Penn Law Journal: Family Album

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Contents
ALUMNI WEEKEND '96 2
FROM THE DEAN 3
Colin S. Diver
SYMPOSIUM 4
DocKET
Institute for Law and Economics Rutenberg Lecture 10
THE MANY FACES OF PENN LAW 13
FACULTY EXCERPTS 34
Sarah Barringer Gordon
FACULTY NoTEs 41
A Class at the University of Pennsylvania LAw ALUMNI SociETY 46
Law School by Mary Franklin. Collection oft he
Honorable MorrisS. Arnold. Photo, courtesy
ALUMNI BRIEFS 52
of Law: The Art of Jus rice by Morris L. Cohen.
Published by Hugh Later Levin Associates.
IN MEMORIAM 60
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join your classmates, Meet old friends, Catch up on news and
Celebrate your Reunion!
Saturday, May I8, I996 Sunday, May I9, I996
9:00- 11:00 am 10:00 am
REUNION REGISTRATION BRUNCH
• Complimentary Continental Breakfast Sponsored by the Law Alumni Society
PENN LAW ALUMNI WEEKEND • Pick up your costumes for the The Law School Courtyard
Parade of Classes
• Registration packets 11:00 am
• Tour the Law School REUNION CELEBRATIONS
The Law School, Sansom Street for the Classes of' 31 and '41
FRIDAY, SATURDAY, SUNDAY between 34th and 36th Streets
MAY 17, 18, 19 Noon
10:00 am REUNION CELEBRATION
ALUMNI/FACULTY EXCHANGE for the Class of '36
The Lawyer as Entrepreneur
Moderator: Professor Charles W.
Mooney, Jr. Monday, May 20, I996
Panelists: Betsy Z. Cohen '66,
11:45 am
William Hangley '66, PaulS. Levy '72,
REUNION CELEBRATION
Robert I. Toll '66
for the Class of' 46
Room T-I4 5, The Law School
Noon - 3:00 pm
PICNIC AND PARADE Hotel Reservations
Law School Tent in Superblock Plaza
Blocks of rooms for Penn alumni
• Picnic with your family, classmates,
have been reserved by Fran A. Engle bach,
and other alumni.
cw'62 at Travel Now, Inc.
• Our short program includes the
Call [phone] or (8oo) 220-1963.
Law Alumni Society's Annual
Meeting and presentation of the Law On-Campus Housing
School's Distinguished Service Rooms are available in one of the
Award "The Goat." high-rise residence halls. For reservations
please call the Summer Conference
Housing Office at [phone].
1:45pm
PARADE OF CLASSES
-to the College Green (Join the The University OMNIBUS will be sent
Parade, the first ever for Penn Law, and to you under separate cover. It contains a
show off our costume and colors.) complete description of activities across
the campus during Reunion Weekend '96.
Evening A formal invitation will follow for
REUNION CELEBRATIONS individual reunion classes. For further
for the Classes of'51, '56, '61, '66, '71,
information please call Carol Weener
'76, '81, '86, and '91.
at [phone].
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From the Dean
SouL-SEARCHING
The themes that dominate the skyrocketing, the competition for the
national soul-searching I witnessed last best students has become intense. So has
fall will recur in our own academic the competition for the best faculty, for
self-inquiry: the challenge of reconciling research funding, for charitable giving,
rising expectations with the reality of for student employment opportunities.
diminishing resources; the reluctance to Our performance may not be subject to
surrender comfort and privilege in the the daily discipline of the stock market,
face of implacable economic forces; the but it is subject to very powerful and
struggle to preserve community in an increasingly visible proxies, like rankings
increasingly heterogeneous society. I and ratings. We must master the arts of
spent a good deal of time thinking about marketing, competitive pricing, cus
these issues last fall. As we undertake tomer service, and quality control, or the
the process of self-inquiry that lies ahead competitive forces sweeping education
this spring, we at the Law School will will master us.
Dean Colin S. Diver be preoccupied with these same issues. 3· Celebrating diversity within
r. Excelling in an age of limited community. Like nations, educational
Last month I returned, refreshed and resources. Powerful forces in the general institutions have become highly diverse
revitalized, from a semester-long economy and the market for legal places, racially, ethnically, culturally,
sabbatical leave. My travels took me to services prevent law schools from look ideologically. At Penn Law School, we
three nations, France, Italy, and Israel, ing to tuition increases or enrollment have viewed our diversity as a source of
each in its own way immersed in public increases to fund their ambitions. We strength, a means of assuring that the
soul-searching. In Israel, the assassina must curtail growth of expenditures, ideas we produce and transmit are tested
tion of Prime Minister Rabin has increase efficiency of instruction, in the crucible of debate and relevancy.
unleashed an agonized wave of scape research, and administration, and find But diversity can also be a source of
goating and self-criticism, while France new revenue sources. We must special weakness, by dividing people into hostile
and Italy struggle openly and painfully ize, doing only those things at which we and distrustful camps. We must find
with economic pressures and waves can excel. Unless we were to double or ways to harness the energies of all our
of immigration that seem to threaten triple in size-to me, an unthinkable faculty, staff, and students in service of
their cultural and national self-image. option-we at Penn must accept that the Law School's common goals, while
Soul-searching seems to be the we cannot be good at everything. We still liberating the creativity that only a
order of the day for all of us, whether on must therefore not try to do-or be diverse community can generate.
a personal, organizational, or societal everything. In the months ahead, you will be
level. At the University of Pennsylvania, 2. Learning to master competitive hearing much more about this process of
we have just embarked on an ambi forces. Like many national economies, soul-searching that we have undertaken.
tious strategic planning program under we academics have led lives relatively Many alumni will be asked for their
the leadership of President Judith sheltered from competitive forces. No ideas about how the Law School can
Rodin. Every school and department longer. With law student debt burdens become even stronger in the years ahead,
of the University will engage in a prob and I hope that every one of you will
ing search of its own soul, with a view reflect on that question and offer me
to maximizing the University's strengths your insights.
and eliminating its weaknesses.
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~SITING
FACULTY audience. In addition, she is serving her Reicher received a bachelor of
second term on the board of the Law and economics from Monash University;
by Michele Cabot 93 * Society Association, where she is also a an LL.B. from Monash University,
member of the executive committee. Australia; an LL.M. from the University
With new areas of the law constantly Fineman graduated from the University of Melbourne; and an LL.M. from
emerging and playing a pivotal role, of Chicago Law School and clerked for Harvard University School of Law. He
lawyers and law students face enormous Luther M. Swygert of the Seventh has also been a visiting professor at
challenges. Penn Law School meets these Circuit Court of Appeals. She has also Rutgers Law School in Camden,
challenges by bringing together a taught at the University ofWisconsin University of Florida College of Law,
dynamic and highly regarded group of Law School. Loyola Law School in Los Angeles,
visiting professors to provide students University of Pittsburgh School ofLaw
with insight into some cutting-edge HARRY REICHER, a visiting professor and New York Law School.
areas of the law. from Monash University, Melbourne, In addition to teaching, Reicher
Australia, taught law of the sea last term maintains an active legal practice in
MARTHA ALBERTSON FINEMAN' and currently teaches international law Australia in the tax area and consults
a visiting professor from Columbia and the Middle East conflict. Reicher with law firms and corporations in New
University School of Law, taught family says Penn Law students "are fortunate in York on matters of international law and
law first semester and reaches a seminar having a rich and varied array of subjects international and Australian taxation.
on reproductive issues this spring. from which to choose." Recently Reicher was named to the
Rather than the traditional family law His course on the recent conflict in board of arbitrators for NASDAQ and as
class, however, Fineman's classes focus the Middle East through the perspective the representative to the United Nations
on such contemporary issues as the role of the recent peace agreements has been for the Agudath Israel World
of the state in defining the marriage rela popular among students. Of law stu Organization, an international Jewish
tionship and the secular and contempo dents' increased interest in international Orthodox organization.
rary justification for marriage. Fineman law and in his course in particular,
is enjoying her experience at Penn, not Reicher says, "Students are increasingly JoNATHAN M. FREDMAN, associate
ing in particular "Penn's terrific and aware that what happens on an interna general counsel of the Central
impressive group of women faculty, such tional level can't be divorced from the Intelligence Agency, is a visiting lecturer
as Susan Sturm, Barbara Woodhouse, domestic level. Students realize that as part of the CIA's officer-in-residence
Heidi Hurd, Sarah Gordon, Lani international law really does have an program. He teaches national security
Guinier and Regina Austin." impact on daily lives." law during the fall term and foreign
Next year, Fineman will be the first Reicher just published the first case intelligence during the spring term.
woman to hold the Pritzker book in Australia on international law, Returning to school for the first time
Distinguished Visiting Professorship at derived exclusively from Australian since graduating from Columbia Uni
Northwestern University School ofLaw. source materials. The book is being used versity School of Law in 1983, Fredman
She is the author of numerous books in Australian law schools as the premier has found it to be a big adjustment,
and articles on family law, the regulation case book. but also an enormous opportunity.
of intimacy and feminism. Fineman is He says, "At the CIA you are work
currently working on two books focus ing under constant pressure. You are
ing on feminist legal theory, one for a acting as a counselor in the full sense of
popular audience and one for a scholarly the word, but you don't have an oppor-
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tunity to think about the larger issues,
the ramifications for choices, or to
understand what you are doing and
why. Penn has given me a tremendous
opportunity to reflect."
Fred man graduated magna cum
laude from Princeton University and as a
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from
Columbia Law School. He clerked for
U.S. District Judge Charles M. Metzner
of the Southern District of New York.
Fredman practiced tax law at Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison,
New York. In 1987 he joined the CIA,
where he has served as special assistant
to the director of central intelligence,
special assistant for resource manage
ment with the CIA comptroller and
At the Overseers dinner, Acting Dean Stephen Burbank, Provost Stanley Chodorow, Sylvia Blume
assistant general counsel for several CIA
and Fred Blume '66.
operational components. He is currently
writing an article on the legal regulation
of covert action since the 1970's.
LAW
LARRY ALEXANDER, a visiting profes ScHOOL EvENTS
sor from the University of San Diego,
taught criminal law and advanced con Board ofO verseers
stitutional law during the fall term. A
member of Phi Beta Kappa and Order The Law School's Board of Overseers
of the Coif, he received his bachelor's met in Philadelphia October 17 and 18.
degree from Williams College and his The meeting began with a dinner hosted
law degree from Yale University. by Overseer Lawrence J. Fox '68 at his
Alexander says he has enjoyed his experi Center City home. Overseers and their
ence at Penn, though he has found the spouses were joined by University
separation from his family on the West Provost, Stanley Chodorow; Secretary
Coast difficult. and Vice President of the University,
Alexander co-edits the journal Legal Barbara Stevens; Stephen B. Burbank,
Theory and is on the editorial boards of Acting Dean; Arthur W. Lefco '71,
Ethics and Law and Philosophy. He has president of the Law Alumni Society;
published tvvo books and over 8o schol and Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Trustee
arly articles. Currently Alexander is writ Professor of Law.
ing articles on criminal law theory and The Board met the next day to
legal reasoning. discuss the school's admissions policies
and hear a presentation by the clinical
* Michele Cabot received a}. D . .from faculty. Hosts Larry Fox '68 and Susan King at the
Penn Law School in I993 and graduated October IJ Overseers Dinner.
cum laude .from Lehigh University. She
currently is an associate in the corporate
Gruss Lectures in Talmudic Law
department at Wolf, Block, Schorr and
So/is-Cohen, Philadelphia.
The Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph
S. Gruss Lectureship in Talmudic Civil
Law,JusncE MENACHOM ELON,
Gruss Visiting Professor, presented two
lectures in November, which he dedi
cated to the memory of the slain Prime
Minister of Israel, Yitzak Rabin.
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The first lecture was entitled
"Human Dignity and Personal Freedom
-Jewish and Democratic Values:
Israel's New Civil Rights Law" and the
second, "Human Dignity and the
Sanctity of Life- The Israeli Supreme
Court and the Problem of Euthanasia:
The Shefer Case." Last fall Justice
Elan taught a seminar in Talmudic legal
studies. The Gruss Professorship was
established in 1987 through a bequest
from the estate of Caroline Z. Gruss.
The Gruss gift has enhanced the Law
School's curriculum and the University's
Jewish studies program.
New York Area Overseers' Reception
The New York City area Law
Overseers, led by chair, CHARLES
David Berger ]6 and Stephen B. Burbank, David Berger Proftssor for the Administration ofj ustice and
Acting Dean, at the Annual Giving Kick-off at the Pyramid Club on September 20, 1995. A. HE1MBOLD, JR. '6o, thanked
alumni donors in New York for
their generosity and support in October
at the Penn Club. STEPHEN B.
BuRBANK, David Berger Professor
for the Administration of]ustice and
Acting Dean, joined Heimbold in
thanking alumni for their commitment
to Penn Law School. In his remarks,
Professor Burbank noted that Penn
Law's faculty is participating in confer
ences and meetings around the world,
making the school's outreach truly
international in scope
P AuL A. WoLKIN
R EMEMBERED
PAUL A. WoLKIN '41, considered
by many people to be the leading figure
worldwide in continuing legal educa
George Shotzbarger '-;8 and Anthony Boswell 9r at the Annual Giving Kick-off tion, died November 9 of a malignant
brain tumor. Wolkin was the executive
vice president of the American Law
Institute (ALI) from 1977 ro his retire
ment in 1992 and executive directOr
of a joint committee of the American
Law Institute and the American Bar
Association, known as the Committee
on Continuing Professional Education
(ALI-ABA), from 1963 ro 1992. On his
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retiremenr he was named emeritus cENTER ON
executive vice presidenr of ALI and he pROFESS ION ALI SM
was elected to its Council.
Born in Philadelphia in 1917, Paul The University of Pennsylvania Law
Wolkin received three degrees from the School Center on Professionalism has
University of Pennsylvania: a B.A. in been active in developing new courses
1937, an M.A. in 1938 in psychology and and CLE programs relating to profes
a J.D. in 1941. He subsequently served sional responsibility. The Center has
as law clerk to the Honorable Herbert F. recently added several new continuing
Goodrich, U.S. Court of Appeals for legal education courses to its roster.
the Third Circuit. These programs are currently offered as
In 1944 Wolkin became a staff public programs and in-house programs,
attorney with the Foreign Economic in Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New
Administration and in 1945 he was Jersey, New York and internationally.
named associate general counsel of the Through alliances with other CLE orga
French Supply Council, an agency nizations, Center courses are presented
procuring materials to aid in the post in many states, including California,
war transition and recovery ofF ranee. In Texas, Florida and North Carolina.
1946-47 he served as assistanr legal advis PauL WoLkin 4r The Lawyer's Internet demonstrates
er to the Departmenr of State. that the information superhighway is
Wolkin joined the staff of ALI in filled with possibilities and potential
1947 at the invitation of its then-direc problems for lawyers who utilize cyber
tor, Judge Herbert F. Goodrich. He also space. It introduces lawyers to the
practiced law, having founded the firm NEW GRADING SYSTEM Internet and highlights ethical dilemmas
ofWolkin, Sarner & Cooper in 1951, its use may cause. Lawyers will learn
where he remained a partner for 15 years. After almost a year of discussion among how to connect to the Internet and uti
For three years he served as legislative faculty, students, administrators and lize legal resources on it, including the
draftsman for the Philadelphia Charter alumni, the Law School has adopted a World Wide Web for lawyers. The
Commission. new grading system, with courses now course features discussions of e-mail and
Over his half-cenrury career, graded on a scale of A+, A, B+, B, B-, client confidentiality, the Internet and
Wolkin received honors from virtually C and F. the First Amendment, privacy and pub
every section of his profession, including The change responded to long licity issues, and intellectual properry
the American Judicature Society, the standing faculty concerns that the old issues. Stephen T. Maher, Esq., a former
University of Pennsylvania Law School system's large bottom grade-category law firm training director and former
and the National Association of (Qualified) did not accurately or fairly Associate Professor of Law, University
Conrinuing Legal Education convey the quality of performance of of Miami School of Law, developed the
Administrators. In 1993 ALI-ABA pre students near the middle of the class, program with the Cenrer and will be
senred him with its highest honor, the who were doing good work but not see teaching it on behalf of the Center dur
Francis Rawle Award. ing that reflected in their grades. ing 1996.
Wolkin's most recenr honor, In addition, although Penn Law has Professor Howard Lesnick's new
marked by a ceremony held at ALI one of the strongest placement records CLE course is Seeking the Spiritual
October 6, was the naming and dedica in the country, there has recently been a Ground oft he Lawyer's Work. A four
tion of the Paul A. Wolkin Conference sense that the old adjectival scale, with a part seminar for experienced lawyers,
Center. At the ceremony, Wolkin was large grade-category that employers the course examines the tension between
cited for his integrity, creativity and often misinterpreted, was increasingly a the aspirations that may have drawn
energy. Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., director competitive disadvantage. Throughout individuals to law as a career and the
of ALI and Trustee Professor of Law at this process, there was attention to the day-to-day reality of practice in a rapidly
Penn Law School, described him as "an role our grading system plays in Penn's changing legal environmenr. Its objec
intellectual professional, rather than a relatively relaxed, cooperative atmos tive is to give participants an oppor
mere administrator." phere. Faculty, administrators and stu tunity to explore the ways in which their
dents alike believe that the new scale will
not change that atmosphere.
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spiritual heritage can aid them to EQUAL JusTICE legal needs of people who cannot afford
revitalize their relationship to work and to pay. As demand for these critical ser
FouNDATION
the law. The course will be offered in vices increases, budgets are being cut.
various settings for small groups of The Equal Justice Foundation, a The Equal Justice Foundation
attorneys. It provides nine hours of CLE student organization at the University awards summer grants to support work
credit when offered as a public program. of Pennsylvania Law School, encourages at non-profit organizations, work that
It is also available as an in-house program. law students to pursue their aspirations provides students with valuable legal
Another new program is Issues of serving low-income clients. experience and the organizations with
in Confidentiality which is a program Justice isn't free. Throughout our much-needed assistance. The student
taught by three of the Center's city, and our country, low-income members of the Equal Justice
instructors, Professor Howard Lesnick, people have serious legal needs that go Foundation raise the grant funds with
The Honorable Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., unmet because they cannot afford the support of the Law School and
and Janet Perry, Program Director of lawyers. Every law school has students Philadelphia business communities. As
the Center. who would like to provide legal services this support continues to grow, law
Two courses for lawyers stemming to low-income people, but paid positions students will have the opportunity to
from the Center's work in developing are scarce. Every city has non-profit provide a vi tal service to a segment
a judicial ethics course using film organizations struggling to meet the of our community very much in need.
and literature have also been added to
the CLE courses offered to practicing
lawyers. Ethics ofa judicial Decision:
Mercy and justice, and Ethics ofa judicial
Decision: Personal Conscience are pre
sented by The Honorable Edmund B.
Spaeth, Jr., and Peggy B. Wachs '86,
PL EAS E JOIN
Associate Director of the Center.
The Center has also developed and T HE P ENN LAW
C()Ml\~ UNITY
offers several courses for international
lawyers. In the past year, Professor AT THE
Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Professor Curtis
E(QUA L J UST I CE FOU l)A T I 0
R. Reitz, The Honorable Edmund B.
Spaeth, Jr. and Murray S. Levin, Esq.
STU])ENT / ALUM AUCTifD
have taught Center courses in London,
Paris, Washington, D.C. and New York
for international lawyers. \VH E lR lE
For information about available
University of Pennsylvania Law School
programs or the calendar of scheduled
Sansom Street between 34th and 36th Streets
programs please contact the Center
on Professionalism, [phone] or
WHE l~
FAX [phone].
Thursday, February 22, 1996
TIM lE
6:30p.m. Cocktail Reception
and Silent Auction
7:30 p.m. Live Auction
TICK lETS
$20 per person
R.S.V.P. by February 8, 1996
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