Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Professor J ohn. McDonough returned from a leave from the law school in January 1969, after serving as Assistant Deputy Attorney General of the United States, a post which he held from the summer of 1967 until December 1968. Professor McDonough has always taken a vital interest in improving the law and the administration of justice. Working toward this end, he has served as a member of the California Law Revision Commission, the American Law Institute, and the Judicial Conference of the Ninth Circuit. First as Executive Secretary, then as a member, and finally as Chairman, he worked on the seven-year task of revamping the California Evidence Code, enacted by the Legislature in 1965. Before departing for Washington, D.C., Mr. McDonough was active in local politics, serving as Co-Chairman of the Santa Clara County Committee to Re-elect Governor Brown. In January 1967 he was elected President of the Palo Alto-Stanford Democratic Council. Born and raised in the Northwest,Professor McDonough attended the University of Washington and received an LL.B. from Columbia University in 1946, after serving as note editor of the Columbia Law Review. At Stanford as an assistant professor, he helped found the Stanford Law Review in 1948. After practicing with the San Francisco firm of Brobeck, Phleger 8L Harrison, Professor McDonough returned to Stanford in 1952. From 1962 until 1964 he served as acting dean of the law school. He and his wife, Margaret, have two children-Jana, 12, and John, 8. JOHN R. McDONOUGH Professor of Law