Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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As Stanford's law librarian, Professor Jacobstein is responsible for the develop- ment and administration of the law library and its staff. In addition to this sizable task, he serves as editor of the Index to Periodical Articles Related to Law and has recently completed and published a Water Law Bibliography for which he will continue to publish an annual supplement. Professor Jacobstein was born in Michigan in 1920 and received his B.A. in history from Wayne State University in 1946, his M.S. in library science from Columbia University in 1950, and his LL.B. from Chicago-Kent School of Law in 1953, where he was an editor of the Chicago-Kent Law Review, He served as assistant law librarian at the University of Illinois from 1953 until 1955, as assistant law librarian at Columbia University from 1955 until 1959, and as law librarian and professor of law at the University of Colorado from 1960 until 1963. In 1963 he came to Stanford as law librarian and professor of law. The Jacobsteins have two children, a daughter, 17, and a son, 12, and their home is in the Pine Hill area on the campus. Professor Jacobstein is a member of the American Association of Law Librarians, the American Documentation Institute, and the American Society for International Law. J .MYRON JACOBSTEIN Law Librarian and Professor of Law