Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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MICHAEL S. WALD Assistant Professor of Law Mike Wald, also known as Professor Wald, was born in New York City in 1941 and resided in the East until joining the law faculty at Stanford. He received his B.A. from Cornell in political science and then attended Yale, the Stanford of the East, receiving both an LL.B. and an M.A, in political science in 1967. His activities at Yale included being Projects and Topics Editor of the Yale Law Journal as well as other honors and activities. While at Yale he published an article in the Yale Lawlournal on the impact of the Miranda decision upon police interrogations based upon his own research and study of the New Haven police department. Since coming to Stanford Mr. Wald has taught Criminal Law and Family Law. He published an article in Stanford Today entitled The Police in the Ghetto. He has been an acitve member of the intellectual community, devoting time to campus issues and draft counseling. His immediate plans will include a leave of absence to practice law in the criminal field. Mr. Wald's wife, Johanna, is also a graduate of Yale Law School. The Wald's have two children, a daughter Jennifer, age 5, and a son Jonathan, less than a year old. l 74

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In his role as lecturer and reference librarian, Dr. Torzsay-Biber adds a distinctly European flavor to the faculty potpourri. Dr. Biber - his name has taken this shortened form among the members of the law school community - was born in 1909 in Hungary. He graduated from the University of Budapest in 1932, did graduate work at the University of Berlin, and received a doctorate in law from the University of Budapest in 1934. He was a member of the Hungarian Bar from 1934 to 1945 the jokingly claims that he took the Bar Exam only to stop his brother's accusations of his being a professional studentj. From 1945 to 1950 he was employed by the United States Military Government in Austria. Dr. Biber came to the United States in 1950 and served for a year as Secretary to Chief Justice Arnold of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma. At the same time he was a special lecturer in international law and jurisprudence at the University of Oklahoma. From 1952 until he came to Stanford in 1960, he was a legal analyst with the Library of Congress. Despite the demands of his job, Dr. Biber always has time to help a student find a lost case or an elusive law review article. In addition to instructing first-year students in the art of legal research, he teaches a seminar in his favorite subject, Roman Law. Last year Dr. Biber became somewhat of a hero around the law school. First, he defeated Professor Gordon Scott in dramatic style in the final match of the Law School Tennis Tournament. Second, he outlasted each and every one of his students at the party he gave for his Roman Law seminar fEa1 Note: I can personally testify to this factj. And finally, he was elected by the third-year class as Commencement Speaker at graduation. GEORGE TORZSAY-BIBER Lecturer in Law

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Professor Howard R. Williams is the leading American scholar in the field of oil and gas law. Author, with Professor Meyers, of the seven volume treatise, Oil and Gas Law, he writes annual supplements to update the work. In addition, Professor Williams, in collaboration with Dean Maxwell and Professor Meyers, has written the casebook, Cases on Oil and Gas, now in its second edition and currently the standard course book for law schools throughout the country. Prodigious as is his knowledge of oil and gas law, Professor Williams is by no means limited to the specialty. Students quickly discover that he has a wide-ranging knowledge of all aspects of property law, including trusts and estates and future interests. Because Howard Williams is rarely content to teach a course unless he has written the textbook for it - he jokingly admonishes students to mark their texts heavily so as to lower their resale value - he has also published two other casebooks, Cases on Property and Cases on Decedents'Estates and Trusts, and a third on future interests is in preparation. Professor Williams and his wife, Virginia, spend their leisure time reading and gardening. Ut is reliably reported that Professor Williams prunes with an unrestrained vengeance that belies his poised classroom mannerj The Williams' son, Rick, is a junior at Yale. Professor Williams received an A.B. in political science from Washington University in 1937 and an LL.B. in 1940 from Columbia University, where he was an editor of the Columbia Law Review. From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the faculty of the University of Texas Law School, and served as both Assistant Dean and Acting Dean. In 1951 he joined the Columbia Law School faculty where he became Dwight Professor of Law in 1959. Professor Williams came to Stanford in 1963, and since 1968 has been Lillick Professor of Law. HOWARD R. WILLIAMS Stella W. dt Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law