Stanford Law School - Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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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

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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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WILLIAM F. YOUNG, JR. Visiting Professor of Law Professor William F. Young, Jr. is visiting Stanford Law School this semester from Columbia Law School. Born in Marshall, Texas in 1925, he attended the University of Texas, where he received his A.B. in 1947 and his LL.B. in 1949. Upon graduation he joined the faculty of the University of Texas Law School, and then he attended Harvard Law School in 1951-52 for a year of graduate study. After teaching for a year at Duke Law School U952-531, he returned to the law faculty at Texas, where he remained until 1956. In 1956 he joined the faculty of the Columbia Law School, where he has remained until the present with the exception of a year visitirig at Boalt Hall H961-623. He has also taught summer sessions at many places and although he looks much younger than his forty tive years, he claims the traveling about will cease after this semester at Stanford. I believe I have packed up the old car for the last time. Professor Young may be a stranger to Stanford Law School, but he is certainly no stranger to its faculty. He attended law school at Texas with Charlie Meyers, where his professors were none other than Joe Sneed and Howard Williams. At Columbia Law School Marc Franklin and Gerald Gunther in addition to Charlie Meyers and Howard Williams were members of the faculty. And one might well assume that at one time a young Dale Collinson was one of his students. So this semester might well be called more a reunion than a visit. Professor Young's primary field in the law is Commercial Law and at Stanford this semester he is teaching a course in Insurance Law.