5*> STATE i * * 5 STATE UT**® ?*> STATE ^ n te n r ô » ?*> STATE OHIO SEAIE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW ALUMNI ASSOCIATION WINTER 1986-1987 ?*> STATE T • H • E OHIO SPJE UNIVERSITY LAW RECORD OSU Law Record is published by OSU College of Law Officers OSU College of Law Alumni the College of Law, The Ohio State Francis X. Beytagh, Dean Association Officers University, as part of its Alumni Albert L Clovis, Associate Dean Charles J. Tyburski, '64 President Services program. John P. Henderson, Associate Dean Betsey Brewster Case, '68, Editor Ruth M. Kessler, Director President-elect Jo L Busser, '81 of the Law Library Claire M. Ball, '66, Secretary Contributors David Goldberger, Director OSU College of Law National Joanne Wharton Murphy of Clinical Programs Council Executive Committee Patricia Howard Joanne W. Murphy, Assistant Dean Jacob E. Davis, II, '63, Chair John Meyer John Meyer, Director of Development Robert M. Duncan, '52, Vice-chair Send address changes and Betsey Brewster Case, '68 Alumnote information to: Thomas E. Cavendish, '53 Mrs. Patricia Howard Charles J. Tyburski, '64 Alumni Services Francis X. Beytagh OSU College of Law Joanne Wharton Murphy, '58, 1659 North High Street Secretary Columbus, Ohio 43210 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dean's Desk ................................................................................... 1 Centennial Campaign.....................................................................2 Alumni Honored ............................................................................ 5 Alumni Return ................................................................................6 R eunions................................................ 7 Law Forum Lectures.....................................................................12 Libraiy News................................................................................. 14 Stanley Professorship ................................................................. 16 New & Visiting Faculty ............................................................... 18 Faculty Colloquia..........................................................................22 Faculty News.................................................................................24 Annual Report...............................................................................29 Student N ew s ............................................................................... 39 Alumni Serve the Bench ............................................................. 48 A lu m n otes.................................................................................... 49 DEAN'S DESK 1 DEAN'S DESK our land-locked vistas with programs in and relating to a number of foreign et me briefly share with you countries. At the same time we need some of the important to take better advantage of our L directions in which the situation in the capital city of a major College of Law will likely be going in state and as an integral part of one of the near future. I do so, not so much the countiys most comprehensive as part of anything so formal as a universities. With large numbers of long-range plan, but as a logical lawyers going it alone, we must also consequence of movement already strengthen our well-established and underway. And I shall attempt to highly regarded clinical programs. In avoid mention of the extensive doing so we should seek an effective fundraising and planning efforts that integration of theory and practice, as we are engaged in currently to part of a developing new improve our physical facility methodology. And we should dramatically. Our faculty is composed of a endeavor to train the "whole lawyer" Our Law Library is one of the law talented group of teachers and — the planner and the dispute school's greatest strengths. It needs scholars. As new chairs and resolver, the public servant along constant nurturing. Our recently professorships are funded, we will with the private practitioner, the selected new Director, Alan Holoch, recognize a growing number of our thinker as well as the doer. has on his agenda the enhancement most accomplished colleagues by As Ohio's premier law school, we of acquisitions, the enlargement of supporting them in the manner of must stake out a claim as one of the staff, the diversification of service, outstanding law schools across the nation's great centers of legal and the achievement of country. We must not only keep our education. The concerns of the legal distinctiveness as well as greater best, but give thoughtful, time- profession, and of society as it depth in the collection. He is an consuming attention to attracting interacts with lawyers, must be ours. experienced professional with the excellent prospects to join us. Our enlarged and modernized innovative ideas regarding the uses We should look less for persons who building must be more than that —it of developing technology. The aim of will replicate ourselves than for must be a law center where all of our partnership is one of the those who will be at the cutting the constituencies involved with country's most advanced legal edge of matters of consequence in lawyering mingle and better information centers, one that will the future. We should never forget, themselves and each other. In this respond to the needs of the bench however, that inspired classroom undertaking, our more than 6,000 and bar as well as faculty and teaching must rival scholarship and alumni must occupy a central role. students. service as the proper business of an You are our shareholders, so to The student body at Ohio State outstanding law faculty. speak. We must serve you well, and has historically been a strong one. In The academic program needs to in an even more direct way, serve, as a time of declining applications reflect the directions in which legal well as we can, those soon-to-be across the country, our goal is to education has been moving, while at alumni whom we call students. We improve the quality of our students. the same time possessing a must set the example for them so We are taking steps to diversify our character natural to our past history, that the professionalism of lawyers is student body while reducing overall existing strengths, and future history. foremost on their minds as they size slightly. A higher percentage of In this latter regard we should graduate and begin to serve the our students are likely to come from endeavor more to lead than to public. And through services, (and perhaps return to). States other follow others, asking what we can conferences, programs, commentary, than Ohio, so long as we'do not turn do that we ought to do with our and cooperative ventures, we must away well-qualified Ohio residents. resources, so long as we can do it work with you and learn from each Enhanced scholarship assistance well. We should seek to acquire a other. will attract more blue-chippers, reputation so that others will say — The 1990's can be the College of whose input in class and "if it's such-and-such an area of Law's greatest decade. All of us, extracurricularly will be notable and concentration, or this-or-that type working together, must take steps noticeable. What our graduates do of program that interests you, Ohio now to be able to stake out that will likely change as well, State is where you'll find it done as claim as we approach our responsible in part to efforts to well as (or better than) anywhere centennial year of 1991. All of us, assist them in adapting to a else." In an increasingly inter­ and the society we seek to serve, changing job market for new lawyers. dependent world we need to expand will be the better for it. 2 CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN CO LLEGE PREPARES FOR ITS SECOND CENTURY Centennial Campaign Kicks-Off xcitement! Anticipation! The exhilaration of E challenge. These are emotions that normally charge the atmosphere in Ohio Stadium on football Saturdays. On the evening of September 26, these same emotions Co-chairs Norm were shared at the other end of the Shibley, Tom OSU campus as law alumni, friends, Cavendish, and Jack Van Fossen kicking off faculty, students, and guests the Campaign at the gathered to kick-off the College's Septem ber 26 dinner. Centennial Campaign. Twinkling lights and candle-light dining in the Library temporarily transformed the College; the goal for those assembled was to transform Sallie and Jack Davis, Ohio State permanently into one of National Council Chair, chatting with the nation's premiere law schools. OSU President This was the exciting challenge as Jennings at the Kick- the College kicked-off its $11.5 o ff dinner. million Centennial Campaign. Dean Francis X. Beytagh welcomed guests to the historic occasion. He shared his visions for a dynamic future for the College of Law and outlined the tasks embraced by the Campaign goals. Thomas E. aware of the enormous undertaking and renovated Law Building were Cavendish, '53, Co-chair of the it is initiating. Private giving of this unveiled. Frank Elmer, of Trott & Centennial Campaign, reported early magnitude challenges fundamental Bean Architects, explained library gifts and pledges of $5.3 million, attitudes associated with public and office expansion possibilities nearly 50% of goal. The kick-off put institutions. "The law school's based on their preliminary the Campaign in excellent field campaign is in step with change," architectural study. The evening position. was the message from Co-chair concluded with dessert, coffee, and An important objective of the Jack Van Fossen, ’63. "Public talk about the future.