Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Joseph Sneed,s background is closely associated with his home state of Texas. Born there in 1920, he pursued his education at Southwestern University and the University of Texas Law School, where he received his LL.B. in 1947 and stayed on as a faculty member until 1954. He practiced law in Austin from 1955 to 1957, and then he finally left Texas to join the law faculty of Cornell University. He received his J.S.D. from Harvard in 1958 and in 1960 was a visiting professor at Yale. His rise to the top climaxed in 1962, when he joined the law faculty at Stanford. Professor Sneed's family displays a wide range of talents. His wife, Madelon, paints and plays tennis. His eldest daughter, Clara, has a flair for writing, his daughter Cara plays piano, and the youngest member of the family, Joseph T. Sneed IV is active in all sports. Professor Sneed still enjoys horseback riding, an interest stemming from his earlier years in Texas when he spent his vacations working the Texas range as a cowboy. In addition to his responsibilities within the law school, Professor Sneed has recently served as the President of the Association of American Law Schools and he is a member of the American Law Institute, consulting with the Estate and Gift Tax Project. He has recently published The Configurations of Gross Income, a textbook on basic income taxation. Professor Sneed will be on leave during the 1969 calendar year. During the spring semester he will be a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London, and during the autumn semester he will be a visiting professor at the University of Ghana. JOSEPH T. SNEED Professor of Law