Fall 1983 – Issue 30 - Stanford Lawyer - Stanford University

New Faculty:Gordon,Borgersen,and CampbellThe Stanford Law facultywas enriched this fall bythe addition of three newfaculty members - alegal historian, a formerlaw firm partner, and aformer high governmentofficial.Robert WatsonGordonProfessor Gordon wasinvited to join the facultyafter a year as a visitingprofessor. An expert inlegal history, Gordonwas previously a member(since 1977) of theUniversity of Wisconsinlaw faculty.He earned both hisAB ('67) and JD ('71)degrees at Harvard,where he served (in1968) as assistant to thedirector of the Institute ofPOlitics at the John F.Kennedy School of Government.GordonBetween college andlaw school Gordon wasa reporter for the Louisville,Kentucky Courier­Journal and for News-week magazine.After graduation fromlaw school he worked fora year in the office of theMassachusetts attorneygeneral, then joining (in1972) the faculty of theState University of NewYork at Buffalo.His many writings includea book in progresson "the contribution ofleading Americanacademic and practicinglawyers between 1870and 1910 to the constructionof modernideas of the rule of law."Gordon's teachingsubjects at Stanford areHistory of American Law,Business Associations,and Administrative Law.Gordon is a director ofthe American Society forLegal History and a trusteeof the Law and SocietyAssociation (forwhich he chairs theCommittee on the JamesWillard Hurst Prize).He is also a memberof the Selden SocietyI (for the history of English--=~",--.., law) and of the Conferencefor Critical LegalStudies.Gordon is in addition aconsultant for the NationalEndowment for theHumanities, the AmericanJudicature Society,and the Federal TradeCommission.Ellen BorgersenAssociate ProfessorBorgersen comes toStanford from the SanFrancisco firm of Morrison& Foerster, whereshe concentrated oncommercial litigation.A graduate of AntiochCollege (SA '72), sheearned her law degreeat the University of(continued)Schmidt (left) with Dean ElyHelmut Schmidt Meets with StudentsHelmut Schmidt, former chancellor of West Germany,visited the School in April for an informal talkwith students.An overflow crowd listened attentively as the Europeanstatesman explained the strong desire of hiscountry for detente and arms control.At the same time, he endorsed the presence inEurope of conventional forces, saying that "Russiashould never doubt American resolve to defend itsallies."Schmidt generally refrained from criticizing currentU.S. policies. But in answer to a question about SanSalvador, he observed that "there's much too muchtalk in the U.S. about Central America," which, hepointed out, is a small area far from our borders. Wewould be better advised, he said, to focus on helpingour large neighbor, Mexico, to "stabilize itseconomic and social conditions."Schmidt, who was in the Bay Area on a privatevisit, appeared at the Law School at the invitation ofDavid Lempert, president of the student-run StanfordLaw Forum.Other guests of the Forum last year were formerCIA director Stansfield Turner and a parade of presidentialhopefuls from the past and present. Thepoliticians - Eugene McCarthy, Pete McCloskey,Harold Stassen, Ed Clark, Gary Hart, and MorrisUdall - along with several political scientists, werepart of a Forum series designed, according to Lempert,"to present differing views on the directionsAmerica should be taking in the 1980s and to commenton the issues and intrigues which will surroundthe 1984 presidential contest."•Fall 1983 Stanford Lawyer 47