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Bhagwati The Evolution of Skills Training 9 Stuart G. Gullickson A Visit with the Doyles 12 Paul Reidinger Notes on Alums 13 Faculty Briefs 14 Editor's Note 15 Cover: Statue of Lincoln at Bascom Hall. Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin Law School, published quarterly. Edward J. Reisner, Editor Earl J. Madden, Design Publication office, Law School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Postmaster's note: Please send form 3579 to "Gargoyle," University of Wis- consin Law School, Madison, WI 53706. Subscription price: 50¢ per year for members. $1.00 per year for non-members. ISSN 0148-9623 USPS 768-300 2 Adventures of a Green Dean in Green Pastures Dean Cliff F. Thompson nthe photo are Sara and Mark Weier, who share law practice around the state. But I had only a remote chores in running the Weier-Nook Farm near Dodge- understanding of the past fortunes and current lives of Iville. They were among the hundreds of Wisconsin the people served by Wisconsin's legal profession. This citizens who helped educate UW-Madison faculty this seminar was intense, complete with assigned readings, past summer. I was among the lucky learners. A busload and lectures at meals and on the bus to prepare us for of us rolled around the state for five days, visiting people our stops. We were on duty at least 12 hours a day. If that in their farms and factories, and listening to their experi- sounds onerous, I should add that we also managed to ences and dreams. add a few hours every day for spirited relaxation, easy We were on the "Wisconsin Idea Seminar," made enough in the company of bright and engaging compan- possible by a grant from the Evjue Foundation. New ions. Although we didn't believe the dark hints that there faculty from many departments, and a couple of only would be a final exam, I dutifully took notes, and I have slightly used faculty like myself, had the opportunity to enjoyed the freshness of the memories stirred by read- see first-hand how the walls of the University are as great ing them. as the state itself. Many universities with an international I suppose everyone on the tour has favorite recol- reputation have few ties with their local communities. lections. Mine, in addition to the Weier's dairy farm, Some, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, are include: high tech at Silicon Sensors; Truman Lowe of the renowned both at home and abroad. But I know of no Winnebago describing the nuances of green in the emerg- university with a history and commitment to equal this ing summer foliage; the combination of old fashioned ser- University's special dedication to serve the community vice and modern science at the Marshfield Clinic; the which supports it. complicated integration of product use at Green Bay One of our teachers was the venerable John Patrick Packaging Co.; and the keenness of students at Milwau- Hunter of the Capital Times, who apologized to me one kee Trade and Technical High School, where theory and morning for referring to me as the "new dean" in his first hands-on experience combine. press report on our progress, whereas he now realized I My own enthusiasm for the seminar certainly arises was completing my third year. I assured him that my col- because we were given vivid experiences in subjects leagues and law alums regarded me as new, that Agricul- about which we had read. None of us thought we had ture Dean Walsh had told me that I should expect to be become instantly wise in the ways of Wisconsin. But introduced as a new dean for at least four years, and that, we emerged a little less green, and considerably more anyway, if he thought I was new, that was proof enough. appreciative of the bonds between our University and It is true that I had already traveled to many of the the State. areas on our tour, and had begun to get a good sense of 3 Nathan P. Feinsinger and the rigins of Alternate Dispute Resolution William G. Moore With litigation costs skyrocketing, and the courts increasingly overburdened, a search has begun for practical alternatives to stand- ard dispute resolution. Mediation and arbitration, methods in the past confined to the handling of disputes between labor and management, are now being recognized as potential vehicles to the resolution of conflicts outside of the labor sphere. Loosely grouped under the title A.D.R.- Alternate Dispute Resolution-these options may offer swifter and more private settle- ment of conflicts between parties. More and more, law schools are begin- ning to offer classes in A.D.R. Harvard, for example, recently offered an optional semi- nar in negotiation. And Hofstra Law School now claims that it did "much of the pioneer- that arbitration and mediation might be Other law faculty members with dif- ing work in the field." applied to non-labor areas of law is now ferent interests and specialties pursued But at the University of Wisconsin Law beginning to be recognized as an idea whose similar tacks in linking law to broad soci- School, Professor Nathan P Feinsinger had time has come. etal concerns. expressed ideas about A.D.R. as early as The article below traces Feinsinger's Nathan P. Feinsinger was among 1960. career and the history of his ideas on these. He joined the Law School faculty And in 1966, the Law School curriculum A.D.R. in 1929, after a year as Visiting Professor boasted a course called "Methods of Dis- of Socio-Legal Research at Columbia putes Settlement," instructed by Feinsinger: For the UW Law School, the 1920's and University. With colleague Eleanore Roe, Feinsinger 1930's were important years during His work had already begun to take a also established in 1967 the Dispute Resolu- which a course and a vision for the functional approach to law: he character- tion Center at the Law School. There, "tech- future of law and legal education were ized his year at Columbia as research on niques were studied for application to all forged. Promoted was a brand of legal "how a law that has passed by the legisla- kinds of disputes." The Center's key concept education designed to reach out to help ture and been tested in the courts actu- was that "lessons learned in the specific society-the concepts of "law in action" ally works out in practice." area of labor relations should be capable of and the Wisconsin Idea. Feinsinger came to UW Law school some transference to other problem fields." Under the auspices of Dean Harry with initial specialties in family law, Feinsinger died in 1983, but not before Richards, and through close contact with domestic law and bills and notes. He his effort to "re-examine the techniques of Professors John Commons, Selig Perlman began as an instructor of domestic rela- arbitration and mediation in light of future and Edwin Witte of the economics tions and insurance law, and also taught and present-day needs" brought him broad department, work in this direction began a course for the business school. acclaim. in 1924with a seminar in collective bar- He was, however, shortly to switch At the Law School the efforts begun by gaining, taught by Law Professor William fields and emerge as a leading labor law- him have continued and have been Rice. It was "one of the first such courses yer.