Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Douglas Ayer is new to the Stanford law faculty this year. I-le was born in Missouri in 1937, and received an A.B. in politics and economics in 1959, and an LL.B. in 1962 from Yale University. While in law school he was an editor of the Yale Law journal. During the following year he served as law clerk to judge Charles E. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1963-64, Professor Ayer was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Stockholm, returning to New York to join the law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons 81 Gates where he remained until he came to Stanford in 1966. ' Professor Ayer's wife, Barbara, is a graduate of Radcliffe College and has an lVl.A. in French Literature from Columbia. She is now spending some time delving into the literature of several other countries. Her husband, meanwhile, has done some research and writing in the field of conscientious objection and the draft, an article by him was published earlier this year in Christianity and Crisis on the subject of The Selective Conscientious Objectorf' In the future he will be participating in a study for the California Law Revision Commission on the subject of eminent domain. DOUGLAS R. AYER Assistant Professor o Law

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Beginning Ianuary 1, 1967, Thomas Robinson undertook the duties of admissions director and administrator of financial aid. In these capacities he succeeds Associate Dean William Keogh, who left to enter private practice. This year over 1,500 appli- cations were received for the 160 places available in the class of l970g this continues a trend in recent years with both the number and quality of applicants increasing. At one point the number of applicants was running 40 per cent ahead of the class of 1969. It is Dean Robinson's task to work with the Faculty Committee on Admissions to select the most qualified applicants-a task which increases in difficulty each year. Born in Nebraska in 1933, he received a B.A. in politics and economics H9572 and an LL.B. H9615 from Yale University. During 1959-60 he was an officer in the United States Coast Guard assigned to sea duty in the North Atlantic. From 1961 to 1963 he practiced law with the firm of Covington Sz Burling in Washington, D.C., leaving to become legislative assistant to Senator Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska. He remains a consultant to the Subcommittee on the Improvement of Iudicial Machinery of the Senate Iudiciary Committee. In 1964 he came to Stanford as assistant to the dean and has been assistant dean since 1965. He and his wife, Alice, live in Sharon Heights. THOMAS E. ROBINSON Assistant Dean

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Wayne Barnett came to the Stanford law faculty this year having spent a number of years in both private practice and in government service. After receiving an A.B. in economics in 1950 from Harvard College, he stayed on in Cambridge to study law, serving as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review and receiving an LL.B. in 1953. Professor Barnett was law clerk to Mr. Iustice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court in 1955-56, then practiced with the Washington firm of Covington 81 Burling for two years. In 1958 he left private practice to become Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. In this capacity Mr. Barnett and his eight colleagues in the office had the responsibility for arguing cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the United States, and also for authorizing appeals in cases lost by the government in a lower court or agency. In this latter function especially, the Solicitor Ceneralis office is obviously important as a policy-making body. Mr. Barnett left the Solicitor General's office in 1965 to become first assistant in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the Department of Iustice. In 1966 he yielded to the temptation to try his hand at teaching and joined the Stanford faculty. He teaches primarily in the area of taxation and contracts. This year the Barnett family is living in Professor Spaeth's campus home while he is on leave of absence. The Barnetts have five children, the eldest of whom is a boy 9g the youngest four are girls, ranging downward to age 3. Mrs. Barnett is a tennis player, as is her husbandg he also enjoys bridge and golf. WAYNE G. BARNETT Professor 0 Law