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Richard C. Maxwell Chair Is Established by Alumni
heRichardC.MaxwellChairinLaw has been established at the School of Law with an endowment of $500,000throughgiftsfromagroup of alumni who were students in the 1950s and '60s.
By establishing the endowed chair, the donors have created a permanent tribute to Professor Maxwell, who joined UCLA's law faculty in 1953, became dean in 1959, and then led the school for a decade as it earned a place among the nation's great law schools.
The individual donors are Norman Bradley Barker, Stephen and Renee Claman, Stanley R. Fimberg, Bernard A. and Lenore Greenberg, Los AngelesSuperiorCourt Judge WilliamA.and Julie C. Masterson, JosiahL. Neeper, U.S. DistrictCourt Judge MarianaR. Pfaelzer,RogerC. Pettitt,Charles E. Rickershauser Jr., Ralph and Shirley Shapiro, and Henry and Nancy Steinman.
"The generosity of these alumni will greatly aid the school in continuing to build a great faculty, a tradition in which Richard Maxwell played such a vital role," said Dean Susan Westerberg Prager.
The donors have authorized the Richard C. Maxwell Chair to beunrestricted, so that over the years chair holders will be drawn from a wide range of fields and from both public and private law disciplines.
"The broad vision which these alumni have shown in honoring Dean Maxwell through the creation of this chair will benefit our law school for generations to come," said Dean Prager.
In his decade as dean, Maxwell's efforts at program development and faculty recruitment wereextraordinarilyfruitful.Uponendinghisterm
as dean, he returned to full-time scholarship and teaching. In 1977, Professor Maxwell received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award.
Now retired from UCLA, Maxwell is the Harry R. Chadwick Sr. Professor of Law at Duke University.
Professor Maxwell's continuing influence on his former students is evident in the comments which the individual donors offered, when asked about their reasons for creating the chair.
Norman Bradley Barker '53 was completing law school just as Professor Maxwell was arriving at UCLA-yet he joined in endowing the chair 25 years later because he was "so impressed with Dean Maxwell's influence on the school."
Stephen E. Claman '59 "immediately said yes" tofundingthe MaxwellChair,"because Ihavevery fond memories of Dick Maxwell. He was no nonsense, no pretenses, and he taught material I am still using in my practice. Professor Maxwell rallied the law school when he arrived, and the Maxwell Chair is a very positive reminder of a terrific professor."
Stanley R. Fimberg '60, who took two very essential courses from Maxwell, remembers him as "an incredible teacher and a sensation9l guy. I am so grateful for what he did to take UCLA into a position of national leadership."
Bernard A. Greenberg '58 was a student of Maxwell's and, later when Greenberg taught at UCLA, a colleague. "To many of us, he is the one who characterizes what the law school is aboutand he was extremely important to his fellow professors. A group of us felt that if one person symbolized the law school, that person was Dick Maxwell. Besidesbeingateacher,hewasateacher
whowasafriend."
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William A. Masterson '58 said the Maxwell Chair seemed a naturalresponseto the central enthusiam of Dick Maxwell. "Mrs. Masterson andI did this because of his enthusiasm; his enthusiasm was so infectious. He made a tremendous impression on me when I was a law student, and I never forgot himforbeingtheincredibleteacherhewas."
Josiah L. Neeper '59, a student when Professor Maxwellwasdean,noted: "Frommypointofview, hewastheepitomeofagreatintellectandscholar. Hewasextremelymodestandflexible."
RogerC. Pettitt'54 said that during 35 years of friendship, "I developed an enormous personal admiration and respect for Dick Maxwell. He brought the law school from comparative anonymity to a position as probably one of the top dozen schools in the country." Pettitt's participation in establishing the chair was prompted further by a "long and continuing commitment to UCLA and the University of 2
California."
U.S. District Court Judge Mariana R. Pfaelzer '57 said thatby contributing tothe chair shewishedto expresshergratitudefortheinvaluablehelpandencouragement which Dean Maxwell gave her as a womanlawstudent.Shehascherishedhisfriendship throughout her career.
Charles E. Rickershauser Jr. '57 wanted to seethe MaxwellChairbecomearealitybecausetheendowed chairinDeanMaxwell'shonor"issoclearly away of helping the law school and of sustaining a strong faculty."
Ralph Shapiro '58 remembers Maxwell as "our teacher, our dean, our friend. He was our teacher and he has remained our friend. Dick Maxwell is suigeneris, uniqueuntohimself."
HenrySteinman'61observedthatMaxwell"was and is a great human being, in addition to being a personable professor. Looking back, the most definitive memory I hav� is what an easy person Dean Maxwell was toconversewith-andsimply tobearound."D
Murray L. Schwartz Is First Holder of Price Chair in Law
rofessor Murray L. Schwartz, revered by UCLA law students as a rigorous teacher and by his colleagues as a distinguished scholar, has been appointed the first holder of the David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Chair at the School of Law.
In his 30 years on the UCLA faculty, Professor Schwartz'sscholarshiponthelegalprofessionand legalethicshasshapedtheteachingofprofessional responsibility in many ofthe nation'slawschools.
The David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Chair in Law was established in September 1987 with an endowment of $500,000. It is the first endowed chaircreatedattheSchoolofLawbyanindividual alumni gift. David G. Pricereceivedhislawdegree in 1960 and was a member of the UCLA Law Review.
The Prices' endowmentofthechairisthelargest single gift in the law school's history. By making their gift unrestricted, David and Dallas Price enabled the law faculty to exercise wide latitude in selecting professors who will hold the chair.
"It seems to the law faculty particularly fitting that the chair be occupied initially by Murray Schwartz, who has had a tremendous impact over a period of many years on the development of a great law school at UCLA," said Dean Susan Westerberg Prager.
In September, Schwartz will become UCLA's Executive Vice Chancellor. He then will relinquish the endowed chair. As Executive Vice Chancellor, Schwartz will act as principal deputy to the chancellor.Hewillhaveprimaryresponsibilityfor UCLA's academic programs.
Professor Schwartz was dean of the School of Law from 1969 to 1975, and during those years the law school initiated an innovative clinical education program and greatly diversified its student body.
Schwartz later chairedthe UCLA division of the Academic Senate. He is currently chair of the AcademicCouncilandAcademicAssemblyforthe nine-campusUCsystemandfacultyrepresentative tothe Regents of the University.
Schwartz began his career as a chemist after earning his bachelor's degree in chemistry at Pennsylvania State University in 1942. After serving as commanding officer of a submarinechaser, he studied industrial relations at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and received the LL.B. degree from theUniversityofPennsylvaniaLawSchoolin 1949. Schwartz clerked for Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson on the U.S. Supreme Court and practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia before joining UCLA's law faculty in 1958.
Centering his research on the legal profession, Schwartz has produced a number of important works. In 1961, his book Professional Responsibility and the Administration of Justice established a framework which most other scholarsin this field have later incorporated.
Schwartz's research in the legal profession culminated in his 1979 casebook Lawyers and the Legal Profession. A second edition followed in 1985. Otherworks by Professor Schwartz include Law and the American Future, 1976.D
Chief Justice Lucas was welcomed warmly by lawalumni,atleft,attendingthedinnerhonoring his colleague on the California Supreme Court. Justice Arguelles, above, recalled his yearsat UCLA. Then, withDean Prager, hevisited dinner guests at their tables - thanking them,inhistypicallygraciousmanner,fortheir presence.
Justice John A. Arguelles: Another First for UCLA
John A. Arguelles, member of the Class of '54 and the law school's first alumnus on the California Supreme Court, was among fellow alumni and friends for a special evening of celebration. His humor, and the warmth of the occasion, made it plain that Justice Arguelles felt entirely at home as he returned to the UCLA campus to receive the School of Law's Alumnus of the Year Award.
The Class of '54 had been the first to attend all three years of law school in what then was the new law building. At the November dinner honoring his elevation to the high court, Justice Arguelles relished recalling those years.
At the helm of the new school was Dean Dale
Coffman, a controversial figure. Arguelles recounted a probing interview by Dean Coffman; upon reflection, Arguelles surmised, "I think he was trying to determine if I had any Communist leanings." But there was also much to respect in Coffman, as Arguelles recalled those early years. "Iftherewasmadnessinhismethod, perhapsthere was some method in his madness, too."
And the "unforgettable Chadbourne" lives vividly inthemind of Justice Arguelles. Professor James Chadbourne became one of the great law teachers of his generation. Roscoe Pound became alivinglegendtohisstudents."Itwasagreathonor to study under Roscoe P.ound." Adding some life
CaliforniaChiefJustice MalcolmLucas,himself a graduate of USC's law school, spoke glowingly of his cross-town rival. "Johnrepresentsthe best thelegalprofessionandthejudiciaryhavetooffer," said Justice Lucas. "His presence has benefitted us all. He has a keen mind. He had a congenial personality, which has contributed to a collegial atmosphere. His alma mater can take great pride inthecontributionithasmade."
DeanSusan Westerberg Pragerrecounted other important "firsts" on the judiciary by UCLA alumni.
The late Laurence T. Wren '55 was the law school's first alumnus to become a judge, in 1961 on the Flagstaff, Arizona, Municipal Court. Two
other members of that class set important milestones. Joan Dempsey Klein '55 was the first tobecomeajudgeinCalifornia,appointedin1963 tothe MunicipalCourt.JusticeKleinwasthefirst alumnus appointed to the California Court of Appealandthefirsttobeapresidingjudgeofthat court. Judge Richard Schauer '55 was the law school's firstalumnuson theSuperiorCourt, and alsofirsttobecomepresiding judgeof aSuperior Court. Judge Mariana Pfaelzer '57 was the first alumnusappointedtothe U.S.DistrictCourt, and also the first woman ever appointed a federal districtjudgeinCalifornia.JudgeDorothy Nelson '53 was the first alumnus ever appointed to a FederalCircuitCourt.
"John Arguelles has completed these important firsts," said Dean Prager, "and he adds further distinctiontoaremarkablegroupofpeople."D
Bill McGovern: A Harmonious Mix of Theoryand Practice
by Ellen K. Lance
illiam McGovern is unswervingly calm and unnervingly bright. He approaches the home stretch of a mammoth seven year project, a hornbook on Wills, Trusts, and Future Interests for West Publishing Company, with onlytheslightest hint ofimpatienceandahealthydoseofrelief.
While professing anintenseneedtoplungeinto anovelortwowhenit'sdone,conversationshows that McGovern has already given considerable thoughttohisnextproject.
William McGovern is certainly no stranger to publishing. His series of law review articles on the history of contract include "Dependent and Independent PromisesintheHistoryofLeasesand Other Contracts," 52 Tulane Law Review 659 (1978], and "Forfeiture, Inequality of Bargaining Power,andtheAvailabilityofCredit:AnHistorical Perspective," 74 Northwestern University Law
Review 141 (1979). His articles in the wills and trusts area include, "Homicide and Succession to Property,"68 Michigan Law Review285 (1978).
McGovernhas also published two editions of a casebook on contracts, Cases, Statutes and Readings on the Law of Contracts [Michie,Bobbs, Merill,1980), and Contracts & Sales: Cases & Problems [Bender,1986).Heisalsoauthorof wms, Trusts, and Future Interests: An Introduction to EstatePlanning Cases and Materials (1983).
Onthe UCLA SchoolofLawfacultysince1971, McGoverncurrently teaches courses in Contracts to first year students, and courses in Wills and Truststosecondandthirdyearlawstudents.From timelotimehealsoteachescourseslike"Enforcing
Ellen Klugman Lance '84 has writlen for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and other periodicals. She is a fequent contributor lo this magazine.
Unfair Contracts" in the Professional School Seminar Programfor UCLA undergraduates.
A more than casual interest in legal history has also led McGovern to attend several conferences on that subject in England. While others toured the English countryside, William McGovern scoured the Public Records Office for nearly five weeks, examining plea rolls dating back to the 1200s.
According to him, this kind of primary source research shows that the law of contract was much more important during the Middle Ages than peopleusuallythink.Thisrealizationdefieswidely accepted notions that contract disputes remained anunimportantsectoroflawuntilthe 19thcentury.
"Bill isunique in his learned historical approach to the law," observes Associate Dean Carole Goldberg-Ambrose. "It is rare that you find somebody with a scholar's love of the old who is also as sharp on modern legal developments. One
moment he'll be knowledgeably discussing the intricacies of 13th and 16th century jury systems, and the next moment he's on to current estate planning and drafting issues. He moves very gracefully between these two very different interests in law."
It is no suprise that McGovern harbors an historian within. His father, William McGovern I, taught courses on political theoryand the Far East at Northwestern University in Illinois, while William McGovern II was growing up.
Prior to his son's birth, the senior McGovern conductedanexpeditiondowntheAmazonin 1927, and disguised himself as an coolie in order to gain entry to Lhasa, Tibet's "forbidden city." His experiences gave rise to two books: Modern Japan and To Lhasa in Diguise.
For a while, young Bill McGovern thought he might teach history. "I went to law school somewhat reluctantly," notes McGovern in a
soothingly resonant voice that recalls his days as a student in his first year contracts class. "And for a while, I was swept up by law firm practice. I thought, though, that it might be fun to teach."
McGovern taught at Northwestern's law school from 1963-1971 prior to coming to UCLA. Of his decision to teach law instead of history, he says, "I think that law is a little less ivory tower-more real world. The kind of scholarship historians pursue is on obscure points unrelated to the real world."
"In the law school there exists that constant tension between the professors, who tend to be theoretically oriented, and the students, who are much more career oriented. That's actually good. It tends to force us to take a cold bath in reality."
"My feelings about what we should be doing in law schoolhaveshifted," he explainscomfortably. "When I first came to UCLA I was scornful of students' emphasis on the bar exam. But we're not doing our job if large numbers of students are flunking the bar."
McGovern's concern for a harmonious marriage between the theoretical and the practical is reflected both in his textbooks and in the manner in which he conducts his courses.
Whilemanyfirstyearstudentsareforcedtoplow through voluminous casebooks full of extraneous matter, McGovern's Contracts and Sales: Cases and Problems (Bender, 1986) co-authored with Lary Lawrence, a professor at Loyola Law School, uses compact, tightly edited advance sheet cases and law review articles whittled down to no more than threepages,toillustrate theprinciplesofthat course.
The Wills and Trusts course McGovern teaches alsoattemptstobridgethegapbetweentheoryand practice by regularly giving students problem sets which challenge their ability to apply these statutes to reallife situations.
The fact that McGovern attended Princeton and that his LL.B. came from Harvard at the tail end of the '50s never enters the conversation. Indeed, oneoftheamazingaspectsofMcGovernishistotal lack of pretentiousness.
Inthe classroom,ittranslates into thesense that William McGovern is thought-provoking, yet reassuringly approachable: a professor who will not berate his students' intellect or fledgling attempts to thinklike attorneys. McGovern seems to have a deep respect for all living things, law students included. Anyone who has attended law school knows this isn't always the case.
"I was a student in his Wills and Trusts class
during the Spring of '85," notes Bryan Fair, who teaches Legal Research and Writing at UCLA School of Law. "Bill McGovern was by far one of the best teachers I had. He was very clear in class and went out of his way to put together problem sets and exercises which aid students in comprehendingthematerial'spracticalaspects. He treated the class as if we were important, as if our presence really mattered."
Apparently, it does. Disappointed with last semester's course in Wills and Trusts, McGovern took several students to lunch to solicit feedback on how he could improve his class.
Because so many students were missing class for interviews, McGovern started taping classes and putting the tapes on reserve in the library.
And although copies of certain past exams were alreadyintheschool'slibrary,McGovernprepared and handed out copies for his students, anyway.
His rigorous willingness to examine and try to improve upon that which is not working has led McGovern to reappraise the structure of the current legal educational system. As a result, he is doubtful about the efficacy of retaining a three year program in our law schools.
"When students are first exposed to a new way of looking at the world through the eyes of the law, it's exciting to them," he remarks. "We say thatourpurposeinlawschoolistointroducethem to a new way of thought. If we're really sincere about that, then the third year doesn't make too much sense."
"Weneedtoexaminelawschoolnotmerely from the perspective of what we're spouting from the platform, but from the perspective of what is actuallygoingintothemindsofthestudents.That's relatively little after the second year," McGovern concludes with a shy grin.
McGovern has taught as a visiting professor of lawatthe UniversityofMinnesotaand University of Virginiainadditiontoteachingat Northwestern University. He seems quite content to remain at UCLA School of Law.
Although he spent one year as Associate Dean priortotheappointmentofcurrentAssociate Dean CaroleGoldberg-Ambrose,heprefersteachinglaw to administration. One of his current projects is chairing the Library Committee search for a new librarian, a search which he's been supervising with the extraordinary dedication and meticulous organizationwhichstudentshavelearnedtoexpect from his courses.
'Tm happy here," he says with the air of a man whoknowscontentment..'Tvebeenteachingalong
time.SometimesIfeelburntout.Butnoothercareer reallyinterestsme. I wouldn'ttradewhat I'mdoing for a career outside the law, and I'm not seriously attracted to the practice. I also find the contact with students invigorating."
Chances are, then, that the only court you'll find WilliamMcGovernon, thesedays, isthekindmade of clay. Despite his teaching and publishing commitments, McGovern still finds time to play tennis twice a week. Often, his opponents are colleaguesorstudentsfrom pastor currentclasses.
Whenhe'snotinthethroesofamajorpublishing deadline, he also takes time out to sail his small widgeon sailboat in Marina de] Rey.
Thosewhodon'tknow Bill McGovernpersonally usually have heard of his talented daughter, 26year-old actress Elizabeth McGovern. Featured on thecoverofNewsweekmagazineseveralyearsago as one of a new breed of promising actors and
actresses, McGovern is currently in New York, playing Helena in the Joseph Papp production of Midsummer Night's Dream.
Although from time to time she relies upon her father's acumen in the field of contracts, Elizabeth McGovern employs an attorney, a former McGovern student, to review her entertainment contracts. McGovern's oldest child, Monty, is an accomplished pianistandhasa Ph.D.inmath from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. After finishinghis postdoctoral work, he will be teaching at Yale.
And the McGovern'syoungestchild, Cammie, a spirited 24-year-oldplaywright, livesin New York where she oversees development for a small but prominent production company.
Professor McGovern and his wife Katherine, an English teacher at the Oakwood School in North Hollywood, have been married since 1958.D
Mother-Love and Abortion
by Robert D. Goldstein
Acting Professor of Law
ommon wisdom understands that mother and offspring belong together, as for example, the mother-infant motif in a myriad of paintings attests. Constituting a whole, they may not b� readily understood apart from each other.
According to psychoanalysis, the offspring experiences the world as part of itself, and itself aspartofitsprimarycaretaker; theinfantisunable to tell what is inside, within its body, and what is outside and from another. The pediatrician and psychoanalyst D. W. Winnicott summed up this perspective when he said: "There is no such thing as a baby. A baby is always part of someone."
Developmentally, this means that at the beginning, during some number of months around the time of birth, there exists a period of human symbiosiswiththemother.Thisterm"symbiosis," borrowed from biology and transmuted in the borrowing, is meant to suggest a dependence so great that it can be said that the fetus-infant, as it may becalled,does not exist as aseparatebeing but in fusion with the mother.
The dyadic language that psychoanalysis has developed for describing our secular origins comprehends, I shall argue, the relationship of woman and fetus. The resulting understanding of the fetus in a relational field not only can clarify the status of the fetus at common law but also can deepen the meaning of the procreational privacy that the law protects.
Clarified also are analyses of the two competing interests that the law of procreative choice has identified: the woman's liberty interest, her mother-right, and the state's interest in potential human life. From this enhanced understanding comesaninterpretationofthelegalregimeofchoice that focuses not on fetal viability but on the reasonable period of time a woman needs to act
This article has been excerpted with Professor Goldstein's permission from his book Mother-Love and Abortion: A Legal Interpretation, which will be publishedinAprilbythe UniversityofCalifornia Press. Copyright 1988 by The Regents of the University of California.
onbehalfofthedyadicunitasitsrepresentative, and to choose whether to makeher constitutive commitmenttoitofmother-love.
The woman's right, what Roe treats as her fourteenth amendment, due-process liberty interest,istherighttodeterminewhethershewill enterintoaphysicalandemotionalsymbiosiswith thefetus-infant and, moregenerally, intoalove relationshipofparenting.
Mother-right is not fully captured by an interpretationof Roe asacaseabout thepower of the state to coerce intimate acts. The state presumably may not order persons to perform sexualacts, orusecontraception, or marryasa remedy to paternity suits, or return home as a remedytoabillofdivorceclaimingabandonment. Similarly, thestatemaynotorderthewomanto carryafetus.
Theidentityofparenthoodisone of themost fundamental of allidentities. When the state is otherwiseconstitutionallydisabledfromcoercing personsintoparticularwork,religious,andcredal identities,forittocoercewomenandmenintothis identity by forbidding abortion would signify a failuretoappreciatethefundamentalconstitutive positionofparenthoodforidentityinthelifecycle. Thereare,afterall,fewmattersclosertothesoul.
The commitment of psyche and soma of motherhood,theinnerstrengthandcapacitythat allowsawomantomother,thegracerequiredby a demanding child of gargantuan loving [and subsequently,hating)proportions,allbelongtothe realmoffreewill.Nottheself-definitionalaspect alone butthe givingness of intimate association requiresfreedom.
That love belongs to the realm of freedom is ontological and definitional: it arises from the nature of love. The attempt to coerce even beneficenceandaltruismamongfamilymembers is"despotism."CharlesFried,thecurrentsolicitor general of the United States and Harvard law professor, wrote in a discussion of contractual obligation:"Forthesharingwithinafamilyisand mustbevoluntary."
Thestateinterestinlimitingabortionhascome to be identified exclusively with its interest in affordingprotectiontoapotentialhumanbeing. Weighingthisinterestagainstthewoman'sprivacy interestinprocreationalchoice, Roe heldthatthe former did not become sufficiently substantial
until fetal viability to permit the prohibition of electiveabortion.
Butthemereuncriticalrepetitionofthephrase "governmentalinterestinpotentiallife"-whichis all that it has received from courts and commentators-leavesthenatureofthatinterest unclear. Is it the kind of interest that the governmentcanfurtherthroughthecoercionofthe criminalandcivillaw;orisitmostappropriately realized through the government's use of its spending power to create a more favorable material, social, and symbolic climate for childrearing? AstheSupremeCourtnotedinthe abortion-fundingcases:"Thereisabasicdifference betweendirectstateinterferencewithaprotected activityandstateencouragementofanalternative activity consonant with legislative policy. Constitutional concerns are greatest when the Stateattemptstoimposeitswillbyforceoflaw; theState'spowertoencourageactionsdeemedto beinthepublicinterestisnecessarilyfarbroader."
The government can accomplish many things through coercion. It can summon the army and punishcriminals.Itcanshapeaspectsofthefamily byjailingcoupleswhouseviolenceagainsttheir children or engage in certain sexual practices. Throughrestrictionsondivorce,ithasinthepast effectively compelled people to remain married whootherwisewouldnot.Butitcouldnotcompel husbandandwifetocareforeachother.Asadults theyarecapableofsurviving,withvaryingdegrees of success, without their mutual love and acceptance, andoffindingalternativesustaining sourcesinchildren,religion,friends,andwork.
Infants, however, lack that capacity and flexibility, andmustlooktoamotheringonefor nurturance.Whenthatcareismissingorwhentheir needconfrontsadegreeofintolerableambivalence, hostility, ornonacceptance, infantsmaygrowill inmindandbody, althoughsomecantranscend theirearlyexperience.Suchillnessmayoccurat different psychological levels depending on the infantandmother. Somewillappeartosurvive, butdeeplysufferinside;otherswillsurviveenough toinflictthelovelessnessoftheiroriginsonothers. Thefailure-to-thriveinfantswillactuallycurlup and,withoutinterveningcare,die.Thefateofthese infantsmeansthereisaconcrete,minimum,rock-
Illustration-Muttermit Kind, woodcut by Georg Schrimph, c. 1915. Collectionofthe Grunwald Center for the GraphicArts, Wight,1rt Gallery, UCLA, Giftof Mr. and Mrs. StanleyI. Ta/pis.
bottom form of human interaction, beyond mere provision of bodily need, that human life requires. This psychosoma need is a fact that sets an absolute limit to government coercion. Those who survive physically intact the early absence of committed care still need a basic acceptance that rises above the level of administration. Without it they may suffer a destruction of spirit, of their capacity for interaction and attachment. If the state's interest is in the potential of newborns to become contributing, hopeful members of our culture-what Justice White appears to call the "governmental interest...in protecting those who will be citizens if their lives are not ended in the womb"-thentheattachmentneedsofinfantseven moresubstantiallyconstrainthepowerofthestate.
The state cannot assurethe survival and growth of infants any more than it can command good poetry. Theremustbe aninterveningactofhuman graceandcreativity.Incaringfortheinfant,human involvement is required that goes beyond mere ministrationtobodilyneed-thatthegovernment could order, abureaucracycould perform.
That the need of infants for committed care sets a limit on what the government can accomplish directly obviously does not imply that all children whowould havebeenabortedbutforaprohibition will tend to be abused, neglected, or substantially harmed; for many women, although not all, tend to care for the children they are compelledto bear. In using coercion to discourage abortion, governments do not achieve their aim directly, but rather exploit the good grace of many women to love their babies and to suffer and transcend their ambivalence in procreative communities whose existence, membership, or size is not of their own choosing. But the power to exploit women who would otherwise choose abortion should not be confused with the power to protect potential human life. That is a "power" that is confined to the one who makes a personal commitment to the child.
Heremother-rightmeetsstateinterest. Society's extraordinary interest in childhood depends first of all on the woman's choice of vital participation with her offspring.
Because Roestructuredaninterpersonalprocess, because many hospitals and physicians have been reluctanttoperformabortions, andbecausewomen have sought abortion in substantial numbers, specialized abortion clinics have developed. As a result, antiabortion groupshave been able to force themselvesintothatprocessdirectlybyaddressing pregnant women as they approach the clinic door.
Sometimes carrying pictures of fetuses, they try to enter this dialogue in two ways: by seeking to represent the fetus to the woman, and by encouraging thewoman'sgenerative potential.
Some try to recreate a direct conversation with the silent fetus. Attempting to reason about abortion by appeal to the golden rule, theyaskthe woman,forexample: "Wouldyouhavewantedyour mother to abort you?"
This question asks those who possess an independentidentityandindividuatedselftocross over a great epistemic divide in human consciousness. In most situations, an adult who hassuccessfullytraversedthismonumentaldivide may have conscious difficulty retracing his steps. After all, hemustreturntothatconditioninwhich he was carried before he enjoyed independent locomotion, when his needs were met without words, which he lacked, and when his self was recognized by others before it existed. Indeed, if a dialogue between oneself as a fetus and one's mother seems impossible to imagine, a futile exercise,itconstitutesgoodevidencethattheeffort to ascribe an individual personhood to the fetus is mistaken. Perhaps this very question reflects anadultconceit, anattempttomaintainthemature fiction of being an independent and autonomous self-made being, even back then in retrospect, and of never having been a fused and "identity-less" creature utterly dependent on a woman.
Even allowing the attempt by those who are strangers to the pregnant woman, utterly ignorant ofher andher dyad, to engageher in thisimagined dialogue, the results are inconclusive. For it is in the nature ofthe sounds of silence that people hear different voices: Where some hear screams, others hear softer sounds.
Theopeningqueryofthisdialogue-"Wouldyou have wanted your mother to abort you?"-comes to this: What claims do you, imagining yourself a fetus, feel you could have made, with the law's coercion, against your own Mother? Thatquestion leads to others. By what entitlement would you claimarighttoherloveandeffortsonyourbehalf? Whatsacrificewouldyouhave coerced?Whatloss of freedom would you have imposed on her? What pain would you have inflicted? Would you have wanted her prosecuted for feticide? In later years, how much would you sacrifice for your Mother in restitution for the choice you would deny her?
Some, with much anger for wrongs done or imagined, may answer these questions extravagantly. Others may be unable to respond, having trouble imagining their mother with goals
and \,·i he eparatefromherchildren. Yetothers may eel a Prufrockian ontological doubt about imaaining claims from the womb against parents ,,·ho are shouldering their adult duty of selfresponsibility Nosingledescriptioncanpossibly characterize the claims that each person would makeon his own mother, imagining herpregnant with the fetus that, after individuation, became himself.
Theintervenor'sefforttostructurethedialogue around the sounds offetal silence does not work: we lack the epistemological ground for reconstructing a conversation, and the multitude ofimaginedresponsesprecludesgeneralization. If at all, such an imagined dialogue begins with the woman who carries and nurtures the fetus and enjoys the potential of helping to constitute its infantile self by becoming its mother. Reflecting upon her self and her inner world of procreative purposes, she begins to have a basisfor knowing her offspring. Only she may be in a position to interpretthemeaningofthissilence.
Thereisadifferentconversationthatthewoman can have, within herself, with her physician and family,andwiththosewhoinsistuponintervening attheclinicdoor. Itinvolvesthequestionofwhat she intends to do with her loving and generative
potential,whetherthatincludesbegetting,bearina. and rearing her own children, and in addition or as an alternative, caring for others, for communities,andforideas.
Outside abortion clinics, antiabortion group seek to persuade women to use their generative potential to carry through each and every pregnancy; and some engage to support them in this latter choice throughout gestation. The question of how persons use their generative potentialisanethicalonethatbroadensthefocus from any one pregnancy to a way of living in a particular community. Within this context, the miracleofreproduction, theusesofsexuality,and the protection of family life may be understood; and the character of the participants in this dialogue, howtheycarefortheirloved ones, their work,andtheircommunity,maybeevaluated.The focus of this inquiry avoids the failing effort to representa fetus intheabstract, andinsteadmay engage adults in coequal dialogue about how all participants will actualize their generative potential inour society. Itis alsoa question that canequallybeaddressedtomen.D
Two New Faculty Join Law School
New members of the faculty this year are Taimie Bryant, whose major teaching and research interests are in the area of international law, and Bryan Fair, who teaches legal research and writing while also bringing new energy to the school's academic support programs.
Taimie Bryant received her J.D. from Harvard Law School. Earlier, she completed a Ph.D. in UCLA's Department of Anthropology. Research for her dissertation took her to Japan, where she observed the Tokyo Family Court.
Her work in Japan led to two publications, her dissertation, "Mediation of DivorceDisputes in the Japanese FamilyCourt System, With Emphasis on the Tokyo Family Court," and (while at Harvard), a paper entitled "Obstacles to Marital Dissolution in Japan." Her current research is focused on adoption in Japan.
Professor Bryant's specialty, Family Law in Japan, successfully combines her two passionate interests: cultural anthropology and law. In the future she hopes to develop new courses combining the insights of anthropology and law. One course now being planned would explore change in society. The thrust of the course would be in finding ways to use law to increase the effectiveness of other change agents.
This year, Bryant is teaching Community Property and she finds her in-class experiences challenging. She particularly enjoys finding ways to address both the goals of bar preparationandattentionto theoretical issues.
Bryan Fair completed his undergraduate degree at Duke University in history and education. While at Duke, he wrote an honors thesis analyzing minority student life
at that university during the late 1960s.
He received his J.D. from UCLA in 1985, and then associated with the Los Angeles office of Bryan, Cave, McPheeters and McRoberts, where his work focused on general civil litigation problems. During his threeand-a-half year association with Bryan, Cave, he also worked as a volunteer attorney for agencies providing free legal services to the poor, including Public Counsel and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
In his new faculty position at UCLA, FairteachesLegal Research and Writing to first-year students. Complementary to his classroom leaching, he concentrates a seemingly boundless reservoir of energy in the Academic Support Program, working with students who are experiencing academic difficulty.
The program seeks to pinpoint the type of academic support that would be most beneficial to the individual student, and then follows through with special help such as tutoring, counseling, the fine-tuning of study skills, exam writing workshops, or early practice exercises designed to sharpen skills in preparation for the bar exam.
Fair hopes that in his new position he will identify activities which help improve the performance of minority students at UCLA and other law schools.
He is also a newly-wed, having recently married Gilaine NettlesFair, a physical therapist at the Orthopedic Hospital of Los Angeles. His personal goals for the future are to pursue public sector interests and eventually to become involved in national government.
At Nimmer Lecture, Floyd Abrams Sees Hidden Absolutes
"Are there really any absolutist First Amendment rights?" The surpri ing answer to this question-"nO\\" and
Taimie Bryant
Bryan Fair
then, al leasl"-is "yes, there are," said attorney Floyd Abrams when he gave the second Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture al UCLA in November.
The Supreme Court "really has gone so far as lo say" that when the First Amendment speaks of "no law" restricting certain civil liberties, '"no law' means just that," Abrams said.
The New York civil liberties lawyer outlined a number of "hidden absolutes"in FirstAmendment interpretation by the Supreme Court:
-In libel law, absolute protection of "pure opinion" has been given by the court in a number of cases following Justice Powell's maxim that "there is no such thing as a false opinion." The law "currently provides full, undiluted protection of pure opinion," said Abrams.
-In media law, the requirements imposed by theCourt to justify a contempt finding for publication are such that, in effect, "judges have no power at all lo holdjournalistsin contemptfor what theywrite"about a judge.
-This same virtually absolute resulthas occured in the issue of prior restraint to publication of material thought harmful to a defendant's right of fair trial. The test that "must be met before a prior restraintmay issue is one which quite simply cannotbe met," said Abrams.
In this last area, Abrams said, "not a single appellate court since 1976 in the United Slates has upheld a single prior relraint of publication about the criminal justice system." Whal has happened is that "judges have set forth tasks which are truly Sisyphean in nature."
Abrams suggested that it is lime lo acknowledge these First Amendment absolutes. "We would (then) be far more faithful to the language of the First Amendmentthan we have been ever before," he said.
Abrams has appeared in a variety of cases on behalf of media and he was co-counsel in the Pentagon Papers case. He has integrated teaching with practice, teaching over the years at the Yale Law School, the
ColumbiaUniversitySchoolof Law and theColumbia Graduate School of Journalism.
In 1986, Anthony Lewis gave the first Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture. The annual lecture honors the memory of Professor Nimmer, who dedicated his life to shaping the law- through his leaching al UCLA from 1962 until his death in 1985, through his writing and his creative work as a lawyer.
Uninsured Motorist Coverage Is Seen In
Need of Reform
Consumers should decline to renew their uninsured motorist coverage untilthis type of insurance is
reformed, since it provides little real insurance per premium dollar, advises Professor Gary T. Schwartz.
Professor Schwartz, an expert on personal injury law, recently studied uninsured motorist coverage in the 32 states (including California) where motorists are urged or sometimes compelled to buy this type of insurance.
"If the government intends lo recommendthepurchaseof insurance, theinsurancepackage in question should be one that is sound and sensible," observes Schwartz.
However, he found that "of all payments made under uninsured motorist insurance, only something like 30 percent actually reimburse the victim for net out-of-pocket losses."
A staggering 70 percent of payments underuninsuredmotorist coverage are forclaimsof pain and suffering or for out-of-pocket losses for which the consumer already receives reimbursement through first-party insurance arrangements (for example, sick leave and health
insurance).
This means that the consumer is paying twice to cover the same risks. Further, Schwartz believes it is foolish lo pay premiums on insurance against one's own potential pain and suffering.
"To a remarkable 70 percent extent, uninsured motorist coverage performs functions that seem unrelated lo what may be the motorist'srealinsuranceneeds," Professor Schwartz says.
"When people buy first-party insurance, their goal generally is to protect themselves against the incurring of real losses; they have no reason to pay money for insurance protection that merely duplicates the protection which they have already secured for themselves by way of preexisting insurance policies," Schwartz observes.
He advises motorists lo look al the costs. In his own situation, Schwartz obtained auto insurance quotations from four companies so thathe could compare costs of the optional uninsured motorist coverage and the
mandatory coverages for bodily injury and properly damage. He found thatthe price of uninsured motorist insurance ranged from 15 lo 28 percent of thepriceof bodily injury coverage and from 36 to 73 percent of the price of property damage coverage.
Professor Schwarlz ouLIinee! various possibilities for reform in a recent article in the Ohio Stale Law Journal, "A Proposal for Tort Reform: Reformulating Uninsured Motorist Plans."
Schwartz favors a reform which would retain the basic concept of the uninsured motorist program, which would contract that program by providingcoverage only for net outof-pocket losses, and which at the same time would expand the program as it applies to more serious auto accidents.
Until legislatures do reform uninsured motorist plans, Schwartz advises motorists to "engage in a simple exercise in self-reform: to decline to renew their own uninsured motorist coverage."
CampaignGoalNowinSight, IsReportatDean'sDinner
With gifts and pledges through the UCLA Campaign tothe SchoolofLawnowoverthe $5.5millionmark, the campaign goal of raising $7.5 million for the law school by the end of this year is in sight, Hugo D. de Castro '60 reported at The Annual Dean's Dinner on March 11.
"The donor list is fuller than ever-and each and every donor is veryimportant to the lawschool," De
Castro said during the gathering at UCLA's James E. West Center. "Nextyear, I look forward to tellingyou we have reached the goal of $7.5million," hesaid, in giving his report as chairman of the School of Law Campaign Committee.
Donald P. Baker '73, chairman of the Founders Committee, introduced 17 new Founders, whom he noted "represent allgroups ofalumnifromthe1950s
The warmth of classmates and friendsreunitedfilledtheWestCenterattheAnnualDean'sDinner.An added surprise before the dinner was entertainment by a chorus line of law students, who reprised a number from the satirical law school production of "Exam-aGame," written by Professor Ken Graham.
HugoD.deCastro'60andDonaldP. Baker '73, above right, reported on progressinthecurrentdevelopment campaign. Dean Prager and Professor Alford shared highlights of the current year at the law school.
throughthe 1980s." The 17 new members during the past year bring to 224 the total number of Founders. Baker's committee is actively inviting other alumni to join this select group.
Dean Susan Westerberg Prager introduced Professor Murray L. Schwartz as the first holder of the David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Chair in Law, and she noted his sustained efforts to build a great law schoolatUCLA.ProfessorSchwartzreceivedastanding ovation by an appreciative audience of alumni and friends of the school.
Associate Dean Carole Goldberg-Ambrose introduced new faculty members who have joined the school during the past year.
Professor William P. Alford delivered remarks on thefaculty'sbehalf, expressingdeepappreciationfor
the vital support received from alumni and friends. Professor Alfordsharedhighlightsoftheinternational law program, and in particular, his own scholarly focus on China.
An interesting historical fact, Alford noted, is that Roscoe Pound once served as an adviser to the Chinesegovernment. Manyother UCLAfacultyfollowed Pound's example in establishing a firm foundation forinternationallawat UCLA. "Oflate, wehavebuilt one of the most substantial programsinthe country," Alford said. "These are extraordinary times with respect to law in East Asia," he observed. At a time when China and other nations are responding to unprecedented pressures for change, in this area of legaleducationandscholarship"ourschoolhasbeen in the forefront."
Classnotes
The 1950s
William A. Masterson '58 has been appointed to the Los Angeles Superior Court by Governor Deukmejian.
Stanley Algie Black '59 was recently elected as a member of the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of practicing attorneys, judges and law teachers.
The 1960s
Albert I. Moon, Jr. '61 has returned to California afterpracticingin Hawaii for 16 years. He joins the firm of Waiver & Waiver andis currently a member of the national board of trusteesof theAmericanInns of Court Foundation.
Richard D. Aldrich '63 has become a fellow in the InternationalAcademy of Trial Lawyers, whose membership is limited 500 trial attorneys in the United States.
David J. MacKenzie '64 has been appointed to the national Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans. The 15membercounciladvisesthe U.S. Secretaryof Labor on ERISA programs.
Riane Eisler '65 is the author of The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, published by Harper & Row. The book gives a new interpretation of Western Civilization, and postulates that the course of history has been shaped by the tensions between partnership and dominator systems.
Richard S. LeVine '65 reports thathe
is "presently sailing the Pacific aboard 'Magellan' on an extended cruise with my wife Barbara; 21 years of real estatelitigation was enough. I now paint and sculpt as a profession."
Edward Poll '65 was among a group of 30 cyclists attending a development camp for senior men al the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs. Poll is also a member of the LosAngeles Racing Team.
Harry J. Loberg '66 has been appointed judge of the Santa Barbara Municipal Court by Governor Deukmejian.
Robert A. Weeks '67 has been named a supervising attorney for the San Jose Municipal Court by the Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office. He writes that he "will concentrate on working with newer attorneys to develop a team spirit in the highest volume court in the country."
Thomas C. Armitage '69 has become of counsel to Riddell, Williams, Bullittt & Walkinshaw.
The 1970s
Richard F. Davis '70 has joined the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as partner in its Los Angeles office. His emphasis is on domestic and international commercial law, industrial and resort real estate development and investment.
Marshall G. Mintz '71 has joined the firm of Troy Casden Gould as a member specializing in the areas of high technology and intellectual property litigation.
Terrence J. Bennett '72 has received
certification by the California Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in criminallaw.
Craig S. Kamansky '73 was elevated by Governor Deukmejian to the Superior Court of San Bernardino County. Previously he was a Municipal Court Judge in San Bernardino and Chief Deputy District Attorney.
Carl Shusterman '73, a partner in Barsl & Mukamal, is representing several Fortune 500 companies in immigration law issues. He is also active in a public counsel program which offers legal services to undocumented aliens.
Richard D. Williams '73, a partner in the firm of Chariston, Revich and Williams, has been appointed chairman of the International Litigation Committee of the American Bar Association's Section of Litigation.
Jeffrey J. Carlson '74 was given the James Hartley Beal Award for the best paper in pharmacy law in 1987 presented in connection with the American Society of Pharmacy Law at the American Pharmaceutical Association meeting. In addition, he has had two recent publications: For the Defense, "Today's Pharmacist: A Seller ofProducts or a Provider of Service?", November 1987 issue; and American Druggist, "Can An RPH Be Sued for Doing His Duty?", November 1987 issue. Carlson is a partner in the law firm of Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel, specializing in civil jury trial practice.
Michael S. Rubin '74 has joined Walsh, Donovan, Lindh & Keech, a San Francisco commercial litigation and admiralty firm. He continues to emphasize transportation law and litigation.
Melvin Aranoff '75 has become a partner in the firm of Ross, lvanjack, Lambirth and Aranoff, formerly known as Ross and Ivanjack. The office is located in Brentwood and practice is primarily devoted to representation of financial institutions.
Gail D. Kass '75 has become a principal of the firm of Lewitt
Hackman Hoefflin Shapiro & Marshall with practice emphasis in estate planning and probate matters.
J. Patrick Maginnis '75 and Jeannele Maginnis had a daughter on November 18, 1987. Her name is Morgan Mary Maginnis, and she weighed 9 pounds 12 ounces at birth.
Emily A. Stevens '75 has been appointed by Governor Deukmejian to the Los Angeles Municipal Court.
Sharon Baumgold '77 published a chapter on "Court of Appeal and Supreme Court Writ Procedures" in California Civil Writ Practice [CEB) and recently was a panelist at a seminar on Civil Writs. She is a senior "writs" attorney al the California Court of Appeal, 2d district.
Audrey Collins '77 has been
appointed head deputy of the Los Angeles District Attorney's branch office in Torrance, where she supervises 40 deputy attorneys. She has been a member of the district attorney's office for 10 years. At a February banquet of the John M. Langston Bar Association, she received the Loren Miller Lawyer of the Year Award.
Suzanne Harris '77 has been appointed by Chief Justice Malcolm M. Lucas to the Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Family Law.
Mark E. Kalmansohn '77 has become the director of the North American Anti-Piracy Operations for the Motion Picture Association of America in Sherman Oaks.
Marcy L. Norton '77, former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Central District of Califormia criminal
division, has become associated with the firm of Sharenow & Corbin Los Angeles.
Michael D. Briggs '78 was promoted to the position of International Attorney for Denver-based US WEST, Inc. He will move to the company's internationalbusiness offices in New York City.
Melanie Cook '78 has become a partner in the firm of Bloom & Dekom. She will continue to practice entertainment and copyright law. In 1985, she married Woody Woods, a surfwear manufacturer.
Edmundo J. Morgan '78 has been elected to the executive committee of the State BarBusiness Law Section.
Mark Burrrill '79 has become an associate with the Los Angeles office of Morrison and Foerster.
Ronald B. Pierce '79 is a shareholder and managing attorney of Fry, Joens and Fry in Irvine. He is a trial lawyer in real estate and business matters.
Craig A. Smith '79 has become general counsel of Maguire Thomas Partners, the investment-developer that developed Crocker Center and is in the process of developing the Library Square project.
David 0. Wright '79 is a partner in the firm of Stein, Zauderer, Ellenhorn, Frischer and Sharp in New York, specializing in litigation.
The 1980s
Bruce A. Gothelf '80 has become of counsel to the firm of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and will practice in Los Angeles.
Sudeok Jang '80 has become a member of the firm and resident partner in the Los Angeles office of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro.
Nancy M. Leary '80 has been made a partner in the firm of Michael, Best & Friedrich in Milwaukee. Her specialty is real estate law.
Robert T. Lemen '80 has become a partner in the law firm of Murtaugh, Miller, Meyer & Nelson. He specializes in civillitigation with an emphasisonpersonalinjury and insurancebad faithactions.
Erik R. Lied '80 has become a partner with the law firm of Bogle & Gates where he specializesin commercial litigation. He is located in the firm's main office in Seattle.
John G. Petrovich '80 has become a partner in the Los Angeles office of
Mordson and Foerster. His practice area is securities, acquisitions and general corporate.
Gregory S. Drake '81 became Associate Counsel for American Television and Communications in Englewood, Colorado in June, 1987, and continues to specialize in labor law.
Joel A. Osman '81 has become a partner in the firm of Anderson, McPharlin & Conners in Los Angeles.
Eric H. Schunk '81 has been elected a partner in the firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. He practices corporate law in the firm's Los Angeles office, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and securities transactions.
Kenneth J. Stipanov '81 and Julie S. Mebane '81 are proud parents of
Thomas Kenneth Stipanov born October 19, 1987. Ken is practicing real estate law in Brobeck, Pheler & Harrison's new San Diego office. Julie is in the real estate department of the San Diego office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton.
Thomas Crawford, Thomas Blasdell and David Reimann, all Class of '82, have recently formed a new litigation firm, Crawford Blasdell & Reimann. The new firm is located in the Brentwood area.
David J. Duchrow '82 has become a partner in the firm of Silver, Kreisler, Goldwasser & Shaeffer. He will continue to represent public employee unions in employemntrelated administrative matters and litigation, as well as labor contract negotiations.
Gary L. Urwin '82 and Darlene E. Rave '82 weremarriedon June 6, 1987. Included in the wedding party were LorraineMills-Curran'82 and Anna S. Masters '84. Gary and Darlene are associates at Macdonald, Halsted & Laybourne in Los Angeles and reside in Studio City.
Dirk van de Bunt '82 has been promoted to Director, Business Affairs, for the Network Television Division of Gulf Western's Paramount Pictures Corporation.
Tom Agoston '83 has returned from a year as a Fulbright Scholar conducting telecommunications research in Tokyo, Japan, and has joined IBM Marketing in New York City.
Axel aus der Muhlen '83 has become associated with the Los Angeles office of Lewis, D'Amato, Brisboid & Bisgaard.
Robert L. Friedenberg '83 has become associated with and is opening the San Diego office for the Westwood based law firm of Montgomery, Gascou, Gemmill & Thornton.
Steven A. Heimberg '83 has become associated with the firm of Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom in Los Angeles.
Dr. Thomas Kapp '83 is now a member of the German bar and is working for Schraebische, Trenliand, a major CPA firm in the network of
Arthur Young International.
Glenn Krinsky '83 and Miriam Krinsky '84 have relocated to the Washington D.C. area. He is continuing his tax practice with the Washingtonfirm of Caplin & Drysdale. She is continuing as a federal prosecutor with the narcotics unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Baltimore. Thecouplehassettledin Silver Springs, Maryland and welcomes all visitors.
Deborah Y. Monticue '83 has become assistant tax counsel with Unocal Corporation in Los Angeles. She also received her LL.M. in taxation from the University of San Diego in December1986.
Robert B. Rocklin'83 has left the glitter and sunshine of Los Angeles, forthe trees and rain of Eugene, Oregon. No longer practicing tax law, he is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in experimental psychology and cognitive science at the University of Oregon. He and his wife have a new puppy named Maggie.
Susan L. Formaker '84 and Daniel A. Olivas'84recentlycelebrated their firstanniversary on October19. She is an associate with Burris, Wapner, Drulias & Heistand and is practicing general civil litigation and family law. He is associated with Hunt & Cochran-Bond andis practicing in the area of employment and housing discrimination and employee rights litigation on behalf of plaintiffs.
Jerrilavia Jefferson '84 has become associated with theLos Angeles based firm of Bottum, Ready & Feliton.
Sharon L. Nolfi '84 is a Iitigator with Kinsella, Boesch, Fujikawa & Towle. She and her husband, Howard Balfour Golden, announced the birth of thier daughter, Rose Nolfi Golden, on October 29, 1987.
Judith R. Seligman '84 has become associated with Selvin and Warner practicing in the areas of family law and general civillitigation.
Daniel Casas '85 and Frank Acuna '85 are now employed at Graham & James in Newport Beach.
Sean M. Cassidy '85 has established
a Westwood office for a pension and estate planning practice and video production.
Mike Ellickson '85 has joined the law firm of Horton & Koenig in Eugene, Oregon, as an associate, practicing plaintiff's litigation and criminal defense.
Jose H. Garcia '85 served as a trustee for the Mexican-American Bar Association of Los Angeles in 1987. As a lieutenant in the Coast Gaurd Reserve, he served as Executive Officer of Reserve Unit Port Hueneme in Oxnard and was awarded the Commandant's Letter of Commendation for services as a translator for the first U.S.!Mexico Joint Maritime Pollution Response Exercise. He has jointed Bronson, Bronson & McKinnon's San Francisco office where he will continue to specialize in civilappellate practice.
Mark Koop '85 has become associated with the San Francisco firm of Kinder & Wuerfel. The firm practices in civil Iiligation, emphasizing insurance coverage counsel and coverage defense litigation. One of the named principals and the cofounder of the firm is H. Stuart Kinder '71.
Michael S. Loeffler '85 has become associated with Peterson, Rose, Schloerb & Seidel in Chicago, Illinois as a litigator.
Helen Mickiewicz '85 married Mario Seidita in October 1987 in Redwood City.
Chris M. Vail '85 has become associated with the firm of Troy Casden Gould.
Jeffrey S. Goldstein '86 has recently become associated with the firm of Goldstein, Wiltchek & Associates in Baltimore, Maryland, where he specializesin toxic tort and workplace safety litigation.
Robert N. Dale '87 and Hilary J. Greenberg '87 recently joined the Philadelphia based law firm of Wolf. Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen. He will be serving his initial rotation in the real estate department and she is in the litigation department.
Richard J.L. Nelson '87 and Robert A. Robertson'87 have joinedPaul,
Hastings, Janofsky & Walker. Nelson is an associate in the employment law department and Robertson is an associate in the business law department.
IN MEMORIAM
Randall Alan Butz '83
John A. Frerichs '82
Anthony G. Karavantes '82
Christina J. New '61
Thomas D. Rabin '88
Kathryn Louise Tobin ·so
Robert Smith White '57
Calendar of Events
Saturday, May 14, 1988-Class of '68
Twenty Year Reunion, UCLA Faculty Center, 480 Circle Drive, 7 p.m. cocktails, 8 p.m. dinner.
June-July, Class of '58 Thirty Year Reunion, lo be announced.
August 4-11, 1988-American Bar Association Annual Meeting; alumni reception lo be announced.
Monday, September 26, 1988-State Bar Annual Meeting, Alumni Luncheon, place to be announced, Noon lo 1:30 p.m.
December 9-10, 1988, 13th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium.
Alumnus ofYear Nominations Are Due by May 27
Law alumni are invited to make nominations for UCLA Law Alumnus of the Year for 1988. The deadline for nominationsis May 27.
The Alumnus of the Yearaward, whichhasbeen made annually since 1962, recognizes UCLA law alumni who have distinguished themselves by community and professionalservice.
Theawardnominationsarereviewed by a committee of the Law Alumni Association, whichbestowsthe award.
Nominations should be sent to Alumni and Development Office, UCLA School ofLaw, Los Angeles 90024, phone (213) 825-2899.
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