Fall 1983 – Issue 30 - Stanford Lawyer - Stanford University

~o~ 4'-VVcYi~STATE OF THE SCHOOLJohn Hart ElyRichard E. Lang Professor and DeanJudge Betty Fletcher and Judge Tom Griesa '58 (first row), ChristopherSeaver '79 and Nelson Ishiyama '72 (second row)t's been a good year at StanfordI Law School," Dean Ely reported.Considerable strength has beenadded to the faculty and staff;. thestudent body is lively on severalfronts; and generally the School"feels good about itself."However, two problems are ofgreat concern, he said. One is thecost of housing in the area and theimpact this could have on facultyrecruitment. The second is thepressure on student aid funds, whichare essential in maintaining a diversestudent body, both ethnically and interms of social class. Student aid is,in fact, "our only real emergency," hesaid, a subject he expanded uponlater in the session.The faculty, Dean Ely observed, isfirst rate- "I don't think person forperson there is a better faculty in thecountry." Despite the School's smallsize, it embraces a broad spectrum ofopinion in an atmosphere not ofdivision but rather of "enormoustrust" - rare attributes which theDean is pledged to cultivate.Four new professors-includingMyron Scholes, the finance theoristwhose appointment was announcedearlier this year [see Stanford Lawyer,Winter 1982/83]-are joining thepermanent faculty, he said. Theyare: Professor Robert Gordon, aHarvard-trained legal historian whowas here last year as a visitingprofessor; Associate Professor EllenBorgersen, previously a partner withMorrison & Foerster in San Francisco;and Associate ProfessorThomas J. Campbell, who holdsdegrees in both economics and lawand was, until July 1, director of theFederal Trade Commission's Bureauof Competition. "The School's abilityto recruit excellent new faculty,"observed Dean Ely, "is obviouslyvery good."The Dean was also pleased toannounce that two more endowedchairs have been filled this year, bothwith distinguished members of thepresent faculty. The first is theKenneth and Harle MontgomeryProfessorship of Clinical LegalEducation, to which Paul Brest-anoriginator of the experimental CurriculumB and "one of the centerpiecesof the faculty as a scholar,teacher, and citizen" - has beenappointed second holder (followingAnthony Amsterdam). The secondis the new Ralph M. ParsonsProfessorship of Law and Business,which will have as its first holderKenneth E. Scott, an alumnus of theSchool ('56) with broad businessexperience as a practicing corporatelawyer, state banking regulator, andbank general counsel. A third chair,also new, was filled earlier in theyear: The Robert E. Paradise Professorshipof Natural ResourcesLaw, for which oil-and-gas law expertHoward Williams was, DeanEly noted, "the perfect choice."Turning to curricular developments,Dean Ely reported that theSchool's program in Law and Businesshas made enormous progress,which Professor Scott and ProfessorRonald Gilson would describe laterin the program. The Dean also drew30Stanford Lawyer Fall 1983