Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Moffatt Hancock is the only law school professor to have held two named professorships at Stanford: since 1962 he has been Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Lawg before that he was elected Red Hot Prof of 1961. An expert in the fields of property, jurisprudence, legal history, and conflict of laws, he is the author of Torts in the Conflict of Laws 09421. He spent the academic year of 1965-66 on leave under a Guggenheim Fellowship writing a series of law review articles in the field of conflict of laws and revising his contributions to the Encyclopedia Brittanica. He has recently been working on two articles for Canadian law reviews supporting a draft Unjorm Foreign Torts Act. Professor Hancock is the holder of a B.A. from the University of Toronto 09335, an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School 09365, and an S.J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School 09401. He has taught at the University of Toronto, the Dalhousie Law School, where he was Viscount Bennett Professor of Law, and the University of Southern California, He came to Stanford in 1953. A devoted family man, Professor Hancock takes great pride in seeing the development of his two children - Cathy, 17, and Graeme,14. His wife, Eileen, keeps herself very active as Director of the Volunteer Bureau, while Professor Hancock pursues his hobby of taking prize-winning photographs of the Stanford campus, some of which grace the Vrooman Room and the pages of the Law School yearbooks. MOFFATT HANCOCK Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law