Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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William Baxter is a native of New York City, but must be classified as a Californian by asso- ciation. He was a Stanford undergraduate and received an A.B. in 1951. When it came to the study of law, he again chose Stanford, earning an LL.B. in 1956 after serving as comment editor of the Stanford Law Review. He stayed on at the law school as an assistant professor until 1958 when he took a position with Covington 81 Bur- ling in Washington, D.C. He remained in the Capital for two years, returning to Stanford in 1960. In 1964-65 he was a visiting professor of law at Yale. No student who has encountered him need be reminded of Professor Baxter's keen mind and his thorough knowledge of the intricacies of Regulated Industries and Antitrust Law. In addi- tion to these areas of special interest, he teaches with an equal degree of competence in Admin- istrative Law, Federal Iurisdiction, and Legal Process. He acts as a legal consultant to various companies both in California and in other states, to his old law firm in Washington, and to the Federal Aviation Agency-for whom he has been conducting a special study of ways to minimize the social cost of airplane noise. The Baxters have three children-two boys, 9 and 13, and a girl ll, The children all display an interest in music, and the eldest leans toward mathematics as well. Mrs. Baxter busies herself with painting and politicsg she also gives consid- erable time to promotional efforts on behalf of the Stanford Repertory Theatre. Professor Bax- ter admits to only two hobbies: Good bridge and mediocre golff, There are few reports about the latter, but interested observers report that his bridge is very good. WILLIAM F. BAXTER Professor of Law