelebrity familylawattorneysinanarticlepublishedinCaliforniaLawBusiness(May 18, 1998), a supplement to the Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal, the legal newspapers for Southern and NorthernCalifornia.
Michael P. Judge '68, PublicDefender of Los Angeles Count, received the Loren Miller Award of the John M. Langston Bar Association as the Lawyer of the Year 1998.Judge also wasappointedasaTrusteeoftheLos Angeles County Bar in 1998 and is currentlyservinginthatcapacityHeis the only public defender to have received the National Leadership
Awardof the National Association of DrugCourt Professionals. The award waspresentedbytheSecretaryofthe OfficeofNationalDrugControlPolicy (FederalDrugCzar)ataluncheonin Washington, D.C., attended by 2,500 from all the United States, territories andsomeforeigncountries.
1970s
Myron S. Greenberg '70 has been electedpresidentoftheMarinCounty Bar Association. Since 1989, he has been an instructor in estate planning at UC Berkeley Extension. His law practice is in Larkspur, California, where he concentrates on tax, estate planning and probate matters. As a CPAandcertifiedspecialistintaxation law, he serves on the Taxation Law CommissionoftheCaliforniaBoardof LegalSpecialization.
Joel Moskowitz '70 is a founder of Moskowitz, Brestoff, Winston &: Blinderman LLP Moskowitz was a partnerat Gibson,Dunn &: Crutcher, ChiefofCalifornia's Toxic Substances Control Programs and a Deputy CaliforniaAttorney General.Hisnew firmspecializesin environmentallitigationandtransactions.
Tony Canzoneri '72, managing officer of thelawfirmofBrown, Winfield&:Canzoneri, Inc., announced the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles firm, whichheco-foundedwithJ. Kenneth Brown and Thomas F. Winfield Ill in LosAngelesin 1974.Thefirm'spracticerevolvesaroundassistingbothprivate- and public-sector clients in buildingandimprovinglocalcommunities.In1978,Canzoneri,thenaresidentofPasadena,hadavisionforthe revitalizationofaseriouslydeteriorated part of Pasadena, which he was instrumental in transforming into what is now the well-known success storyofOldPasadena.Canzoneriwas involvedbothasthefirstchairmanof the Old Pasadena Parking Advisory Committee,whichwasresponsiblefor theplanning,financingandthedevelopment of much needed parking structures,andasthemanaging partner of entities which restored several historicbuildings.
UCLA LAW
ALUM
EMBARKS ON CROSS-COUNTRY BICYCLE RIDE TO RAISE MONEY FOR LOW-INCOME PEOPLE WITH CIVIL LEGAL NEEDS
Robert A. Weeks '67 retired in March after 30 years of service with the Santa Clara County (California) Public Defender's Office. Less than a month after retiring, Weeks resumed his role as an advocate for the poor, albeit in a markedly different fashion. Known for his boundless energy and willingness to take on new challenges, Weeks, along with 19 other cyclists over the age of 50, embarked on a 3,200-mile cross-country bicycle tour, "Wheels of Justice." Proceeds collected from sponsors will go to Community Legal Services, a nonprofit organization whose objective is to help low-income clients in Silicon Valley gain access to the legal system. Weeks said he had thought about making such a trip for several years as he witnessed legal access for the poor in his county decline. Weeks advocates that low-income clients with civil legal problems should have the same high-quality legal representation given to those charged with crimes. The cyclists embarked from Newport Beach on April 4, 1999 and finished in St. Augustine, Florida on June 4. Cyclists chronicled their trip at http://members.aol.com/azbhorton/.
Paul H. Robinson '73 is a visiting law professor at the UniversityofMichigan this year. He is on the faculty at Northwestern University School of Law. He wasalso co-editor of Criminal Law and Procedure Abstracts, Number 40 (May 6, 1998).
Kenneth Ross '73 has been appointed as Distinguished Practitioner in Residence at WilliamMitchell College of Law, St. Paul, Minnesota for the spring 1999 semester. During the fall, he taught two courses, Products Liability and Business Ethics. Ken will
continue his law practice at Bowman and Brooke LLP, Minneapolis, where he practices in the areas of product liability; corporate counseling, business ethnics and preventive law.
C. Jean Ryan '75 has joined the San Francisco-based partnership of Sideman & Bancroft LLP She engages in general tax practice that includes estate and tax planning for individuals and closely held businesses. She is a
frequent lecturer for the California Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) and other organizations.
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski '75 was Marquette University Law School's E. Harold Hallows DistinguishedJudicial Fellow for 1999. As a Fellow, Kozinski presented the lecture "Should Reading Legislative History be an Impeachable Offense?" at Marquette University in February. Kozinski was UCLA Law's Alumnus of the Year for 1998.
Bob Weeks (with helmet) with staff of Community Legal Services in front of Santa Clara County Courthouse
William F. Fahey '76 was appointed recently to the Los Angeles Superior Court. Fahey had been a partner with the firm of Hanna & Morton since February 1998. He also has been a counselor with the Office of Independent Counsel in Washington, D.C. since 1996, where he headed the grand jury investigation into the conduct of the former Secretary of Agriculture.
Paul Fogel '76 has been elected chairman of the appellate practice section of the Bar Association of San Francisco. He assumed the position in Januar. Fogel has practiced in the appellate department of Oakland, California-based Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May's San Francisco office since 1988.
Mark C. Mazzarella '78 co-authored a book calleq Reading People, a New York Times bestseller published by Random House in June 1998. Mazzarella is presently writing a second book to be published by Simon & Schuster and scheduled for release later this year.
Ed Moran '78 has been appointed Chair of the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California for 1998-1999.
THREE LAW ALUMS NAMED IN MAGAZINE FEATURING TOP 20 CALIFORNIA LAWYERS
California Lawyer magazine named three UCLA Law alumni to their Top 20 Lawyers of the Year list in the December 1998 issue.
Henry R. Fenton '69 was named for representing the estate of Dr. Louis E. Potvin before the California State Supreme Court in Potvin v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. This case will determine whether a managed care group must provide notice and a hearing before terminating a physician who has independent contractor status.
"Not only does this benefit physicians who have been terminated," says Fenton, "but it also helps patients who might have their care disrupted if the doctor is let go."
Civil rights attorney Stewart Kwoh '74, president, executive director andcofounder of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC), was noted for receiving the MacArthur Foundation's prestigious "genius award." Kwoh was also featured in the Fall/Winter 1998 issue of UCLA Law magazine.
Lynda A. Romero '79 was honored by the San Diego County Defense Bar for her excellent work in appellate advocacy. Romero was also instrumental in launching an investigation into alleged prosecutorial misconduct in the San Diego District Atorney's office.
Arthur F. Radke '79 has been appointed a member of the Litigation practice group of Dykema Gossett in Chicago. (In January 1994, Dykema Gossett became a professional limited liability company and, at that time, "partners" became designated as "members.") Radke's practice will focus on business litigation and dispute resolution. He has represented clients both locally and nationally in litigation involving business disputes including commercial contracts, intellectual property, business torts, and employment.
Radke previously practiced at Hefner & Radke, a litigation specialty firm, and prior to that was a partner at a major Chicago law firm.
1980s
Charles S. Goldman '80, who is married toJiyoung Betty Lee '81, became a partner in July 1998 at Bowles & Verna in Walnut Creek, California, focusing on business, corporate and real estate transactions. He has originated "Business Vision," the firm's legal services program.
GOVERNOR DAVIS APPOINTS
ALUM TO HEAD TRADE AGENCY
Lon S. Hatamiya '87 was sworn in as Secretary of the California Trade and Commerce Agency by Governor Gray DavisonJanuary 5, 1999. Priortothis appointment, Hatamiya served as the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hatamiyahasalso heldthe positionof Administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) of USDA. Born and raised in Marysville, California, where his family has been farming for more than 90 years, Hatamiya graduated with honors from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in economics. In addition to earning his law degree, he earned a master's degree in Entrepreneurial Studies and International Business from the Anderson Graduate Schoolof ManagementatUCLA. Hewasfeaturedinanarticle in the UCLA Law alumni magazine's Summer 1994 issue that focused on alumniworking in the federal government.
Morgan T. Jones '81 has joined the Sacramento-based law firm of McDonough, Holland & Allen as a shareholder in the real estate section. His practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions and banking, with particular emphasis on real estate and commercial finance, workouts and restructurings. Jones joined the firm from U.S. Bancorp, where he was a manager of the California Legal Department' and Senior Corporate Counsel. Previously, he was a partner at Morrison & Foerster.
Jiyoung Betty Lee '81, who is married to Charles S. Goldman '80, is representing indigent criminal defendants on appeal in Alameda County.
Eric H. Schunk '81 was named comanaging partner of the Global Corporate Department of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley&: McCloy. His practice focuses on securities financings and mergers and acquisitions.
Valerie B. Ackerman '85 was awarded the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of Virginia where she was a four-year basketball starter and two-time Academic All-American.
After graduating University of Virginia in 1981 and fromUCLASchool of Law in 1985, she thenjoined the NBA as a staff attorney in 1988 and after eight years as an NBC executive, she was named to head the WNBA.
In November 1998, J. Luis (Lou) Correa '85 was -elected to the California State Assembly, representing the 69th Assembly District (Santa Ana). Correa, a Democrat, earned 54% of the vote in a surprising upset over Republican incumbent Jim Morrissey. Correa waged an energetic campaign, mobilizing almost 800 workers on election day, including hundreds of Latino youth. Of the election, Correa, quoted in the Los Angeles Times, remarked, "Wehadvery goodcommunity support. Andwe wererighton the issues: health care, minimum wage, education, the need for more schools." Prior to his election to the California Assembly, Correa worked as a real estate agent in Anaheim. Correa is the first Latino state legislator from Orange County.
David Isenberg '86 has been named co-leader of the eight-attorney Insolvency Group in the Los Angeles office of Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois&: Bisgaard LLP, where he is a partner. He was recently appointed to the Bankruptcy Committee of the LACBA's Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section. He concentrates his practice in representation of creditors in work-
out and insolvency proceedings and representationofbankruptcytrustees.
Lois Scali '86 hasbeenmadepartnerat Irell&ManellaLLP Sheisheadofthe firm's entertainment group and represents a variety of domestic and internationalclientsinthefirm'stelevision, film, publishing and music entertainment practice. With another of the firm's newly appointed partners, she co-founded the company's nationally recognizednewmediapractice.
MarcGeller '87 openedhisowngeneral practice geared toward civil litigationinHoodRiver,Oregon.
James Gelb '88 iscurrentlyservingas SpecialAssistantandCounselortothe SecretaryoftheArmy, ThePentagon.
Ronald 0. Sally '88 has been promoted to senior vice president, Business and Administration, at Ascent Sports, Inc. Inaddition to his responsibilities as General Counsel of Ascent Sports, Inc., the Denver Nuggets and ColoradoAvalanche,hewilldirectthe Community Relations and Human Resources Departments of Ascent Sports, which is a division of Ascent Entertainment Group, Inc., theowner of the NBA's Denver Nuggets, NHl..'.s Colorado Avalanche, Ascent Arena Company, Ascent Network Services, BeaconCommunicationsCorporation, andOn CommandCorporation.
TWO ALUMNI NOMINATED FOR FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Gary A. Feess '74 was nominated by President Clinton for a seat on the federal bench. Feess has served the L.A. Superior Court in Pomona since 1996, when he was appointed by thenGovernor Pete Wilson. Feess served two tours as a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles and was the interim head of the U.S. Attorney's office. He was deputy general counsel to the Christopher Commission, which investigated abuses in the Los Angeles Police Department in the wake of the beating of Rodney King. While at UCLA Law, Feess was an editor of the Law Review and a member of Order of theCoif.
Dolly Gee '84 has been nominated by PresidentClintonfor a federal judgeship in California. If confirmed, Gee would be the first Chinese-American woman to serve on thefederalbench. After graduation from law school, Gee, who specializes inlaborandpublicinterestmatters, servedasa lawclerkfor U.S. District Judge Milton Schwartz in Sacramento. She later joined the Los Angeles labor law firm of Schwartz, Steinsapir, Dohrmann & Sommers. She co-founded the Asian PacificAmerican BarAssociationofLos Angelesandthe Multicultural Bar Alliance.
She is past president of the Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association and a member of the California Bar Association commission that evaluates prospective nominees for state courtjudgeships. Sen. Barbara Boxer, in recommending Gee, has praised her as"a first rate attorney" whose story" of hard work and personal triumph are proof of the power of the American dream."
Charles M. Weber '89 has been made partner at the law firm ofQuarles&Bradyin Milwaukee,Wisconsin, practicing in the corporate finance/securities, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law areas. He is a member of the firm's business law department and closely held business
practicegroup. Weberhasrepresented publiccompaniesandprivatelyowned businesses in various purchase, sale and business combination transactions. Hispracticealsoincludesrepresentation of investment advisors and mutual funds. Weber earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
1990s
Blake Campbell '90 hasjoined the San Francisco office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as an associate. Previously, Campbell served as assistant commissioner of securities at the California Department of Corporations.
Allison Keller '90 has been made equitypartner at the Century City office of O'Melveny & Myers.
Rebecca Tsosie '90 haspresented several papers on Native American environmental issues at the SONREEL Conference in Scottsdale, the American Philosophical Association meeting in Los Angeles and the Arizona State Bar. She is presently working on papers dealing with the treatment of ancient human remains under Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA)and on environmental federalism and Indian tribes, as well as with the Arizona StateLawJournal on a symposium dealing with urban growth, land use development, and preservation of cultural resources and community values. She teaches at Arizona State University Law School.
Joseph S. Wu '90 was recently elevated to equity partner with the 460-plus attorney firm of Arter & HaddenLLP, where he will continue to chair the Firm'sWestCoast Asia/Pacific Rim practice from his offices in both Los Angeles and San Diego. Wu regularly assists clients on matters including international trade, corporate practices, intellectual property rights, and products liability defense. Wu is also a member of the firm's Commercial and Business Litigation practice groups.
Saskia T. Asamura '91 has been practicing law at the Los Angeles law firm Richards, Watson & Gershon for the pasteight years, specializingin inverse condemnation of all species on behalf ofpublicentities. Shealsoco-teachesa clinical course, Pretrial Advocacy, at the University of Southern California Law School and manages a jazz-funk musical band "Soup's Ready."
Scott Daruty '91 has been made equity partner in the Newport Beach office of O'Melveny & Myers.
Michael Heller '91 wasadmittedtothe Israeli Bar in November 1998 after completing the exams and internship required by the Bar for admission. He is practicing law as an associate at the
firm of Fischer, Behar & Co. where he also completed an internship. He acts as general counsel to the firm's regular corporate clients and practices in the areas of general corporate law, corporate financing, intellectual property andlicensing.
Stephen I. Berkman '92 has moved from the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate & Meaghr to its San Francisco office. Berkman isa real estate lawyer with an emphasis in acquisitions on behalf of REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) and other institutional investors.
Kevin L. Finch '92, who specializes in corporate and securities law, has been namedpartner atIrell & Manella, LLP, effective January 1999. At UCLA, he was Order of the Coif and served on the UCLA Law Review. Finch has advisedandrepresentedclients inconnection withawide variety ofbusiness matters, with emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, public and private equity and debt offerings, joint ventures, general corporate matters and various technology development and licensing matters.
Gerda Kleijkamp '93 successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the Netherlands and will be publishing her book (based in part on her work here), FamilyLifeandFamilyInterests:
AComparativeStudyontheInflwnceof the European Convention of Human Rights on Dutch Family Law and the Influence of the United States ConstitutiononAmericanFamilyLaw. The publisher is Kluwer Law International (Boston, London, The Hague).
Brette Simon '94, a corporate associateattheLosAngelesofficeofGibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, has recently written several articles on the Year 2000 Problem in the corporate context, which have been published in Business Law Today, House Counsel, Insights,CorporateCounselQuarterly, Corporate Governance Advisor, Corporate Practitioner andwallstreetlawyer.com.Additionally,shehaswrittentwochaptersforthebook, TheYear 2000 LegalGuide, publishedbyBowne &Co.,Inc.SimonhasspokenonY2K at legal and business seminars in San Francisco and Tucson and has been asked to speak at Year 2000 conferencesthisyearinLosAngeles,Atlanta, New Orleans, San Francisco,Chicago andLondon.
Keith Jaasma '95 has been practicing law in Houston after completing a clerkship withJudge CharlesWiggins of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.Hispracticeincludesemploymentlaw,antitrust,andpatentlawand issues such as abstention and moot-
ness. He also is currently teaching Legal Research and Writing at the UniversityofHoustonLawSchool.
Ian Noel '95 has opened thelaw firm NoelandAssociatesinLos Angelesto serve the legal needs of those in the innercityandthetraditionallyunderserved.
Steve J. Reyes '97 and Michelle A. Martinez '97 arecurrently clerkingfor SeniorJusticeJoseph F Baca of the New Mexico Supreme Court. In September, Martinez will start as an associate at the Albuquerque, New Mexico-based law firm of Modrall, Sperling &Roehl.
Michelle Ahnn '98, currently a clerk forU.S.DistrictJudgeNapoleonJoqes in San Diego, has been awarded a Prettyman/Stiller Fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center. As a Fellow, for the next two years Ahnn will represent indigent defendants, study trial advocacy and help teach clinical courses at Georgetown University. Ahnn was the recipient of one of only five Prettyman/Stiller Fellowships offered annually, and is the first UCLA Law alum to receive this competitive and prestigious award.
Maya Alexandri '98 recentlypublished anarticle inTaxNotesmagazinecon-
terningsection162(m)oftheInternal Revenue Code, which limits deductions for certain executive compensationto$1million.
Jeannette R. Busek '98 hasjoinedthe law firm of Brown, Winfield & Canzoneri ('72- seeclassnote) inLos Angeles. Busek was comments editor ofthe UCLALaw Review.
David Frockt '98 has recently joined the Seattle office of Graham&JamesLLP As a member of the Litigation Practice Group, he focuses on general litigation and labor and employmentlaw.
Tom Heremans '98 recentlypublished an article based on his thesis: "The Exploitation of Copyright Protected Works in Cyberspace," in the largest Belgian law journal, Rechtskundig Weekblad(LegalWeekly or WeeklyLaw Journal)Jan.9,1999.
Jamie Beth Jefferson '98 joined the Oakland, California law firm of Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean as an associate in the litigation practice group.
The family of Retired Judge Jerry Pacht, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge who died in April 1997, has donated his important papers and files to the Special Collections Department of the Charles E. Young Research Library (formerly University Research Library) where they will be available for viewing in future months.
Although Judge Pacht graduated from USC Law School (UCLA Law had not yet been founded), his widow, Judith Pacht, and family have set up a constitutional law award for students at the law school as well as donated the papers.
Judge Pacht is perhaps best known for striking down a policy of the University of California that barred Communists from employment. His decision reversed the Board of Regents' firing ofAngela Davis as an assistant professor of philosophy at UCLA.
Michael Meissner, LLM '98 joined the New York office of the international law firm Rogers &WellsLLPin September 1998. Asan associate in the corporate department, he is involved in Rogers & Wells' German Practice Group andothercross-border matters. In October 1998, his article "The Corporate Right to Privacy in German and American Law" was published by Peter Lang European Publishers.
Wendy E. Stanford '98 has become an associate at the Los Angeles office of Baker & Hostetler LLP, one of the
nation's largest law firms. At UCLA, she was a recipient of the Foundation of the State Bar of California Scholarship.
Antje Wiener, LLM '98, now an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science, University of Hanover, has published "The Embedded Acquis Communautaire Transmission Belt and Prism of New Governance" in the European Law Journal (April 1998). Wiener has another paper submitted for publication, "The Citizenship Acquis Communautaire After AmsterdamA Constructive Approach to European Integration."
Errata
Honor Roll of Donors 1997-98
The following individuals were inadvertently omitted or incorrectly listed in the most recent Honor Roll of Donors. We apologize for these errors.
Christine Chua '89 should be listed with her class as a Supporter.
B.D. Fischer '58 should be listed with his class as a member of the Dean's Roundtable.
Ruth E. Fisher '80 should be listed with her class as a donor to the Dean's Discretionary Endowment Fund.
Jean Bauer Fisler '52 should be listed with her class as a member of the James H. Chadbourn Fellows.
Lois J. Scali '86 should be listed with her class as a member of the Dean's Advocates.
Judith W. Wegner '76 should be listed with her class as a member of the Dean's Circle.
IN MEMORIAM
Harold Mazirow, LLB. '62 passed away on April 15, 1999 at the age of 64. Mazirow was born in Brooklyn, NewYork onMarch 3, 1935, aridlived in DelMar, California for 30 years. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA's School of Business Administration in 1957 before receiving his LLB. from UCLA in 1962. Mazirow, the former staff attorney for the State Compensation Insurance Fund, was a life member since June 1957 of the UCLA Alumni Association. He is survived by his wife, Nancy Mazirow of Del Mar, and his son William Seth Mazirow of San Diego. Memorial donations may be made payable to The UCLA Foundation/Law, or the American Cancer Society.
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Laverne M. Bauer '52
JackK.Weber '53
Allen Rosenthal '56
Donald. Mowat '57
Roy A.Kates '57
William R. Dickerson '58
Robert D. Walker '62
Eric R. Van de Water '67
Bruce D. Lowry '75
Milton H. Cook '76
Mark G. Tompkins '92 died on Dec. 14, 1998. Tompkins was a deputy district attorney in the Los Angeles County District Attorney Office's Family Support Division. Before joining the D.A.'s office, he worked as an attorney with an independent practitioner from 1992-1995. For the past three years, Tompkins enjoyed serving as a mentor teacher through the District Attorney's Project Lead Program. A special fund supporting the program has been established in his honor: the Mark G. Tompkins Project Lead Memorial Fund. Tompkins is survived by his parents, Bea and Linzie Tompkins; his sister Lynette Tompkins Engel, and her husband Matthais Engel ofKoln, Germany; a grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Tompkins of South Carolina; his fiancee, Stefanie Baker; and numerous other relatives and friends. The family requests donations to: District Attorney Crime Prevention Foundation, c/o Mark G. Tompkins Project Lead Memorial Fund, PO. Box53349, Los Angeles, CA90053-0349.
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