Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Moffatt Hancock is the only law school pro- fessor to have held two named professorships at Stanford: since 1962 he has been Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Lawg before that he was elected by the student body as Red Hot Prof of 1961. An expert in the fields of Property, Iurisprudence, Legal History, and Conflict of Laws, he is the author of Torts in the Conflict of Laws Cl942D. He spent the academic year 1965-66 on leave under a Guggenheim Fellow- ship writing a series of law review articles in the field of Conflict of Laws and revising his contributions to the Encyclopedia Brittariica. Professor Hancock is the holder of a B.A. from the University of Toronto Cl933j, an LL.B. from the Osgoode Hall Law School Cl936j, and an S.I.D. from the University of Michigan Law School fl940D. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the Dalhousie Law School, where he was Viscount Bennett Profes- sor of Law, and the University of Southern California. He came to Stanford in 1953. Though many first-year Property students at first perceive Professor Hancock as an all too real incarnation of Satan, most eventually come to see him as he prefers to see himself-as a kindly uncle. A devoted family man, he takes great pride in seeing the development of his two children-Cathy, a 15-year old Palo Alto High School archery star, and 12-year old Graeme, a Boy Scout, trombonist, and coin-c0l- lector. From the I-lancock's home in Palo Alto, his Wife, Eileen, sallies forth to carry out her duties as Director of the Volunteer Bureau, while Professor Hancock pursues his hobby of taking prize-winning photographs of the Stan- ford campus, some of which grace the Vrooman Room and the pages of volumes I and II of the Law School yearbook. MOFFATT HANCOCK Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law

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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.

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Professor of Law Iohn Bingham Hurlbut, Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law since 1959, has spent this academic year on sabbatical leave from the law school. When they are at Stanford, Professor Hurlbut and his wife occupy a large home in the older section of the campus to which they often invite students for Sunday afternoon tea. These par- ties are especially treasured by first-year students as an opportunity to talk with a faculty member away from the classroom, as well as a chance to meet fellow students in a non-library setting. Born in 1906, Professor Hurlbut received an A.B. in political science from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1928. He earned an lVl.A. in the same sub- ject Cl929j and an LL.B. Cl934j from Stanford. First-year students are usually intim- idated by the legend that Mr. Hurlbut is the number one academic graduate Stanford Law School has produced. While working toward his LL.B., Professor Hurlbut was a teaching assistant in the Political Science Department and worked for two years with Professor Vernier on American Family Law, Volume I II , for which he received credit for joint authorship. He practiced law in Los Angeles from 1934 until 1937, when he joined the Stanford law faculty. From 1942 until 1945 he was on leave for service in the United States Navyg in 1960-61 he was Fulbright Lecturer in Law at the University of Tokyo and at the Iapanese Supreme Court's Legal Training and Research Institute. At Stanford, Mr. Hurlbut has served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Athletics, as Stanford faculty athletic representative with the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference, and as Vice President of the National Collegiate Athletic Association CNCAAD. JOHN BINGHAM HURLBUT jackson Eli Reynolds