Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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JOHN BINGHAM HURLBUT Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law Giddy,l' says Professor John Bingham Hurlburt, is the way I feel when I think of all the students I've worked with over the years. f'Giddy is what he says, but there is deep pride in this devoted teacher's eyes as he recalls the now countless students he has helped fashion in the law. Professor Hurlbut earned an A.B. in political science in 1928 from the University of Southern California, an M.A. in political science in 1929 from Stanford, and an LL.B. in 1934 from Stanford. He and Professor Vernier were the co-authors of American Family Law, Volume IIL He practiced law in Los Angeles from 1934 until 1937 and then he returned to Stanford. In 1960-61 he was Fulbright Lecturer in Law at the University of Tokyo and at the Japanese Supreme Court's Legal Training and Research Institute. His teaching career was interrupted for three years by the United States Navy during World War II. Active as the faculty's representative to the Pacific Conference, Mr. Hurlbut has also served as Vice President of the N.C.A.A. A rugged sportsman himself, Mr. Hurlbut has fished the game waters of California, Alaska and British Columbia many times. It seems only natural, then, that this man of action looks for something more in his students than technical competence. He notes that a capacity for human insight is as important as any other quality for a practicing lawyer who is called upon to sort out the confusion of people's affairs. Next year's Stanford class will, like so many in the past, be enriched by Professor Hurlbut's teaching craft. But first, says John Bingham Hurlbut, Fd like to take that shee fish up in the Alaskan Arctic. No doubt, he will.