Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Robert Girard was born in Washington in 1931. He received his B.A. in 1953 from the University of Washington and his LL.B. from Harvard in 1956, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before coming to Stanford in 1958 he clerked for Mr. Justice Hugo Black of the United States Supreme Court. He was a visiting professor at the Harvard Law School in 1963-64. In addition to his principal field of torts, Professor Girard has taught courses in contracts, constitutional law, civil rights, land use controls, and law and the political process. In addition to publications with the Buffalo Law Review and the Stanford Law Review his current research includes areas such as Federal Constitutional Questions in Bay Area Regional Government, and Financing of Political Campaigns, and Revision of California Constitutional Provisions Relating to Political Campaigns, and Revision of California Constitutional Provisions Relating to Political Activity and Elections. On his sabbatical leave in 1965-66, Mr. Girard spent his time studying areas of European constitutional law and church-state relationships in particular. He also serves as director of the Associated Regional Citizens, an Organization promoting conservation of natural resources. The Girards have three children: two boys, 12 and 8, and a girl, 6. ROBERT A. GIRARD Professor of Law

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RALPH J OCELYN GAMPELL Lecturer in Law The only member of the faculty to hold both a medical and a legal degree is Ralph Gampell. Born in England in 1916, Dr. Gampell received hiseducation in medicine at the University of Manchester, taking an M.B., Ch.B. in 1940. For five years thereafter he was a medical officer with the Royal Air Force in China, Burma, and India. He practiced general medicine in England from 1946 toX1949, and in the United States beginning in 1949. He received an LL.B. from Stanford in 1957, and then maintained both a medical and legal practice until 1965. Since 1965 he has practice only law, specializing in personal injury litigation. At Stanford he has been a part time lecturer on Medical-Legal Problems since 1958. A frequent contributor to medical journals until 1965, Dr. Garnpell was a member of the Governor's 'Committee on Abortions, and with Professor Packer prepared the definitive study of the state of therapeutic abortions. As for the value of having degrees in both fields he ,feelsit is of assistance in personal injury work and in teaching, but aside from those two specialized areas totally valuelessf' Dr. Gampellis wife, Margaret, graduated from thhe Stanford Law School in January 1968. The Gampells and their six children live in Los Altos Hills.

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GERALD GUNTHER Professor of Law Professor Gunther is the author of many distinguished works in history and law. He has been designated the biographer of Judge Learned Hand. As one of the eight Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Scholars, he is currently writing a volume on the Marshall Court for the multi-volume history of the United States Supreme Court. He is co-editor of Selected Essays on Constitutional Law, and he is currently preparing the eighth edition of Dowling and Gunther, Cases ana' Materials on Constitutional Law. Professor Gunther has also contributed regularly to legal periodicals. Professor Gunther was born in Germany in 1927. He took an A.B. in political science from Brooklyn College in 1949, an M.A. in public law and government from Columbia in 1950, and an LL.B. from Harvard in 1953. At Harvard he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review for two years. In 1949, 1950 and 1951 he taught political science at Brooklyn College and at City College of New York. He served as a law clerk to Judge Learned Hand of the United States Supreme Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1953 to 1954 and as law clerk to the Honorable Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1954 to 1955. During the following year he practiced law in New York City with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Friendly 8a Hamilton, and then he joined the law faculty of Columbia Laww School, where from 1957 until 1959 he served as director of the Columbia Federal Courts History Project. In 1962 Professor Gunther came to Stanford and in 1962-63 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. Professor Gunther, his wife, Barbara, and their two children, Dan and Andy, spent the 1966-67 academic year on leave in London, where Mr. Gunther worked on a comparative study of the constitutional law of selected European countries.