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University of Chicago Law School Chicago Unbound The nivU ersity of Chicago Law School Record Law School Publications Summer 6-1-1997 Law School Record, vol. 43, no. 1 (Summer 1997) Law School Record Editors Follow this and additional works at: http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/lawschoolrecord Recommended Citation Law School Record Editors, "Law School Record, vol. 43, no. 1 (Summer 1997)" (1997). The University of Chicago Law School Record. Book 81. http://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/lawschoolrecord/81 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at Chicago Unbound. It has been accepted for inclusion in The University of Chicago Law School Record by an authorized administrator of Chicago Unbound. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HE FUND �beL SCHO Scholarship Support The Mandel Legal Aid Clinic Student]ournals Moot Court Competition Student Activities and Programs Mentoring Programs And many more .... These needs and others are supported by annual gifts to the Fund for the Law School. Please use the enclosed envelope to make your THE LAW SCHOOL contribution. Your gift means more this year than ever as the Law THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO School strives to provide new opportunities for today's students. CONTENTS Summer 1997 F E A T u R E s One Final Note By Holly Davis '76 2 Editor Dan McGeehan E-Mail: [email protected] The Art of law and Economics Assistant Dean for Alumni Relations Holly C. Davis '76 By William Landes 4 E-Mail: [email protected] Credits Photography: Ariana Almajan '99: 18 (top). Tom Cogill: 35. Dupont Photographers, 39, 40. 1997 Matthew Gilson: cover, 11-12, 16. David Joel, 18 Groundbreaking (below). Peter Kiar: 4. Soo Lim '99: 20. Bob Work begins on the Arthur Kane Center for Clinical Legal Education 11 McCormack, 33. Dan McGeehan: 17, 19,21. Paul McGrath: 25. Marc PoKempner, 15 (right). Marilyn Thomas: 22. Randy Tunnell: 2. The University of Chicago Law School Record The Law School Record (ISSN 0529-097X) is pub D E p A R T M E N T s lished twice a year, in spring and fall, for graduates, students, and friends of The University of Chicago Law School News 14 Law School, 1111 East 60th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637. Copyright © 1997 by The University of Chicago Law School. Changes of Alumni News 22 address should be sent to the Office of Alumni Relations at the Law School. Telephone (773) 702- 7527. Copies of the Law School Record are avail able from William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 1285 Main Class Notes 24 Street, Buffalo, New York 14209, to whom inquiries should be addressed. Current issues are also avail able on subscription from William S. Hein & Co. In Memoriam 46 VOLUME 43, SUMMER 1997 ONE FINAL NOTE by Holly Davis '76 after I became assistant dean, we this space in The Law Schoolestablished.Record as a forum Sometimefor the dean to address alumni in an unstructured setting. Over the interven ing years, Deans Stone, Currie, and Baird each used this space as the print medium's version of a home page: a place where a per sonal voice can directly speak to alumni about a variety of timely issues. Since it has proven itself a worthy forum for that purpose, we recently discussed expanding the format by permitting assistant deans to contribute their voices as well. I chose to inaugurate this new format by con tributing a few words myself. However, it is with irony that I do so in what is my last issue of The Law School Record. In the nearly five decades since Dean Edward Levi created the position of an assis from the Law School. I wasn't able to meet Richard Badger and Judith Wright give tant dean with the responsibility for alumni Sophonisba Breckinridge '04, but I did know insight and structure to the administrative relations and development, there have been Judge Samuel Epstein 'IS, Bernard Nath '21, challenges of the Law School. only four incumbents. That remarkable fact and Ines Catron Hoffman '28. In fact, I have There are more than 7,000 graduates of speaks volumes to the cohesion and conti been able to discuss literature with Elmer the Law School and I cannot begin to list nuity of the Law School's alumni communi Gertz '30, art with Burt Kanter '52, and, yes, the individuals who have been important to ty. Because of the dedication and enthusiasm neckties with Walter Blum '4l. the success of our alumni programs: the of so many graduates, it has been an excit I benefited from the dedication of a core reunion chairs, the Fund for the Law School ing and rewarding job. group of faculty, who in addition to their ded chairs, our mentors, and the hosts of dozens Often, in my capacity as assistant dean of ication to scholarship, have committed them of alumni events across the country among alumni relations, I felt I benefited the most. selves to the Law School: Bernard Meltzer, others. Of this group one name stands out, After all, as major law schools go, the Bill Landes, Mary Becker, Randy Picker, and Herbert B. Fried, who tirelessly and selfless University of Chicago is still a young (or, at Dan Fischel. But among faculty members ly dedicated himself to the advancement of least, adolescent) institution. And because its with whom I have worked, two names stand the Law School and to counseling many of 1& history is so brief, I have enjoyed the honor of out in their total commitment to the welfare its graduates, including myself. Herb, may knowing graduates spanning nearly the entire of the Law School, the University, and our more of us aspire to the high standards you period of its existence. I have met those who students and graduates: Walter Blum (with have established. were students under James Parker Hall, the whom my relationship was sometimes taxing But most rewarding perhaps is that I Law School's first full-time dean. For an arti but always rewarding) and Richard Epstein, have attended every entering students din cle in this publication, I interviewed Earl who, like Professor Blum, enthusiastically ner and every graduating students dinner Dickerson, a member of the Class of 1919 and serves as teacher, mentor, confidant, and since 1979, and I have personally seen men the first African American to receive a J.D. champion to us all. My longtime colleagues and women transform from anxious students to mature professionals. Holly Davis is the assistant dean for alumni relations. Indeed, we graduates of the Law School are a heterogeneous lot: opinionated across a 2 THE LAW SCHOOL RECORD wide spectrum of political, economic, and social views. We are articulate, charming, gen we may view the Law School from different interdisciplinary research, loyal and support erous, analytical, loyal, and loyally opposed. perspectives, while challenging or defending ive alumni, and a general aura of good feel Above all, we recognize the Law School as a its greatness, we remain unable to deny its ing, our Law School is flourishing." He con defining moment in our lives. And because of significance in our lives. We share, above all, tinued by saying, "If the Law School is, this intensity and diversity, the alumni have a keen, almost proprietary, interest in the indeed, in an era of greatness, it is our alum played an important and enriching role in Law School's continued well being. ni who have made that possible. On behalf continuing to shape the institution. I can only urge you to continue your sup of your Law School, I thank you." Alumni voices bring focus to the Law port. Alumni participation, enthusiasm, and I share that sentiment and I want to add School through numerous channels. For even criticism are vital to the life of any edu my thanks as well. Thank you for making our cational institution. And the these as example, by constituting .. Visiting perhaps greater eighteen years enriching and, well, Committee, alumni test the Law School the institution, the greater that participa as fun as they were. I also wish to thank against their own experiences as students tion, enthusiasm, and criticism need to be. I Gerhard Casper for having enough faith in and practicing professionals. By serving on hope you continue to fill those needs. You me to offer a young woman barely out of law reunion committees, you remind us of our are the ones who hold those of us who run school this rewarding position. And to thank history and commitment to continuing the Law School today to the same high stan Geoffrey Stone, for the guidance and vision excellence. By enthusiastically participating dards dictated by our predecessors. he shared with me. I wish to thank David in the mentoring program, you assure the Ten years ago, in the pages of this maga Currie, for the quiet dignity and wisdom he quality of future practitioners by lending zine, Geoffrey Stone wrote: "The University displayed in his months as acting dean. And help and support to today's law students. of Chicago Law School is in an era of gen to thank Douglas Baird for the fresh Surely no two graduates see the Law uine greatness. With a young, dynamic, and approaches he brought to the position. School in quite the same way. But ask any extraordinary faculty, an outstanding stu Thank you all very much. I look forward alumnus and you will hear consistently a dent body, a firm commitment to rigorous as a fellow alumnus-to seeing many of you commitment to this institution.