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et al.: Penn Law Journal: Family Album UN I VERSITY OF P ENNSYLVANIA LAW ALUMNI S OCI ETY Penn Law Journal W INTER VOLUME XXXI NuMBER 2 page 34 The Many Faces Legal Heroes: Lewis Hall ofPenn Law and the Construction ofa Usable Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 Legal Past 1 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 The Penn Law journal is published twice THE UNIVERSITY OF To err is human, to forgive divine. each year by the Law Alumni Society of PENNSYLVANIA LAw ScHOOL Every effort has been made to ensure the University of Pennsylvania Law accuracy in this journal. We offer our School. Inquiries and corrections should Martin W. Shell, Assistant Dean for sincere apologies for any typographical be directed to the Editor, University of Development and Alumni errors or omissions. Please forward Pennsylvania Law School, 3400 Chestnut any corrections to the attention of Street, Philadelphia, PA 19!04-6204. Marjorie Buckmaster, Director of Carol G. Weener, Associate Director Communications of Development, PuBLISHER Elizabeth C. Brown, Director, Law University of Pennsylvania Law School, Carol G. Weener G '86 Annual Giving 3400 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Lucille Caniglia, Administrative Assistant Pennsylvania 19!04-6204. EDITOR B. Sally Carroll, Financial Administrator Telephone (215) 898.9438. Susan PerloffCW '65 Reshma Kotecha-Tanna, Administrative Fax (215) 573 .2020. Thank You. CoNTRIBUTORS Assistant Michele Cabot '93 Melissa Pierce, Administrative Assistant Hon. Richard B. Klein Mary Ellen Siciliano, Administrative Assistant AssiSTANT EDITORS Jacquelyn R. Villone, Administrative Thomas Trujillo W '98 Assistant PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS Carol G. Weener, Associate Director of Greg Benson pages 5, 6, 17, 28, 29, 30, Development 32,46,47,49 Tommy Leonardi pages 3, 14 The University ofPennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, foculty and staffftom diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis ofrace, sex, sexual orientation, religion, color, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam Era Veteran or disabled veteran in the administration ofeducational policies, programs or activities: admissions policies; scholarship and Loan awards; athletic, or other University administered programs or employment. Questions or complaints regarding this policy should be directed to Anita jenious, Executive Director, Office ofAffirmative Action, IIJJ Blockley Hall, Philadelphia, PA I9I04-602I or (2I5) 898.6993 (Voice) or (2I5) 898-7803 (TDD). https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol31/iss2/1 2 et al.: Penn Law Journal: Family Album Contents ALUMNI WEEKEND '96 2 FROM THE DEAN 3 Colin S. Diver SYMPOSIUM 4 DocKET Institute for Law and Economics Rutenberg Lecture 10 THE MANY FACES OF PENN LAW 13 FACULTY EXCERPTS 34 Sarah Barringer Gordon FACULTY NoTEs 41 A Class at the University of Pennsylvania LAw ALUMNI SociETY 46 Law School by Mary Franklin. Collection ofthe Honorable MorrisS. Arnold. Photo, courtesy ALUMNI BRIEFS 52 of Law: The Art of Jus rice by Morris L. Cohen. Published by Hugh Later Levin Associates. IN MEMORIAM 60 Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 3 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 join your classmates, Meet old friends, Catch up on news and Celebrate your Reunion! Saturday, May I8, I996 Sunday, May I9, I996 9:00- 11:00 am 10:00 am REUNION REGISTRATION BRUNCH • Complimentary Continental Breakfast Sponsored by the Law Alumni Society PENN LAW ALUMNI WEEKEND • Pick up your costumes for the The Law School Courtyard Parade of Classes • Registration packets 11:00 am • Tour the Law School REUNION CELEBRATIONS The Law School, Sansom Street for the Classes of' 31 and '41 FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY between 34th and 36th Streets MAY 17, 18, 19 Noon 10:00 am REUNION CELEBRATION ALUMNI/ FACULTY EXCHANGE for the Class of '36 The Lawyer as Entrepreneur Moderator: Professor Charles W. Mooney, Jr. Monday, May 20, I996 Panelists: Betsy Z. Cohen '66, 11:45 am William Hangley '66, PaulS. Levy '72, REUNION CELEBRATION Robert I. Toll '66 for the Class of' 46 Room T-I4 5, The Law School Noon - 3:00 pm PICNIC AND PARADE Hotel Reservations Law School Tent in Superblock Plaza Blocks of rooms for Penn alumni • Picnic with your family, classmates, have been reserved by Fran A. Engle bach, and other alumni. cw'62 at Travel Now, Inc. • Our short program includes the Call (215) 988-0848 or (8oo) 220-1963. Law Alumni Society's Annual Meeting and presentation of the Law On-Campus Housing School's Distinguished Service Rooms are available in one of the Award "The Goat." high-rise residence halls. For reservations please call the Summer Conference 1:45pm Housing Office at (215) 898-3547. PARADE OF CLASSES -to the College Green (Join the The University OMNIBUS will be sent Parade, the first ever for Penn Law, and to you under separate cover. It contains a show off our costume and colors.) complete description of activities across the campus during Reunion Weekend '96. Evening A formal invitation will follow for REUNION CELEBRATIONS individual reunion classes. For further for the Classes of'51, '56, '61, '66, '71, information please call Carol Weener '76, '81, '86, and '91. at (215) 898-9438. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol31/iss2/1 4 et al.: Penn Law Journal: Family Album From the Dean SouL-SEARCHING The themes that dominate the skyrocketing, the competition for the national soul-searching I witnessed last best students has become intense. So has fall will recur in our own academic the competition for the best faculty, for self-inquiry: the challenge of reconciling research funding, for charitable giving, rising expectations with the reality of for student employment opportunities. diminishing resources; the reluctance to Our performance may not be subject to surrender comfort and privilege in the the daily discipline of the stock market, face of implacable economic forces; the but it is subject to very powerful and struggle to preserve community in an increasingly visible proxies, like rankings increasingly heterogeneous society. I and ratings. We must master the arts of spent a good deal of time thinking about marketing, competitive pricing, cus these issues last fall. As we undertake tomer service, and quality control, or the the process of self-inquiry that lies ahead competitive forces sweeping education this spring, we at the Law School will will master us. Dean Colin S. Diver be preoccupied with these same issues. 3· Celebrating diversity within r. Excelling in an age of limited community. Like nations, educational Last month I returned, refreshed and resources. Powerful forces in the general institutions have become highly diverse revitalized, from a semester-long economy and the market for legal places, racially, ethnically, culturally, sabbatical leave. My travels took me to services prevent law schools from look ideologically. At Penn Law School, we three nations, France, Italy, and Israel, ing to tuition increases or enrollment have viewed our diversity as a source of each in its own way immersed in public increases to fund their ambitions. We strength, a means of assuring that the soul-searching. In Israel, the assassina must curtail growth of expenditures, ideas we produce and transmit are tested tion of Prime Minister Rabin has increase efficiency of instruction, in the crucible of debate and relevancy. unleashed an agonized wave of scape research, and administration, and find But diversity can also be a source of goating and self-criticism, while France new revenue sources. We must special weakness, by dividing people into hostile and Italy struggle openly and painfully ize, doing only those things at which we and distrustful camps. We must find with economic pressures and waves can excel. Unless we were to double or ways to harness the energies of all our of immigration that seem to threaten triple in size-to me, an unthinkable faculty, staff, and students in service of their cultural and national self-image. option-we at Penn must accept that the Law School's common goals, while Soul-searching seems to be the we cannot be good at everything. We still liberating the creativity that only a order of the day for all of us, whether on must therefore not try to do-or be diverse community can generate. a personal, organizational, or societal everything. In the months ahead, you will be level. At the University of Pennsylvania, 2. Learning to master competitive hearing much more about this process of we have just embarked on an ambi forces. Like many national economies, soul-searching that we have undertaken. tious strategic planning program under we academics have led lives relatively Many alumni will be asked for their the leadership of President Judith sheltered from competitive forces. No ideas about how the Law School can Rodin. Every school and department longer. With law student debt burdens become even stronger in the years ahead, of the University will engage in a prob and I hope that every one of you will ing search of its own soul, with a view reflect on that question and offer me to maximizing the University's strengths your insights. and eliminating its weaknesses. Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 5 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 31, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 Symposium ~SITING FACULTY audience. In addition, she is serving her Reicher received a bachelor of second term on the board of the Law and economics from Monash University; by Michele Cabot 93 * Society Association, where she is also a an LL.B. from Monash University, member of the executive committee. Australia; an LL.M. from the University With new areas of the law constantly Fineman graduated from the University of Melbourne; and an LL.M. from emerging and playing a pivotal role, of Chicago Law School and clerked for Harvard University School of Law.