Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS CO M TT E The Academic Affairs Committee, now in its second year, has concemed itself with three major goals. First, the Committee, in conjunction with the Law Forum, in an effort to create an atmosphere in which students, faculty, and administrators can meet and discuss the changing course of legal education at Stanford, has organized a series of panel discussions on a variety of academic topics. Second, on a somewhat informal basis, the Committee has sought to establish better lines of communication between the students and the administration by working directly with various members of the administration toward the solution of a variety of academic problems. Third, the Committee has overseen and coordinated the work of the various parallel committees established by the current Law Association administration. ACADEMIC AFFAIRS COMMITTEE: B. Fix Clst Year Rep.J, M. Vidgoff fPep. ex officioj, R. Rychlick 12nd Year Rep.j, T. Hawley CChmnJ.

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The Law Forum has taken on itself the task of supplementing the curriculum provided by the School, and although its program this year has been modest, it has been quite successful. ' Working closely with the Office of Law Placement, the Forum continued its World of Lawn series, which brought to the School this year a number of law-trained individuals who have followed varying career paths. Programs included f'Law in an Agri-Business Communityf' f'Opportunities in Accounting for Lawyersj' and Lawyers in VISTAI' The main part of the Forum program, however, was a somewhat random series of hopefully relevant speakers. Democrat Alan Cranston ended his campaign for the United States Senate in a speech at Stanford co-sponsored by the Committee for a New Democratic Politics and the Forum. The candidate urged peace in Vietnam and justice at home as the key to election-year cries for ulaw and order. After his talk he met with a small faculty group, including law professors Packer, Sneed, and Girard, to discuss some of the needs of higher education. Candidate Cranston is now Senator Cranston. In answer to an undergraduate panic after several arrests on campus, for violations of marijuana laws, Professor John Kaplan addressed all interested students about Police on Campus: Your Rights and Theirs? For two hours Mr. Kaplan discussed the law of arrest and search and seizure, and he answered questions which finally led him to comment, HI canit believe the colossal naivete of the Stanford student body. Kaplan's class in Criminal Procedure seemed to agree. . Dr. Glenn S. Dumke, Chancellor of the Califomia State College System, spoke on the strike at San Francisco State C'The Turbulent Campusvj urging law students especially to support established channels for effecting change and maintaining that academic freedom is now in great danger from the State Legislature because the universities are abandoning their traditional ivory tower, uninvolved, search for Truth. Dr. Dumke found that Stanford law students, perhaps unwilling to support violence, are equally unwilling to accept, unchallenged, the status quo. Students especially questioned the due process of law which Dumke claimed had been accorded at S.F. State. To say the least, both Chancellor and students got the dialogue they came for. LA FORU LAW FORUM. SEATED: T. Adlhock and J. Mason. MISSING: M. McLennan, C. Bruton, annd R. Mallory. Mr. James Conway, Chief Postal Inspector in San Francisco and a handwriting expert, spoke on Documentary Evidence and the Expert. His entertaining and elightening talk included a forgery demonstrationn which left more than 150 in attendance in awe. Parliamentary Advisor to the Police Federation of Britain and Wales, Mr. Eldon Griffiths, M.P., educated students on British Police Practicesf, He emphasized the close and amiable relationship between the Bobbies and the citizens they police, and he noted how no British citizen would be offended at not being able to obtain a handgun for protectioni' - only the Queen has the right to cannon? He also noted that murders and armed robberies in Britain are far less frequent than is the United States. A new series for the Forum this year was the Legal Educationi' series, presented in conjunction with the Committee on Academic Affairs. Various law professors were given an opportunity to present their views on legal education and then were placed on the hot seat to answer student questions and justify their views in the face of any criticisms. The resulting dialogue will hopefully lead to constructive changes in the School and badly needed progress in the area of legal education. At press time, the Forum was looking forward to a full schedule in the last two months of the year, including Guest-in-Residence John W. Macy fformer Chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission and now President of Public Broadcast Laboratoryj and the Honorable J. Skelly Wright fof the U.S. Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C.j. In addition, the Forum had scheduled a visit from a group of White House Fellows including former Law Forum President David Lelewer, was planning for the return of the traditional Oxford Debate Con Black Autonomy in U.S. Citiesnj, and was working toward a meeting with N.Y. Mayor John Lindsay prior to his commencement address. The overall success of Law Forum programs this year surpassed the greatest expectations of even the most optimistic member, as student interest in the presentations grew continuously through- out the year.

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PLACEMENT COMMITTEE The Placement Committee has been primarily active in assisting the Placement Office in planning employer interviewing policies and procedures and in serving as a liaison between students and the Placement Office. The Placement Committee attempts to help students find summer and permanent employment by encouraging employers to come to Stanford, by providing students with written material regarding job possibilities, and by working individually with students who have unusual interests or desires. Efforts have been made to make job opportunities known both by area fas in San Francisco, Denver, New Yorkj and type of practice flarge firm corporate practice, legal aid, etc.j. The Placement Committee maintains files on past correspondence with possible employers and lists of those law firms which have interviewed at Stanford in the past few years. This past year, in an effort to insure more meaningful interview opportunities for all students, several new features were added to the interviewing program: lj Employers were encouraged to interview all interested applicants, whether or not such applicants has academic standing sufficiently high in the interviewer's mind, 21 To accommodate the large numbers of students who wish to interview with the larger or more popular law firms, such firms were encouraged to interview on more than one day, and informal lunch time get-togethers were arranged between the employers and interested studentsg 33 Students were given the results of a compilation made by the Placement Committee as to where last year,s graduates were and what they were doing, and students were also given all available information on what this year's graduating class would be doing next year. The Placement Committee helps assist, and in addition has been well assisted by, the Placement Office and particularly by Suzanne Close and Cindy Swaim. In addition, Dean Hasenkamp has worked closely with the Placement Committee in formulating new interviewing policy. Finally, many students have helped the Placement Committee by providing specific information as to job opportunities or by making known suggestions with which the Committee can better operate next year. PLACEMENT COMMITTEE Co chairmen E Koplowitz and P Popovlch