Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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1, 3535 ki 1: gm. it fw . . 1.-,:.., . . i ii. R 1' New to the Stanford Law School faculty this year is John Hays Barton, a native of Chicago, Illinois - class of 1936? After receiving his B.S. in physics and philosophy from Marquette University in 1958, he served in the U.S. Navy for three years C'I can't say much about that! j. He then worked as an operations researcher for Sylvania in Mountain View from 1961 to 1965. His work involved research on disarmament in- spection devices for contracts with the Arms Control Agency, a background which par- ticularly qualifies him to teach his seminar this year in Arms Control. Then in 1965 he left science research for the study of law at Stanford, where he was an editor of the Stanford Law Review in spite of the fact that he continued Working for Sylvania through- out his law school career. After graduation in 1968, Professor Barton joined the Washington, D.C., law firm of Wilmer, Cutler and Pickering. This year at Stanford he is teaching courses in Contracts, Arms Control, and International Business Transactions. He and his wife have five children JOHN HAYS BARTON A ssistan t Professor of Law