Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Professor Packer was born in New Jersey in 1925 and received a B.A. in government and international relations in 1944 and an LL.B. in 1949 from Yale, where he was Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal. After serving as law clerk to Judge Thomas W. Swan of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1949-50, he practiced law with the Washington, D.C. firm now known as Wilmer, Cutler 8a Pickering. In 1956 he joined the Stanford law faculty. From 1961 to 1963 Mr. Packer served on the Attorney General's Committee on Poverty and Federal Criminal Justice, and he served as a reporter for the revision of the California Penal Code from 1964 until 1969 fEd. note.' the committee was 'Yired in toto by a few irresponsible state legislators in 19159 who apparently feared that much needed reforms of the Penal Code would be accomplished. Being Tired under such circumstances can only be viewed as a tribute to Professor PackerjAs Chairman of the Law School Curriculum Committee he was largely responsible for the introduction of the semester system at the law school. ln November 1966 he was appointed Vice-Provost of the University for Academic Planning and Programs. This year he has returned to the law school to devote his time to teaching. Professor Packerls interests run the gambit from literature, good food, and fine wines to a game of golf self-described as being of somewhat lesser quality than the average. He has authored three books: Ex-Communist Witness, The State of Research in Antitrust Law, and The Criminal Sanction. Mrs. Packer can claim her share of talent as well. She is the E.H. Jones Lecturer in Creative Writing at Stanford and has been published frequently in the Yale Review, Harpers, The Kenyon Review, and The Reporter. She has also been politically active in local elections. The Packers have two children - Annie, 11, and George, 9. ,wi HERBERT L. PACKER Professor of Law