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UC Hastings Scholarship Repository Hastings Alumni Publications 6-1-1996 Hastings Community (Spring 1996) 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 1996)" (1996). Hastings Alumni Publications. 94. http://repository.uchastings.edu/alumni_mag/94 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. HASTINGS 1 8 - 16- LETTER TO ALUMNI CAMPUS NOTES THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL Dean Mary Kay Kane reports the Supreme Court Justice FORUM RECEPTION Co llege's long-range plans . Anthony M . Kennedy Photo scrapbook of the celebration calks with students. following the Forum . 3 ENDOWED CHAIR The 198 McAllister Building has only one Chair. You can help. - 10- - 18- MATHEW O. TOBRINER FACULTY NOTES MEMORIAL LECTURER Catch up on the many activities DANIEL SCHORR: THE FIRST of our facult y. AMENDMENT UNDER STRESS S.F . Law in the Works and You Could Be a Star! 4 Scholarly Journal Honors THE HASTINGS-JAPAN Prof. Rudolf Schlesinger. CONNECTION: PROF. DAN FENNO HENDERSON Prof. Warren Shattuck A visit wi th Hastings Prof. Henderson, Remembered at Hastings by facult y, the only full-time law professor in th e family and former students. Uni ted Scates who is allowed to practice - 12- before th e bar in Japan. Also , a glimpse at THE FOURTH ANNUAL In Memoriam: Mark Foster (,81), whose Oregon-based ATTORNEYS GENERAL FORUM William Bailey Lockhart. practice focuses on transpacific law . Former U.S. Attorneys General discuss controversies aris ing from the funding of the Legal Services Corporation , incidents at Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the legacy of the O. J. Simpson trial. 6 THE TRADITION OF GIVING - 21 Meet a few of those who have made CLASS NOTES giving to Hastings a family tradition. Catch up on your classmates' activities. Have we heard from you lately ? ON THE COVER: The Fourth Annual Attorneys General Forum in action-starting top left , clockwise- I) Attorney General i icholas Katzenbach; 2) Attorney General icholas Katzenbach, Harvard Law Prof. Arthur HASTINGS COLLEGE Miller, Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, and OF THE LAW Attorne)' General Edtvin Meese; 3) Attorney General Dick Thornburgh; 4) Attorney General UN IVERS ITY OF CA LI FORN IA Edwin Meese. Highlights from the Forum are on page 12. Cover photographs: Jeff Munroe . HA TING S . HE LEGAL PROFESSION AND LEGAL EDUCATION by which the Board can review and evaluate the progress being are under serious attack. The image of lawyers as made and direct additional steps to be taken to ensure our suc profiteers driven by their desire for wealth, rather than cess in achieving our objectives. We truly are poised to enter dedicated to helping to improve society and protect the various the future with a program that will continue providing the rights and legitimate interests of all of our citizens, is, unfortu high quality education that will allow our graduates to meet nately, one that often appears in the public eye. And Congress the changing needs of society for legal advice and counsel. and state legislatures have entered the debate, with numerous There is not sufficient space here to detail the full scope of far-reaching reform proposals being pursued, and some even the Hastings 2000 Plan. To give you some idea of its breadth enacted. Legal educators are being attacked within the Bar and seriousness, set out below are the seven areas we identified, itself as being out of touch with what is needed to train the with their attached goals. This comprises the foundation of lawyers of tomorrow. The apex of these attacks is the recent our plan. consent decree between the American Bar Association (which controls national law school accreditation) and the HASTINGS 2000: Department of Justice in an antitrust suit charging that several GOALS AND OBJECTIVES accrediting rules were not directed toward ensuring law school quality, but instead were more in the nature of "guild» provi sions designed to protect the perquisites of law faculties. All Hastings is committed to: this has occurred at a time when applications to law schools AREA # 1. CURRICULUM: PROFESSIONALISM IN are declining nationally and graduates are discovering a drasti THE 21 ST CENTURY cally shrunken job market. Whatever your view on these occurrences, the one thing that we all should be able to agree A. Pursuing legal education that emphasizes moral and ethical lawyering so that its students will become upon is that these developments demand that we examine responsible lawyers, judges, and policy makers and what we are doing at the College and engage in serious plan inspire the trust and confidence of the public. ning to ensure that in fact we are ready to meet the challenges of the future in a responsible fashion. B. Having a curriculum that is theoretical and challenging Fortunately, our Board of Directors identified this need (ensuring critiques of law and policy in all substantive areas); practical (including skills training); and focussed even before matters reached today's crisis proportions and (offering study in pre-planned and selected areas). Hastings embarked on a broad-ranging self-study and planning process involving faculty, students, staff, and alumni. That C. Emphasizing cogent and persuasive writing. study was completed last June with the adoption of Hastings 2000: A Long-Range Plan. In that plan, the Board identified D. Developing its curriculum to reflect the need for our mission and approved a set of goals and objectives for the lawyers to be prepared to meet demographic, economic, social, and technological changes. College to pursue as it moves into the next century. Various strategies also were identified by which we can implement the E. Exploring the possibility of developing appropriate plan's elements. Finally, an annual process was put into place graduate programs . ONE' 1I t\ ~ T I l,:; AREA # 2. FACULTY: IDENTITY AND RECOGNITION D. Upgrading its facilitie at the Tower both to improve the li ving condition and to enhance interaction A. R cruiting a faculty that is of exceptional quality in among the students. clas room teaching, cholarship, and public service, and that reflect a wide range of backgrounds, experience, E. Fostering opportunities for increased interaction and and intellectual perspectives. communication among faculty, tudents, taff, and the bench and bar 0 as to achieve its educational mi sion B. Maintaining the highest quality instruction in a climate of mutual re pect. and teaching . Enhancing its national reputation for scholarship. AREA # 6 . QUALITY OF LIFE: SUPPORT SERVICES D. Encourag ing faculty participation in public A . Evaluating and developing its library collection and ervice endeavors. services to support its curricular and research needs. B. Striving to be a leader in the use of technology in the classroom, in the production of educational and AREA # 3 . STUDENT BODY: COMPOSITION informational materials, and in research and AND QUALITY information exchanges. A. electing and graduating a diverse student body that C. Increasing the range of support and services for its how promise of making significant contributions to students and graduates in their search for employment. the profession and to the public at large. B. Recognizing that an important objective of legal AREA # 7. ALUMNI AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS education is to prepare its students to pass the AND FUND RAISING: REPUTATION bar examination. AND OUTREACH AREA # 4 . STAFF: PROFESSIONALISM A. Enhancing the quality and number of opportunities for alumni participation in the life of the College. AND COMMUNITY A . Providing a working environment that fosters B. Establishing a significant endowment, planned-giving, collegiality, cooperation, and communication and substantial annual giving. among departments and individual staff members C. Offering high quality continuing legal education so as to have a staff that is collegial, service-oriented, programs to alumni and other members of the bar. and re ponsive to the needs of the faculty, students, and other staff. D. Strengthening its national reputation through B. Maintaining a high quality and professional staff to increased public relation initiatives. meet the needs of the College. E. Continuing to be a responsible member of its surrounding community. AREA # S. QUALITY OF LIFE: CAMPUS ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY As you read this statement of our aspirations, you can be A. triving to develop a campus- like environment in its proud to be part of such a dynamic and committed institution. C ivic Center setting. Whatever the winds of change, Hastings is sure to remain at the fo refront of legal education. Any alum who would like to B. Providing all student, faculty, and staff with a safe and clean working environment. read the entire plan simply can drop me a line and I will be glad to send it to you. C. Upgrading and modernizing its classroom to enhance the educational environment. ~;a:6k~ Dean , Hastings Co llege of the Law May 1996 T wo· Il ASTI NGS --- AMk_ ~ I E'RE MOST GRATEFUL FOR ONE CHAIR, BUT OUR PROFESSORS DESERVE MORE. W So do our students. We're talking about "endowed chairs." They don't recline. Or rock. Or swivel. But they do provide us with the most sturdy, long-lasting guarantee of quality that money can buy. Fact is, the entire Hastings College of Law, 55 full-time professors strong, houses only one fully endowed faculty chair. Which means we may soon find some of our best law teachers and researchers taking seats at other universities where chairs are more abundant. That's why we need your support. You, your law firm, or your class can purchase a chair.