Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Howard R. Williams ranks as the outstanding American scholar in the field of Oil and Gas Law. Editor, with Professor Meyers, of the definitive treatise, Oil and Gas Law, he annually publishes a supplement to keep the Work current. He often serves as special government consultant in this field of special interest. In addition, this year Stanford students began using parts of a Trusts and Estates casebook which he hopes to complete and publish within a year. Professor Williams and his wife, Virginia, are very active in Stanford and Palo Alto community affairs. I-Ie has held what he terms the usual collectioni' of offices for his church, the Palo Alto First Baptist, while his wife serves as church librarian. After five years in the Army, Professor Williams claims he never wants to wander far from the macadam highways nor do anything really strenuous, prefering to spend his leisure time gardening and walking. The Williams' son, Frederick, 17, an acclaimed high school thespian, enters college in the fall. Born in Indiana in 1915, he received an A.B. in political science from Washington University in 1937 and an LL.B. in 1940 from Columbia University Law School, Where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He practiced law in New York, then served in the Field Artillery from 1941-46. From 1946 until 1951 he was a mem- ber of the law faculty at the University of Texas, during this time he served both as assistant dean and acting dean of the law school. In 1951 he joined the Columbia law faculty, becoming Dwight Professor of Law in 1959. He came to Stanford in 1962. I-TOWARD R WILLIAMS Professor o Law

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Lecturer in Law In his role as lecturer and reference librarian, Dr. Torzsay-Biber adds a distinctly continental flavor to the faculty potpourri. Dr. Biber-his name has taken this shortened form among the members of the law school community-was born in 1909 in Hungary. He graduated from the University of Budapest in l932, did graduate work at the University of Berlin, and received a doctorate in law from the University of Buda- pest in l934. He was a member of the Hungarian bar from 1934 to 1945. For the next five years he was employed by the United States Military Government in Austria. Dr. Biber came to the United States in 1950 and served for a year as secretary to Chief Ius- tice Arnold of the Supreme Court of Olclahomag at the same time he was a special lecturer in in- ternational law and jurisprudence at the Univer- sity of Oklahoma. From l952 until he came to Stanford in l960, he was a legal analyst with the Library of Congress. Despite the demands of his job, Dr. Biber al- ways seems to have time to help a student in dis- tress find a lost case or an elusive law review ar- ticleg and in addition to instructing first-year students in the art of legal research, he teaches a seminar in his pet subject, Roman law. GEORGE TORZSAY-BIBER

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EDWIN lV1 ZIMMERMAN Pro essor of Law Currently on leave from the law school, Professor Edwin M. Zimmerman is serving as first assistant in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Iustice in Washington, D.C. He and his wife, Caroline, and their three children, Sarah, Lyle, and Miriam, have a home in the Georgetown section of the Capital overlooking the Potomac River. Born in New York City in 1924, Professor Zimmerman received his A.B. in elec- tronic physics Cl944j and his LLB. C1949j from Columbia University, where he was articles edito-r of the Columbia Law Review. Between 1944 and 1946 he was in the United States Signal Corps serving in the Philippines and Iapan. In 1948 he was on the staff of the Hoover Commission on Governmental Reorganization. After serving in 1949-50 as law clerk to Iudge Simon H. Rifkind, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, he was law clerk to Mr. Iustice Reed of the United States Supreme Court in 1950-51. He practiced law with the New York firm of Sulli- van 8L Cromwell from 1951 until 1959 when he joined the Stanford law faculty. Cn leave since Iuly 1965, Professor Zimmerman was Director of Policy Planning for the Antitrust Division before assuming his present post in December 1965.