Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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DOUGLAS R. AYER Associate Professor of Law Professor Ayer was born in Missouri in 1937. His undergraduate years were spent at Yale, where he took an A.B. in politics and economics in 1959. He entered Yale Law School the following year, receiving his LL.B. in 1962. While in law school he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he served as law clerk to Judge Charles E. Clark of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. During 1963-64 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Stockholm. He returned to New York to practice law with the firm of Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons 84 Gates where he remained until he came to Stanford. Professor Ayer joined the law faculty at Stanford in 1966. In the past he has taught Legal Process and Administrative Law. This year, he taught Civil Procedure, Labor Law, Legislation, Legal Education and Legal History of the New Deal. Next year, he plans to be on leave reading generally in American and British history and researching the legal ideology of the New Deal. His objective is to become a legal historian, which he plans to teach full-time upon his return. Professor Ayer's wife, Barbara, is again this year the co-sponsor of the Law Wives. The Ayers live in Palo Alto.

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ANTHONY G. AMSTERDAM Professor of Law 'fAlright, yous guys, it don't go that way. Now, here's the way things really are . . . And, with this Damon Runyonjailhouse jargon, Anthony Amsterdam proceeds to tell it the way it is. And normally cynical third-year students come out of the class as enthusiastic believers. Simply a new guru? Anthony Amsterdam has the unique ability to combine the abstract and the practical in such a manner as to make legal education relevant and the students are listening. Born in Philadelphia in 1935, Tony,' Amsterdam received his A.B. summa cum laude from Haverford College in 1957 and his LL.B. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. His student Note is now reprinted in the AALS,s Selected Essays in Constitutional Law and is widely known as the Amsterdam Note on the vagueness doctrine. He clerked for Mr. Justice Frankfurter from 1960 to 1961 and worked as Assistant United States Attorney from 1961 to 1962. From 1962 until 1969 he was a member of the law faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. This past year he joined the law faculty at Stanford. Professor Amsterdam is no ivory tower type. In fact, it is his wide experience in litigation of criminal and constitutional cases that makes his teaching so effective. He has been a consultant and litigating attorney for NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fundg a consultant for the Lawyers Constitutional Defense Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and for numerous other civil rights organizations. He has been a consultant for the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice, for the White House Conference To Fultill These Rights and for the Office of Economic Opportunity's Legal Services Program. He has been a member of the Fact-Finding Commission to Investigate the Disturbances at Columbia University and of the Police Practices and Criminal Justice Committee of the Philadelphia ACLU. The list is not merely one of honorary positionsg Professor Amsterdam enjoys a well-deserved reputation as one of the hardest working and most successful attorneys in the field of criminal and con- stitutional law. And both the work and the success continue. This is in part the reason why the students are listening when Tony tells them the way things really are . . .

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WAYNE G. BARNETT Professor of Law Wayne Barnett joined the Stanford law faculty in 1966 after having spent a number of years in both private practice and government service. After receiving an A.B. serving as articles editor of the Harvard Law Review and receiving an LL.B. in 1953. Professor Barnett was law clerk to Mr. Justice Harlan of the United States Supreme Court in 1955-56, and then he practiced with the Washington firm of Covington and Burling for two years. In 1958 he left practice to become an Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. In this capacity Mr, Barnett and his eight colleagues in the office had the re- sponsibility for arguing cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the United States, and also for authorizing appeals in cases lost by the government in a lower court or agency. Mr. Barnett left the Solicitor General's office in 1965 to become the First Assistant in the Office of the Legal Counsel for the Department of Justice. In 1966 he yielded to the temptation to try his hand at teaching and joined the Stanford law faculty. He teaches contracts and taxation C'Famous Cases I have Lost j. At least he got to argue in front of the Supreme Court. The Barnetts have five children ranging from age 12 downward to age 6, and they live in a home on the campus.