Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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GGRDON KENDALL SCOTT Professor of Law Professor Scott is a native of Massachusetts. He attended Harvard College and received an A.B. in government in 1938. Remaining at Har- vard for graduate study in law, he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, receiving an LL.B. in 1941. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. from 1941 until 1942, served in 1942 in the Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Af- fairs in the Department of State, then embarked upon four years of service with the United States Army. ln 1946 Mr. Scott became a member of the law faculty at Stanford Where he remained until 1948. ln that year he returned to the Boston area to practice law for four years, rejoining the Stan- ford faculty in 1952. He has taught at Stanford since that time, focusing his attention primarily on the areas of corporations, municipal law, and taxation. Professor Scott's reputation as a superlative tennis player is Widespread and, according to firsthand reports, well-deserved. In addition to his skill on the tennis court, Mr. Scott demon- strates considerable talent with the golf club. In relation to this latter point, he expresses regret that the Law Association no longer gives golf balls to the winners of its tournamentg he claims it was his only source of new balls. Mr, Scott also plays bridge, but claims Cperhaps this should be challengedj that there are no really good student players around-although he does check from time to time.

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YOSAL ROGAT Associate Professor of Law Yosal Rogat is in the unique position of hold- ing a joint appointment from the Law School and from Stanfordis political science department. This follows logically from the fact that he is currently interested in studying the relation be- tween law and politics. His principal subjects at Stanford are Legal Theory and Legal History. Professor Rogat was born in California in l928. I-le received a B.A. from UCLA in 1947, a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berke- ley in l956, both in political science, and a B.A. from Oxford in 1957 in jurisprudence. In that year he joined the political science faculty at Berkeley where he remained until l960. Return- ing to southern California, he was a staff mem- ber of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara for two years. The next two years were spent as a member of the political science faculty at the University of Chicago, from which he returned to the Bay Area as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Professor Rogat was a visiting lecturer at the Law School last year, and this year received the joint appoint- ment which he now holds. Besides contributing to the University of Chi- cago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Encyclo- pedia of Philosophy, Mr. Rogat has published The Eichmann Trial and the Rule of Law, and is presently writing what he describes as an interpretation of Mr. justice Holmes?

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Elected in 1965-with considerable door-to-door assistance from his students-to a six-year term on the Palo Alto City Council, Professor Byron Sher has spent much of his time since then tackling the municipal problems facing the city after a period of rapid growth and change. He is particularly interested in helping to preserve Palo Alto as a beautiful and quiet residential community. The Shers-Byron, his wife, Linda, and their three children-live in a large home in Palo Alto, complete with a newly installed swimming pool. They have yet to acquire the tennis court Professor Sher feels his talents warrant. At Stanford he is best known for his vivid portrayal of Santa Claus at the Law Association Christmas party. Born in Missouri in 1928, Professor Sher received a B.S.B.A. in commerce and fi- nance in 1949 from Washington University. He took his LLB. in 1952 from Harvard, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He then practiced law in Boston for two years. He was a teaching fellow at Harvard in 1954-55 and a member of the law faculty at Southern Methodist University from 1955 until 1957, when he came to Stanford. A visiting faculty member at the University of Southern California Law School during the summer of 1956, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1964. He is the co-author of Law in Society-lntro- duction to Freedom of Contract, his current project is a study of the consumer's right to cancel door-to-door sales, and work on the Consumer Credit Code. BYRON D. SHEB Professor of Law