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et al.: Law Alumni Journal UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Winrer /975 Volume XI Ttll Number 2 IJ\W1\LU!\n JOUR[ Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 1 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 11, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 Louis H. Pollak, Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations, History and Law, has been named Dean of the Law School. The appointment, announced by University President Martin Meyerson, was approved by the Executive Board of the Trustees at its December 8, 1975 meeting. Dean Louis H. Pollak Just as this issue of The Law Alumni Journal goes to Jr., a distinguished alumnus and one-time member of press, I have learned - and hereby report to you - of the the Faculty. In short, the new class is well on its way to impending departure from the School of two dis Jawyerdom. tinguished faculty members who will be sorely missed: We have also welcomed a number of new members Professor - and former Dean - Bernard Wolfman, of the Faculty. Additjons to the regular faculty are '48, has accepted an invitation to join the Faculty of the Henry B. Hansmann, Ralph R. Smith, and Clyde W. Harvard Law School, effective next fall. Summers. Assistant Professor Hansmann, who receiv Vice-Dean Frank N. Jones has been prevailed upon, ed his J.D. from Yale in 1974 and who is also a by the Board of Directors of the National Legal Aid candidate for the Ph.D. in Economics at that and Defender Association, to resume his former post University, is interested in the intersections of law and as Executive Director of NLADA. economics. Assistant Professor Smith, a 1972 J.D. Because the inside pages of this issue of The Journal from U.C.L.A., who since that time has been a are already at the printer, there is today neither space Teaching Fellow at Harvard Law School and an nor time to give adequate expression to the extraor Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College, is a dinary contributions Professor Wolfman and Vice specialist in Corporation Law. Professor Summers Dean Jones have made to this School. This will be comes to us from Yale where for twenty years he has remedied in the next issue of The Journal. For the been one of the nation's leading scholars in the field of moment, it must suffice simply to record -on behalf of labor Jaw. the entire Law School and University communities - The visiting members of the Faculty are Murray L. our gratitude and warm best wishes to these two Schwartz and Stanislaw Soltysinski. Professor leaders of this School. Schwartz, who graduated from this Law School in 1949, has been teaching at U.C.L.A. since 1958 and last End-of-term examinations start tomorrow, which July I, completed six years as Dean of that Law means that the 1975-76 academic year is already almost School. On sabbatical leave from U.C.L.A. this year, half gone. It is a season when staff and faculty and he is at Pennsylvania for the fall semester, teaching students alike are thinking with increasing eagerness courses in two of his fields of expertise, legal profession about the up-coming holiday recess. Especially this is and criminal procedure. Professor Soltysinski, whose so for the entering class, who have now begun to realize academic base is the University of Poznan, is spending that the first term of law school can be survived -and the fill academic year at Pennsylvania, ofseri g courses may, just possibly, turn out to be an intellectually in comparative law and socialist law. productive experience. This fall the University has formally announced its The entering class - the Class of 1978, two hundred long-awaited drive to raise $255,000,000 in the coming strong - maintains the welcome trend toward greater five years. Although the Law School is a participant in diversity: 30 percent of the class are women, 18 percent the University-wide development campaign, the Law are members of minority groups; they come from 26 School actually initiated its part of the campaign in states and from 82 colleges. The class also continues 1972; and, under the vigorous leadership of Carroll R. the trend toward academic excellence; although Wetzel, Robert M. Landis, Dean Wolfman, and median LSAT scores are down from the previous year, others, the School has already harvested $2,600,000 in the median undergraduate grade point average of the gifts and pledges, bringing the School's endowment to new matriculants is higher than that of any class in the more than $4,000,000. But to provide an adequate level Law School's history. of endowment and of term funds, the School needs - Last August, on registration day, the Class of 1978 and, with strong University support, will seek to raise was welcomed to the School and the profession by our at least $5,000,000 in additional funding by 1980. eminent and beloved emeritus colleague, Clarence Morris. Three weeks later, at the traditional first-year December 8, 1975 luncheon, which formally marks the entry of a new class, they were again welcomed to the profession-this time by Watergate Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth, https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol11/iss2/1 2 et al.: Law Alumni Journal UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Ttle lAWAL U/\nl JOUQ[W_ Contentr Symposium 4 Featured Event 6 A Visitor from Poland 9 Conversation with ... Professor Robert H. Mundheim I I S.l :To Be or Not To Be? 16 "I Have Promises to Keep . " 19 Ned Wolf Informed Consent The Patient's Right to Know 24 Marlene F. Lachman The Faculty 29 Alumni Briefs 31 End Notes 34 Editor: Libby S. Harwitz The Law Alumni Journal. University of Pennsylvania Law School. 3400Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19174, published by The Law Alumni Society for its members. Volume XI Number 2 Winter 1975 Director of Alumni Affairs Secretary: and Development: Katherine Merlin Lloyd S. Herrick Photography Credits: Frank Ross Ned Wolf photos Mike Rosenman Counesy The Philadelphia Inquirer Design and Layout: Production Editor: Severino Marcelo Deborah Klein Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 3 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 11, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 4 Professor Levin and Judicial Attorney General Will Not 1975 Keedy Cup Finals Reform Deliver Roberts Lecture in '76 The final argument for the Keedy Professor A. Leo Levin has return Cup was held November 18, 1975. ed to Penn Law School having With regret we note that Edward The bench consisted of Justice completed his two-year task in H. Levi, Attorney General of the Rehnquist (presiding), Judge Coffin Washington as Executive Director of United States, will be unable to of the First Circuit, and Judge the Commission on Revision of the deliver the 1976 Owen J. Roberts Hufstedler of the Ninth Circuit. Federal Court Appellate System. Memorial Lecture as previously an The two hypothetical issues argued The Commission, in its report, nounced. in front of the United States Supreme recommends significant changes in Court were (I) whether the Fourth the judicial system, most notably the commission is the establishment of a Amendment (Exclusionary Rule) establishment of a National Appeals Lawyers Advisory Committee-a should be modified to admit evidence Court, which would expedite matters group of judges, practitioners, and seized under an invalid search ob more efficiently, standardize legal others who are engaged in teaching tained and executed in good faith by precedents, which often vary from and research-to provide a forum for officers conducting the search, and one circuit court of appeals to continuous study of internal (2) whether, in a federal habeas another, and prevent repetitive litiga operating procedures, to serve as a corpus proceeding, state criminal tion of lawsuits on the same issue by conduit between members of the bar defendants may raise search and resolving conflicts between circuits and the court for the exchange of seizure contentions that have been after they have developed, thereby information on subjects of mutual fi nally adjudicated against them in avoiding them for the future. The concern, and to make recommen the state courts. main argument for the creation of the dations to the court on any subject National Appeals Court is that it affecting the administration of justice would relieve the burgeoning number in the circuit. Interested in Teaching Law? of cases already being brought to the The Third Circuit has created such overworked Supreme Court. This a committee at the recommendation Professor Curtis R. Reitz has been problem is not likely to improve with of the Commission. Penn Law assigned by Dean Pollak the time since, in 1951, about I ,200 cases Alumni Henry Sawyer, L '47, Stan clearinghouse function of keeping were fi led with the Court; presently, ford Shmukler, L '54, and Judy N. track of mqumes and an the number has risen to 4,000, and Dean, L '67, and faculty members, nouncements of openings for the Court does not have the capacity Professors A. Leo Levin and David teaching positions at various law to hear more than 150 cases per term. Rudovsky, have been appointed to schools. He will respond by submit One of the many recommen that committee to serve two-year ting lists and brief biographical notes dations suggested by Levin and his terms beginning December, 1975. to schools requesting teaching can didates. Alumni interested in benefiting from this service offered by the Law School should write or telephone Mr. Reitz. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol11/iss2/1 4 et al.: Law Alumni Journal Symposium 5 Clerkships 1975-1976 Thirty-four alumni of The Law State Courts School are serving as law clerks Superior Court of Connecticut during the current academic year .