Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Byron D. Sher began his rise through academe by studying business at Washington University in his native state of Missouri. After receiving an LL.B. in 1952 from Harvard, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Mr. Sher practiced in Boston for two years. Accepting a teaching fellowship at Harvard in 1954, he returned to academic life and taught at Southern Methodist University for three years before coming to Stanford in 1957. A 1964 sabbatical took Mr. Sher to England and New Zealand as a Fulbright Scholar. Professor Sher continues to chair the Stanford Human Relations Commission, which examines complaints of racial discrimination at all levels of university activity and seeks to enhance minority employment opportunities at Stanford. Mr. Sher is particularly active in the area of consumer protectiong his draft legislation on door to door selling has recently been substantially adopted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws for inclusion in the Uniform Consumer Credit Code. The Code will be submitted to the various state legislatures for their approval. Mr. Sher is currently working with Dean Thelton Henderson and others to establish a Consumer Protection Office in East Palo Alto. Mr. Sher is currently serving as the American consultant to the LAWASIA Study of Development Finance. Next year Mr. Sher will be on sabbatical in Europe studying consumer organizations and government agencies dealing with consumer affairs. in BYRON D. SHER Professor of Law