Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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GERALD M. MEIER Cooperating Professor of International Economics Gerald Meier is a member of the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves in the Law School in the capacity of Cooperating Professor of International Economics. In addition to his duties at the Business School, Mr. Meier conducts joint teaching and research with members of the law faculty in the field of international economics, trade, and development. Professor Meier was born in Washington in 1923 and earned a B.A. in social science from Reed College in 1947. A Rhodes Scholar from 1948 until 1950 and again in 1950-51, he received a B.Litt. from Oxford in 1952 and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1953. He taught at Williams College from 1952 until 1954, before joining the economics faculty at Wesleyan University. From 1955 until 1961, while at Wesleyan, Mr. Meier served as a visiting member of the Yale economics faculty, in 1957-58 he was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in 1961-62 he was a Brookings National Research Professor of Economics. He came to the Stanford Graduate School of Business as professor of international economics in 1963.