Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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HERBERT L. PACKER Vice-Provost of the University and Professor of Law In November 1966 Herbert Packer was ap- pointed Vice-Provost of the University for Aca- demic Planning and Programs. In this position he has initial responsibility for everything aca- demic Within the University that doesn,t have to be decided today, to use his own description of his duties. He is presently devoting consid- erable time to a committee charged with a two- year study of Stanford's entire educational pro- gram. A man of catholic interests and immense tal- ent, Professor Packer is a voracious reader of all types of literature, a lover of good food, and a collector of fine wines. He also lays claim to the worldfs worst game of golf. People are divided into two classes-those who play no golf at all and those who play better than I. The author o-f Ex-Communist Witness and The State of Research in Antitrust Law, he hopes that a current book-tentatively titled Crimi- nal Sanction-will not be too long delayed by his new administrative tasks. His is not the only literary talent in the family, his wife, Nancy, is E. H. Iones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford. She is a frequent contributor to The Yale Review, Harpers, The Kenyon Review, and The Reporter. A political activist, Mrs. Packer helped manage Professor Sher's success- ful campaign for the Palo Alto City Council. The Packers have two children-Annie, 8, and George,6. Born in New Iersey in 1925, Professor Packer received a B.A. in government and interna- tional relations C1944j and an LL.B. Q1949j from Yale, where he was article editor of the Yale Law journal. After serving as law clerk to ludge Thomas W. Swan, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1949-50, he practiced law from 1950 until 1955 with the Washington D.C. firm now known as Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering. In 1956 he joined the Stanford faculty. From 1961 to 1963 Mr. Packer served on the Attorney Genera1's Committee on Poverty and Federal Criminal Iusticeg since 1964 he has been a reporter for the revision of the California Penal Code. At Stanford as chairman of the Law School Cur- riculum Committee he claims the title of Great Emancipator for having freed the slavesu from the oppression of the quarter system. Concern- ing the reaction to this change in 1965, Profes- sor Packer declares the faculty to be great in- novators compared with law students who are the most' conservative group in existencef'