Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Professor Leon Lipson comes to Stanford this year from the Yale Law School. Born in Massachusetts in 1921, he earned his A.B. from Harvard in 1941, his M.A. from Harvard in 1943, his LL.B. from Harvard in 1949, and his second M.A. from Yale in 1960. He has worked as a news editor for a Boston radio station, as an analyst for the Foreign Economics Administration, as a policy and liaison officer for the Economic Division of the Office of Military Government in Berlin, Germany, and, after becoming a member of both the New York and Washington, D.C. bars, as an associate in a New York law firm. In 1957 he joined the faculty of the Yale Law School. In 1959 he became an advisor to the United States Mission to the United Nations, and in 1965 he became the Assistant Provost of Yale University. An authority ir1 international law and a linguist fluent in numerous languages, Professor Lipson was the chairman of the American Bar Association Committee on Soviet Law from 1957 to 1959, a member reporter for the Committee on the Law of Outer Space from 1958 to 1960, and chairman of the International Law Association Air and Space Law Committee from 1961 to 1965. He is also a member of the American Society of International Law. In 1961 he and Nicholas Katzenbach published a book entitled Report on the Law of Outer Space, and he has been a prolific contributor to books and legal publications. At Stanford Professor Lipson has been teaching courses on international law and Soviet law as well as being active in the Stanford International Society. We sincerely wish Professor Lipson, his wife Dorothy, and his three children James, Abigail, and Michael a pleasant year at Stanford. LEON S. LIPSON Visiting Professor of Law

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JOHN KAPLAN Professor of Law John Kaplan was born in New York flong agoj. After graduating in 1951 from Harvard with an A.B. in physics, but realizing that there was little future in science, he found a job as editor of the Harvard Law Review and received an LL.B. in 1954. Since then he has served as clerk to Mr. Justice Clark of the United States Supreme Court, studied criminology in Vienna, Austria, and worked with the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice, first as a Special Assistant to the Attorney General assigned to Chicago and later as an Assistant United States Attorney in San Francisco. In 1961 he went to the Hudson Institute as a research analyst, and then he spent two years as a member of the law faculty at Northwestern University Law School. Before joining the law faculty at Stanford in 1965, he was visiting professor of law at Boalt Hall. Currently he is one of six California Penal Code Reporters. Next year he will be on sabbatical leave at the Institute for Study of Drug Dependence in England. Professor Kaplan has been a frequent contributor to legal periodicals, especially in the area of school desegregation. He is the author of The Trz21l of Jack Ruby and a co-author of a recent casebook on Evidence. He plans to publish a study of the problems of drug abuse. The Kaplans have three children. Reliable reports indicate that Mr. Kaplanls son took him trick or treating this past fall. John wore a Tiger suit.

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JAMES K. LOGAN Visiting Professor of Law Born in Quenomo, Kansas in 1929, James K. Logan received an A.B. in economics in 1952 from the University of Kansas. After turning down a Rhodes Scholarship, he attended Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After receiving his LL.B. in 1955, he worked as a law clerk to Judge Walter A. Huxrnan of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals during 1955-56, and he practiced law with Gibson, Dunn 8: Crutcher in Los Angeles during 1956-57. From 1957 until 1961 he was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Kansas Law School, and in 1961 he became Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Kansas Law School. In 1961-62 he was the Ezra Ripley Thayer Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School, and in 1964 he was a visiting professor of law at the University of Texas Law School. During the Spring semester this year he is a visiting professor here at Stanford, teaching Property and Advanced Estate Planning. In addition to having published more than thirty law review articles, Professor Logan has co-authored with Professor Leach of Harvard the casebook Future Interests and Estate Planning, which is used in approximately fifty law schools. He has also edited Kansas Estate Adrninistration for the Kansas Bar. He is currently working on a supplement to his casebook, anarticle on estate planning, and a book on Kansas corporate practice for the Kansas Bar. Professor Logan lists his hobbies as politics, coin collecting, writing, and golf. In June 1968, after the assassination of the late Senator Kennedy, he resigned his position at the University of Kansas Law School to enter the Democratic primary for Senator of the United States from Kansas and, despite only seven weeks of campaigning, he was only narrowly defeated. After this semester at Stanford, Professor Logan will return to Kansas to practice law with the Olatha firm of Payne and J ones.