Summer 1999 – Issue 55 - Stanford Lawyer - Stanford University

TIMOTHY WIRTHEOWIN MEESERALPH NADERSeen and Heard"SSpeakers and events at Stanford Law Schooltated in the jargon of Congress is directly involvedthe business world, with supervising the Attorneythe economy is a General. Congress unconstitutionallyholds the Attorneywholly owned subsidiaryof the environment. General accountable regardingWhen the environment is an ongoing investigation. Thefinally forced to file for bankruptcyunder Chapter 11 unfortunate mix of politics,Independent Counsel Act is anbecause its resource base has policy, and criminal investigationand prosecution."been polluted, degraded, dissipated,irretrievably compromised,then the economy goes Attorney General, at "Crime andEdwin Meese, Former U.S.down to bankruptcy with it, Punishment in Washington,and so does everything else." D.C.," a Federalist Society event.Timothy Wirth, former u.s.Senator and current president ofthe United Nations Foundation,at "Environmental Policy andInternational Cooperation: AFramework for the 21 st Century,"the Robert Minge Brown Lecture."The Independent CounselAct is unconstitutional, anoutright violation of the separationof powers, because"There is not enough interest inissues of what one might call'indiscriminate injustice,' suchas the almost uniform restrictionof access to justice, no matterwhat your color and gender andbackground is, unless you havesubstantial means, unless youhave' Inc.' after your name."Ralph N(uk-r, ke)'n()te s!Jcak"rat "Shaking th" F()ul1dati()l1.\: TheWest Coast Conference on ProgressiveLawyering. ""I believe that what got lost inthe shuffle sometime betweenWatergate and today was thatthis extraordinary mechanismcalled the special prosecutor ...was meant to be special-meantto be used very cautiously."Archibald Cox, Watergatespecial prosecutor, at "The Futureof the Independent Counsel,"sponsored by the Law societies ofSan Francisco and Silicon Valley,and the Law SchooL."Representative Dan Coates,the military's point person onthis, said to me, 'You can'texpect straight men to takeshowers with gay men.' So Isaid, 'Look, I'm 53 years old.I haven't been getting drycleaned all of these years­I've been taking showers withARCHIBALD COXBARNEY FRANKstraight men all of my life.Nothing happens.' The wholenotion that something wouldhappen is just nonsensical."Barney Frank, U.S. Representative(D-Mass.), atapanel discussion about the military's"don't ask, don't tell" policytoward gays and Lesbians, sponsoredby Outlaw.(i) http://dont.stanford.edu/soLomon/soLomon.htmCampaign Continues Final PushWell into its fifth year, the Campaign for Stanford Law Sdwol attracts new supportTo date, the Campaign has garneredover $88 million in contributionsand pledges. Severalrecent gifts include:• $2 million from William and GertrudeSaunders to establish the William W.Saunders and Gertrude H. SaundersProfessorship in Law. The search for a facultychairholder is underway.• A $1.25-million Olin Foundation grant insupport of faculty scholarship through theJohn M. Olin Program in Law andEconomics, which is directed by JosephineScott Crocker Professor of Law andEconomics A. Mitchell Polinsky.• A $500,000 gift from The Coca-ColaFoundation and The Coca-Cola Companyto benefit the Law School's ExecutiveEducation Programs. (This gift is in additionto Coca-Cola's $500,000 earlierpledge to the Transnational BusinessLaw Program.)• From October 14 to 17, the Law Schoolwill hold the capstone event of theCampaign: Celebration '99 AlumniWeekend. With a full roster ofdistinguishedspeakers and special events, thisgrand occasion will recognize, amongothers, Stanford Law School's donors andvolunteers, as well as all of its judges andjustices. (For more details, see the backcover of this issue.)