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VOL. 3 NO. 1 DALLAS, TEXAS SPRING 1967 Clerkships Favored By Law Graduates Clerkships to judges have become favored stepping stones for high-rank­ ing SMU Law School graduates in the past two years. Five third-year students and one graduate student have accepted clerk­ ships this year. They are Joseph J .Mc­ Cain, who will be clerk to Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah, U.S. Court of Ap­ peals for the Tenth Circuit; John Mc­ Mullen, who will be clerk to U.S. Dis­ trict Judge James Noel; James Wallen­ stein, who will be clerk to Judge Irv­ ing L. Goldberg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; Glenn Johnson, who will be clerk to Chief Judge Ben C. Connally, U. S. District Court, Southern First Year Class: They represent 24 states, 69 colleges and universities, 26 fields of study. District; Ernest W. Grumbles Jr., who will be clerk to U. S. District Judge Reynaldo G. Garza; and H. R. (Randy) Class of '69: Largest Day Division Williams, who will be clerk to Associ­ ate Justice James Norvell, Supreme Group Brings Varied Backgrounds Court of Texas. What are they like-the 180 young the country--compared to 50 for the '68 In addition, Mrs. Linda Wertheimer, men and women making up the School class. They come from 24 states, com­ a December, 1966, graduate is serving of Law's Class of '69? Why did they pared to 17 for the '68 class. as part-time clerk to Judge Goldberg. come here? How hard do they work? They have engaged in 26 different Of the May, 1966, graduates, five are The statistics might be interpreted to fields of study. These run the gamut serving in clerkships. They are Ronald show the typical first year student is a from art, philosophy, and advertising to Clower, with U.S. District Judge Sarah man who was born in Texas, attended a chemistry, geology, and pharmacy, but Hughes; Donald Campbell, with Judge Texas college or university, and entered the heaviest concentrations are in the the School of Law with an undergrad­ fields of social studies and business ad­ Connally; Jesse Heath, with Judge uate grade average of 2.67 and an ministration. Most represented fields are Noel; David G. McLane, with Justice LSA T score of 533. At the end of his history (26 students) ; business ( 25) ; Jack Pope, Supreme Court of Texas; first semester he has a grade average of government (20) ; accounting and po- and Ronald L. Palmer, with U.S. Dis­ 74,.60. (Continued on page 2) trict Judge Joe Ingraham. But statistical averages give a super­ ficial picture at best. These students, SMU Law School To Have Order of the Coif making up the largest entering Day The Order of the Coif, a national law graduating class may be elected to Division class in the school's history, school scholastic honor society, is being membership by vote of the faculty. bring the widest variety of backgrounds established at the School of Law this From 1935 to 1966 The Order of the of any entering group. Woolsack was the school's honor society year. Their undergraduate work was done and had the same standards for selec­ at 69 colleges and universities across Not more than 10 per cent of each tion as The Order of the Coif. 2 THE BRIEF Class of ~69 Six-Weeks Session (Continued from page 1) Planned for Summer litical science ( 15 each) ; finance, eco­ nomics, and English (9 each). This year's summer session will run Although a substantial majority for six weeks, rather than for ten ( 125) of the class members are Texans, weeks, as in the past. such distant states as Washington and Registration will be held June 3, the Connecticut also are represented. Aside first day of classes will be June 5, and from Texas, the states most represented the last day of classes will be July 14. are Illinois ( 8) ; Oklahoma (7) ; New Examinations will be given July 17-21. York ( 4) ; Louisiana, Wisconsin, Indi­ The abbreviated summer session was ana, and Iowa (3 each). The out-of­ adopted in response to requirements of state figures suggest that proximity to the new University calendar and the Texas is not necessarily determinative dropping of the summer residence re­ in the decision of the out-of-state student quirement. Under the new calendar, the to come to SMU. fall semester begins August 31. The More than one-third-or 64--of the shorter session will enable both stu­ class members are married. Many have dents and faculty to undertake summer children-here or on the way. Records work and still have time left in the reflect a total of 70 dependents, not in­ summer for vacationing. cluding wives. The maximum summer load will be In the field of grades and test scores, First Year Student: 35-40 hours of seven hours for day students and five always a matter of intense concern study per week. hours for evening students. For resi­ among law students, this year's entering dence purposes, the session will count class stacks up well. Undergraduate as one-half semester. grade averages generally run higher the out-of-state students were "It is a than for last year's entering class; LSAT small school" and "Heard SMU had a Course for Med Students scores are slightly lower. good reputation." At the end of their first semester in Questions on what they liked best and This spring for the first time the law school this year's entering students least about the School of Law brought School of Law is presenting a course in had earned grade averages ranging a hodge-podge of conflicting answers. Medical Jurisprudence for fourth-year from a high of 90.53 to a low of 57.80. Some like the "good library"; others students at the Southwestern Medical The mean was 74.60, and the median criticized the library as too noisy. Some School. 75.27. complained of large classes and an at­ The lectures, dealing with the law Based on answers to an anonymous mosphere of "aloofness." Others like as it affects the doctor, will total 20 questionnaire circulated among first­ the small classes and "friendliness" they hours and cover 17 subjects. The pro­ year class members, the typical begin­ found here. gram is under the direction of Profes­ sor Saul Baernstein with a number of ning student spends 33.34 hours in A number of students expressed dis­ Law School faculty members and down­ study outside of classroom hours. He satisfaction with first semester grades. town attorneys participating. spends 18.73 hours in recreational activi­ This year, for the first time, all first­ Among topics are legal insanity, mal­ ties. (These figures cannot be regarded year courses were presented in two sec­ practice suits, patient consent, the phy­ as an accurate representation, however. tions. In all but two courses, each sec­ sician as a witness, and such medical­ First, less than one-fifth of the class re­ tion was taught by a different professor. legal problems as abortion, sterilization, sponded. Second, some of the answers Because of the differing grading cus­ and artificial insemination. were obviously facetious. Possible case toms of the professors, grades in some in point: one student said he spends two sections ran much higher than in others. hours a week studying and 166 hours a Student suggestions in this area in­ Six-Year Plan Halted week in recreational activities.) cluded ( 1) a "more equitable method A more reliable indicator might he of evaluation," (2) elimination of class The six-year combination plan for the most frequently given answer: 35 to rankings ("I might as well be ranked obtaining a law degree and an under­ 40 hours a week in out-of- ·lass study with students from another law graduate bachelor's degree is to be and 6 to 8 hours a week in rec1·ealion. school.") , ( 3) use of "progressive or phased out. Why did they come to the SMU curve method of grading," and ( 4) The Faculty of the School of Law School of Law? Most frequently cited mandatory switching of professors at has announced that effective with the reasons were location and a hope to the end of the first semester. fall semester, 1968, no further appli­ practice in Texas or the Southwest. A The Faculty studied first semester cations under the combination plan number mentioned. "job availability for grades and adopted a resolution "that it will be accepted. In keeping with the wife" as an important factor. Students be the sense of the Faculty that if a practice being initiated in law schools apparently from other states said they course were divided into multiple sec­ throughout the country, a bachelor's wanted to live in another part of the tions, approximately uniform grading degree will be required of all first-year country. Additional reasons given by standards be applied to each section ...." law students. SPRING 1967 3 Dallas Legal Services Needs More Volunteer 1-Ielp "If you offer the poor free legal 1,930 cases and closed 2,132. value of the work at $200. The actual service, they will come flocking to the Despite the problem it has faced in charge was $1,600. door in great throngs." educating the poor to recognize their Dallas Legal Services has a budget "If you offer free legal services, the legal problems, the Legal Services Pro­ of $407,139. Of this $359,404 is repre­ income of private practicing attorneys ject has not been ignored. The Pro­ sented by an OEO grant and $47,735 by will he jeopardized." ject's total case load up to January 31 in-kind contributions from the Dallas Though it has been in operation has been 1,463. Had the theorelical community. The latter include contri­ only since last August, Dallas Legal "great throngs" come in, the Project's butions from the Law School and from Services Project has accumulated data staff might well have been swamped. various organizations making contribu­ and experience showing that neither A wide diversity of legal problems tions from the rental value of property of these statements is true. (The Pro­ has been presented. Divorce proceed­ used by the Project, as well as a sub­ ject, administered by the SMU School ings account for 27 per cent, and child stantial commitment by the Dallas Bar of Law, has been put in operation support and cu ·tody for 8 per cent. The Association, Dallas Criminal Bar As­ through a grant from the Office of Eco­ remaining 65 per cent cover a broad sociation, and Dallas Junior Bar As­ nomic Opportunity through the Dallas spectrum, ranging from consumer fi­ sociation to contribute 50 hours per County Community Action Corpora­ nancing, debt, drivers' license suspen­ week of volunteer time. tion and contributions from the Dallas sions, and naturalization cases to crim­ In its beginning stages, the Project County Bar organizations.) inal matters. (The Project does not was unable efficiently to utilize a great The first is not true, Project Director represent defendants in criminal cases deal of volunteer help. The result is that Vincent Rohloff explains, because the where appointment of counsel is con­ there is now a serious deficiency in the poor "are scared of lawyers. They think stitutionally required.) number of contributed hours given to of a lawyer in the same way they think One recurring problem discovered date, and the Project has what its lead­ of a policeman. To them, the lawyer is by staffers is that among the many ers term "a desperate need for an all­ the man who pro_secutes them in Cor­ honest businesses engaged in home im­ out effort on the part of the Bar . . . poration Court, repossesses their car provements is a small number of oper­ to liquidate the substantial shortage in ators who, through overreaching and and furniture, evicts them from their contributed hours." homes, takes away their kid.s." high-pressure selling, take advantage of For this reason, the Project has made the naivete of the poor. A case in point Mr. Rohloff said the Project now has a major effort to make contact with the was that of an elderly widow, living in a need for 75 to 100 hours of volunteer poor through neighborhood meetings. a $2,000 to $2,500-home, who was per­ attorney time per week. Lawyers willing They have sought ways to make the suaded to have a room sheetrocked. to assist may call Chief Counsel Walter p or aware that some of th ir problems One contractor estimated the reasonable W. Steele Jr. at RI 2-1631. may he legal problems and that they can get help for these problems. The second statement is disproved by statistics. The Lawyer Referral Service, an office operated by the Dallas Bar Association to assist fee-paying clients in obtaining an attorney's services, has had a greater volume of cases since the Project was launched. Cases increased from 53 in January, 1966, to 137 in January, 1967-a jump of more than 150 per cent. For the last three months of 1967 Lawyers Referral Service han­ dled 419 cases compared to only 291 for the same period a year ago. Some of the increase resulted from clients sent to the Referral Service by Dallas Legal Services because the clients did not meet the Service's strict financial eli­ gibility requirements. Another fear expressed prior to the opening of Dallas Legal Services was that it would supplant existing legal services for the indigent. Statistics show an opposite result. The case load of the Legal Aid Society of Dallas has sub­ stantially increased. In 1965, the So­ At Dallas Legal Services Office: (from left) Chief Counsel Walter W. Steele Ir. ciety opened 1,680 cases and closed and Project Director Vincent Rohloff with Robert Maloney, president of the Dallas 1,712. In 1966, the Society opened Criminal Bar Association • 4 THE BRIEF Justice Clark Doubts Miranda Family Code Project Produces Two Bills Will Cause Increase in Crime Two bills aimed at improving Texas Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark he was confronted with an urgent re­ family law, both of which are now be­ doubts that recent high court decisions quest by two lawyers in behalf of a fore the Texas Legislature, are the first will either encourage crime or shackle client scheduled to be electrocuted with­ products of a project headed by two the police, in a few hours. Finally, at four o'clock members of the School of Law faculty. Justice Clark spoke to law students Justice Clark issued a stay order. Later, The proposed measures would revise and faculty following a luncheon in he said, the Court reviewed this case and clarify the malrimonial properly Lawyers Inn. His visit here was spon­ and reversed it. law and pr vide for family dfatrict sored by Phi Alpha Delta legal fratern­ Justice Clark has been dismayed by courts in Texas. The two hills are the ity. the extent to which the Court has be­ result of research and drafting work be­ ( One week after his talk here Justice come involved in reapportionment. But ing done by a group of attorneys, Clark announced his intention to re­ he expressed belief that the long-range judges, and law pro£es ·ors for the Fam­ tire from the Court at the end of this effect of the reapportionment decisions ily Code Project. The Family Law Sec­ term.) will be good. The rule of "one man, one tion of the State Bar of Texas set up Though he noted that he had dis­ vote," he said, "may cause people to the Project and named the Southern sented in many of the cases making up take more interest in government." Methodist University School of Law to the "revolution" in constitutional rights, He joined in Baker v. Carr, said the administer it. Professor Joseph W. Mc­ Justice Clark said he felt the effects will justice, because the citizens of Tennessee Knight ( on sabbatical leave since the not be as drastic as some have feared, had not been able to get relief from any end of December) is Project director, Most of the requirements placed on the other source. Then, he said, "came a and Professor Eugene L. Smith is as­ states, he said, have been on the FBI flood of cases going far beyond my con­ sociate director. Professor Reba Gra­ for years. He said he had, been told that ception" and involving citizens who had ham Rasor is assisting in the Project: the number of confessions and convic­ other recourse. and Mrs. Clarice Davis is student re­ tions obtained by the FBI had not de­ Ask d why the Court had rejected, search assistant. creased. The Los Angeles district at­ l)elawar petition hallenging the elec­ The eventual goal of the Proj ct is torney has reported similar experience toral college, Justice Clark chu kled. lo prod,uce a new, modem fa mily •ode since Miranda, he added. "We hoped something might happen­ for Texas. Work is presently under way The principal problem of the police, lightning might strike." The Court, he on the laws of maniage divorce, an­ said Justice Clark, stems from the pub­ added, has frequently used its discretion nulm nt, suppor t, child custody and lic attitude. He urged that the police to let certain questions "incubate a little adoption, and juveniles. In this connec­ be accorded more status in the com­ more." ti n, an Institute on the Family Code munity, as well as better education, im­ was held at Baylor Universily Schoo] of proved salaries, tenure, and, pensions. Law March 16-18. Speakers inclu.ded at­ Schools for policemen similar to the torneys, psychologists, psychiatrists, so­ FBI Academy would he very helpful, cial workers, and representatives of the he said. various religious faiths. The decision-making process can he "The purpose of the Institute," said agonizing, Justice Clark told students. Professor Smith, who arranged the pro­ "I have known many moments when I gram, "was to provide a frame of ref­ wished that I did not have to make a erence and a store of opinion and in­ decision." Asked what had been his formation to assist the drafters of the most difficult decision, he said that one code in their work." of the most difficult was the case in The matrimonial property hill was which the Supreme Court decided that hammered ut d,ui-ing more than 1,000 President Harry Truman had exceeded professional man h urs of work spread his constitutional powers in ordering a ov r 18 months. It was presented to the government take-over of the nation's Legislature under the sponsOiship of the steel mills in 1952 (Youngstown Sheet State Bar of Texas as an alternative to and Tube Co. v. Sawyer). "I wrestled the "equal rights for women" constitu­ with it a couple of months," said Jus­ tional amendment which has been a tice Clark, who concurred with the ma­ source of controversy in previous ses­ jority. sions. "The cases that worry you most," he One of the principal changes under said, "are the capital cases in which the pr posed hill would he with respect you are the fifth man in a 5-4 decision." to managcm ,nt of community property. He described an occasion when he was The revision would give ach sp use padding about the kitchen at three sole management control and clispo i­ o'clock in the morning, trying to dis­ Li on f ornmunity property that he or cover what was wrong with the refrig­ Justice Tom C/,ark: Decisions can be sh w uld own if n single p rson. ThiB erator. The house telephone rang, and agonizing. (Con,tinzted on page 5) SPRING 1967 5 Employers Recruit In Growing Numbers When he graduated from law school, Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark told students during his visit here (see re­ lated story) , the job-seeking graduate had to make the rounds of law firms, hat in hand. Today, he said, it is the law firms who come around, hat in hand. Justice Clark's observation is borne out by the substantial increase over the past several years in the number of em­ ployers coming to the School of Law to interview graduates. Between the first of September and the end of January, Visiting Justice and Hosts: (from left) Dean Charles 0. Galvin, Jerry D. Rucker, 29 law firms, businesses, judges, and Justice Tom Clark, Lloyd Kelley, Allen C. Rudy Jr., and Mrs. Charles 0. Galvin government agencies came to the school (back to camera). to interview third-year students. In add.ition to those from Dallas, in­ terviewers came from Fort Worth, Cor­ Legal Clinic Adds New Projects pus Christi, Austin, Houston, Wash­ Two new projects have been initiated ranged that oral and written communi­ ington, D.C., Los Angeles, New York, this semester by the Law School Legal cations between the prisoners and stu­ and Roswell, N.M. Clinic. dent attorneys will be neither censored Although it is known that many of One is the providing of legal serv­ nor intercepted. this year's senior students have been ices to indigents appearing in Justice It is hoped and believed that one of placed, a listing of placements is not of the Peace W. E. (Bill) Richburg's the principal benefits of the program feasible this early. The large number of court, 410 South Beckley Avenue. will be its effect on prisoner morale. opportunities available and uncertain­ Judge Richburg, a long-time Dallas Ju&­ Professor Bolton explained that the ties with respect to military obligations tice of the Peace, has become a symbol program will enable the prisoners to result in frequent changes in plans. of practical justice at the JP level. He see that the community is willing to is popularly known as "the law west of lend them a hand. the Trinity." With regard to the project, Myrl E. The other project, believed to be the Alexander, director of the Bureau of Code second of its kind in the United States, Prisons, Department of Justice, wrote Family is the providing of legal assistance to Professor Bolton a letter, saying, in (Continued from page 4) inmates of the Federal Correctional In­ part: "I want to thank you for all you stitution at Seagoville. have done in arranging for your clinic includes property such as a spouse's In announcing the Seagoville pro­ to provide legal assistance to the in­ earnings and income from separate gram, Legal Clinic Director David Bol­ mates of our Seagoville institution. property. Mixed or combined commun­ ton noted the school's "continuing and This type of service is still experimental ity property would be subject to joint intense interest in community prob­ in our field and we will be interested management. lems." The new undertaking, he said, is in learning from time to time how it The two principal purposes of the an extension of this concern "reaching is working out. We would hope some bill are the equalization of the legal into the very prison walls to extend the d.ay to put to use elsewhere the expe­ rights of the spouses in community hand of justice to indigent persons who rience gained. . . . " property and the protection of third are confined for criminal violations." The Seagoville prison is one of the parties dealing with spouses. It is anticipated that the prisoners' most modern penal institutions in the The family district court bill would legal problems will include domestic country. It is a minimum security facil­ ponvert the special domestic relations relations, economic difficulties, and ity which contains 450 persons careful­ and juvenile courts into family district criminal problems related to their con­ ly selected for their rehabilitation po­ courts with the same jurisdiction as victions, sentences, or outstanding de­ tential. other district courts. The present sys­ tainers from state or local jurisdictions. Student leaders of the Legal Clinic tem often results in multiple suits. For No restriction has been placed on the this semester are Fred M. Knapp Jr., example, a wife may have to sue for type of cases which may he presented, Student Chief Counsel; David G. Elkins, divorce in the domestic relations court even if they should involve complaints Student Deputy Chief Counsel for Civil and bring a separate suit in district or actions against the prison authorities. Cases; Howard S. Merriell, Student court to recover community property Actions against the prison authorities, Chief Counsel for Criminal Matters; conveyed by the husband to a third said the warden, are "part of the legal and Paula D. Carter, Student Research party. This measure also is sponsored rights of an individual." He has ar- Attorney. by the State Bar of Texas. 6 THE BRIEF Grant Approved For New Library Plans are moving forward in the School of Law's remodeling and build­ ing program. The Department of Health, Educa­ tion, and Welfare has approved a grant and loan in the amounts requested by the School for the remodeling of Flor­ ence Hall and the building of a new library. The grant is for $1,218,062.00, and the loan for $1,522,579.00. The total estimated cost of the two projects is $3,654,188.00. This includes $409,299.00 for remodeling Florence and $3,244,889.00 for the new library. The difference between the funds to come from HEW and the amount needed is $913,547.00. This is to be raised locally. L ibrary Models Shown: Third yea,r archiu.:ctural students from Texas A&M Uni• versity explain models of proposed interior de igT1s for the School of law's new library buil,ling. The class of 45 students and their professors brought six sets of Law Journals Tap 25 models, drawing , and sli:des to ctemo11 strate different a1 proaches t.hat might be First Year Students taken. The cla ' project w

Dean Charles 0. Galvin presented a las Plaintiff's Attorneys Association on neutral member and chairman of a spe­ talk on "Americans - A Law-Loving "Law and Poverty." cial Arbitration Board to hear and ren­ People" recently for the Dallas College Professor Baernstein has been in­ der a final and binding decision in the Lecture Series. He spoke on "G.C.M. vited to become a consultant to the Of­ dispute between Braniff Airways, Inc. 22730-25 Years Later" at the South­ fice of Economic Opportunity for Up­ and the Brotherhood of Railway and western Legal Foundation's annual Oil ward Bound, a program to prepare sec­ Steamship Clerks. and Gas Institute. ondary school students for college. The issues submitted. to arbitration Dean Galvin also presented a lecture * * * * are the wage rates for some 3,600 em­ for the University College's Nature of Professors Robert Bernstein and ployees, the length of the Union con­ Man course and a discussion of the George Pelletier presented a discussion tract, retroactivity of any increases United States Supreme Court for an in debate form on church tax exemption granted, and whether an allowance shall Ursuline Academy history class. for the Clergy Dialogue, a local discus­ be paid by the company for uniforms. The Dean attended the mid-winter sion group set up under the auspices of During this academic year Professor meeting of the Section on Taxation of the National Conference of Christians Ray has assumed· a primary role in the American Bar Association in New and Jews. connection with the Law School Fund. Orleans. He has been appointed to the In the interim between semesters He recently addressed the San Antonio Citizens Study Committee for Law En­ Professor Pelletier served as guest lec­ Bar Association of which John E. Banks, forcement of the North Central Texas turer on comparative criminal justice a 1952 graduate of this Law School, is Council of Governments. at the U.S. Army Judge Ad.vacate Gen­ president. * * * * eral's School, Charlottesville, Va. He * * * * Professor Joseph W. McKnight is co-authored a pamphlet, "Legal Control Professor Howard Taubenfeld spoke presently on sabbatical leave in Eng­ of the Populace in Subversive Warfare," on legal rules affecting outer space ac­ land and Scotland where is visiting and used at the JAG School. tivity at the American Bar Association's teaching at a number of academic insti­ * * * * mid-year meeting in Houston. He also tutions. He is a visiting member of the Professor Richard Cosway spoke to spoke recently at the Doctor's Club of faculty of the Law Department of the the Dallas County Bar Association in Dallas on legal problems involved in London School of Economics and Polit­ January on "Contracting Under the human transplants and in experiment­ ical Science (University of London) Uniform Commercial Code." He is sche­ ing with new drugs on human beings. and during the spring will give 16 lec­ duled to address the same group in May Professor Taubenfeld has been named tures on Comparative Constitutional on "Products Liability Under the Uni­ a consultant to the Department of Law at the University of Edinburgh. form Commercial Code." State on international problems of wea­ He is also associated with the Institute * * * * ther modification. of Advanced Legal Studies and has ac­ Professor Paul Larsen gave a paper * * * * cepted invitations to give occasional lec­ entitled "Environmental Problems: Air Professor Charles Webster has been tures and hold seminars for about eight Rights and Air Space" for the Environ­ reappointed to the Texas Council on other law faculties. mental Engineering Conference held by Administration of Justice. The IS-mem­ Professor McKnight's article on the the American Society of Civil Engineers ber Council, made up of judges, prac­ State Bar-sponsored revision of Texas in Dallas in February. ticing attorneys, and professors, re­ matrimonial property law appeared in views budget requests of the Texas * * * * Youth Council and Department of Cor­ the December issue of the Texas Bar Professor Richard Hemingway is Journal. writing a text book on basic oil and gas rections and proposes new legislation in * * * * law for the West Publishing Company the area of the adult and juvenile cor­ Professor Charles J. Morris attended rection laws. Hornbook Series. The book was begun the February meeting of the Council of * * * * the American Bar Association Labor in August and has a November, 1968, Professor Arthur L. Harding served Law Section held in Freeport, Grand manuscript deadline. during the past year as a member of He is the author of an article, "Con­ Bahama. One of the chief topics at the the Committee on Supreme Court De­ meeting was the Section-sponsored dominium and the Texas Act," which cisions of the Association of American book on the National Labor Relations appeared in a recent issue of the Texas Law Schools. Working in cooperation Bar Journal. Act for which Professor Morris is gen­ with the Chief Justice, this committee eral editor. * * * * furnishes to the news media an objec­ * * * * Professor Lawrence Lee spent two tive analysis of each case set for argu­ Professors Morris and Lennart V. Lar- weeks in Central America in March ment before the United States Supreme son will serve as members of the facul­ making a preliminary survey of Central Court. The purpose is to enable news ty for a Short Course on Labor Law to American common market problems. writers to make a better-informed pres­ be held here June 12-17 under the He was recently named to a Panel on entation of the nature and implications sponsorship of the Southwestern Legal Law and Development of the American of each decision. Foundation. Society of International Law. * * * * * * * * * * * * Professor Clyde Emery is making a Professors Saul Baernstein and Wal- Professor Roy R. Ray has been named tour of the Orient during March. He ter Steele Jr. spoke recently to the Dal- by the National Mediation Board as the (Continued on page 8) 8 THE BRIEF Faculty Notes Service in selecting federal hearing ex­ ammers. Spring Calendar (Continued from page 7) He also serves the ABA's Adminis­ March 30----Visitation by Supreme hopes to visit in various countries with trative Law Section as chairman of the Court of Texas. Coffee, Lawyers Inn. former members of the Academy of Housing and Urban Development Com­ Address, Florence Hall. Luncheon and group discussions, Umphrey Lee Stu­ American Law held here each year mittee and a member of the nominating committee. He is chairman of the Or­ dent Center and Lawyers Inn. * * * * dinances and Administrative Regula­ April 7-9-Southern Method.ist Uni­ Professor David Bolton discussed tions Committee of the Local Govern­ versity Assembly, Kilgore Community "Legal Services and the Poor" at a ment Law Section. Inn, Kilgore, Texas. Subject: the pres­ February meeting of the Naval Reserve * * * * sures, options, and challenges facing Law Company. This is a special Naval Professor Harvey L. Davis participat­ the School of Law. Reserve Unit composed of practicing ed in a panel discussion on proposed April 12-Robert Gerald Storey Lec­ attorneys, judges and governmental consumer laws held in February in Aus­ ture to be presented by Paul G. Kauper, lawyers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. tin by the Texas Consumer Association. Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law, Professor Bolton also spoke in Feb­ Professor Davis also spoke recently University of Michigan Law School, ruary to the Dallas County Bar Associ­ on "Perils of Borrowing" for a group Grand Ballroom, Umphrey Lee Student ation on "Is the War on Poverty a taking a Home Management Course in Center. Threat to the Legal Profession?" and Dallas under the sponsorship of the April 24-Law Week begins. New to the Unitarian Universalist Fellow­ Texas A&M Extension Service. Barristers announced. ship on "Mental Responsibility and * * * * April 27-Mock Trial. Crime." He spoke at the Southwest Med­ Miss Hibernia Turbeville, law librar­ April 28-Moot Court finals. ical School on "The Poor and the Law." ian, has been awarded one of 20 fel­ April 29-Law Week honors banquet, * * * * lowships to attend a workshop of law dance, Statler Hilton Hotel. Professor John L. FitzGerald has ac­ libra1ians to be held August 8-31 at the cepted an appointment to teach equity New York University School of Law. Advocates Name Officers during the coming summer session at The purpose of the workshop is to give New officers of the Advocates of Hastings College of the Law, a branch a refresher course to professionals in Lawyers Inn are Jack C. Myers, chief of the University of California system the field, to provide new insights, and justice; Roy R. And,erson, associate located at San Francisco. to suggest re-evaluation of methods and justice; Gary P. Amaon, clerk; Henry Professor FitzGerald was one of concepts. Membership in the workshop W. Grenley, first year representative; three who presented a legal seminar for is limited to experienced professional Roger L. McRoberts, second year rep­ the recent Urban Environmental Plan­ law school librarians. resentative; Charles F. Guittard, third ning Workshop held on the campus by * * * * year representative. the Institute of Urban Studies of SMU. Professor William J. Flittie will serve During the past year Professor Fitz­ as a member of the faculty for a Short International Law Society Gerald served for the third consecutive Course on Oil and Gas Law and Taxa­ The Southern Methodist University year as chairman of the American Bar tion to be held May 29-June 9 at the International Law Society has been ac-1 Association Administrative Law Sec­ International Oil and Gas Educational cepted as a member of the Association tion's public interest panel of attorneys Center, a division of the Southwestern of Student International Law Societies in the Southwest to assist the U.S. Civil Legal Foundation. in Washington, D.C.

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