Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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Born in California in 1934, William W. Van Alstyne received a B.A. magna cum laude in philosophy from the University of Southern California in 1955, and an LL.B. from Stanford in 1958, where he was Articles and Book Review Editor of the Stanford Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. After working as a Deputy Attorney General in the California Department of Justice during the summer of 1958, he worked in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice in 1958-59, concentrating in voting rights litigation. He has since then donated his services in several federal court cases involving constitutional issues. He has been a consultant to the United States Senate Subcommittee on Separation of Powers. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the North California Civil Liberties Union and General Counsel for the American Association of University Professors. Mr. Van Alstyne became Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor of Law at Ohio State University Law School in 1959. In 1965 he became Professor of Law at Duke University Law School. He was Visiting Associate Professor of Law at U.C.L.A. Law School in 1964, Senior Fellow at Yale Law School in 1964-65, Visiting Professor at Princeton University during the summer of 1967, and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi Law School during the summer of 1968. This semester he is Visiting Professor of Law here at Stanford, where he is teaching Constitutional Law and Contracts. Professor Van Alstyne has published approximately twenty articles in various periodicals, including among others, the Supreme Court Review, the Stanford Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Michigan Law Review,and - Oh, yes - the Harvard Law Review. grlofessor Van Alstyne and his wife, Carol, have three children: Marshall, 6, Allyn, 5, an isa, 3. WILLIAM W. VAN ALSTYNE Visiting Professor of Law

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GEORGE TORZSAY-BIBER Lecturer in Law In his role as lecturer and reference librarian, Dr. Torzsay-Biber adds a distinctly European flavor to the faculty potpourri. Dr. Biber - his name has taken this shortened form among the members of the law school community - was born in 1909 in Hungary. He graduated from the University of Budapest in 1932, did graduate work at the University of Berlin, and received a doctorate in law from the University of Budapest in 1934. He was a member of the Hungarian bar from 1934 to 1945. For the next five years he was employed by the United States Military Government in Austria. Dr. Torzsay-Biber came to the United States in 1950 and served for a year as Secretary to Chief Justice Arnold of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. At the same time he was a special lecturer in international law and jurisprudence at the University of Oklahoma. From 1952 until he came to Stanford in 1960, he was a legal analyst with the Library of Congress. Despite the demands of his job, Dr. Torzsay-Biber always seems to have time to help a student find a lost case or an elusive law review article. In addition to instructing first-year students in the art of legal research, he teaches a seminar in his favorite subject, Roman Law.

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MICHAEL S. WALD Assistant Professor of Law Michael Wald was born in New York City in 1941 and continued to reside in the East until his decision to join the law faculty at Stanford in 1967. He did his undergraduate work at Cornell, receiving an A.B. in political science in 1963. He then went to Yale, where in 1967 he received both an M.A. in political science and an LL.B. As projects editor of the Yale Law Journal, Mr. Wald conducted an empirical study of the impact of the Miranda decision on the New Haven police department. The results of this study were published by the Yale Law Journal in an article entitled ulnterrogations in New Haven: Impact of Miranda. Largely as a result of this intensive study, Mr. Wald has become involved in the problems of criminal law, but he is equally interested in the legal aspects of community development and in family law. Professor Wald's wife, Johanna, is a graduate of the Yale Law School also, and has done research for Professors Gunther and Packer. The Walds have a daughter, Jennifer, age 4.