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UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 4-1-1989 Hastings Community (Spring 1989) Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag Recommended Citation Hastings College of the Law Alumni Association, "Hastings Community (Spring 1989)" (1989). Hastings Alumni Publications. 75. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/75 This is brought to you for free and open access by UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. SPRING 1989 University of California, liastials College of the Law MOW gomm9m College elcomes Supreme Court Justice IHarryBlackmun Only a week after the November opportunity of having an open question presidential election, Supreme Court and answer period with a very candid Justice Harry Blackmun was at Hastings Justice Blackmun preceding his keynote assuring an audience of faculty, address. The students were able to students, federal and state judges, and explore pertinent issues including the members of the local Bar not to worry consequences of a new conservative too much if the Court changes direction majority on the Supreme Court and the with the election of a new president. status of Roe v. Wade, a decision Justice Blackmun, the 1988 Mathew Blackmun authored in 1973. 0. Tobriner Memorial Lecturer ad- The Mathew 0. Tobriner Memorial dressed the issue of "Trends and Lecture, established at Hastings in 1983, Countertrends" in the nation's Supreme has brought an array of legal scholars Court at the November 16th lecture. He and jurists to the College over the past stressed that the Court, over the last 200 six years including Dean Barbara years, had made innumerable changes Aronstein Black, Mr. Anthony Lewis, of direction, but that the Court has Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, continued to move as best it could Justice Laurence H. Tribe and Justice J. rhe Justice, who had just celebrated Skelly Wright. It is through the generos- his 80th birthday, spent two days at ity of the family and friends of Justice Hastings meeting with faculty, students Tobriner that this important lectureship and local judges. Students enrolled in continues at Hastings. Justice Blackmun meets with Hastings Constitutional Constitutional Law were given the rare Law students Th~eRogqer,[f. Traynor Summer Researcb P-ro-)fessorship Through the generosity of the family of in taxation led to major reforms in year's residence in England as the influence in a variety of fields, and the Justice Roger J. Traynor, Hastings has California. In that period his pioneer visiting Sir Arthur Goodhart Professor of multitude of commentaries by others established a summer research profes- course in taxation also enlisted the Jurisprudence at Cambridge University. that his work has engendered, it is sorship, scheduled to commence in interest of students in that then novel During that decade he also served as particularly appropriate for Hastings to Summer 1990, for the exploration of subject. chairman of the American Bar Associa sponsor a summer professorship in the timely legal issues. The supporting fund His judicial service on the Supreme tion Committee on the Code of Judicial Traynor tradition. pro)vides for a stipend, travel expenses, Court of California spanned thirty years, Ethics. His own integrity was of a piece As Hastings Dean Tom Read housing, research assistance and from 1940 to 1970, during the last six of with his outstanding work as teacher comments, "The Roger J. Traynor databank rcference services. A primary which he served as Chief Justice. There- and jurist. When the ABA awarded him Summer Research Professorship on objective will be to help bring to after he resumed his teaching career for its Medal in 1967 "for conspicuous Timely Legal Issues is the first of its fruition the work of scholars already another productive decade, with a service to the cause of American kind at Hastings, and is clear evidence engaged in constructive studies. constant base at Hastings as a member jurisprudence," it cited him as "one of that the College is moving towards its center oi Justice Roger J. Traynor, who of the Sixty-Five Club. His many the great judges in United States rightful place as a major legal received his Ph.D. and J.D. from teaching assignments and lectures history," an accolade that has been the West Coast. The College and the University of Califomia-Berkeley, set an farther afield included extensive repeatedly echoed in legal journals and legal community in general owe a great example of such work as a young residence at the University of Virginia elsewhere. deal to the Traynor family for this professor at Boalt Hall. His early studies and the University of Utah, as wel as a Given Justice Traynor's significant marvelous program." 2 Board of Directors Update Professor Levine, New Associate New Members & Officers Academic Dean Governor Deukmejian has recently Hastings, is a Justice of the Fifth District Professor David I. Levine has accepted to graduate from the University of appointed two new members to the Court of Appeal located in Fresno, the position of Associate Academic Pennsylvania Law School, where he was College's Board of Directors, Associate California. He was appointed to his Dean for the upcoming academic year. an editor of the law review and a legal Justice Marvin R. Baxter, and Associate current position in December of last He replaces Professor John Diamond writing instructor. Justice William R. Channell. year after having served as appointment who will return to a full teaching Before joining the Hastings faculty in secretary to Govemor Deukmejian since schedule after serving as Associate 1982, Professor Levine served as a law 1983. Before that he was in private Dean for the past two years. clerk in Louisiana to Judge Alvin B. practice in Fresno and also worked as A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the Rubin of the United States Court of Deputy District Attorney in Fresno County. University of Michigan in psychology Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and was Both Baxter and Channell, pending and history, Professor Levine also also an associate in the litigation Senate confirmation, have been studied at University College, University department of Morrison and Foerster in appointed to 12-year terms, slated to of London on the London Exchange San Francisco. He currently teaches end on March 1, 2001. They will fill Fellowship, researching in the area of Remedies and Civil Procedure. seats previously held by Harold S. developmental psychology. He went on Dobbs and Myron "Doc" Etienne whose terms ended on January 1, 1989. At its March quarterly meeting, the Board of Directors unanimously elected Hastings Trivia Bowl Mr. James K. Mahoney '66, as its new Chairman, and Ms. Charlene P. Mitchell as its Vice-Chairman. Mr. Mahoney was appointed to the Board in 1985 and immediately took Justice William R.Channell action as the Chair of the College Justice Channell, a 1949 graduate of Relations/Alumni-Development Hastings, is a Justice of the First District Committee, and as a member of the Court of Appeal located in San Finance and Property Committees. He Francisco's Civic Center, only one block has also served as a Trustee of the 1066 from the College. He was appointed to Foundation since 1984. A native of New his current position by Governor York, Mr. Mahoney now lives with his Deukmejian in 1984 after serving 15 family in Pacific Palisades, CA, and runs year as Superior Court Judge in Contra a private practice, Mahoney, Costa County. Prior to joining the Coppenrath & Williams, in Santa bench, Channel was in private practice Monica. in the East Bay and worked as Deputy Mr. Mahoney is known for his District Attorney in Alameda County. boundless enthusiasm and optimism for Justice Baxter, a 1966 graduate of the College. "Hastings has an inordinate number of strengths and with the extraordinary talent we have on our Board, faculty and administration I see us making tremendous progress on a multitude of issues." Ms. Mitchell, appointed to the Board in 1987, is the first woman graduate to Students pummeled professors again at this year's Trivia Bowl. Sponsored by the Hastings Volunteer Association and the College, this year's contest featured flag-waving and much partisan booing and serve on the Hastings Board of hissing. Moderated by Professor Howard Downs, faculty and student participantswere challenged Directors. She is presently in private with such questions as "What's the last name of Peg in the bookstore? and How many living alumni practice with the firm of Adams, Sadler does Hastings have?" & Hovis. She is also an active member of the Queen's Bench of San Francisco and served as its 1986 president. Before receiving her J.D. at Hastings, she was awarded a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in English from the University of Montreal. Justice Marvin R.Baxter 3 Senator Biden Visits Campus Focusing on foreign policy issues foreign policy issues focusing on the simply because "Neil Kinnock hasn't," balance of power between the Soviet Delaware Senator Joseph R. Biden Union and the United States, the began his remarks to Hastings students emergence of Premier Gorbachev, and faculty by alluding to the contro- President Bush's arrival in Washington, versy surrounding his departure from and Biden's strong support for harsh the 1988 Presidential race. economic sanctions against South Senator Biden, presently Chairman of Africa. He ended his remarks with an the Judiciary Committee and 2nd open question and answer period for highest ranking Democrat on the students. Foreign Relation Committee, was Biden's lecture, and the lunch elected to the Senate at the age of 30, preceding, were made possible through only four years after graduating from the generosity of San Francisco devel- law school.