Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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CARL BERNHARDT SPAETH William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law Born in Ohio in 1907, Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford, received a B.A. in political science from Dartmouth College in 1929. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a B.A. in jurisprudence in 1931 and a B.C.L. in 1932 from Oxford University. In 1932-33 he was a Sterling Fellow at the Yale Law School, he taught at Temple in 1933-34, at Northwestern from 1934 until 1939, at Yale in 1939-40, and at the Foreign Service Educational Foundation from 1944 to 1946. He was Vice President and General Counsel for the of the Venezuela Development Corporation, Caracas, Venezuela in 1940-41. Professor Spaeth served as assistant coordinator and general counsel for the Office of Inter-American Affairs in 1941-42, as United States member, Political Defense Committee, Montevideo, Uruguay, from 1942 to 1944, and as special assistant in the Department of State from 1944 until 1946. In 1946 he came to Stanford as dean of the Law School and served as dean until 1962. On leave from the Law School in 1952-53, he was director of the Division of Overseas Activities of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Spaeth was consultant to the India Law Institute, New Delhi, in 1959-60 and is currently Chairman of the Stanford Committee on International Studies. Two years ago he spent a leave working with the Ford Foundation administering an international studies grant for the University.

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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

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In his eighth year as a lecturer in Income Tax Problems at Stanford, Marvin Tepperman devotes most of his time to the practice of corporate and tax law with the San Francisco firm of Steinhart, Goldberg, Feigenbaum 84 Ladar. He is a past president of the Bay Area Section on Taxation and of the San Francisco Tax Club, and a past member of the State Bar Committee on Taxation. He is presently a member of the American Bar Association Section on Taxation, and a lecturer on tax matters for the California State Bar's Continuing Education of the Bar program. He is a visiting lecturer at Boalt Hall and has taught Business Law at San Francisco State College and at the University of California Extension Division in San Francisco. Mr. Tepperman was born in New York in 1925. After serving the United States Navy from 1943 until 1946, he attended the University of Chicago, where he earned a J.D. in 1948 and served as an associate editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He was a research assistant to Professor Stanley Surrey, now Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy, at the University of California in 1949-50. At that time he worked on the American Law Institute Tax Project. His wife is currently working on a Ph.D. in political science at Stanford. The Teppermans have two teenage children. MARVIN T. TEPPERMAN Lecturer in Law