Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Professor John Henry Merryman, a native of Oregon, earned a B.S. from the University of Portland in 1943, an M.S. from Notre Dame in 1944, and a J.D. from Notre Dame in 1947, where he graduated first in his class and served as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Lawyer. After being a member of the law faculty of the University of Santa Clara for several years, he eamed a J .S .D. from New York University. Mr. Merryman came to Stanford in 1953. He was a visiting professor at the University of Rome in 1963-64, at the Center of Planning and Economic Research in Athens in 1964, and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples in 1967. This year he is on leave to do research at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany. Although Professor Merryman long concentrated on the area of property law, he introduced to Stanford the study of foreign legal systems. Diverging from the traditional approach of using French and German backgrounds, he has specialized in the Italian system. Along with a professor from the University of Florence and a professor from Fordham University, he has published an introductory book on the Italian legal system. He is also directing a project for modernizing the Chilean system of legal education, and he has also been working of a study of the legal problems of Bolivia's international transportation system. Professor Merryman reports that he has a tolerant wife, three stepsons, two dogs, and an unsound golf swingf' He plays the piano, is an only partially reformed Jazz musician, and digs acid rock. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. JOHN HENRY MERRYMAN Professor of Law