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All rights reserved. ISSN 1930-4943 California Legal History is indexed in The Index to Legal Periodicals. Design and Production: E. M. Holland Cover Photo: The founding members of the UCLA School of Law faculty (L.–R.): Harold E. Verrall, Dean L. Dale Coffman, Rollin M. Perkins, Roscoe Pound, Brainerd Currie, and Librarian Thomas S. Dabagh. Courtesy UCLA Law Library. iii c a lifornia Supreme c o u r t H i S t orical Society Boa r d of dir eCtor S Hon. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chair George W. Abele, Esq., President Molly Selvin, Ph.D., Vice President Richard H. Rahm, Esq., Treasurer John S. Caragozian, Esq., Secretary Jennifer L. King, Esq., Immediate Past President John F. Burns Joseph L. Chairez, Esq. Joyce Cook, Esq. Jake Dear, Esq. David S. Ettinger, Esq. Katharine J. Galston, Esq. Hon. Barry P. Goode Dan Grunfeld, Esq. George S. Howard, Jr., Esq. Mitchell Keiter, Esq. Donald M. Kolkey, Esq. Thomas J. McDermott, Jr., Esq. David L. McFadden Frank A. McGuire, Esq. Hon. George Nicholson Edward S. Renwick, Esq. Kent L. Richland, Esq. Jason D. Russell, Esq. Prof. Harry N. Scheiber James E. Shekoyan, Esq. Roman M. Silberfeld, Esq. Selma Moidel Smith, Esq. Kathleen Tuttle, Esq. Hon. Kathryn Mickle Werdegar Robert S. Wolfe, Esq. iv e ditorial Board Selma Moidel Smith Editor-in-Chief Harry N. Scheiber University of California, Berkeley Founding Editor (1994–2006) Boa r d M eM Ber S Stuart Banner University of California, Los Angeles Lawrence M. Friedman Stanford University Christian G. Fritz University of New Mexico Hon. Joseph R. Grodin UC Hastings College of the Law Laura Kalman University of California, Santa Barbara Peter L. Reich Whittier Law School Reuel E. Schiller UC Hastings College of the Law John F. Burns (ex officio) CSCHS Board of Directors v TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION he chool of aw — rigin, onflict, and rowth Selma Moidel Smith ....................................... SECTION : UCLA LAW HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS emor andum [Presented in person to the UCLA Chancellor by eight dissident members of the UCLA School of Law faculty on September 21, 1955] ....................................... indings [Report of the Chancellor’s Committee on the UCLA School of Law controversy, May 24, 1956] ..................... SECTION : UCLA LAW OR AL HISTORIES illiam . osenthal . . “liff” rant . dgar . (“ed”) ones, r. . ale offman . arold . err all . ichard . axwell ntroduction by urray . chwartz ......... ral istory of ichard . axwell ......... rances cann cuade . vi SECTION : UCLA LAW PERSONAL REMINISCENCES he chool of aw — eminiscences from the econd ecade Norman Abrams . or the ecord Michael Asimow . ranks for the emories Paul Bergman . he arly ears of linical egal ducation at : cross ubstantive omains David Binder and Paul Bergman . emories of ong go: y ears at chool of aw Norman Epstein . eflections on my ime at aw Charlie Firestone . he usical ntroduction: chool of aw, – George Abele . he istory of the usical Kenneth Graham . icensed immer Alex Kozinski . ome emories of aw chool James E. Krier . aking a hance on aw, tyle Daniel H. Lowenstein . vii y ime at aw Elwood Lui . emories of aw chool Dorothy W. Nelson . aw eminiscences Steven Z. Perren . SPECIAL SECTION: WRITING COMPETITION WINNER odel for uvenile arole eform: alifornia’s outh ffender arole earings hallenge the odern arole ystem and pply the undamental rinciples in GRAHAM and MILLER to the elease ecision-aking rocess Courtney B. LaHaie . ✯ UCLA SCH OOL OF L AW O RIGIN, C ONFLICT, AND G ROWTH 1 THE UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Origin, Conict, and Growth SELMA M OIDEL SMITH* he eventful early history of the UCLA School of Law is the principal T theme of this volume of California Legal History. e school’s rst years are of unusual historical interest — and, by reason of the available source materials, are uniquely suited to historical inquiry. is volume presents a number of previously unpublished documents related to the opening of the law school in and the story of its early de- velopment. e principal gures are, on the one hand, the founding dean of the law school and, on the other, the faculty members he recruited. His colleagues state repeatedly that the dean’s model for a law school of the s was the law school of prior decades in which the dean held sole authority. ey contend that the dean was determined to exclude from his new law school both the content of the then-prevailing theory of legal liberalism and the accompanying model of shared law school governance. We learn that he rejected the authority of the UCLA Academic Senate and * Editor-in-Chief, California Legal History. For a general account of the early history of the law school and of its initial law librarian in particular, see Renee Y. Rastorfer, “omas S. Dabagh and the Institutional Beginnings of the UCLA Law Library: A Cautionary Tale,” Law Library Journal : (Summer ): –. 2 C ALIFORNIA L EGAL HIS TORY ✯ VOLUME 11, 2016 of any equivalent faculty group within the law school. In his own words, the dean decried the eventual imposition of a “constitution and bylaws of the law school whereby the dean has no authority to make appointments to the faculty” nor “any say about the curriculum of the law school.” : We are fortunate to have the manifesto of the dissident faculty members, presented in the form of a Memorandum to the UCLA chancellor in Sep- tember . None but the most cloistered of legal historians could read the list of grievances and failed demands for redress — commencing with the words, “it becomes necessary to call the circumstances to the attention of the Chancellor” — without calling to mind the familiar (and more elo- quent) phrase, “that they should declare the causes which impel them . ,” from the American Declaration of Independence. Where the signers of the Declaration pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, the dissenting faculty members risked their families’ nancial security and their future academic careers. A half-century later they were praised by former UCLA Law Dean Susan Prager, as “the courageous faculty who called for change in the governance of the school.” We are similarly fortunate to have the report of the committee ap- pointed by the UCLA chancellor to investigate the faculty’s charges. e committee’s ndings take the apparently unprecedented course of with- holding the deference customarily accorded to deans and of overturning the established order. ey reject the dean’s claim that to put matters right, “all that was needed was the assurance to him and his faculty that the Ad- ministration backed him without reservation.” ey nd, instead, that the dean’s conduct had led to a “loss of condence . based on substantial and reasonable grounds,” that “is irretrievable, in the sense that future changes [Memorandum from UCLA Law Faculty to Raymond B. Allen, UCLA Chan- cellor (Sept. , )] University of California, Oce of the President records, circa –. CU-, Series , Box :, Status of L. Dale Coman –; photo- copy available at UCLA Law Library.