Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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552 While a professor at Columbia University Law School, Professor Charles Meyers recalls that he had occasion to be leading a class investigation into the subtleties of intestate succession. Suddenly whirling around and confronting the only female member of the class, Professor Meyers posed the question: Miss Smith, what about Bastards?'i After the proverbial pregnant pause, the lady replied: That, Professor, is a subject about which you are infinitely more knowledgeable than I. Since coming to Stanford, Professor Meyers has taught Property, Oil and Gas, Water Law, Real Estate Transactions, and Community Development Laboratory. Thus far, he has not yielded to the temptation of teaching Intestate Succession. Bom in Texas in 1925, Professor Meyers received a B.A. in English Literature from Rice Institute in 1949, the same year receiving an LL.B. from the University of Texas, where he was comments editor of the University of Texas Law Review. He earned an LL.M. in 1953 and a J.S.D. in 1964, both from Columbia. He served with the rank of ensign in the United States Navy from 1945 to 1946. He practiced law in Austin, Texas, in 1951-52. A teaching fellow in English at Texas while in law school, he was a member of that school's law faculty from 1951 until 1954, and of the law faculty at Columbia from 1954 until 1962. He has been professor of law at Stanford since 1962, serving as visiting professor of law at Cornell, Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah. He spent 1968-69 teaching in Santiago, Chile, teaching under the auspices of the Ford Foundation. Married to the former Pamela Adams, he has two children: George, who is no longer 12, and who practices an electric guitar for which his father expresses less than a warm appreciation 3 and Katherine, who is no longer 10, having likewise aged in the interim. CHARLES J. MEYERS Professor of Law

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JOHN HENRY MERRYMAN Professor of Law Professor John Henry Merryman, a native of Oregon, earned a B.S. from the University of Portland in 1943, an M.S. from Notre Dame in 1944, and a J .D. from Notre Dame in 1947, where he graduated first in his class and served as editor-in-chief of the Notre Dame Lawyer. After being a member of the law faculty of the University of Santa Clara for several years, he earned a J .S.D. from New York University. Mr. Merryman came to Stanford in 1953. He was a visiting professor at the University of Rome in 1963-64, at the Center of Planning and Economic Research in Athens in 1964, and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Naples in 1967. Returning after a year at the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg, Germany, he has ambitious plans to publish several new books, as the students in his seminar courses quickly discovered. ' Professor Merryman specializes in the Italian Legal System, and along with a professor from the University of Florence and a professor from Fordham University, has published an introductory book on the subject. He is also directing a project for modernizing the Chilean system of legal education, and he has also been working on a study of the legal problems of Bolivia's international transportation system. Professor Merryman plays piano, retaining a fondness for jazz, in spite of being Hinton acid rock. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.

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JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. Visiting Professor of Law Professor John T. Noonan, Jr., was bom in Boston in 1926. He received his B.A. from Harvard University, and he then pursued graduate work at Cambridge University and the Catholic University of America, from which he received an M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy. He holds the LL.B. from Harvard Law School. After graduation from Harvard Law School, he became a member of the Massachusetts Bar and engaged in the practice of law in Boston for live years. He started his teaching career at Notre Dame Law School and then joined the law faculty of Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley in 1966. Professor Noonan's government service includes membership in the Special Staff of the National Security Council and the chairmanship of the Brookline fMass.j Redevelopment Authority. He is author of The Scholastic Analysis of Usury fHarvard University Press, 195 7j, and Contraception fHarvard University Press, 19655. He is presently engaged in the completion of a book tentatively entitled Marriage in the Courts of the Curia. He is editor of the Natural Law Forum and the author of various articles on governmental organization, foreign antitrust, legal education, canon law, and existential philosophy. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1965-1966. He served as special consultant on history to the Papal Commission on Problems of the Family, Population and Natality. At Boalt Hall, Professor Noonan teaches courses in Professional Responsibility, Family Law, Jurisprudence, and Canon Law, as well as teaching a graduate seminar in the history of sexual ethics in the History Department at Berkeley. This semester Professor Noonan is visiting at Stanford Law School, where he teaches a seminar in Jurisprudence.