Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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JOSEPH T. SNEED Professor of Law Joseph Sneed's background is closely associated with his home state of Texas. Bom there in 1920, he pursued his education at Southwestem University and the University of Texas Law School, where he received his LL.B. in 1947 and stayed on a faculty member until 1954. He practiced law in Austin from 1955 to 1957, and then he finally left Texas to join the law faculty of Cornell University. He received his J.S.D. from Harvard in 1958 and in 1960 was a visiting professor at Yale. In 1962 he moved westward and joined the Stanford Law School faculty. In additon to his responsibilities within the law school, Professor Sneed has recently served as the President of the Association of American Law Schools and he is a member of the American Law Institute, consulting with the Estate and Gift Tax Project. He has recently published The Configuralions of Gross Income, a textbook on basic income taxation. Professor Sneed was on leave from Stanford throughout 1969. During the spring he served as Visiting American Professor at the Institute for Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London. This past autumn he was Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Ghana. Professor Sneed has recently expanded his activities on the law reform front with his appointment to the California Law Revision Commission.