University of Texas School of Law - Peregrinus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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SPRING VISITORS B « 3 0or»rty Prof. Benno C. Schmidt, Jr., who holds the Harlan Fiske Stone Chair at Columbia University, delivered the Sealy Lecture on Juries. Jurisdiction, and Race Discrimination: The Lost Promise of Strauder v. West Virginia to a capacity crowd in the Auditorium on January 19. 1983. Schmidt, son of former UT law professor Benno C. Schmidt, is a Yale Law School graduate, former law clerk to Chief Justice Earl Warren, and author of several works on the First Amendment. Other speakers during the spring semester included: Derrick A. Bell. Jr., Dean of the University of Oregon Law School and former Professor of Law at Harvard: Arthur R. Miller. Professor of Law at Harvard, co-author of Miller and Wright series on procedure, host of the nationally syndicated television show Miller's Court. and frequent guest on Good Morning America ; Vinson and Elkins Lecturer Judge J. Clifford Wallance. who sits on the 9th Circuit and who was considered one of the most likely candidates for the last elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court; Judge William Wayne Justice, district judge in Tyler, who appeared on March 25 for the SBA Sandwich Seminar to discuss his highly publicized decision in the Texas prison case Ruiz v. Estelle. TIME ON THE MARCH In honor of the centennial year of the law school, the Peregnnus reaches into its archives to present the changing styles and changing faces of our faculty. Prol. Wellborn. 1976 Prof. Fielder. 1950 Prof. Aldave. 1975 28 — Activities and Features Prof. Wright. 1959

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Pet Roto won APRIL 7, 1982 Wendell Turley is one of the foremost plaintiff's attorneys in the nation, and is representative of a fairly recent phenonemon of high-tech work reaching the plaintiff's side of a personal injury or products liability suit. His central office is located in Dallas. The subject of Mr. Turley's lecture was the issue whether handgun manufacturers are liable in tort for issuing inherently dangerous products into the market. WENDELL TURLEY, Racehorse Haynes is perhaps most imous for his successful defense of Ken tv-s he r and multimillionaire Cullen Davis, two separate trials for first degree murder o' Davis' former wife’s daughter and boy '• - od. and for solicitation of the murder of a Mr. Haynes was one of the featured ikers in Trial Lawyers' Conference of the Century, along with the noted cross e immation expert. Prof. Irving Younger. RICHARD RACEHORSE'' HAYNES JUSTICE HANS LINDE, GERRY SPENCE, MARCH 25, 1982 MARCH 26, 1982 .t ee Hans Linde, current justice of the Oregon Supreme Cc.-t and former law professor at the University of Oregon, drived for a two week visit that terminated in early April. . . -,’ cc Lmde, who is a noted constitutional law scholar, e • cularly in the areas of due process and First Amendment spoke to each constitutional law class on the need for appellate advocates to be more imaginative when arguing before an appellate-level court; he observed that much appellate debate amounts to a mere recitation of cases and otdmgs rather than basic interpretation of the state or federal constitutions. Gerry Spence, a self-described attorney for the damned , famous for his representation of the Karen Silkwood family and of Miss Wyoming in her suit against Penthouse magazine, spoke to a capacity audience at the Music Hall of how he broke away from an unsatisfying insurance defense practice to go to the right side of the law. In spite of his famous clients, and his multi-million dollar recoveries. Mr. Spence spends the significant portion of his time representing victims of the market system, often on a pro bono basis. 27

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