Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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A member of the law faculty at Sanford since 1953, Iohn Merryman concentrated his teaching for several years in property law. More recently he has introduced to Stanford the study of foreign legal systems. Diverging from other American law schools, which use French and German backgrounds, he has specialized in the Italian tradition. The Stanford Press will soon publish an introductory book on the Italian legal system which Professor Merryman co-authored with a professor at the University of Florence and a pro- fessor at Fordham. He is also directing a project for modernizing the Chilean system of legal edu- cation and was in Santiago during this year's semester break. Professor Merryman was born in Oregon and earned a bacheloris degree in chemistry from the University of Portland in 1943, following that up with a rnasteris in the same subject from Notre Dame. He stayed on at Notre Dame to earn a I.D. in 1947-graduating first in his class and serving as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Lawyer. He subsequently received a I.S.D. from New York University, after having been a mem- ber of the law faculty at the University of Santa Clara for several years. Never one to spend too long in any one place, Mr. Merryman was a vis- iting professor at the University of Rome in 1963-64, and at the Center of Planning and Re- search in Athens in 1964. Professor Merryman reports that he has a tolerant wife, three stepsons, two dogs, and an unsound golf swing. He plays the piano, as was evidenced by his performance at the Christmas Dinner. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of North- ern California, 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Professor of Law IOHN HENRY MERRYMAN

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Vitally interested in improving the 1aw and the administration of justice, john R. McDon- ough is a member of the California Law Revision Commission, the American Law Institute, and the judicial Conference of the Ninth Circuit. First as Executive Secretary, then as a member, and finally as Chairman of the Law Revision Commission, Professor McDonough worked on the seven year task of revamping the California Evidence Code, which was finally enacted by the Legislature in 1965. In both the A.L.I. and the judicial Conference he has been ja proponent of changes in the Federal diversity jurisdiction which would halve the number of cases reaching Federal courts by this route. He is presently on a committee of the judicial Council of the State of California considering a proposed revision of the California personal jurisdiction statutes. Closer to home, Professor McDonough took his first foray into politics last fall as Co-Chairman of the Santa Clara County Committee to Re-elect Governor Brown. Last january he was elected President of the Palo Alto-Stanford Democratic Council. At Stanford he is a member of the Com- mittee of 15, a group of faculty members, univer- sity administrators, and students concerned with a variety of university problems. Born and raised in the Northwest, Professor McDonough attended the University of Wash- ington and received an LL.B. from Columbia University in 1946 after serving as note editor of the Columbia Law Review. At Stanford as an as- sistant professor, he helped found the Stanford Law Review in 1948. After practicing for three years with the San Francisco firm of Brobeck, Phleger 81 Harrison, Professor McDonough re- turned to Stanford in 1952. From 1962 until 1964 he was acting dean of the law school. He and his wife, Margaret, and their two children, jana, 10, and john, 6, live on the campus. IOHN R. MCDONOUGH Professor of Law

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CHARLES MEYERS Professor of Law In 1948 while a first-year law student at the University of Texas, Charles I. Meyers wandered by mistake into a senior class taught by Professor Howard Williams. Williams was tougher then, Meyers reports. Nonetheless, he stayed to be- come an expert in Oil and Gas Law, to co-author with his mentor Oil and Gas Law, Manual of Oil and Gas Annotated, and Cases on Oil and Gas Law, and to accompany Professor Williams to the faculties of Columbia and Stanford. An active supporter of fair housing, he serves as legal consultant to the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing. As a teacher he feels his chief goal is the uinculcation of tolerance, a willingness to understand the opposite side whether you agree or not-a very unpopular idea these daysf, Born in Texas in l925, Professor Meyers re- ceived a B.A. in English Literature from Rice ln- stitute in 1949, the same year receiving an LLB. from the University of Texas, where he was com- ment editor of the University of Texas Law Re- view. He took an LL.M. Cl953j and a I.S.D. Cl964j from Columbia. He served as an ensign in the United States Navy from 1945-48, he practiced law in Austin, Texas, in l95l-52. A teaching fellow in English at Texas while in law school, he was a member of that school's law faculty from l95l until l954 and of the law fac- ulty at Columbia from l954 to 1962. He has been professor of law at Stanford since 1962 and has served as visiting professor at Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah. He was Stanford's Red Hot Prof in 1963-uthe best position because bought-strictly cash. He is married to the former Pamela Adams and has two children: George, lO, and Kath- erine, 8.