Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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When William Cohen was a child, he convinced his parents that all the action was in Southern California. They accommodated him by moving to Los Angeles area, Where, except for brief excursions outside the megagopolis, he has lived there ever since. Mr. Cohen has been a visiting professor of torts and federal jurisdiction during the autumn semester. Professor Cohen is an alumnus of the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received his A.B. and his LL.B. He was Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA. Law Review in 1955. From 1955 to 1957 he served as a lw clerk for Justice William O. Douglas of the United States Supreme Court. Of this experience, I wouldn't have missed it for anythingg I wouldn't do it again for the worldf' He then taught for three years at the University of Minnesota Law School, and in 1960 he returned to U.C.L.A. to join the law faculty and has been there ever since. His principal subjects are torts, constitutional law, and federal jurisdiction. Professor Cohen currently is one of the six reporters for the California Joint Legislative Committee for the Revision of the Penal Code. He is also Chairman of the Committee on Supreme Court Decisions of the Association of American Law Schools, a position which requires that he write a memorandum on every pending case. The Cohens and their three children returned to Los Angeles in December, 1968. Stanford students found Professor Cohen to be an entertaining and provocative person, both in and out of class. WILLIAM COHEN Visiting Professor of Law

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MAURO CAPPELLETT I Visiting Professor of Law A visiting member of the faculty during the Fall Term of this year, Mauro Cappelletti is a noted scholar, having written several volumes and a number of articles. Along with John Merryman and Joseph Perillo, he co-authored The Italian Legal System, the standard text used in the Civil Law class at Stanford. Muchfofhiiwork has been translated into several languages, and some of his articles have appeared in various American law reviews. Professor Cappelletti was born at Folgaria, Italy, in 1927. While a student, he studied philosophy and the humanities, graduating in law from the University of Florence in 1951. He practiced law in fltaly until 1955. From 1955 to 1957, he did research on a fellowship at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He first taught civil procedure and evidence at the University of Macerata until 1963, when he assumed his duties as a professor of law and as director of the Institute of Comparative Law at the University of Florence. Professor Cappelletti has a wife, Carla, who has charmed the members of his Civil law class this year, and a very alert daughter, Matelda, who is 7. Like most Italians, he likes wine, women and song. When asked what he liked best about Stanford, he replied, The girls in my class. For recreation, he heads for the mountains to ski and hike.

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DALE S. COLLINSON Associate Professor of Law Dale Collinson was born in Oklahoma in 1938. He went to Yale for undergraduate work in politics and economics, receiving an A.B. in 1960. That summer he got a first-hand look at the area of international business by taking a job with the Banque de l,Afrique Occidentale in Paris. Returning from France, he attended Columbia Law School where he was notes and comments editor of the Columbia Law Review. During his law school summers he had jobs in Los Angeles and New York, and he received his LL.B. in 1963. During the following year he served as law clerk to Judge Paul R. Hays of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. From there he went to Washington to clerk for Mr. Justice White of the United States Supreme Court from 1964 until he came to Stanford in 1966. At Stanford Professor Collinson has taught courses in international business transactions, trusts and estates, estate planning, law and the institutions of the European communities, and admiralty. Next year Mr. Collinson plans to do researchgin Brussels, Belgium. Perhaps his research will be on the international implications of the adage that two can live as cheaply as onevg Mr. Collinson is getting married in June.