Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Professor Howard Williams is the leading American Scholar in the field of oil and gas law. Author, with Professor Meyers, of the definitive seven volume treatise, Oil and Gas Law, he writes annual supplements to update the work. In addition, Professor Williams, in collaboration with Professors Maxwell and Meyers, has written the casebook, Cases on Oil and Gas, now in its second edition and currently the standard course book for law schools throughout the United States. Prodigious as is his knowledge of oil and gas law, Professor Williams is by no means limited to the specialty. Students quickly discover that he also has an encyclopedic knowledge of property, trusts and estates, and future interests. Because Howard Williams is rarely content to teach a course unless he has written the textbook for it - he jokingly admonishes his students to mark up their texts well so as to lower the resale value - he has also published two other casebooks: Cases on Property and Cases on Decedents' Estates and Trusts. A casebook on future interests is scheduled to go to the printer in January 1970. Professor Williams and his wife, Virginia, are very active in Stanford and Palo Alto community affairs. He has held what he terms the usual collection of offices in his church, the Palo Alto First Baptist, while Mrs. Williams currently serves on Palo Altols Ecumenical Board of Religious Education. Professor Williams' chief hobby, as one might suspect, is reading. He and his wife regularly consume tive newspapers per day. The Williams, son, Frederick, is a sophomore at Yale. Born in Indiana in 1915, Professor Williams received an A.B. in political science from Washington University in 1937 and an LL.B. in 1940 from Columbia University Law School, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. He practiced law in New York and then served in the field artillery from 1941 to 1946. From 1946 until 1951 he was a member of the faculty of the University of Texas Law School. During this time he served both as Assistant Dean and Acting Dean of the law school. In 1951 he joined the Columbia law faculty, where he became Dwight Professor of Law in 1959. Professor Williams came to Stanford in 1963, and since last year he has been Lillick Professor of Law. HOWARD R. WILLIAMS Stella W. dt Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law