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Alumni Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin Law School

Vol. 8 No.1 Autumn 1976

Retul'l'l address:

:J~e(jal'g0'llelaw SchoolUniversity of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706

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GARGOYLE COVERAlumni will notice that our

cover this year is a reproduction ofJohn Stewart Curry's remarkablemural "The Freeing of theSlaves." Lloyd Garrison, Dean atthe time when the mural waspainted on the Law Library wall,explains in a story on page XI"How the Painting Came to Be."The Gargoyle is indebted toGerhard Schulz of the Univer-sity's Photo Lab and to Mrs. DorisLange, a free-lance commercialartist, for creating the coverdesign.

THE GARGOYLEBulletin of the University of WisconsinLaw School, published quarterly.

Vol. 8 No. I Autumn 1976Ruth B. Doyle, editor

Pho,tos by G. Schultz

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r-------------------,I •• By now, most of our alumni are aware that :" Acting Dean Orrin Helstad was appointed Dean I

by the Board of Regents on June 11 , 1976. He I: has served as Acting Dean for the past year. In I•

that capacity, he made several important con- II trlbutlons to the Gargoyle. II •• He is one of us. He was an honored member •• of the Class of 1950. He has been a member of •• the faculty since 1961 and served as Associ- •• ate Dean from 1972 to 1975. •

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

New Dean 2

New Professors 3

Gullickson, Jones 4

Associate Deans 6

Faculty Notes-Robertson,Kidwell, Large 7

Continuing Legal Education. 9

Summer School 10

Foster in Afghanistan ..... 11

Returning Faculty 14

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NEW FACUl TV - 1976- 77

Gary L. Milhollin has been atthe Wisconsin Law School sincethe beginning of the secondsemester, 1975-76. After asemester as a Visiting Professor,he has been invited to join theFaculty. His previous teachingpost was as Associate Professor atCatholic University, Washington,D.C.,from 1971 to 1976.

Professor Milhollin brings awide variety of legal experience tothe Law School. He earned hisJ.D. degree at GeorgetownUniversity in 1965, after earninga B.s. degree at Purdue Univer-sity. He also spent two years atColumbia in a J.S.D. Programfrom 1968·1970. His legal ex-perience includes two years as as-sociate in the firm of Cleary, Gott-lieb, Steen, and Hamilton in NewYork and Paris and as law clerk toJudge Joseph R. Jackson of theU'.S, District Court of the Districtof Columbia. He also served as amember of the General Counsel'sstaff at the Office of EconomicOp-portunity.

His teaching specialities are inthe areas of Contracts and Con-flict of Laws.

Professor Milhollin

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Another new law professor whohas joined the Faculty in 1976-77is well-known to the Law School.He is Walter Dickey, a 1971Wisconsin graduate. He was Arti-cles Editor of the Law Review anda member of COIF. He earned hisundergraduate degree also on theMadison Campus.

After his law school graduation,he was an Overseas Fellow of theInternational Legal Center, actingas an Honorary Lecturer of theFaculty of Law at the Universityof Ghana, where he taught evi-dence and legal writing. He wasalso a Research Fellow with theLaw Reform Commission ofGhana. Associated with the Min-istry of Justice, he helped to draftstatutes and to supply advisorynotes on criminal, commercial andproperty law.

On his return to the UnitedStates, he joined a large Min-neapolis law firm.

In January, 1975, he returnedto the law school, where he hasacted as supervisor to the LawSchool's program in Legal Assis-tance to Inmates. During this pastyear, he has conducted a seminarin Law and Correctional Institu-tions, and has taught a class inCriminal Justice Administration,which has enrollment limited toundergraduates and police of-ficers.

Professor Dickey

Martha L. Fineman is the thirdnew law professor to join thefaculty this fall.

Professor Fineman is a 1975graduate of the University ofChicago. Since her graduation shehas served as a law clerk to JudgeLuther Swygert, former ChiefJudge of the Seventh CircuitCourt of Appeals.

Mrs. Fineman had manycareers before entering lawschool, including editor andpublisher of a weekly newspaper,director of a University Day CareCenter, and social worker in thePhiladelphia Diagnostic andRelocation Center. During heryears in law school, she workedwith several Professors develop-ing materials to be used in twoseminars: Philanthropy, PublicPolicy and Social Reform, andSlavery and the Law. The lattermaterials also are used in a coursein legal history.

She is the mother of 4 children.

Professor Fineman

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Professor Gullickson

THE CHANCELLOR'S STAFF

PROFESSOR GULLICKSON JOINS

Professor James Jones, Jr. con-tinues to be a very busy member ofthe faculty. In the last few monthshe has served as Equal Employ-ment Expert on the Equal Oppor-tunity panel of the Caucus ofBlack Democrats in Charlotte,North Carolina. He participated inthe Howard Law School's clinic onEqual Employment Litigation; hispaper was entitled "Bringing anEqual Employment Case: Choos-ing the Forum-An Overview."Also, he served as consultant tothe Pennsylvania Human Rela-tions Commission on Layoff andRecall Regulations.

In addition to his public service,Professor Jones has written fivearticles during the past year, andthe third edition of his text bookon employment discriminationwas published by the Bureau ofNational Affairs, Inc. ProfessorJones was just elected to theBoard of Directors of the LaborSection of the State Bar ofWisconsin.

. Professor Jones

Before moving to the Chan-cellor's office, ProfessorGullickson spoke at a conferencein Australia (see Gargoyle, Sum-mer, 1976).

The appointment is for 12months, after which he will returnto the Law School Faculty.

Professor Stuart Gullickson(Class of 1950), a member of theLaw Faculty since 1967, will jointhe Staff of Chancellor EdwinYoungon September 7.He expectsto assist the Chancellor with theMadison Campus policy decisionsthat have important legal implica-tions.

Gullickson is the designer andsupervisor of the General PracticeCourse, which has been one of themost useful and popular courses inthe Law School. It will be offeredboth semesters next year. J.Richard Long, Class of 1949, willbe one of the directors. He has hadlong experience with the courseand acted as co-director in1975-76.Warren Stolper, Class of1948, will be the other director.Mr. Stolper, a member of theMadison firm of Murphy, Stolper,Brewster and Desmond, S.C., hastaught many years at the LawSchool including two segments inthe General Practice Course andhas participated in other activitiesthrough which the Law Schoolmakes use of talented andgenerous members of the practic-ing Bar.

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SEEKING THE SOURCES

OF SCHOLARSHIPS

AND PRIZES

Most of the money awarded asprizes and scholarships is derivedfrom gifts made by alumni or giftsmade as memorials to alumni. TheLaw School tries to provide eachaward recipient with some infor-mation pertaining to the donor orthe person in whose name theaward was established. Some-times the information is hard tocome by. For example:

Recently, the Law School wasinformed by the University ofWisconsin Foundation that therewas a generous amount of moneyavailable for Law School prizes inmemory of Duane Mowry.

A call was made to RolandVieth, a U.W. Alumnus, Class of1952 who has practiced inMauston many years. A check atthe cemetery disclosed two Mowrygraves-those of his wife, properlydated, and Duane, with a birth-date but no death date. Mr. Viethsearched the Mauston newspaperand at long last discovered areprint from the Milwaukee Jour-nal of April 29, 1933. It was, infact, Mr. Mowry's obituary. Hisage was 79.

Mr. Mowrywas a member of theLaw School's class of 1875. Afterpracticing in Mauston until 1893,he moved to Milwaukee. He servedas a member of the MilwaukeeSchool Board, where, according tothe Milwaukee Journal he wasknown as the "'man of resolu-tions' because of his unfailingsponsorship of new reforms."Hewas survived by a son and adaughter. It was the daughter, along-time high school teacher inMilwaukee, who established thefund to honor her father.

A hundred years after his gra-duation, we benefit from hismemory.

Who is Duane Mowry,the Foun-dation was asked. The Foundationknew that the contributor was adaughter of Duane Mowry, butalmost nothing else. She was aresident of Milwaukee, where theestate was probated and that FirstWisconsin Trust Company hadserved as trustee. A cooperativetrust officer, who in fact hadworked on the Mowry estate, hadno records 'and no memory of thetrust established many years ago.Somewhere in the back of hismind the word Mauston appeared.

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ED REISNER WANTS YOU TO KNOW:THE ANNUAL LAW ALUMNI

FUND DRIVE IS ON SCHEDULE-OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, DECEMBER.

BE GENEROUS-ANDREMEMBER-

DOUBLE THE NUMBER OFCONTRIBUTORS AND

WE DOUBLE THE SIZE OFTHE FUND.

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Professor Tushnet

On September 7, 1976, ProfessorMark Tushnet became AssociateDean of the Law School. He willcontinue to teach part-time duringhis two year service as AssociateDean.

On June 14, Professor Tushnetspoke to an Institute on Censor-ship at the Library School at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison.His subject was Free Speech andthe Young Adult.

He presented a paper on LegalHistory at the American PoliticalScience Association's meeting inChicago on September 5, 1976.

Professor Tushnet has recentlybeen named to the Advisory Com-mittee which has been establishedby the Seventh Circuit Bar Associ-ation, to advise the Bar on the newrules in the federal courts of theSeventh Circuit. The purpose ofthe Committee is to investigatethe rules and recommend im-provements.

Professor Tushnet has been amember of the Faculty since 1973.He has recently been grantedtenure and promoted to AssociateProfessor. He formerly served aslaw clerk for U.s. Supreme CourtJustice Thurgood Marshall.

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TWO NEW ASSOCIATE DEANS

Professor Lawrence Church,who returned in the secondsemester, 1975-76, from leave toteach at Brigham Young Univer-sity, is the other Associate Dean.A member of the Class of 1963,Professor Church was a memberof the Law Review and of Coif.After practice in Milwaukee, hejoined the Faculty in 1966. He hastwice been honored by students asOutstanding Teacher of the Year.In addition to his responsibilitiesas Associate Dean, he is teachingCriminal Law.

Professor Church

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FACUl TV NOTES

SOME COME, SOME GO

LAW AND MEDICINE-THEY DEPEND

ON EACH OTHER

Every year a number of facultymembers take leave to teach orstudy elsewhere. For 1976-77,Pro-fessor Gerald Thain will teach atGeorgetown, Professor DonaldLarge will teach at Vanderbilt,and Professor John Kidwell has a

Professor large

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Fellowship at Harvard. ProfessorsWalter Raushenbush and NeilKomesar will be on leave in thesecond semester-Raushenbushto Arizona State at Tempe andKomesar to the University ofCalifornia-Los Angeles.

Professor Kidwell

Professor John Robertson, whojoined the Faculty in 1973, is oneof the able young faculty memberswho was recently promoted to As-sociate Professor with tenure.

In addition to teaching CriminalLaw and Procedure at the LawSchool,Professor Robertson holdsa joint appointment in the MedicalSchoolwhere he teaches and par-ticipates in the Medical School'sprogram of medical ethics. Heserves on the Medical School'sHuman Subjects Committeewhich must approve all researchprojects involving human sub-jects.

He has served as consultant to aNational Commission for the Pro-tection of Human Subjects of Bio-Medical and Behavioral ScienceResearch. This Commission wasestablished in 1974 by Congress;its purpose is to developguidelinesfor federally funded research pro-jects.

Professor Robertson has two re-cently published articles. One, inthe Hastings Center Reports, isentitled "On Telling Subjects thatResearch Related Injuries WillNot Be Compensated." The other,published in the Columbia LawReview, deals w ith "OrganTransplants from IncompetentDonors and the Substituted Judg-ment Doctrine."

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VII

WHAT'S NEW AT THE REVIEW

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For the coming year, two morelaw students will be examiningthe fair hearing process in the Aidto Families ofDependant Childrenprogram in Wisconsin. Such pro-jects are intended to extend theLawReview's contribution to legalliterature beyond jurisprudentialanalysis based on traditionaljurisprudential sources.

In the past year, the LawReview has applied for andreceived funding for empiricalstudies involving legal issues. Dur-ing the 1975-76 academic year,the National Science Foundationsupported a study of state agencyimplementation of the WisconsinEnvironmental Policy Act.Directed by two second year LawReview members with thecooperation of the Center forPublic Representation, the studywill be published this winter.

The editor-in-chief of the1976-77Wisconsin Law Review isMs. Jaroslawa Zelinsky Johnson.Ms. Johnson is the third woman tooccupy the top desk at the LawReview, and the first in more than30 years. Although women haveheld various editorial positions onthe Review for many years, Ms.Johnson was elected from a sec-ond year membership which in-cluded 19 women, and presidesover a 14-person editorial boardwhich is comprised of equal num-bers of both sexes.

Slava Johnson brings anunusual and diverse backgroundto her responsibilities as editor-in-chief. Born in the Ukraine, sheemigrated to the United Stateswith her family in 1949 and wasraised in the Baltimore environs.Holding degrees from GoucherCollege and Johns HopkinsUniversity, Ms. Johnson taughtFrench in the public schools inBaltimore, worked in the office ofurban planning in Baltimore Cityand Prince Georges County,Maryland, was involved intheoretical urban research at TheUrban Institute in Washington,D.C.and served as an undergradu-ate advisor in the department ofeconomics at UW-Madison beforeentering the law school. Her hus-band, Weldon, is an assistant pro-fessor of Sociologyat the Univer-sity.

Professor Robertson

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A graduate of Dartmouth Col-lege, Robertson received his legaleducation at Harvard where hegraduated in 1968.He was a Resi-dent Fellow in Law and Psychia-try at Harvard Medical School in1968-69.He served as a LawClerkat the Supreme Court of Massa-chusetts, Program Director for theMassachusetts Governor's Com-mission on Law Enforcement andthe Administration of Criminaljustice in 1970-72, and a RussellSage Resident in Law and SocialScience. He was also a TeachingFellow at Harvard in 1971-72.

BILDER ELECTEDProfessor Richard BUder h8:s

been reelected to the Board of Edi-tors of the American Journal ofInternational Law, for a secondfour-year term. In June, he andProfessor Shirley Abrahamson at-tended a seminar for law teacherson Law and Economics in Miami,Florida. Professor BUder

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PLANS fOR THE LAW SCHOOL'S

PARTICIPATION IN THE MANDATORY CONTINUING

LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAM ARE UNDERWAY.

Professor Walter Raushenbush 'ssupplement to his book, theWisconsin Construction LienLaw-1974-will be published inlate fall of 1976 by the Universityof Wisconsin's Extension LawDepartment.

Mandatory continuing legaleducation presents a new andvigorous challenge to the LawSchools and the Bar. The Univer-sity of Wisconsin Law School'splans for participation in this areawill be noted in future issues ofthe Gargoyle. In the meantime,here is a summary of some recentactivities of the University ofWisconsin Extension Law Depart-ment and some of the activitiesplanned for the immediate future.

For the twelfth summer theAmerican Law Institute-Ameri-can Bar Association Joint Com-mittee on Continuing LegalEducation (ALI-ABA) came backto Madison to present its week-long programs. The subjects thisyear were Estate Planning inDepth and the Uniform Commer-cial Code. The two programs ranconcurrently during the week ofJune 20-26. Almost 350 attorneysfrom all over the country attendedthe estate planning program andanother 65 attended the UCCcourse. The faculty for the courseswas drawn from among promi-nent practicing attorneys in eachfield.

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For the fall, Extension Law isexpanding its telelecture series.The September series conductedby Robert Sundby and RichardOlsonwill present the new rules ofstate and local administrative pro-cedure which will take effect onSeptember 22, 1976. The four lec-tures will take place on Tues-days-starting on Tuesday, Sep-tember 7, 1976, 12:00-1:30. Theprogram will be rebroadcast inMadison and Milwaukee from4:00-5:30.

Ownership and transfer of lifeinsurance will be the subject offour lectures in October. MichaelWilcox,Madison, will conduct thelectures at noon. They also will berebroadcast in Madison and Mil-waukee from 4:00-5:20.

In November there will be fivelectures on the subject of "Han-dling Disputes in UnemploymentCompensation Actions." Mr. Sher-wood Slate, Madison, who has ex-perience as a hearing officer inunemployment compensationcases, will conduct the lectures,also at noon. As with the otherprograms, they will be replayedfor the Madison and Milwaukeeaudiences at 4:00-5:20.

An extended course totaling 20hours, on the subject of legal andtax aspects of organizing a smallbusiness, will be offered startingon September 20, from 4:30-5:50.The lectures will run on Mondayand Thursday through November.The lecturer is Robert Schnur.

In December two tax accoun-tants, John White and GeorgeLong, will offer a tax refreshercourse running on five Mondaysand Wednesdays from 4:30 to5:50.

Arnon AllenProfessor Extension Law

A great deal of cooperation isrequired to,handle such large pro-grams and to make them a suc-cess. Once again, the ExtensionLaw Department, headed by Pro-fessor Arnon R. Allen, and theLaw School worked with the ALI-ABA staff from Philadelphia andhelped coordinate the efforts ofboth faculty and participants."ALI-ABAweek" is fast becomingan annual event at the Universityof Wisconsin Law School. Infor-mation about next year's coursescan be obtained by contacting theExtension Law Department.

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SUMMER SCHOOL IS A BIG DEAL

Among the 340 students in thesummer sessions are 68 studentsenrolled in various clinical pro-grams. The program which pro-vides Legal Assistance to Inmatesin correctional and mental institu-tions. Among the other projects inwhich students are enrolled forcredit (and usually a smallamount of cash) are: NativeAmerican Programs, the Ordi-nance Defense Project, a state-wide Prosecutor's Assistance Pro-gram, and the Center for PublicRepresentation.

LIBRARY TO GET LEXISFOR ONE YEAREXPERIMENT

LEXIS, a computer-assistedlegal research system, will be in-stalled this fall in the Law Libraryon a one year trial period financedby the University graduate school.

LEXIS uses a digital computerto search through the completetext of cases, statutes and federalregulatory material. The system's"library" is especially rich infederal internal revenue,securities and trade regulationdata.

The installation will include aCRTterminal and an IBMprinter.Wewill have unlimited time use ofthe data base in Ohio, but the con-tract with the Mead Data CentralCorp restricts our use of thesystem to scholarly and educa-tional research. Included with theinstallation will be a simulatorusing tapes for practice self-in-struction although members ofthe library staff will receive train-ing in order to help faculty andstudents with the system.

An article in the March, 1976,ABA Journal describes the LEXISsystem as well as WESTLAW.Thelatter is marketed by WestPublishing Company.

During the summer of 1976,340students were enrolled in lawschool. The variety of offeringsand the flexible class schedulescontinue to attract more studentseach year. While the majority ofthose enrolled in the summer ses-sion are degree candidates at thislaw school, there are some stu-dents earning credits here to betransferred to other law schools,which do not have summercourses.

The Intersession is the threeweeks between the end of thespring semester and the start ofthe regular summer session. Thisyear two courses were offered.The course in Trusts and Estateswas taught by a man known tomany of our alumni, although heno longer teaches regularly atU.W.He is Professor Richard Eff-land from the Law School atArizona State.

There are two 5-week sessionsin the summer; there is also a 10-week session. One course isoffered in an 8-week session.

Ten-week courses included Evi-dence and Constitutional law,taught by Professor FrankTuerkheimer and Larry Church.Trial Advocacy is offered for 10weeks in the 10-week session inthe evenings.

In the eight weeks betweenJune 21 and August 13, ProfessorJames MacDonald taught a coursein Land Use Controls.

During the first 5-week session,Psychiatry and the Law was con-ducted by Professor AlexanderBrooks, a regular summer visitorfrom Rutgers-Newark. ProfessorRichard Kabaker taught Taxationof Trusts and Estates. Conflict ofLaws was taught by ProfessorGary Milhollin, and Business As-sociations by Professor GeorgeYoung. The Sociology of Law,under Professor Stuart Macaulay,and Trademarks, under ProfessorWarren Lehman were also in-cluded.

The second five weeks broughtJudge David Schwartz, a memberof the U.S.Court of Claims, to theLaw School to teach a course ingovernment contracts. ProfessorThain conducted a seminar inConsumer Law; Professor Finamntaught a one credit course in Pro-fessional Responsibility. ProfessorLehman also taught a course inPrice Discrimination under theRobinson-Patman law.

It is possible for a highly moti-vated student to earn 3 credits inintersession, 6 credits in the firstfive weeks, 4 credits in the 10-week session and 3 credits in thesecond five weeks-a total of 16credits. Many students think it's apretty good deal.

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continued from page 11

What appears on page 11 isreproduced from the introductorypage of Volume One of AFGHANJUDICIAL REPORTS, publishednear the end of Professor G. W.Foster, Jr.'s five-month stay inAfghanistan. From February toJuly 1976, Foster served as LegalAdvisor of the Judiciary Branch ofthe Republic of Afghanistan,going at the request of the coun-try's Chief Judicial Administra-tor, Justice G. A. Karimi.

"Two gifted young Afghan law-yers and I worked as a team inpreparing-first in English-thecase summaries, headnotes, in-dexing and cross-referencing forthe first volume, using transla-tions from Dari in which the courtopinions had originally been writ-ten," Foster explained. Oncesatisfied with the headnotes andother materials, the team hadthese editorial products translatedinto Dari where they became partof the official 1 AFGHANJUDICIAL REPORTS. A limitedunofficial English-language edi-tion of Volume 1 was reproducedby the U.S. A.J.D. Mission inAfghanistan to assist English-speaking foreign lawyers andscholars who work with Afghanson problems of their legal order.

Professor Foster and his wifeJimmy, were enthusiastic abouttheir stay in the high and isolatedAsian country. "A beautiful place,though often harshly and starklyso. And we really liked theAfghans themselves-handsomebright peoplewhose independenc~of spirit and pride attracted useven when we so often found themotherwise unfathomable by ourWestern eyes."

The present Afghan legal orderreminded Foster of patterns evi-dent in the American legal past.Fashioning a nation creates pres-sures for defining national normsand enforcing them uniformly,thus cutting deeply into a societywhere the family, the village-andin Afghanistan, the tribe-en-joyed large areas of autonomywhen it came to setting and en-forcing standards. Statutes meantto set national norms have pouredforth for half a century and morein the form of decrees issued bythe Head of State. But nowherecompiled or indexed and rarelypublished in significant quan-tities, the statutes are difficult tofind and only slowly are havingimpact.

During his stay, Foster helpedlaunch a project to compile and in-dex all previously decreed Afghanstatutes, with a view to makingavailable in time accurate state-ments of the contemporarystatutory law of the country. If thecompilation project goes forwardand the newly launched AFGHANJUDICIAL REPORTS becomes acontinuing reality, legal educationin Afghanistan is likely to be thenext target for change. Today itconcentrates on such subjects asinternational law, comparativelaw (without knowledge of locallaw to compare), and foreign law(both extinct and otherwise). TheAfghan Bar-made up almost ex-clusively of judges and publicprosecutors-regard their univer-sity legal educations as largely ir-relevant to the urgent needs of thecountry and they press for the in-troduction of teaching materialbased on Afghan law. Theavailability of reported court opi-nions and compiled statutes openthe way to this.

Change seems to be in thejudicial air of Afghanistan and theFosters were grateful for theirbrief involvement with what theythought a dynamic, appealing andexciting country.

"I feel a bit sheepish about thecredit they gave my Fulbright pre-decessor, Attorney Dick Csaplarof Boston, and me for the ap-pearance of Volume 1," Fostersaid. "First, it overlooks the im-portant contributions to thejudicial reporting project made bystill earlier Fulbright lawyers-notably my Wisconsin colleague,Professor Larry Church, and JohnHuffer who followedhim. Second,and more important, no credit wasstated for Justice Karimi himselfalthough the project succeededonly because of his continuing andeffective support."

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Professor Foster

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HOW THE PAINTING CAME TO BE IN THE LAW BUILDING

By Dean Lloyd K. Garrison

When John Curry first showedme the sketch which he had madefor "The Freeing of the Slaves" Ithought it was one of the most im-pressive pictures I had ever seen,and I used to say to him that if weshould ever have the goodfortuneto put up a new law building hemust do a mural for us based uponthe sketch. Neither of us at thetime ever supposed that thisdream would come true.

When, with the help of manypeople, including first andforemost President Dykstra, itbecame possible to build a new lawlibrary, the architect's design forthe reading room resulted in agreat wall space over theLibrarian's desk which was veryclose to the shape of Curry'ssketch.

One day a friend of the Univer-sity who desires to remainanonymous came to my officewithJudge August Backus of Mil-waukee, and I showed them the

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wall space and also Curry'ssketch. This sketch had an ex-traordinary vitality because onecould look at it at a very great dis-tance and still see clearly the out-line of every figure, and yet, at thesame time, feel the strength of themass of figures. My visitors atonce perceived what the muralwould be like, and believed that itwouldbe a great painting. The onewho must remain anonymous wasparticularly interested in the sub-ject matter because of family asso-ciations with the Civil War and afamily tradition of friendship forthe Negroes. He generously con-tributed the funds which madepossible the painting of the mural,and asked that his gift be acceptedin honor of Judge Backus.

I felt from the beginning thatthe mural would be appropriatefor the law building although it isa far cry from the more usualpaintings depicting a court-roomscene or Justice with a sword.Here is one of the great events inour constitutional history, anevent fashioned in the midst of a

national crisis by a great lawyer-president. The mural not onlysym bolizes that event butproclaims in a noble and patrioticsetting the dignity and freedom ofall persons, however humble, in ademocracy whose ideals of libertyare summed up and protected bythe Constitution.

Underneath the mural on awooden plaque are carved thesewords:

"And upon this act, sincerelybelieved to be an act ofjustice, warranted by the Con-st it u tion upon militarynecessity, I invoke the con-siderate judgment ofmankind and the graciousfavor of Almighty God."

This is the last sentence of Lin-coln's Emancipation Proclama-tion. The sentence at once ex-plains the mural, to which thebeauty of the language is a fittingcompliment.

The carving of the plaque wasexecuted with great skill and ar-tistry by Harry E. Lichter of theWisconsin Historical MuseumStaff.

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As some Faculty members leavefor teaching and research posi-tions, others return. ProfessorWilliam Whitford has returnedfrom Kenya, where he taught inthe Law School at the Universityof Nairobi.

Professor Steven Cohen hasreturned from a year's teaching inthe Law School of StanfordUniversity.

Professor G. W. Foster hasreturned from Afghanistan (see p.11).

Professor Gordon Baldwin alsohas returned to full-time teachingafter a year in the State Depart-ment in Washington.

Professor Samuel Mermin ishome from Japan (see p. 4).

Professor Baldwin Professor Cohen

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Professor Thain

Gerald Thain, who will be visit-ing at Georgetown University dur-ing 1976-77, will still maintaincontinuing contact with Wiscon-sin by serving as the moderator ofa U.W.-Extension series entitled"Issues in Advertising Law" to beheld the second Wednesday of ev-ery month. Professor Thain willparticipate from Washington. Hehas also served as Chairman ofthe Advertising Regulation sub-committee of the Wisconsin Con-sumer Council.

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Professor Christenson

Recently chosen to be chairmanof the Gift Policy Committee ofthe Department of NaturalResources is Professor ArlenChristenson (Class of 1960). Pro-fessor Christenson is a member ofa Citizens' Advisory Committee ofthe State Department of Justicedealing with the question of aPublic Intervenor.

Professor Mermin

Professor Samuel Mermin spentthe past year teaching andresearching in Japan. Underauspices of the Japan Society forPromotion of Science, he pre-sented a faculty seminar on com-parative jurisprudence atDoshisha University in Kyoto. Hewas invited also to lecture in thefield of public law and jurispru-dence at various Japanese univer-sities, including Tokyo University,Chuo, Tokyo Metropolitan,Tsukuba, Hiroshima, and Hok-kaido. The U.S. InformationAgency sponsored another seriesof lectures in Korea, Thailand,Taiwan, and the Philippines. ThisWas Professor Mermin's secondvisit to Japan, and his enthusiasmfor the country and its people hasnot abated.

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