Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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KENNETH E. SCOTT Professor of Law Professor Scott is a native of Illinois. He spent his undergraduate years at the College of William and Mary, where he took his B.A. in economics in 1949. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in political science, he received an M.A. in 1953 from Princeton. Mr. Scott entered Stanford Law School the following year. He served as articles editor for the Stanford Law Review , receiving his LL.B. in 1956. From 1956 to 1961, he practiced law in New York and Los Angeles, specializing in corporate and securities law and international financing. From 1961 to 1963 he had major regulatory authority with respect to the California savings and loan industry as Chief Deputy Savings and Loan Commissioner. He was General Counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board between 1963 and 1968. In 1968 Mr. Scott left Washington, D.C. to join the law faculty at Stanford. He is married to the former Viviane May of San Francisco, and they have two young sons - Clifton and Jeffrey - and a daughter, Linda.