Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Robert Girard joined the faculty of the Stan- ford Law School in 1958. He has taught courses in Contracts, Unjust Enrichment, Constitu- tional Law, and Civil Rights, as Well as in his principal subject, Torts. In 1963-64 he was a visiting professor of law at Harvard. Last year he was on sabbatical leave in Europe. He spent the time there exploring areas of constitutional law - especially church-state relations. He worked primarily in Munich. Mrs. Girard and their three children-boys, 10 and 6, and a girl, 4, accompanied Professor Girard in Europe. Mr. Girard was born in Washington in 1931. He received a B.A. in 1953 from the University of Washington and an LLB. in 1956 fro-m Har- vard, Where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He served as law clerk to Mr. Iustice Black of the United States Supreme Court for two years before coming to Stanford. ROBERT A. GIRARD Professor of Law

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RALPH IOCELYN GAMPELL Lecturer in Law The only member of the faculty to hold both a medical and a legal degree is Ralph Iocelyn Gampell. Born in England in l9l6, Dr. Garnpell received his education in medicine at the Uni- versity of Manchester, taking an M.B., Ch.B. in l940. For five years thereafter he was a medical officer with the Royal Air Force in China, Burma, and India. He practiced general medicine in England from l946 until l949 and in the United States beginning in l949. From l957, when he received an LL.B. from Stanford, until 1965, he maintained both a medical and a legal practice. Since l965, Dr. Garnpell has confined his pro- fessional activities to the practice of law in San Iose, specializing in personal injury litigation. At Stanford he has been a part-time lecturer on Medical-Legal Problems since l958. In response to inquiries as to why he chose to devote his time exclusively to the law, Dr. Gam- pell says he was tired of being a professional schizophrenic, and besides the practice of general medicine is deadly dull. As for the value of hav- ing degrees in both fields he feels it is of assis- tance in personal injury Work and in teaching, but aside from these two specializedaareas totally valuelessf, A frequent contributor to medical journals until 1965, Dr. Gampell was a member of the Governor's Committee on Abortions and with Professor Packer prepared the definitive study of the state of therapeutic abortions in California. Dr. Gampell's wife, Margaret, is a third-year law student at Stanford. With their six children, they live in Los Altos Hills.

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GERALD GUNTHER Professor of Law Gerald Gunther has spent this academic year with his wife and two children on leave in London. There he has been working on a comparative study of the constitu- tional law of selected European countries. Professor Gunther was born in Germany in 1927. He took an A.B. in political sci- ence from Brooklyn College in 1949, an 1V1.A. in public law and government from Columbia in 1950 and an LL.B. from Harvard C1953j, where he was editor of the Harvard Law Review for two years. In 1949, 1950, and 1951 he taught political science at Brooklyn College and at City College of New York. He served as law clerk to Iudge Learned Hand, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1953-54, and to the Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Iustice of the United States, during 1954-55. After practicing law in New York City with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly 81 Hamilton in 1955-56, he joined the faculty of Columbia Law School, where he re- mained until he came to Stanford in 1962. From 1957 until 1959 he served as director of the Columbia Federal Courts History Project. In 1962-63 Mr. Gunther was a Guggenheim Fellow. Currently he is one of eight Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Scholars working on a multi-volume history of the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Gunther is concen- trating on the Marshall Court. He is also co-editor of Selected Essays on Constitu- tional Lawg in 1965 he brought out the seventh edition, Dowling and Gunther, Cases and Materials on Constitutional Law.