Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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RICHARD A. POSNER Associate Professor of Law Richard A. Posner joins the Stanford law faculty this year as an associate professor of law. Mr. Posner was born in New York City in 1939 and did his undergraduate study at Yale University, receiving an A.B. in English in 1959. A move from New Haven to Cambridge then followed, and in 1962 he received an LL.B. from Harvard, where he was the President of the Harvard Law Review. From 1962 until 1963 he was a law clerk to Mr. Justice William J. Brennan of the United States Supreme Court, and from 1963 until 1965 he was an assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission. In 19651he became an assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States, a position which gave Mr. Posner frequent opportunities to argue cases before the United States Supreme Court. In 1967 he became General Counsel of the Presidentls Task Force on Communications Policy. At Stanford Professor Posner will be teaching courses in water resources and conservation, advanced antitrust, telecommunications, and distributive justice. In February 1969 his article National Monopoly and its Regulation will appear in the Stanford Law Review.