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by Tom Bourne
wo theories of punishment dominate criminal law. The retributive theory justifi.es punishment because the wrongdoer, having caused pain to another, deserves pain in return. The utilitarian theory fi.nds the usefulness of punishment chiefly in its deterrent value.
Now, in a philosophic contribution recognized for its originality, UCLA Professor of Philosophyand Professor ofLaw Herbert Morris has offered a"paternalistic" theory of punishment. Employing as a model the way wise parents discipline their children, Morris' theory, while accommodating retributive and utilitarian considerations - subordinates them to a greater goal, namely the good of the wrongdoer. Published in the October, 1981, issue of the American Philosophical Quarterly, "A Paternalistic Theory of Punishment" was the winning entry in the 1981 APQ prize essay competition.
Says Morris: "Perhaps this paper will direct some attention to the poverty of imagination in our punitive responses. We put people in prison for a very wide range of offenses. While we dooccasionallyhear about a judge who will select a punishment in a particular case that seems especially fi.tting, this is seldom done. Imprisonment is largely seen as the only available alternative.
"My theory focuses attention on the setting up of a practice where the punishments are more appropriately instructive of the evil that has been done and are better understood by wrongdoers. I do not approve of
turning the judicial system into a practice of moral instruction. But punishmentitself can be educative."
Morris' paternalistic theory, as well as his other key philosophic ideas, are best understood within the context of his own intellectual and philosophic odyssey. During his life he has oscillated between the particular and the universal, pursuing ways to bring the two together. Wanting the concrete, he has also sought the abstract; wanting the particular, he has also sought how this fi.ts into a larger pattern. He has searched for this relationship in literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, poetry, as well as the law.
Looking for answers to "some perplexing questions," Morris majored in philosophy as an undergraduate at UCLA, receiving his A.B. in 1951. Then, sensing a chasm between philosophic theories and the specifi.c concerns of most people, he studied law for three years at Yale. Once he got his law degree, however, he once again experienced"a resurgence of philosophic interest," and went off to Oxford.
He arrived at Oxford in 1954 as a philosophic wave was cresting, the high point of Oxford analytic philosophy. There he came under the influence of H.L.A. Hartand was examined for his doctorate by the leader of Oxford's school of ordinary language philosophy}. L. Austin. Says Morris:"Philosophy for me in those days meant analysis of concepts: Everything reduced
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to clarity, precision, rigor, fme distinctions and the avoidance of difficult philosophical issues."
Whenhereturnedto UCLA asaphilosophy instructor in 1956, he taught a wide range of philosophy courses, yet his interest in the law remained great. Eventually he became a lecturer in legal philosophy and, from 1964 onwards, an instructor incriminal law for first-year students. Shortly after his return to UCLA, however, his philosophical orientation was altered significantly by his relationship with John Wisdom, aCambridgephilosopherwhovisited UCLA in 1957.
Explains Morris: "Wisdom's attitude was that anything that anyone bothered to say philosophically, even if it appeared to be total nonsense, had a point and taking such often paradoxical remarks seriously could reveal something to us about the world and ourselves. This was fundamentally at odds with the orientation I'd gained at Oxford and from three years of law study, where the principle of tolerance hardly reignedsupreme; we adopteda critical stance toward everything, and were more interested in revealing others' confusion than their insight.
"Wisdom reinforced in me something that goes back a long way-the disposition to take the side of the underdog, of the oppressed, to argue for a person or a position that is regarded with contempt or ridicule. A lot of my work consists, in fact, in taking a philosophic claim orpropositionthatothersregardas absurd, not deserving any attention, and then showing there's something to be said for that position."
Morris has edited two philosophic texts, Freedom and Responsibility and Guilt and Shame, and written a work of literary criticism on Stendhal, The Masked Citadel, which earned the praise of Lionel Trilling. Hismostinfluential worktodate, however, is an essay, "Persons and Punishment," which is found in his collection of essays on legal philosophy and moral psychology, On Guilt and Innocence. In that essay Morris probed deeply into the grounds of the legal order, and emerged with a model upon which he has built many other ideas.
Law consists of a set of rules with sanctions attached in the event of their violation. The need for these rules derives from the simple fact that we are vulnerable creatures who value certain things. We sufferinjurywhenwe areattackedor when our goods are taken from us. And so we benefit when our persons and our property are secure. In order to ensure such benefits legal rules carve out spheres of immunity, imposing upon all persons a burden of selfrestraint. If there is no rule violation the system is in a state of equilibrium, with an equality of benefits and burdens.
When, however, an individual relinquishes the burden of self-restraint, that is, takes what does not belong to him or injures another, he has gained an impermissible benefit (and derived gratification from it) and gained an unfair advantage over the others who are still assuming the burdens that occasion the benefits.
Says Morris: "It'svery elementarythatthis isunfair. The wrongdoer has upset an equilibrium. He has also damaged a relationship with others because the rules that we have are partly constitutive of how we think that people should relate to one another. The wrongdoer has damaged something of value.
"What's needed is very complicated. A sense of order must be restored. This is something that goes way back. You find it in the most primitive thought. There is an upset in the world, a sense that the universe is not quite right until wrongdoing is in some way responded towithpain. Thedisequilibriummust be corrected, the relationship must be restored."
Therefore, to connect punishment with the violation of these rules-the essence of the retributivist position-is, according to Morris, reasonable, just, and necessary. The wrongdoer owes something to the others. And apart from thefactthat the benefit-burden ratio is now disturbed, people's willingness to comply voluntarily with the rules would be diminished if they saw that someone had violated them with impunity.
It is essential to the model that human beings are viewed as both autonomous and capable of moral knowledge. "Although it may sound paradoxical," says Morris, "a person has a right to be punished, meaning by that a right to be assessed as guilty, sentenced, and punished, rather than be responded to as someone who is entirely victimized and in need of therapy.
"Recently I saw the play Nuts. The setting is a competency-to-stand-trial hearing. The accused is charged with manslaughter. She wants to be tried, but theprosecutorwantsherdeclaredincompetentonthe ground that she's crazy. She screams out, 'I am a responsible human being. I want to be treated as one. I am not a helpless, crazy victim.' That is the major theme of 'Persons and Punishment.'
"I have no objections, of course, to a wrongdoer voluntarily seeking therapy, but if you did a survey of prisoners in the United States and asked them whetherthey preferred being sentenced, servingtheir time, and having it over with, or being sentenced and then turned over to a therapist to be treated in theway they think you should be, I have no doubtwhatsoever what their answer would be. The vast majority of that population regard as intrusive and as absurd the in-
"Apersonhasarighttobepunished,ratherthanheresponded toassomeonewhoisentirely victimizedandinneedof therapy."
fliction upon them of treatment."
Morris differs in many ways from the retributivists; one difference is his attitude toward the wrongdoer. Wrong does not take place in a vacuum, nor are others devoid of the same impulses as the wrongdoer. Indeed, in a sense the wrongdoer services our needs, satisfies us, by acting out what we have managed to keep in check. If there were no criminals, Morris has written, we should have to invent them. As he says, "We must have the willingness to see the wrongdoer as one of us, to see the wrongdoer as fundamentally like ourselves and recognize the role of chance in our being the judge rather than the one judged."
In "A Paternalistic Theory of Punishment," Morris first examines the parent-child relationship. In the ordinary course of events, powerful and knowledgeable parentsoften interfere with thechild's choices in order to prevent the child from doing himself harm. That is, they set limits and communicate the values behind the limits; then, when the limits are broken, impose punishment, sometimes choosing as a deprivation something that has a special meaningful relationship to the wrong done. "One wants the child to come to appreciate the interests that lie behind the prohibition," says Morris.
He cites as an example William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice. In it, the young protagonist goes out with a friend, forgetting his commitment to tend the fire in front of which his invalid mother sits for heat in the freezing weather; afterwards, as a punishment, his father puts him for a time in a shed without heat. This diminishes the boy's feelings of guilt, and he feels a sense of gratitude to his father.
There is a place for punishment in society parallel to its role in the family, according to Morris. Through law and the violation of laws, citizens learn the seriousness of offensesand the boundaries on conduct set by society When punishment, rather than being impersonal, is linked to the wrong done, citizens are more likely to take in the significance of their actions, reflect upon them, and perhaps, act otherwise in the future.
He writes: "My point is that law plays an indispensable role in our knowing what for society is good and evil. Failure to punish serious wrongdoing and punishment of wrongdoing in circumstances where fault is absent, would serve only to baffle our moral understanding and threaten what is so often already precarious. Further, our punitive responses guide the moral passions as they come into play with respect to interests protected by the law."
Secondly, Morris argues that for adults as wellas for children, it is important that limits be set not just on the individual but on the degree and kind of punishment to be imposed when the limits are crossed. Those who cannot understand the norms they have violated cannot justifiably be punished. Nor can punishment be imposed that is extraordinarily severe. As he writes, "Punishments that are aimed at degrading or brutalizing a person are not conducive to moral awakening but only to bitterness and resentment."
Morris' paternalistic model is a hopeful one. Influenced by the idea of atonement in Christian theology, he views the period of punishment as a kind of rite of passage for the wrongdoer. Its completion signifies a· closure: what was wrong has been righted; the system is once again inbalance. It is at that point, says Morris, that society has an obligation to "foster, encourage and promote the reintegration of the wrongdoer."
The theory is tied in closely to the concept of guilt. The person who is guilty owes something to others; when what is owed is paid, the guilt is absolved. Though guilt is a fundamental concept in the law, few philosophers or legal theorists have focused their attention upon it exclusively. Morris, however, has written an essay on legal guilt which will appear in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Criminal Justice.
He comments: "You find discussions of responsi-
"Idon'tthinkwe'dhavea conceptofguiltinthelawif humanbeingsweren'tsuchthat theyare,onoccasionatleast, disposedtofeelguilt.The emotionallifeisinsomeway thebackdropforourmoraland legalconcepts."
bility and of mens rea, but they are not the same thing as guilt. Being guilty in the law connects up with a verdict of guilt, so I am interested in what the significance of a verdict of guilt has for our lives. What presuppositions do we operate with such that we have a practice where we hear evidence, reach a determination, and render a verdict of guilt or innocence? What does that tell us about our world?
"These are the kinds of philosophic questionsI find quite interesting. In my writings I have moved from moral guilt to feelings of guilt,and now, to legal guilt, which is intimately connected to moral guilt and the emotional life of people. I don't think we'd have a concept of guilt in the law if human beings weren't such that they are, on occasion at least, disposed to feel guilt. The emotional life is in some way the backdrop for our moral and legal concepts. At least that's the claim I'm interested in making."
For the last several years now, Morris has been in training as a lay psychoanalyst at the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. He undertook the trainingfora variety of reasons. He believes that study and practice of psychoanalysis has influenced the way he teaches criminal law and has enriched his philosophic inquiry.
He says: ''I'm interested in deep psychological explanations for whywe relate to one another as we do, why we feel about things the way we do, why we respond as we do. That's part of the law too. What deep psychological needs are there for having order in the world? The law has, of course, tremendous significance for our lives. Very few of our students look upon the law in the way in which in early literature itwas regarded, with a kind of awe appropriate to matters of great mythic significance. Law gives order to the world, and there is no intelligibility without order."
Morris is no spinner of fantastic yarns without any
"The lawhas,ofcourse,tremendoussignificanceforourlives. Lawgivesorderto theworld, andthereis nointelligibility withoutorder."
genuine relevance to reality, as he has imagined a critic to say. Working in areas that philosophers have traditionally ignored, he has elaborated with an eloquent clarity upon deeply embedded, submerged beliefs that lie at the foundation of our moral andlegal world. In "A Paternalistic Theory of Punishment" he has set up a guide for decision-making that is above and beyond retributive andutilitarian models,though he has intentionally refrained from giving examples of how this may be applied in any given situation of wrongdoing. Thiscohereswithhis view thatphilosophy consists of reflection on what there is before us, not of formulas that lead necessarily to answers. He concludes: "Philosophy is not like mathematics, or like accounting, or like experimentation in science,or like discovering new stars in the heavens. Rather, it is a constant process of conversing with oneself and with others. It may illuminate something but it always proceeds with the conviction that there is room for further illumination. That's the point about philosophic questions. The ones that were around 2,500 years ago are still around. It doesn't meanwe haven't made any progress with them, but it does mean that they are never settled anymore than is our reaction to any great work of art towhichwe again and again return." D
by Kathleen Neumeyer
or nearly fifteen years, students of the UCLA School of Law have been traveling to Alaska for externships, editing an Alaska Law Review, and establishing law practices in the state as a result of the law school's ''Alaska Connection.''
Thisreciprocaltradebeganinthelate1960s, when ProfessorMonroe E. Price became involved with the Alaska Legal ServicesCorporation,helping to establishlegalresourcesfor largely native communities.
"While I was in Alaska in 1967, I developed some ties with the bar and the bench there, and I talked aboutthepossibilityofUCLA'sbecomingthestudent base forthelocalbarnewspaper," Price recalls.
Alaska has no law school, so a need existed for a scholarlypublicationtoreviewnewlydevelopedcase law.Theopportunitytobeinvolvedinthebuildingof the new state was exciting to UCLA law students.
Over the years, the association with Alaska "has played arole in showing students that there are a lot ofpossibilitiesbetweenhereandAlaska," Pricesays.
In 1967, when UCLA students first began going to Alaska, there were only 300 attorneys in the state. Now there are 1,700, among them a large number of alumni of the UCLA School of Law.
Those who have gone to Alaska have prospered there, and most of them speak so enthusiastically about their adopted state that it sounds like the PromisedLand.
Robert Breeze'71, apartnerin Rose and Breeze, an Anchorage firm specializing in oil, gas and mining law and representing Far Eastern interests, says that he wouldencouragelawstudentstoconsiderAlaska.
"The resource potential of Alaska is immense, and theamountofactivity inoil, gas,agricultureand other natural resourcesis really almost remarkable," Breeze says.
Breeze, who is president of the UCLA Alumni Associationin Alaska,believesthestate offers"chances
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to move into areas of the law that just wouldn't be possible any place else."
A former attorney member of the Alaska Pipeline Commission, Breeze took part in the original internship program with the Alaska Legal ServicesCorporation in 1969, at the end of his first year in law school.
John Abbott '69, another of the UCLA pioneers in Alaska, agrees with Breeze's optimistic assessment. Abbott went to Alaskato clerkfor theAlaska Supreme Court, "and what kept me here is that Alaska is really a fantastic place to live," he says.
"Anchorage is a beautiful, beautiful city, and the opportunities abound. Alaska is healthy economically, compared with other states. It is so exciting; it really is a frontier."
Abbott says that "virtually every case that goes to the Supreme Court is a first impression case, even after 20 years of statehood. There is a lot a lawyer can do here, that he would never get a chance to do in the lower 48, in terms of scope and complexity."
Abbott is a partner in Abbott, Lynch and Farney, a 17-lawyer firm doing general litigation and business law. His firm has three offices, two in Anchorage and one in Fairbanks.
Peter F. Mysing '76 followed Abbott and Breeze to Anchorage, and believes that the picture is not as bright as it once was.
A criminal lawyer with Drathman and Weidner in Anchorage, Mysing worked for the public defender's office in Anchorage during the summer and fall of his third year at UCLA law school, and returned toAlaska after taking the California bar exam.
"In the early 1970s, you really felt special about being up here," Mysing recalls, but he feels less enthusiastic about Alaska now.
"They've developed a new criminal code which I
think is oppressive, and a municipal code. The pipeline is finished and they're dragging their feet on the gas pipeline. Anchorage is becoming more like other cities," says Mysing.
An awareness of the changing environment and a desire to "have a better sense of the national influences" upon Alaska are in part what caused Kris Cassity '82 to come from Anchorage to study law at UCLA.
"It's fairly rare to be a student from Alaska," acknowledges Cassity, who is among a handful of Alaskans whohave enrolled atthe law school. Growing up in Alaska before the pipeline boom gave him a perspective on how greatly outside institutions and influences have affected his home state.
When he returned to Anchorage in 1981 as a law extern, clerking for Justice Warren Matthews of the Alaska Supreme Court, Cassity also found he had a unique advantage over the other clerks. "In my office at the time, I was the only clerk from Anchorage; I knew what the important cases would be, and I worked on a number of major, important cases."
His decision to study law at UCLA was influenced also by the location of the AlaskaLaw Review at the School of Law.
Max F. Gruenberg, Jr. '70 takes credit for founding the U.C.L.A.-AlaskaLaw Review.
"I started the whole thing," he says. "I had always wanted to live in Alaska. I'm from San Francisco, but I felt that in Alaska, I could make new law, really be a pioneer."
After graduating from Stanford in 1965, Gruenberg
Illustrating this article are engravings and stone cutsfrom contemporary Eskimo art in Arctic communities.
Janna Stewart '82 describes her externship experience with the Anchorage city attorney's office as "spectacular in every aspect."
Stewart spent the spring and summer after her second year of law school in Alaska, and found that following an orientation period,she was permitted to handle arraignments, bail reviews and plea changes on her own, under the supervision of an attorney.
"The city attorney's office could not function without the externs," she says. "By a conservative estimate, I got 200 hours of solo courtroom experience."
Her time was divided between the criminal and civil divisions of the city attorney's office.
"It was really a trial-by-fire situation," she says.
Stewart says that one reason she selected the UCLA law school in the first place was because of the Alaska connection.
A Minnesota native, she had always wanted to go to Alaska.
"I chose this law school specifically because I was interested in Alaska, and although I had never been there before, it was just like going home," she says. Sheplansto get ajobinAnchorageafter graduation.
"My heart and soul are in Alaska. I even left my dog up there," she says.
Ira Kharasch '82 is one extern who says he won't settle permanently in Alaska, although he does plan to go back after graduation to clerk for Supreme Court Chief Justice Edmund Burke, for whom he externed last year.
Kharasch says the externship was "incredible because the externs had more responsibility than most, since the caseload is so great." Although Kharasch enjoyed the experience of living in a city with the wilderness on the outskirts, Anchorage was too small for him to choose permanently "I like big cities," he says.
Linda MacLean '81 would disagree.
She externed for Burke during the fall of 1980, and intends to return early this year to work for a small defense litigation firm.
"I'm hooked," she admits. "There's nothing quite like driving to work at nine o'clock in the morning and watching the sun rise over Mt. McKinley 150 miles away Nowhere else in the world can you get that kind of a perk with your job." D
ommunications technologies which hold the power to effect profound, revolutionary changes in Western concepts of democracy, equality, privacy,and community wereexamined during three colloquia on "Privacy & Democracy in 1984," presented by the UCLA Communications Law Program in December.
The colloquia's title evokes an Orwellian nightmare of where technology is leading us, and while some speakers suggested that the worst fears about the future and the communications revolution are well founded, there was also room to believe that the new technologies bode well.
Leaders from government, the bar, education, the arts, media, and civic organizations all were represented among speakers and discussants who analyzed the rapid evolution of communication technologies. The colloquia were funded by theCaliforniaCouncil for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
"We are constantly in danger that advances in our technological capacity will outstripourpolitical and
social maturation," observed poet-lawyer Haywood Burns, who directs the Center for Legal Education at New York's City College.
"The challenge of the communications revolution is the challenge to apply technology in the service of positive social change," Burns said. "It is clear that the new directions in communications technology may result in even further concentration of wealth and information control-and therefore power in the hands of a few."
Burns asked: "How much are democracy and equality advanced if two-way televisions become an important part of our political process, but the apparatus for participation is restricted to only some segments of society?"
One answer tothatquestioncamefromWalterBaer, director of advanced technology for Times Mirror, Inc. "We are not slipping into Orwell's nightmare unawares," said Baer. "Certainly, we have many ofthe technological tools for more government surveillance, for greater centralized control, but we are not puttingthem in place in a way that is going to lead us quietly into the Orwellian world without escaping
our notice."
The dimensions of the new communications industry are staggering, by Baer's account. Home computers now are a two billion dollar a year market, and each home computer today has more processing power than moststate governments had two decades ago. "In the next decade there are going to be more microprocessors, more chips coming into the home quietly on little cat's feet, if you will, built into all sorts of appliances."
Cable TV, now in 25 percent of U.S. households, will double in proportions by the end of the decade. Today's cable systems which offer 12 channels on the averagewillgrowtosystemsof50,80,or100channels within thenext few years. "It remindsme," said Baer, "of William Blake's aphorism that you never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough."
Too, the proliferation of communications satellites carrying video, teletext, and videotext services will continue; the next step will be direct broadcast satellites, bypassing cable and terrestrial broadcasting and transmitting directly to rooftop receivers on the home.
All of this technology results in a potential overload of information for the individual, but Baer predicts systems which will also give the individual more direct control over what information is. received.
Alan Westin, professor of public law and government at Columbia University, analyzed the threat to personal privacy presented by more sophisticated communications.
He gave a core definition of priv.acy: "The claim of an individual to determine what information the individual wants to be known toothers." To that definition of privacy, Westin added his personal view that groups and associations have legitimate claims to privacy.
Two traditions are clear in the past 2,000 years of history,said Westin. The authoritarian tradition from Sparta to the modern totalitarian societies rejects privacy andgivesparamount importance tothe interests of disclosure and surveillance. The alternative tradition, from Athens through Western constitutional governments,values the private life and private associational rights.
With the computer came a threat to privacy, and a
"Itisclearthatthenew directionsincommunications technologymayresultineven furtherconcentrationofwealth and informationcontrol."
threat that systems of information could be fused to assemble public portraits of private lives. "With the arrival of the computer and telecommunications, it was now possible and cost effective to amass much more information about people and to use this for making gatekeeper decisions about who would be entitled to rights, benefi.ts, and opportunities of an increasingly credential oriented society," observed Westin.
The ways in which new technologies threaten privacy and cause a breakdown in the traditional legal protections of individuals weren't readily acknowledgeduntilfi.nallyWatergatemadetheproblemobvious. That incident, involving misuse of information, ultimately resulted in a consensus that "privacy is a central value" and prompted enactment of the Federal Privacy Act of 1974 and similar measures.
Butforthenexttwodecades, Westinpredictsmajor new threats to personal privacy growing from the communications explosion. At work, there will be a total capacity for monitoring workers through video andothermeans. Aseconddangerareaatworkwillbe the abuse of detailed health profi.les on workers. In theconsumer area, there is a movement toward portable, personalcardswhichwillstorelargeamountsof fi.nancial, medical, andotherinformation; suchcards will access data bases and networks, giving rise to a host of privacy problems.
Professor Westin voiced pessimism about the U.S. Supreme Court on privacy issues. Congress also has swung away from its 1970s protection of privacy. "At
themoment, statelegislaturesofferamore promising scene. Alas, even there, budget cutbacks are beginning to paralyze the state process," said Westin.
The inherent nature of the new communications technologies involves regulation by government, noted Anthony Smith, director of the British Film Institute.
"All of the new technology requires government intervention in order to come into existencewhether through the launching of a satellite or the adjudication of an industrial rights matter.
"We appear to live in an age of transition, but the age could last for a very long time; the new text technologies will continue to arrive for many decades, and we are really not discussing a temporary phenomenon but a permanent aspect of the information revolution," saidSmith.
"The age of telecommunications requires a special kind of stewardship on the part of bureaucracy, judiciary and executive, over the social conditions of information," observedSmith. "The intellectual and information highways have to be guaranteed, just as canals, railroads, airways and roads have to be guaranteed and maintained by government."
Thecolloquiaresultedinradioprogrammingon 32 California stations. A book of essays is planned from papers presented. Details are available from Charles M. Firestone, director, or Doris W. Davis, assistant, UCLACommunicationsLawProgram,SchoolofLaw.
"Theageoftelecommunications requiresaspecialkindof stewardshiponthepartof
aw alumni are responding in two unprecedented ways to the School of Law's present financial crisis. The fmancial stress was caused by budget cuts mandated upon the University by the state; the law school, suffering already from lean appropriations and low tuition, has had to bear its share of the most recent cuts.
The bleak financial picture came at a time when the academic outlook couldn't have been brighter
UCLA's School of Law is acknowledged as one of the nation's leading law schools; the faculty and students demonstrate strength as never before. This year, UCLA enrolled 335 law students from more than 3,600 applicants. The mountain of applications for next fall's class exceeds 4,300. UCLA has pioneered in clinical and other innovative legal education programs; the law faculty now includes leading authorities in all the major fields.
"The only hope we have of keeping the law school a high quality institution is to increase our private support," says Dean William D.Warren as a matter of fact.
Seeing the reality of that statement, alumni in the past few months have moved in two major directions.
First, a new donor group -The Founders -has formed. Its members individually are committed to give at least $10,000 each over the next decade, and at least $1,000 each year. By mid-February, there were 57 members of The Founders; the group aims to swell its numbers to 200 members by the end of 1982.
Second, a new network of volunteers has formed to increase dramatically the total number of law alumni who support the School in gifts of all sizes. Last year, 15 percent of all alumni contributed a total of $173,934.This year, the goal is to doublethe participation rate to 30 percent and to double the total of gifts to $350,000.
This is an essential goal, in order to make up for the budget cuts and deal with inflation.
It also is a reachable goal, given the results which have been achieved in the brief time since The Founders and the volunteer structure kicked off their twophased program on December 1.
Marvin Juhas '54 is chairing The Founders and he serves with Ralph Shapiro '58 as co-chair of the new volunteer network, the Dean's Fund Advisory Council. Other members of the executive committee are Skip Brittenham '70, Hugo De Castro '60, Stanley Fimberg '60, Geraldine Hemmerling '52, and George Mccambridge '73.
At the December 1 kickoff in the UCLA Faculty Center, Juhas unveiled an artist's rendering of the entryway to the law school main corridor, where names of The Founders will be displayed prominently
"This permanently will honor each Founder, and will also be a reminder to law students of the importance of alumni support," said Juhas. Each Founder also will receive an attractive framed certificate.
Inviting other alumni to become Founders, Juhas and Shapiro observe: "You do not need to be reminded that all of us received a virtually free education, and that we have done very well on the basis of that education. The UCLA law school is the great success story in American legal education. In less than thirty years, it has become one of the ten best law schools in the nation; it is a national treasure, and it is up to us to preserve it. No one else will do it for us."
Shapiro, at the December 1 kickoff of this year's campaign for the Dean's Fund, outlined the volunteer organization and also the various levels of giving from which all alumni can choose.
In addition to The Founders, there are three other major support groups: James H. Chadbourn Fellows, Dean's Advocates, and Dean's Counsel.
Chadbourn Fellows give $500 or more, Dean's Advocates membership is designated by gifts of $250 to $499, and Dean's Counsel membership is open to alumni who give $125 or more. For the Classes of '79 and '80, initial membership is available for $75 or more, and for the Class of '81 initial memberships begin with gifts of $25 or more.
Gifts of all amounts are essential to realize the goals of doubling this year's participation and doubling the total amount raised for the Dean's Fund.
Class representatives are contacting classmates to encourage giving. The representatives for each class are:
1952
Lester Ziffren
1953
C. Douglas Wikle
1954
Roger Pettitt
Marvin Juhas
1955
1956
James Acret
Benjamin E. King
Milton L. Miller
1957
Lee B. Wenzel
Wells Wohlwend
1958
Donald Gralla
E. P. Kranitz
Ralph Shapiro
Don
William D. Gould
Edward A. Landry
Robert Ruben
1959 Lucinda Dennis
Stanton P. Belland
Charles S. Vogel
1960
Paul S. Rutter
Roger L. Cossack
Stanley R. Fimberg Michael Glazer
Hugo De Castro
1961
John Altschul
1962
John W. Heinemann
John Weston
Class representatives are needed especially for Henley Saltzburg
Barry Freeman
Robert B. Fraser classes where none are listed. Please contact Karen
Robert Kahan Stone at (213) 825-3041 if you can help. D
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Dean William D. Warren announced in October his decision to step down as chief administrator of the School of Law on June 30, 1982, when he will have completed seven years as dean.
The appointment of a search committee for Dean Warren's successor was announced by Executive Vice Chancellor William D. Schaefer.
The search committee is chaired by Professor Elwood Buffa of the Graduate School of Management. Other faculty members of the committee are Professors Carole Goldberg-Ambrose, Kenneth Karst, Gerald Lopez and Melville Nimmer of the School of Law; Professor Robert Gerstein, political science; and Professor Bernice Wenzel, physiology and psychiatry.
Geraldine S. Hemmerling '52 represents alumni as a member of the search committee, and third-year student Patrick Cain is a consultant to the committee on behalf of the student body
In announcing his decision to leave the deanship at the end of this academic year, Dean Warren said: "This is a good time in the life of the law school for new leadership. It certainly is a good time in my life for a change of activities.
"I deeply appreciate the support I have received during my term from Chancellor Young, the faculty and staff, the students, and the alumni. I will leave my present office with nothing but good feelings about my experience in the deanship at UCLA," Warren said.
Chancellor Young, in expressing the thoughts of many others after Dean Warren's announcement, said that "the UCLA School of Law has benefited immeasurably from his leadership since 1975.
"Both as professor of law and as dean,
he has contributed greatly to UCLA's high rank among the nation's most prestigious law schools," Young said.
"Dean Warren has given vision, talent, and energy to the School. His unusual quality of leadership is both wise and humane. He has earned the universal admiration of students, faculty, alumni, and his colleagues throughout the University community and the law profession.
"Dean Warren has decided to return to teaching and research full time, and, while I can appreciate his personal decision to step down as dean at the end of this academic year, his leadership will be badly missed."
Frances McQuade, who was involved at every stage of the School of Law's founding and growth during three decades, was honored on her retirement from the post of assistant dean, administration at the Annual Dean's Dinner on Nov 20 at the James E. West Center.
"It's difficult to think of the law school without Fran," said John Bauman, who had made a trip to Los Angeles especially for the occasion.
"It's like thinking of San Francisco without the Golden Gate Bridge.
"We love her for her Irish wit and charm, and even for her Irish temper, with which I've had some experience."
Dean Warren presents a token of gratitude to Frances McQuade on behalfof colleagues and friends on the occasion of her retirement.
McQuade was the first staff member of the School of Law to be appointed by Dean L. Dale Coffman when the School was founded in 1949. Since the time of Dean Richard Maxwell, she wasassistant to the dean and during Dean William D. Warren's administration of the School, she became assistant dean, administration.
"I have been so fortunate in being able to participate in the founding of what has become one of the most prestigious law schools in the nation," McQuade said during the Dean's Dinner.
To a dining hall filled with alumni, she added: "It has been rewarding to feel that we at the School have to some extent shared in the success that all of you are enjoying. We have all felt a sense of pride in hearing or reading of some of your activities and being able to say, 'He or she is one of ours.' Although I will no longer be active in the School, I will continue to feel that I am part of your activities."
Critical problems and needs of the nation's Latino population will be the focus of a conference titled "Latinos and the Law: Meeting the Challenge" on Saturday, March 20, at the School of Law, sponsored by the La Raza Law Students' Association.
Reapportionment, political strategies for Latinos in the 1980s, police conduct in minority communities, and youth gangs are some of the issues which will be discussed by speakers and panels from 9 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. A social hour will follow.
The conference is designed to educate students and the community at large on legal needs of Latinos. Alumni attendance is invited by the student organizing committee. Proceedings of the conference will be published in the Chicano Law Review.
Political figures and academics will address the conference.
Assemblyman Art Torres will be keynote speaker, and another major speech will be delivered by Antonia
Hernandez of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF).
Dean William D. Warren will open theconferencewithwelcomingremarks. Reapportionment and the future impact of political boundary lines on Latinos will be discussed by Los Angeles Assemblyman Richard Alatorre, chair of the Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee; Assemblyman Robert Naylor, Assembly Republican leader and vice-chair of the Elections and Reapportionment Committee; attorney Miguel Garcia, executive director of Californians for Fair Representation; Professor Richard Santillan, Rose Institute, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; and Walter Zelman, executive director, Common Cause, Los Angeles.
Panelists examining political strategies for effective development of the Hispanic community in the 1980s will be Professor Santillan; Professor Leobardo Estrada, a sociologist on the
faculty of UCLA's Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning; political scientist Edward Avila, executive director of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO); and attorney Esther Valadez of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, who alsoservesaspresidentof the MexicanAmerican Bar Association.
The issue of police conduct and harassment in minority communities, including incidents which have not received wide attention, will be discussed by Deputy District Attorney Gil Garcetti,head of Operation Rollout; attorney Steve Yslas, vice-chair of the Los Angeles Police Commission; Sam Paz, an attorney in private practice; and Professor Reginald H. Alleyne, Jr., of the School of Law.
Various approaches to attacking the problem of youth gangs will be examined by panelists Mike Duran, head of the Los Angeles County Probation Department's Youth Gang Services; Deputy District Attorney Lance Ito of the
Hardcore Gang Unit; Tommy Chung, head of Crisis Intervention, a group of street workers who are ex-gang members; Bob Martin of the Los Angeles Police Department's Crash Unit; and Dr. Diego Vigil, director of ethnic studies at USC.
The steering committee for the conference includes UCLA law students Louie Vega, chair; Christina Ramirez, Jose Benavides, Jean Gonzalez, and Dennis Perez.
A luncheon will be served on the law school patio by members of the Chicano Law Review and La Raza Law Students Association. The cost of lunch will be $3.50; admission to the conference itself is free of charge. Reservations are required since seating is limited.
Further details and reservations are available from La Raza Law Students Association, Rm. 1428 UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles CA 90024, phone (213) 825-7483, or 825-2894.
Students at the School of Law have established an organization to fund legal projects in the public interest in Southern California, in the wake of severe cutbacks in the nation's publicly funded legal services.
The organization, the UCLA Public Interest Law Foundation (UCLA PILF), is supported entirely by pledges from law students and graduates. It expects to make its first grants this year to public interest projects which address unmet needs for legal services.
The foundation's board of directors, the body which will actually approve
grant proposals submitted for funding, includes Carl Robinson, an attorney with the firm of O'Melveny and Myers, board chairman; Joseph D. Mandel, immediate past president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and an attorney with the firm of Tuttle & Taylor; Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Grace Montanez Davis; Antonio Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice; and Donald Baker, an attorney with Latham & Watkins.
Former Congresswoman Yvonne Brathwaite Burke and University of California Regent Stanley Sheinbaum are members of the UCLA PILF advisory council.
In recent years, PILFs have been established at several law schoolsamong them UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Stanford, and New York University. Students at Harvard and Hastings are now forming PILFs.
The UCLA PILF will make grants to individuals who submit proposals in areas of legal work such as programs
addressed to senior citizens, women, minorities, and health care.
The foundation hopes to enable lawyers, recent law graduates, and law students to provide representation and counsel to the economically and educationally disadvantaged, victims of discrimination, and persons denied human and constitutional rights.
The student organization president, Ms. Leslye Orloff, who is also UCLA PILF's principal founder, sits on the board of directors, and other student members of the board are Rachel Mann and Alan Garfield.
Alumni members of the board are Stephen Rawson, an attorney with Glassman & Browning, and Harriet Prensky, a Berkeley Law Foundation grant recipient working with the Nursing Home Advocacy Project.
Also serving on the board of directors are Linda Ferguson, past director of Watts Legal Aid and active in the Black Women Lawyers Association; immigration and naturalization attorney Mike Eng; Carol Kuntz Lysaght, Public Counsel; Gloria Molina, assistant to California State Assembly Speaker Willie Brown; Karen Kaplowitz, Alschuler, Grossman & Pine; Florante Ibanez, Philippino Immigrant Rights Organization; Terry Friedman, Bet Tzedek Legal Services; Sandra Pettit, Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation; Robert Berke, formerly with the Center for Law in the Public Interest and now with Overland, Berke, Wesley and Gits; Maria Rodriguez, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; School of Law Dean William D. Warren and Professors Paul Bergman and Carrie Menkel-Meadow.
The figures which emerged from this year's peak interview season at UCLA seem close to incredible, with more and more law firms searching for the brightest and best legal talent.
A busy fall recruitment season at the School of Law is being followed by a continuing stream of placement activity during the spring semester.
IThe fall placement season produced some 10,600 separate scenes like the one here; Robert D. Mosher of Nossaman, Krueger & Marsh interviews second-year student Alan Garfield.
A year ago, 250 law firms came to UCLA to interview during the peak months of September and October. This year, the number of firms interviewing at the School during the two peak months mushroomed to 371or virtually a 50 percent increase.
While the figures reflect a fiercely competitive market, they also indicate UCLA's high status among the nation's major law schools.
The interview ritual reached an alltime high in September, when 221 firms sent representatives to interview. All month long, 18 separate rooms were chock full of back-to-back interviews.
Hiring attorneys were escorted to the only available spaces in the law building-tiny study carrels in the library, and even a closet-size office which sometimes serves as a photocopy room.
The actual number of interviews between individual attorneys and individual students during September and October was a staggering figure. A conservative count produced a round number of 10,600 separate interviews.
Each second and third-year student may have as many as 40 interviews in one month, and the record set by one student a year ago was 85 interviews in two months.
One third year-student was offered a starting salary of $40,000 plus a bonus of $5,000 from a major Los Angeles firm. Starting salaries at large firms this year appear to average somewhere between $38,000 and $39,000.
Even among the smaller firms, there are some exceptional salaries.
But money isn't everything.
Placement Director Leticia Cairl has noticed a marked increase in the number of public agencies and legal service organizations which interviewed at UCLA this year. The Placement Office invited some 300 public agencies to interview on campus.
Many students are looking for careers in public interest law or legal services, and so the increase of activity in that sector was good news for them.
There were also more major cities represented among the law firms re-
cruiting at UCLA this year. Many firms from New York, Washington, D.C., Denver, Minneapolis, Honolulu, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami were listed on the interview schedules.
There's a silver lining behind the cloud which now hovers over profits for the motion picture industry, but the blue skies are a far way into the future, said financial analysts who spoke at the sixth annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium in Royce Hall on
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Several hundred members of the entertainment bar and others associated with the film industry attended the symposium, sponsored by the School of Law and the Entertainment Symposium Advisory Committee.
The topic of this year's symposium was "The New Economic Game: Money and Movies." Analysts from Wall Street who spoke during the two days agreed that it will be 1983-84 before the upward profitability brightens a currently depressed condition in the film world.
Movie earnings are expected to enter a period of decline starting this year and extending through part of 1983, as a result of current big-budget films which will take up to two years to be amortized, and also because of too much product glutting the market.
That analysis was given by David Londoner, vice president of research for Wertheim & Co., New York.
"If Hollywood can get its act together, I think there's some good times ahead," Londoner said. On the longrange outlook, Londoner predicted the industry will need to undergo a contraction before profits move upward. This will mean squeezing out some smaller production entities or combining them to reduce the number of bidders for talent and properties. Once this supply and demand ratio is back in balance, revenues will be boosted.
He predicted that when the big turning point comes in 1983 or 1984, profits should improve as pay and cable markets expand and the profit level may top $650-million by 1985.
However rosy the long-term outlook may be, the more immediate and grim future was addressed by other speakers at the symposium.
J. Morton Davis, president of D. H. Blair & Co., New York investment bankers, said Wall Street regards the film industry as "a series of nonrecurring events." Producer and financier
Stephen W. Sharmat suggested that producers could work out money deals in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Australia and other places.
Gordon Stulberg, president of Polygram Pictures, said: "If we are to fmd in the 1980s the opportunities to fmance the growing costs of being in this game, we will have to turn to the public." He said the major risks of marketing a motion picture will not disappear until the end of the decade or the early 1990s, at which time full market coverage by satellite and cable will offer a return fully commensurate with investment.
William J. Immermann, chairman of Cinema Group, Inc., said idle producers are having a more difficult time, caught in the middle of present industry changes.
David Norris, a partner in Denton, Hall & Burgin of London, described recent changes in Britain's approach to the sale and leaseback film deals which have attracted a great deal of U.S. participation.
Like Canada, he said, Britain is now insisting on a greater percentage of involvement for its own industry in these tax-advantage deals-as much as 60 percent in one Inland Revenue ruling.
Coordinating the symposium were Peter J. Dekom of Pollock, Bloom & Dekom and David Nochimson of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp.
Copies of the symposium syllabus are available and can be purchased by contacting Bea Cameron, School of Law, Los Angeles, CA 90024, phone (213) 825-7049.
Fred L. Leydorf '58 of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz was elected president of the board of directors of the Law Alumni Association in December, succeeding Judge Billy G. Mills '54.
Four new board members were elected to three-year terms. They are Lourdes Baird '76, William Gould '63, Elwood Lui '69, and Leland Stark '72. Leydorf was reelected to a three-year term.
Alumnus ofYear-Bruce I. Hochman '52 of Beverly Hills was honored in September as "Alumnus of the Year" by the Law Alumni Association. He is president of Hochman, Salkin & DeRoy, and his community service includes membership on the board of directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, the endowment committee of Leo Boeck Temple, and the Anti Defamation League ofB'nai B'rith.
Continuing members of the board are Don Mike Anthony '63, Kenneth I. Clayman '66, Kenneth Drexler '69, Hiroshi Fujisaki '62, David Glickman '57, Ed Landry '64, George McCambridge '73, Marjorie Scott Steinberg '75, Kathryne A. Stoltz '73 and William Vaughn '55.
Also elected as officers were Kenneth I. Clayman, vice president; Marjorie S. Steinberg, secretary; Don Mike Anthony, treasurer; and Hiroshi Fujisaki, alumni representative.
The Class of '57 reunion has been scheduled for Saturday, June 26. They
will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their graduation with a dinner dance at the James E. West Center, UCLA.
The Class of '72 reunion will be held at the Riviera Country Club on Saturday, June 12.
All alumni will receive a questionnaire in April requesting information for the School of Law alumni directory
The directory will help alumni to keep in touch and to renew old acquaintances. It is oeingproduced by the Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company, at no expense or profit to the School or the Law Alumni Association. The directory will be available only to UCLA law alumni, and its cost will be paid by the subscriptions of alumni who purchase the directory.
A second mailing of the information questionnaire is scheduled for May. If you do not receive a questionnaire, please contact the alumni office at (213) 825-7049.
Professor Donald G. Hagman will direct a study tour on "British LandUse Planning and Control" in England, Scotland, and Wales from July 9 through July 28.
The program is designed for lawyers, judges, planners and others interested in planning. Professor Hagman's lectures and guided tours to public agencies, historic places, new towns, and national parks will be supplemented by talks by eminent English authorities. A descriptive brochure on the program is available from Public Policy and Planning, Desk 36R, University Extension, University of California, 2223 Fulton St., Berkeley, CA 94720.
PhilipV. Adams '77 is now an assistant public defender in Alameda County.
Robert Berke '73 announces the formation of a partnership for the practice of law, specializingin criminal and civil litigation.The name of the firm is Overland, Berke, Wesley & Gits, with offices in Los Angeles.
Richard G. Berry '55was appointed to the Los Angeles Municipal Court.
Robert A. Breeze '71 is a partner in the furn ofRose & Breeze, Anchorage. He has specialized in natural resources law, representing U.S.andforeigncompaniesinvolved in coal and mineral development, oil and gas projects.
David Brick '72is continuing in private practice in Santa Cruz, California, and has been appointed referee ofthe JuvenileCourt.
Mark Burrill '79is clerkingforJustice Hugh Evans of the California Court of Appeal for the ThirdDistrict, Sacramento.
David G. Cameron '69isinprivate practice after nine years with the Los Angeles Regional Office of the FTC.He ischairman of the City of Santa Monica Landmarks Commission anda board member and corporate secretary of The Los Angeles Conservancy and of Californians for Preservation Action.
MeyerChapman'61 has been promoted to vice chancellor and general counsel for theCalifornia State Universities and Colleges.
W. Daniel Clinton '72is presently a partnerin the law firm ofCorbett, Kane and Berk with offices in San Francisco and Oakland.The firm specializes in the practice of labor and employment discrimination law.
Frederick W. Clough '68 as city attorney for Santa Barbara was recently elected president of the city attorneys'
department of the League ofCalifornia Cities, representing allcity attorneys in California.
James H. Conley '70 has earned the status of diplomate of the Court Practice Institute.
Walter G. Coppenrath, Jr. '78 is now a partner in the law firm of Fletcher, Rauch, Mahoney and Parker, specializing in maritime litigation.
William Degrandis '80 is associated with the law firmof Sidley & Austin in Washington,D.C.His time is concentrated oninternationaltrade andenergy regulatory matters.
Donald S. Eisenberg '75 and Joseph Kibre '75 announce the formation of a partnership for the practice of law under the name of Eisenberg & Kibre.
StevenD. Fieldman '75 hasbeen named a fund member attorney of Lawyers' Title Guaranty Fund.Through membership in the fund, an attorney can provide real estate buyers and sellers withthe extended protection of title insurance in addition to legal advice.
Leslie P. Franklin '81receivedan appointment as 1981-82California State Senate Fellow andis currently serving as a legislativeassistantto Senator Nicholas Petris (D) Oakland.
Jan C. Gabrielson '69has become associated withthe CenturyCitylaw firm of Stuart B.Walzer, Inc.specializing in family law. He has been appointed to the executive committee of the State Bar family law section.
Raymond Goldstone '69 has been named dean of students at UCLA. He succeeds Byron H.Atkinson in the post.Goldstone has been in student andadministrativepositions at UCLA for 15 years.
Ann J. Graham '77 has opened her ownpractice,whichisa legalclinic for battered women.
Phyllis M. Hix '62 is the first woman in California to win a contested election for the State Bar Board of Governors. She was sworn in by Chief Justice Bird at the Conference ofDelegates in San Diego.At the time of her election, Hix was assistant presiding referee for the State Bar Court for the State Barof California and she isalso a pastmember of the State Bar Commissionon JudicialNomineesEvaluation.
Paul Gordon Hoffman '76, formerlyof Kaplan,Livingston,Goodwin,Berkowitz & Selvin, announces the opening of Hoffman, Sabban & Brucker in Beverly Hills, specializingin taxation, estate planning, probate, employee benefit plans and professional corporations.
Lawrence William Jordan '71, formerly city attorney of Lake Oswego and assistantadministratorwith the Department of Commerce, announces the opening of his new office under the name of LawrenceWilliam Jordan, P.C., located in McNary Square in Salem, Oregon.
Bruce L. Kaplan '74 was named vice president and a director of A. Mark Financial Corporation. He joined the company in 1980 as generalcounsel andretains that position.
George David Kieffer '73 has been named to the Board ofGovernorsof the California Community Colleges. Kieffer is aformer member of the Board of Regents of the University of California anda board member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutionsin Santa Barbara.
Howard S. Klein '61 has become a principal of the firm of Valensi and Rose in Century City.
Ronald R. Kollitz '74 has been appointed a Workers'Compensation Judge inthe Los Angeles office of the Workers'Compensation Appeals Board. Previously, he served for four years as theWCAB writs attorney for the California Court of Appeal, Second District.He is certified as a specialist inworkers'compensationby the California Board of Legal Specialization.
Mickey Krieger '80 went to Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as part of the Fulbright program in computer science for 1981. He accepted an invitation to stay until July, 1982, as a visiting professor. The American Embassyin Brasilia
sponsored his visit to the capital to present a show on computer law for the Ministry of Justice and to meet with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. After next summer, he plans to return to Los Angeles to practice law
Calvin Law '75 has become a partner in the Century City law firm of Wyman, Bautzer, Rothman, Kuchel and Silbert.
Margaret Levy '75 has become a partner in the Los Angeles law firm of Adams, Duque and Hazeltine.
Richard J. Lopez '65 is an administrative law judge with the State Office of Administrative Hearings. He ran in and completed the New York City marathon on October 25, 1981.
Richard F. Lunetta '80 was recently appointed by the State Bar Board of Governors to the professional responsibility and conduct committee of the
State Bar of California. He is an associate in the Newport Beach office of Breindenbach, Swainston, Yokaitis & Crispo
Michael S. McManus '78 announces his association with Steven H. Felderstein and David Rosenberg for the practice of law. This association will be known as The Law Offices of Felderstein, Rosenberg & McManus and will be located in Sacramento.
ArthurMazirow '58 has been named to the California Housing Finance Agency. Mazirow's appointment to the 11-member board of directors was made by Assembly Speaker Willie Lewis Brown.
RichardMills '68, a San Diego County deputy district attorney from 1970 to 1978, is now in private practice in Escondido, California. His practice is limited to criminal law.
ITimothy Muris '74 has been appointed head of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Alec G. Nedelman '80 has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Jewish National Fund and chairman of the Leadership Council. He has become associated with the firm of Loeb and Loeb in Los Angeles. Alec has been invited to speak at the 1982 International Communications Conference to be held in Philadelphia.
Bruce Polichar '67 has been appointed vice president of business affairs for the Samuel Goldwyn Company. He is also directing the activities of Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment.
JonathanM. Purver '64 was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of California Attorneys for Criminal Justice at the San Francisco Hilton on November 21, 1981. His lecture covered
thelawand practiceofadmissions and confessions andrecentU.S. Supreme Courtdecisions which have expanded Miranda rights In July, Purver spoke to ameetingof the AssociationofTrial LawyersofAmericaon thesubjectof "Constitutional Law: ASupremeCourt Update."
Jason Reed '67 has been appointed executivedirector of ASUCLA, thestudentassociation on theUCLAcampus.
Everett E. Ricks '62, Judgeofthe SuperiorCourt, waselectedchairpersonofthe Los AngelesCounty Delinquency andCrimeCommission.Judge Rickswillalsoserveon the Justice System AdvisoryGroup for Los AngelesCounty.
Eleanor River '80 hasresigned her positionwiththe Anchorage,Alaska, officeofGraham&James andjoined the Attorney General's officeinthe Oil, Gasand Mining section.
Gloria Roa '76 has formedaprofessional association andrelocatedher officesto the law officeof Henry0. Rothblatt. Shewillcontinuetospecialize in immigration andvisaproceduresandwillwork closely with Professor Rothblatt on related matters.
Michael A. Robbins '78 hasbecome directoroflaborrelationsandlabor counselfor GoldenWestBroadcasters in Hollywood. Following graduation, Robbins was appointedas an attorney withthe National Labor Relations Board. He waslateralabor attorney with CBS.
Mark Rosen '76 hasbecome associated with the firmofCorbett,Steelman & Davidson in Irvine.
Richard H. Shay '65 was appointed to serve theReaganAdministration as ChiefCounsel, NationalTelecommunications andInformationAdministration of the DepartmentofCommercein Washington,D.C.
Richard Shtiller'68, solepractitioner, has moved hisofficestoBeverly Hills.
Kenneth M. Simon '63has opened his ownlaw officesinBeverly Hills, continuing hisspecializationinlaborlaw representationof employers.
Carrie Small'77 recentlymovedto SacramentoandjoinedtheState Office ofAdministrativeLaw aslegal counsel.Carrieservedasstaff attorneyand editoroflegalpublicationsforthe
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American Indian LawyerTraining Programin Oaklandforthree years. In 1980 Small publishedabook, Justice in Indian Country, taught two courses intheUCBerkeleyNative American Studies Department inthewinterquarters of1980 and 1981, andeditedthe monthly IndianLaw Reporter.
Stanley M. Smith'68, aSan Diegocertifiedfamilylawspecialist,hasrecently been elected a fellow ofthe American Academyof Matrimonial Lawyers.
Gary Stamler '79 has become a partner intheSanta Monicalawfirmof Grakal, Stamler & Blackman, specializingin musicandmotionpicturelaw.
Jan Vetter '62, professor of law atBoalt Hall, delivered a lectureon "The Evolutionof Holmes: Holmes and Evolution" inThe OliverWendell Holmes Lectures at Harvard LawSchool, November3-5.The lecturescelebrated the centennialof the publicationof The CommonLaw.
HectorVillasenor '72has associated with Ziskind, Greene &Associates, a Beverly Hillsfirmspecializinginattorneyplacement andlawfirmmergers and acquisitions.
Charles S. Vogel '59,formerlyajudge of the Los AngelesSuperiorCourt,has joined the Los Angelesofficeof Sidley & Austin as a partner.
LawrenceWaddington '56 was elected tothe LosAngelesSuperiorCourtin 1981 aftersevenyearsasjudgeofthe MunicipalCourt, Los AngelesJudicial District.
Judith Welch Wegner '76, afterserving as special assistanttoSecretaryof Education Hufstedlerand visitingprofessor attheUniversityof IowaCollege ofLaw,isnow anassistantprofessorof law onthe facultyoftheUniversityof NorthCarolina Schoolof Law.
Richard P. Yang '74 hasrecentlyjoined the firm of Quan,Cohen, Kurahashi, Hsiehand Scholtz. Priortothathewas a deputyattorneygeneralwiththe State of California forseven years.
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