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Law School Campaign Donor Recognition Gallery STANFORD LAW SCHOOL CAMPAIGN DONOR RECOGNITION GALLERY [ r tanford Law School is pleased to announce the creation of a unique recognition piece S in honor of the many contributors to the Campaign for Stanford Law School, which raised over $115 million for the school. The Campaign Donor Recognition Gallery will acknowledge alumni and friends who made gifts between 1994 and 1999. It will be installed in the summer of 2000 and will be located in the James Irvine Gallery in the law school's Crown Quadrangle. Please visit the gallery during Alumni Weekend, October 19 to 22, 2000. SHAKING THE FOUNDATIONS Stanford Law School THE WEST COAST March 3 to 5, 2000 CONFERENCE ON Thank You to Our Generous PROGRESSIVE and Many Donors LAWYERING We Couldn't Have Done It Without You! COSPONSORS Environmental Law Society Earl & M. Rosalind Hoover Anonymous Jewish Law Students Association Kristina Kalka BarBri Latino Law Students Association Suzanne McKechnie Klahr Paul & Iris Brest Law Association Julie Lythcott-Haims Lieff, Cabraser. Heimann & Bernstein National Lawyers' Guild, Carole Wedel Sellars Office of the Dean, Stanford Law School Stanford Chapter Stanford Law School Special Fund Outlaw STANFORD LAW SCHOOL OFFICES Public Interest Law Students Association Office of Public Interest Programs LOCAL PUBLIC INTEREST Stanford Journal of Legal Studies Office of Public Policy & Externships LAW FIRMS & Office of Student Affairs COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS STANFORD UNIVERSITY DONORS Brancart & Brancart American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native STANFORD LAW SCHOOL FACULTY East Palo Alto Community Law Project Hawaiian Program Barbara Babcock & Bill Koski Peninsula Foundation Graduate Student Center Tom Grey William Lazier Romines & Eichner Haas Center for Public Service Nadia Bishop Francis McGovern Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & True Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Cultural Center Jim Blacksher Miguel Mendez Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger Office of Residential Education Greg Bonfiglio Tom Nolan Sigman, Lewis & Feinberg Offices of the Dean of Students, President, Jim Davis Maude Pervere Provost, and Vice Provost for Student Affairs John Donohue Robert Rabin STANFORD LAW SCHOOL George Fisher Deborah Rhode Student Groups INDIVIOUALS Marc Franklin William Simon Asian & Pacific Islander Law Students Association Anonymous William Gould IV Abraham Sofaer Black Law Students Association Dan Chiplock Janet Halley Michael Wald East Palo Alto Community Law Project Student Allen Drexel Pam Karlan Robert Weisberg Steering Committee Jennifer Drobac Michael Klausner ~- summer 2 0 0 0 FEATURES LI FE I NTH E 10 BIG LEAGUES Seattle Mariners President Chuck Armstrong '67 helped transform a floundering franchise into a perennial contender with World Series aspirations. Professor William Gould, whose deci­ sion as NLRB chair led to the end of baseball's 1994 players strike, uses pro sports to teach lessons in law. Carmen Policy, preserver of the 4gers' dynasty, brings his savvy and skill to the upstart Cleveland Browns. WNBA rookie Kate Paye '02 balances basketball with law school study. FIN ALLY, A 22 LITTLE PEACE Diplomacy is a messy, maddening business-even when you're pretending. NEWS BRIEFS Prominent Internet scholar 5 Lawrence Lessig joins faculty ProfessorJohn Merryman 6 receives elegant honor 2L student spurs post 7 office probe 0 E PA R T M E N TS From the Dean 2 Classmates 25 In Memoriam 58 Law Gatherings 61 Professors in Print 63 Cover photo by Bell Vnn HOll/ell ~TANFORD LAWYfR 1 Celebrating an Exciting School Year, Inside and Out BY KATHLEEN M SULLIVAN TANFORD LAW SCHOOL has had a dies, Jeff Strnad on the taxation of oil exploration spectacular year in the eyes ofthe outside and development, Peggy Radin on cybercontracting, world. In March, Stanford was ranked the Marcus Cole on bankruptcy and intellectual proper­ No.2 law school in the United States in ty, and Pam Karlan on civil rights actions and state the u.s. News & World Report survey of sovereign immunity. best graduate schools (see page 6). This The Wednesday lunch sessions also featured pre­ is the first time that Stanford has occupied sentations by our visiting professors: Yale's Akhil Amar the No.2 ranking alone Oastyear Stanford on the bill of rights, Yale's Jed Rubenfeld on consti­ and Harvard shared that position). In tutional theory, Duke's Amy Chua on free market April, the school successfully recruited the nation's democracy in the developing world, Duke's Francis leading cyberlaw expert, Lawrence Lessig, away McGovern on mass tort litigation, Michigan's Becky from Harvard Law School, a hire widely described Eisenberg on biotechnology, Phleger ProfessorJames by academics and practitioners as a "coup" (see page Blacksher on voting rights litigation, and Caracas­ 5). InJune, six Stanford Law School alumni and fac­ based Rogelio Perez Perdomo ulty-a striking total-were named to the National on the globalization of the LawJournal's list of"100 Most Influential Lawyers" Venezuelan oil industry. in the nation (see page 6). It is immensely gratify­ Ifyou happened by the fac­ ing to have this external validation of the school's ulty lounge on Monday or standing in legal academia and practice, and to Friday afternoons, you might strengthen our already excellent reputation in the have found professors gathered eyes of prospective students. in workshops on papers by our Less visible to the outside world, but at the heart own faculty-for example, on ofthe law school's enterprise, was the rich and vibrant Lawrence Friedman's book The intellectual life that flourished inside our walls over Horizontal Society or Richard the past year. In addition to our extensive regular Banks's work on the racial di­ teaching curriculum, over 100 speakers-faculty and mensions ofpolicing-or by vis­ guests alike-discussed their research in a rich menu itors from other faculties-for ofworkshops, seminars, and colloquia. example, Yale's Reva Siegel on If you walked by the faculty lounge on any women's right to vote, Chicago'S Cass Sunstein on ir­ Wednesday at lunchtime, you would have heard a rationality in jury damage deliberations, Virginia's member ofthe faculty presenting a research work in Dan Ortiz on idealism in legal theory, NYU's Larry progress to a lively audience of colleagues, visiting Kramer on federalism, or Virginia's Anne Coughlin scholars, and students. This spring alone, you might on the taboos involved in studying pornography law. have heard our professors Paul Goldstein on inter­ Beyond these two general workshop series, the national copyright, Deborah Hensler on mass torts law school hosted no less than five specialized collo­ and multidistrict litigation, Richard Ford on racial cul­ quia, attracting distinguished academics, policy mak­ tures, Richard Craswell on contract law and reme- ers, and practitioners to present their work. Ifyou 2 SLIMMER 2000 wandered into our modernized basement might have heard our professors Mark Coca-Cola Foundation, we also launched seminar room on Monday afternoons, you Kelman on market discrimination and an occasional Rule of Law speaker series. would have found Professor Barton "Buzz" group identity and Marcus Cole on the Erik Jensen, director of research in the Thompson conducting the Environmental natural law jurisprudence of Malcolm X, International Law, Business & Policy pro­ and Natural Resources Law and Policy or guests such as Harvard's Duncan gram, spearheads the series in collabora­ Workshop. Among the speakers there, Kennedy and NYU's Liam Murphy and tion with Stanford's Institute for you might have heard Undersecretary of Daniel Shaviro on other topics concern­ International Studies. Speakers included the Interior David Hayes '78 on urban ing wealth, income, and equality. the Vice President and General Counsel sprawl, Boalt Hall's new deanJohn Dwyer In the law and economics seminar, you of the World Bank; the former Solicitor on air pollution, UCLNs Jody Freeman might have heard Yale's Alan Schwartz dis­ General of Hong Kong; and the Vice on regulatory negotiation in environmen­ cussing recontracting, or Chicago's David President for Global Policy ofthe Carnegie tal law, or American'sJim Salzman on mar­ Weisbach talking about anti-tax shelter Endowment for International Peace. ketable environmental permits. rules, or Harvard's ChristineJolls describ­ Also this year, members ofour facul­ Walking by Room 190 on Tuesday ing the market for federal judicial clerks. ty launched programs that allowed stu­ afternoons, you would have found profes­ Credit for this flourishing intellectu­ dents to hear from practitioners involved sorsJanetAlexander and Deborah Hensler allife goes to all of my colleagues who so in cutting-edge lawyering. Bob Weisberg, coleading the Interdisciplinary Seminar energetically organized, led and attended who directs our new criminal justice pro­ on Conflict and Dispute Resolution. these events, but especially to Professor gram, brought death penalty experts Barry There, you might have heard Stanford and Academic Associate Dean Richard Scheck and Peter Neufeld to the law school economist and Nobel prize winner Craswell, who was the impresario ofthe law to talk about their work on proving the Kenneth Arrow on the economic per­ school's intellectual life this year. He not innocence of death row inmates. And spective on conflict resolution, Stanford only organized and hosted the two gener­ Professor Pam Karlan produced a series psychology Professor Lee Ross on psy­ al workshop series, but read every paper called "Lawyer Heroes" that featured such chological barriers to conflict resolution, with care and developed a new art form: the distinguished practitioners as William or Stanford business professors Michael morning voice mail message to the facul­ Coleman, former U.S. Secretary of Morris or Robert Wilson on dispute res­ ty succinctly summarizing the paper to be Transportation and a partner at O'Melveny olution in business. presented and its contribution to its field. Myers, and Denise Williams, an associate If you were upstairs on the breeze­ As if all these scholarly forums were justice ofthe Vermont Supreme Court and way on Tuesday afternoons, you would not enough, we introduced several other a former legal services lawyer.
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