Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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YOSAL ROGAT Associate Professor of Law and Political Science Yosal Rogat was born in California in 1928. He received a B.A. from UCLA in 1947, a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1956, both in political science, and a B.A. from Oxford in 1957 in jurisprudence. In 1957 he joined the political science faculty at Berkeley, where he remained until 1960. Returning to southern California, he was a staff member of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at Santa Barbara for two years. The next. two years were spent as a member of the political science faculty at the University of Chicago, from which he returned to the Bay Area as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. In 1965-66 Professor Rogat was a visiting lecturer at Stanford Law School, and the following year he received a unique joint appointment from the Law School and from Stanford's political science department. This follows from the fact that he is particularly interested in studying the relationship between law and politics. Some of the subjects taught by Professor Rogat are Legal Theory, Legal History, Civil Liberties, and Psychiatry and the Law. In addition to contributions to the University of Chicago Law Review, the Stanford Law Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Mr. Rogat has published The Eichmann Trial and the Rule of Law and is presently writing what he describes as an interpretation of Mr. Justice Holmesf'

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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

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Professor Gordon Scott, a native of Massachusetts and an honorary citizen of Vernon, California, attended Harvard College, where he received his A.B. in government in 1938. Remaining at Harvard to study law, he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and received his LL.B. in 1941. He practiced law in Washington, D.C. in 1941-42, served in 1942 in the Office of Coordinator for Inter-American Affairs in the Department of State, and then embarked upon four years of service with the United States Army. Professor Scott came to Stanford in 1946, but then he left the faculty in 1948 to return to practice in Boston. In 1952 he returned to the Stanford faculty. He has taught a variety of courses, to include Income Taxation, Taxation of Corporations and Shareholders, Corporations, Municipal Corporations, and Creditors Rights. Outside of the law, Professor Scott is said to play an excellent hand of bridge, and in years past he was seen scouting student bridge players in the law lounge. Baxter sent me down there to see if any of them were any goodf' He also enjoys a well-deserved reputation as a tennis player, although since being upset in the Law School Tennis Tournament last year by Doctor Torzsay-Biber, this reputation might seem to be blemished. There is, however, a rumor that there were some extenuating circumstances contributing to this upset . . . GORDON KENDALL SCOTT Professor of Law