Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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CHARLES J. MEYERS Professor of Law In 1946, while a first-year law student at the University of Texas, Charles Meyers wandered by mistake into a senior class taught by Professor Howard Williams. Williams was tougher then, Meyers reports. Nevertheless, he continued on to become an expert in oil and gas law, to co-author with his mentor Oil and Gas Law, Manual of Oil and Gas Annotated, and Cases on Oil and Gas Law, and to serve with Professor Williams on the law faculties of Columbia and Stanford. An active supporter of fair housing, he serves as legal consultant to the Midpeninsula Citizens for Fair Housing. As a teacher, he feels his chief goal is the indication of tolerance, a willingness to understand the opposite side whether you agree or not - a very unpopular idea these days. Born in Texas in 1925, Professor Meyers received a B.A. in English literature from Rice Institute in 1949, the same year receiving an LL.B. from the University of Texas, where he was comments editor of the University of Texas Law Review. He earned an LL.M. in 1953 and a J.S.D. in 1964 from Columbia. He served as an Ensign in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. He practiced law in Austin, Texas, in 1951-52. A teaching fellow in English at Texas while in law school, he was a member of that school's law faculty from 1951 until 1954, and of the law faculty at Columbia from 1954 until 1962. He has been professor of law at Stanford since 1962 and has served as visiting professor at Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah. He was Stanford's Red Hot Prof in 1963 - nthe best position because bought - strictly cash. Professor Meyers is on leave this year, teaching in Santiago, Chile under the auspices of the Ford Foundation. He is married to the former Pamela Adams and has two children: George, 12, and Katherine, 10.

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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

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Professor Packer was born in New Jersey in 1925 and received a B.A. in government and international relations in 1944 and an LL.B. in 1949 from Yale, where he was article editor of the Yale Law Journal. After serving as la.W clerk to Judge Thomas W. Swan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1949-50, he practiced law with the Washington, D.C. firm now known as Wilmer, Cutler 8a Pickering. In 1956 he joined the Stanford faculty. From 1961 to 1963 Mr. Packer served on the Attorney General's Committee on Poverty and Federal Criminal Justice, and since 1964 he has been a reporter for the revision of the California Penal Code. As Chairman of the Law School Curriculum Committee he was largely responsible for the introduction of the semester system at the law school in 1965. In November 1966 he was appointed Vice-Provost of the University for Academic Planning and Programs. Despite this demanding position, he manages to teach a colloquium in the law school. Professor Packer's interests run the gambit from literature, good food, and fine wines to a game of golf self-described as being of somewhat lesser quality than the average. He has authored Ex-Communist Witness and The State of Research in Antitrust Law, and he hopes to publish a new book, Criminal Sanction in spite of his time-consuming administrative duties. Mrs. Packer can claim her share of talent as well. She is the E.H. Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford and has been published frequently in The Yale Review, Harpers, The Kenyon Review, and The Reporter. She has also been politically active in local elections. The Packers have two children - Annie, 10, and George, 8. HERBERT L. PACKER Professor of Law and Vice Provost of the University