et al.: Law Alumni Journal Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 1 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 1, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 LAW ALUMNI DAY MAY 12 'law Alumni journal VOLUME I NUMBER 2 WINTER 1966 Editor: Barbara Kron Zimmerman, '56 TABLE OF CONTENTS Associate Editor: James D. Evans, Jr. SAILER: Americans Help Meet Needs of Legal Education Design Consultant: in Developing African Countries 1 Lou Day by Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Alumni Advisory Committee: Robert V. Massey, '31 TWO NEW FACULTY MEMBERS 2 J. Barton Harrison, '56 FORMER PROFESSOR JOHN E. MULDER DIES 2 The Law Alumni Journal is published PROFESSOR SCHWARTZ'S OBSERVATIONS ON three times a year by the Law Alumni Society of the University of Pennsylvania LEGAL EDUCATION IN ENGLAND 3 for the information of its members. OWEN J. ROBERTS MEMORIAL LECTURE AND Please address all communications and ANNUAL ORDER OF THE COIF DINNER 4 manuscripts to: The Editor SEVEN NEW MEMBERS ADDED TO Law Alumni Journal LAW SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD 5 University of Pennsylvania Law School JUDGE GERALD F. FLOOD, '24, DIES 5 Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Streets LAWYERS URGED TO READ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 PROFESSOR MISHKIN'S ARTICLE 5 PAINTINGS EXHIBITED IN LAW SCHOOL 6 DEAN FORDHAM URGES STATE LEGISLATURES TO ASSUME MORE DYNAMIC ROLES 7 CovER is a section of a Japanese wood­ block print recently acquired by the RENOVATION TO START IN FALL 8 Biddle Law Library which depicts Japanese laws and ordinances. See LEGAL METHOD PROGRAM EXPANDED 10 page 11 for more information. PROGRESS ON NEW A.B.A. SECTION 10 W. WILSON WHITE MEMORIAL FUND ESTABLISHED 11 GOWEN FELLOWSHIP A WARDED FOR STUDY PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES 11 George Quay cover Herbert Leff page 3 COVER STORY 11 Frank Ross page 4, 6 ALUMNI NOTES 12-15 Jules Schick page 10 Edgar S. Brinker page 12 PLACEMENT BULLETIN: CORPORATE LEGAL U. S. Government POSITIONS AVAILABLE 17 Photographer page 14 Printed at the University of Pennsylvania LET'S EXAMINE THE STATE OF THE printing office. CONSCIENCE OF THE BAR 17 https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol1/iss2/1 2 et al.: Law Alumni Journal *SAILER: Americans Help Meet Needs of Legal Education in Developing African Countries by Dean Jefferson B. Fordham In January, 1962, eight American law school men when he took an important position in the Office of the were participants in a conference on legal education in Legal Adviser in the State Department. The rest of the Africa, which was held at the University College, Legon, group is still intact and is now serving as the Executive near Accra, Ghana. The Faculty of Law there was the Committee of a considerably enlarged advisory com­ host for the meeting. The Americans were Assistant mittee, which has both law teacher and non-law Dean JohnS. Bainbridge of Columbia University School teacher representation. The Pennsylvania Dean has had of Law; Dean Jefferson B. Fordham, University of the privilege of serving as chairman of the group from Pennsylvania Law School; Professor Albert H. Garret­ its inception. son, New York University Law School; Professor W. SAILER operates on the basis of very simple ideas. Burnett Harvey, University of Michigan Law School; It is considered extremely important that the developing Professor James C. N. Paul, University of Pennsylvania nations in Africa prosecute their development within a framework of law which will at once serve as a stabiliz­ Law School; Professor Max Rheinstein, University of ing influence and afford the flexibility for individual and Chicago Law School; Assistant Dean Charles Runyon, community development. It is essential to the mainte­ Yale University Law School ; and Professor Arthur E. nance of the legal order that there be a ministry of justice, Sutherland, Jr., Harvard University Law School. as it were, composed of duly qualified lawyers, judges The experience gave the Amer.icans a much better and administrators. There must be good formal legal appreciation of the need for faculties of law in develop­ education for the people who are to constitute the min­ ing African nations and of problems to be overcome in istry of justice. It is better to have this education provided the effort to meet those needs. One thing was conspicu­ in a person's own country than abroad since legal educa­ ously clear and that was that the countries concerned tion in one's own society can be related to the living did not have the requisite personnel to man law faculties societal context and that without ignoring the larger fully. There was obvious need for so-called expatriate world of the law. All this relates to the final proposition law teachers and outside financial assistance, a need that there should be good legal education in a particular which would continue for the considerable period it developing country. would take to Africanize the law faculties with teachers The SAILER approach is to assist our friends in legal of the requisite qualifications. education in African nations and to do so quietly and Not long after the Legon Conference three of the unobtrusively. The major method from the outset has American participants, Mr. Bainbridge, Mr. Paul and been to recruit Americans, preferably experienced law Mr. Runyon, took the initiative in seeking Ford Founda­ teachers, to serve for a time on African law faculties. tion funds to aid in the staffing of African institutions There are instances of service of this character limited of legal education and research. The Ford Foundation to one year, but the preference is for tours of duty of at responded with a substantial grant, and there came into least two years and this for obvious reasons. existence what is now widely known as the *SAILER It is significant that SAILER does not pay the full Program (Staffing of African Institutions of Legal Edu­ salary of a SAILER teacher. What it does is "top off" in cation and Research) . The program actually got under­ terms of American levels of compensation, the salaries way in 1963 and has been favored with two very available within the African institutional scale of com­ gratifying additional grants from the Ford Foundation pensation. This factor of institutional financial commit­ designed to carry the work into 1969. ment is significant. It makes the teacher the African SAILER is a very informal affair. The Institute of school's man. SAILER provides a number of other bene­ International Education in New York City is the very fits, including a modest allocation for books and research helpful and effective administrative unit for the program. assistance. From the outset Mr. John Bainbridge has been the Proj­ The most recent Ford grant enables SAILER to assist ect Director. Initially, the program was prosecuted under African law faculties in the upbuilding of their library the guidance of an advisory committee consisting of the collections. Actually, a good deal of help in the develop­ eight Americans who attended the Legon Conference. ment of law libraries has already been furnished in one Mr. Paul ceased to be a member of the committee way or another, principally through the vigorous and re­ when he undertook a major assignment within the sourceful efforts of the SAILER library consultant, SAILER area of interest, namely, the deanship of the Professor Albert Blaustein, Law Librarian of Rutgers Law School of the University of Haile Selassie I in Addis University in Camden, New Jersey. Ababa, Ethiopia. Mr. Runyon was lost to the committee continued on page 16 1 Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 3 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 1, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 TWO NEW FACULTY MEMBERS STEPHEN R. GOLDSTEIN JOHN COSTONIS FORMER CLERK TO JUSTICE GOLDBERG FORMER FULBRIGHT FELLOW Stephen R. Goldstein, a 1962 summa cum laude John Costonis, a 1965 honor graduate of Co­ graduate of the Law School, has been named to the lumbia Law School, was newly named to the faculty this faculty as Assistant Professor. In Law School he was year as Assistant Professor. He is teaching the first year Research Editor of the Law Review. He graduated first course in Property and the upper class courses of Public in his class with one of the highest overall averages ever International Law. received and is a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Costonis, originally from Boston, received Mr. Goldstein, a native of Philadelphia, also his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1959. He graduated summa cum laude from the College of Liberal also received his Jaw degree magna cum laude and was Arts of the University of Pennsylvania in 1959 where graduated first in his third year class. He is 28 years he majored in political science and was named to Phi old and married to the former Maureen Needham. Beta Kappa. Before entering Jaw school, Mr. Costonis studied After graduation from Law School, Mr. Goldstein international relations at the University of Rome, Italy practiced for two years with the Philadelphia law firm during the academic year 1959-60 under a Fulbright of Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, primarily in the Fellowship. He then served as a Lieutenant in the Army area of commercial law, before being appointed Jaw Intelligence Corps from 1960-62. clerk for Justice Arthur Goldberg for the Supreme Court While in Jaw school his interest in International term 1964-65. Upon completion of this clerkship, Mr. Affairs was both recognized and further stimulated when Goldstein returned to private practice, but found that he was named a Fellow of the prestigious International after that experience he was more interested in the life Fellows Program of the School of International Studies of a teacher.