Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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EDWIN M. ZIMMERMAN Professor of Law Born in New York City in 1924, Professor Zimmerman received his A.B. in electronic physics in 1944 and his LL.B. in 1949 from Columbia University, where he was articles editor of the Columbzlz Law Review. Between 1944 and 1946 he was in the United States Signal Corps sewing in the Philippines and Japan. In 1948 he became a staff member of the Hoover Commission of Governmental Reorganization. After serving in 1949-50 as a law clerk to Judge Simon H. Rifkind of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, he became a law clerk to Mr. Justice Reed of the United States Supreme Court in 1950-51. He then practiced law with the New York firm of Sullivan 8a Cromwell from 1951 until 1959 when he joined the Stanford law faculty. Professor Zimmerman was on leave from July 1965 until December 1968 , working first as Director of Policy Planning for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., then as first assistant in the Antitrust Division, and recently as head of the Antitrust Division. Needless to say, Professor Zimmerman will teach courses on antitrust law, among others.