Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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I. MYRON IACOBSTEIN Law Librarian and Professor of Law Professor Iacobstein is the man who, as Stan- ford's law librarian, is responsible for the devel- opment and administration of the law library and its staff. In addition to this sizable task, he also serves as editor of the Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law, and has just completed and published a Water Law Bibliography for which he will continue to produce an annual supplement. Mr. Iacobstein was born in Michigan in 1920 and received a B.A. in history from Wayne State University in 1946, an M.S. in library science from Columbia University in 1950, and an LL.B. from Chicago-Kent School of Law in 1953, Where he was an editor of the Chicago- Kent Law Review. He served as assistant law librarian at the University of Illinois from 1953 until 1955, was assistant law librarian at Co- lumbia University from 1955 until 1959, and professor of law and law librarian at the Uni- versity of Colorado from 1960 until 1963. In 1963 he came to Stanford as law librarian and professor of law. The Iacobsteins have two children, a daugh- ter, 15, and a son, 10. They have a home in the Pine Hill area on the campus. Professor Iacob- stein is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Documentation Institute, and the American Society for Interna- tional Law.