Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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.

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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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Born in Ohio in 1907, Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Stanford, received a B.A. in political science from Dartmouth College in 1929. As a Rhodes Scholar, he received a B.A. in jurisprudence in 1931 and a B.C.L. in 1932 from Oxford University. In 1932-33 he was a Sterling Fellow at the Yale Law School, he taught at Temple in 1933-34, at Northwestern from 1934 until 1939, at Yale in 1939-40, and at the Foreign Service Educational Foundation from 1944 to 1946. He was Vice President and General Counsel for the Venezuela Development Corporation, Caracas, Venezuela in 1940-41. Professor Spaeth served as assistant coordinator and general counsel for the Office of Inter-American Affairs in 1941-42, as United States member, Political Defense Committee, Montevideo, Uruguay,from 1942 to 1944, and as special assistant in the Department of State from 1944 until 1946. In 1946 he came to Stanford as dean of the Law School and served as dean until 1962. On leave from the Law School in 1952-53, he was director of the Division of Overseas Activities of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Spaeth was consultant to the India Law Institute, New Delhi, in 1959-60 and is currently Director of the Center for Research in Inter- national Studies at Stanford. CARL BERNHARDT SPAETH William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law