Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Professor Kenneth Scott was born in Illinois. He received his B.A. in economics in 1949 from the College of William and Mary. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in political science, he received an M.A. in 1953 from Princeton. Mr. Scott then came to Stanford Law School, where he served as articles editor for the Stanford Law Review before graduating in 1956. From 1956 to 1961 he practiced law in New York and Los Angeles, specializing in corporate and securities law and international financing. From 1961 to 1963 he had major regulatory authority with respect to the California savings and loan industry as Chief Deputy Savings and Loan Commissioner and head of the Los Angeles office of the state savings and loan supervisory agency. In 1963 Mr. Scott left Washington, D.C. to join the law faculty at Stanford. Mr. Scott is married to the former Viviane May of San Francisco, and the Scotts have two young sons - Clifton and Jeffery - and a daughter, Linda. KENNETH E. SCOTT Associate Professor of Law

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GORDON KEN DALL SCOTT Professor of Law Professor Gordon Scott, a native of Massachusetts, attended Harvard College and received an A.B. in government in 1938. Remaining at Harvard for graduate study in law, he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and received his LL.B. in 1941. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. from 1941 until 1942, served in 1942 in the Office of the Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs in the Department of State, and then embarked upon four years of service with the United States Army. Professor Scott came to Stanford in 1946 and stayed as a member of the faculty until 1948. In that year he returned to Boston to practice law for four years and in 1952 he rejoined the law faculty at Stanford. He has taught at Stanford since that time, with his primary areas of interest being corporations, municipal law and taxation. Outside of the area of law, Professor Scott enjoys a widespread and well-deserved reputation as an outstanding tennis player. He is also said to play an excellent game of bridge, although he claims that there are no really good student bridge players around. He has been seen from time to time in the student lounge doing research on this theory.

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BYRON D. SHER Professor of Law Whiskers now hide part of Professor Byron D. Sher,s somehow cherubic face. But they cannot hide his twinkling wit. A native of Missouri, Mr. Sher studied business at St. Louis' Washington University. After receiving a 1952 LL.B. from Harvard, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Sher practiced in Boston for two years. Accepting a teaching fellowship at Harvard in 1954, Mr. Sher returned to academic life and taught at Southern Methodist University for three years before coming to Stanford in 1957. A 1964 sabbatical took Mr. Sher to England and New Zealand as a Fulbright Scholar. During the past year, Professor Sher chaired the important Stanford Human Relations Council which examines complaints of racial discrimination at all levels of University activity and seeks to enhance minority employment opportunities at Stanford. As chairman of the Law School,s Appointments Committee, Mr. Sher plays an active role in recruiting new faculty. A recognized expert on consumer protection, Mr. Sher's draft legislation on door to door selling has recently been adopted by the Uniform Commercial Code's governing board and will be submitted to the various state legislatures for their approval. Until recently, Mr. Sher served on the Palo Alto City Council, cast in the ironic role of a commercial law teacher trying to contain the city's creeping commercialismv in order to maintain Palo Alto as a residential community. But itis also a deep sense of irony that sparks Professor Sher's classroom humor, quickly establishing, as one student wag put it, instant rapport in this age of the Generation Gap.