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From the Dean 2Dean Daniel O. Bernstine

Robert M. Kastenmeier Lecture: 4Political Extremism: Is It New? Is It Different?Is It Curable?Introduction by Han. Robert KastenmeierHan. Abner]. Mikva

Report on the East Asian Legal Studies Center 8ProfessorCharles Irish

Professor Frank J. Remington Remembered 12ProfessorMargoMelli

Jacob Beuscher Nominated for Award 14ProfessorArlen Christenson

News of the School 17

Have You Heard? 18

Editor's Note 20

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Wel~the 01' clock on the wallis saying "that's alU"

By now I am sure that mostof you have heard that I havesubmitted my resignation asDean of the Law School. I willcontinue to serve until my suc-cessor is appointed and, at thattime, I will return as a full-timefaculty member. By the timeyou read this note, ChancellorDavid Ward will have appoint-ed a search committee and Ihope that they are hard atwork identifying a new dean.

It has been my pleasure andprivilege to serve as your deanfor the past seven years. I haveworked hard to represent theLaw School and the University.As I have traveled around thecountry and the world meetingmany of you, I have becomeeven more proud of countingmyself as a fellow alumnus of the Law School.

Thanks to you, a great deal has been accomplished.We have a newly-renovated building made possible bysix million dollars in alumni contributions; there arefour new endowed professorships that have allowed usto recognize and retain some of our most distinguishedfaculty members; and we also have new support forscholarships, lecture series and any number of otherprograms and initiatives that have been vital to theoverall improvements of the Law School.

Alumni support for our Law School has grown asyou rallied to meet our needs. At the beginning of the

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Building Fund drive, fewexperts gave us much chanceof success. In the great Wis-consin tradition, however,thousands of alumni madesignificant contributions sothat the absence of one ortwo blockbuster gifts did notdoom our efforts.

At the same time, there isstill much more to be done ifour Law School is to maintainits stature as one of the elitein legal education. I haveserved for over twice thenational average for lawschool deans and it is time topass the baton to someoneelse who can continue themomentum that could onlyhave been created as a resultof loyal alumni support forthe School.

From Rice Lake to Racine,from New York to San Diego, from Geissen, Germany,to Sydney, Australia, alumni of this School have greetedme with open arms (and wallets, too). Each of youshould have the opportunity I have had to witness, firsthand, the accomplishments and achievements of ourfellow alums. This, truly, is a remarkable School- onewe can all be proud to share.

Since I will continue to serve until my successor isappointed, I look forward to seeing all of you againduring my "farewell tour" so that I can thank you inperson for your generous support and warm encour-agement.

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Political Extremism: Is ItIs It Curable!

ew! Is It

Introduction of Abner Mikva by Robert Kastenrneier '53March 1, 1996

t's a great pleasure, as well as a priv-ilege, to introduce an old friend-going back many many years-atrue son of Wisconsin, someonewho in that context was honored

last year by the University of Wisconsin.He's a person who attended this greatinstitution; a person who was born andraised in Milwaukee and who has donegreat honor to this state. Ab Mikva hasspent nearly 40 years in the service of thiscountry from the Illinois state legislature,in the practice and teaching of law, and inthe Congress, the Federal judiciary and ascounsel to the President. He has a fullyunique, I think, career in that regard. Ifirst remember when he came to the Judi-ciary Committee in 1969 and what wewere able to accomplish together in thoseyears, before Ab went on to other things.The subcommittee of which we weremembers had very broad jurisdiction. Itdealt with crime, prisons, privacy, civil lib-erties, the courts, the federal court system,and intellectual property. But I believewhen Ab was a member of that commit-tee, the thing that I take the greatest pridein and give him the greatest credit for,was repeal of Title 2 of the Internal Secu-rity Act. Young people, particularly, donot remember that we at one time in thiscountry not so many years ago authorizeddetention of Americans in "concentration"camps without due process of law, ascommonly understood. We successfully

repealed that. It came out of the subcom-mittee and it was due largely to AbnerMikva that we achieved that, even in theNixon administration. All the Nixonadministration wanted in the final analysiswas statutory language to preserve theconstitutional powers of the president asthe commander-in-chief. We refused to dothat. We said if a president ever on hisown initiative imprisoned Americans insuch a fashion, he would not have anycongressional or statutory authority to soact. He would have only the Constitutionitself to rely upon.

Subsequently Abner Mikva came backto the Congress and the Ways and MeansCommittee and then, I think, in a boldmove elected to go to the Court ofAppeals of the District of Columbia. Thereare federal judges here. I know that ourgood friend John Reynolds is in thecrowd, as well as Tom Fairchild, who wasChief Judge of this circuit. But I have

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always said that Abner Mikva was thetenth ranking judicial member in thecountry I say that because, as Chief Judgeof the Court of Appeals for the District ofColumbia, with all its jurisdiction wassuperior in a practical sense to the othergeographical circuit jurisdictions as well asto the Supreme Courts of the severalstates. Some may challenge that, but that'smy opinion. Other than the nine justicesof the Supreme Court, I always felt thatAb had that much authority and powerand he served magnificently. He surprisedpeople by ultimately going to the WhiteHouse as Chief Counsel to the President.But in a sense that was a fulfillment atleast in my sense of Abner Mikva b~causewe long singled him out as the one per-son we could see in the congress whocould serve equally, with great distinctionin the executive branch, in the judicialbranch or in the legislative branch. As amatter of fact, he proved that.

And now, he joins me and others inretirement. I can only say that we are veryhonored and privileged to have Ab Mikvahere to share his thoughts with us at thislecture. I present to you my friend JudgeAb Mikva.

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Robert W. Kastenmeier Lecture, University Of WisconsinThe Law School, March 1, 1996

BY ABNER]. MIKVAThis is a very special occasion for me.First off, Madison remains one of myfavorite towns. I have reconstructed myundergraduate days here as halcyonbeyond measure. I have forgotten com-pletely that I went from straight A's beforethe 'war at the Milwaukee Extension ofU.W. to straight C's at Madison after thewar. I remember the 3.2 beer at theUnion, the sailing, the simplicity of thedecisional process: should I go to class ornot?

But it's a special occasion because itgives me an opportunity for the first timesince he left the Congress to say to hisconstituent base how grateful everybodyin the Congress and elsewhere in thecountry was for you sending us Bob Kas-tenmeier. There are Members of Congresswho are renowned for the legislation thatbears their names. The Smoot-Hawley tar-iff bill, the Dyer Act which made it a fed-eral offense to joyride an automobile fromChicago to Gary, Indiana, the Volsted Actwhich gave us Prohibition. The Memberswhose names accompanied those laws areremembered appropriately for their contri-butions. Bob Kastenmeier passed a lot oflegislation, some of it very vital to our jus-tice system, to our intellectual propertieslaw. But those contributions paled intoinsignificance compared to one of thegreat qualities he brought to the HouseJudiciary Committee and the Congress.

There are a lot of bad proposals that arenot the law of the land because of thecommitment, the tenacity, the decencythat Bob brought to his work as a Memberof and as Chairman of one of the key sub-committees of the House Judiciary Com-mittee. He kept a flag-burning amendmentfrom being added to the Constitution; hekept Roe v. Wade from being overturnedby a constitutional amendment; he keptthe constitutional prohibition againstprayer in the schools. There were dozensof such issues, large and small, where Bobused a unique quality that in Milwaukeewas called "zitsfleish" to keep the forcesof evil from prevailing. I'm not sure thathis constituency ever appreciated what anational treasure he was to the Congress.Indeed, the House of Representatives hasnot been the same since he left, whichleads me to the topic of the day.

There were extremists in the Congresseven when Kastenmeier and I were there.They were easier to deal with and hadless of an impact for a number of reasons.First of all, there were fewer of them. Andnone of them achieved any importantleadership positions. No one ever accusedJohn McCormack of being an extremist-or Tom Foley, or Dick Gephardt. I remem-ber when the current Speaker first waselected to Congress. I safely predicted hewould be a one-termer, because he wasmuch too radical for the country. Mostvoters fall between A and B on the politi-cal landscape; the notion that as a countrywe tolerate people all the way to Z is nothistorically accurate. Some of the South-

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erners called Abraham Lincoln an extrem-ist, but he was elected without committinghimself to abolition, without laying downany gauntlets to the nullification talk ofthe South, indeed without any of therhetoric which became the propaganda ofthe Civil War. He was not even sure ofwhat to do about the defense of FortSumter, when the rebels fired on it, andyou will recall that it was lost. We are andalways have been a country of moderates.When one looks at the genealogy of theleaders of the Revolutionary War, all savea very few could have happily lived outtheir lives as colonial citizens quite loyalto the Crown. It was the excesses of KingGeorge, the framers of the Declaration ofIndependence remind us, that forced theseverance of the ties between the coloniesand England.

So, is this outbreak of radicalism in theCongress a unique circumstance occa-sioned only by the absence of Bob Kas-tenmeier to serve as one of the great mod-erators of the institution? Not exactly. Ineed hardly tell a Wisconsin audience thatextremists get elected from the strangestplaces and at the strangest times. TakeWisconsin in 1946, for example. Thecountry was finally returning to a post-warnormalcy. There was reasonably fullemployment, the dollar was stable, andWisconsin had been ably served by sever-al generations of LaFollettes, young Bobbeing the current senior Senator from Wis-consin.

As a further sign of the moderation ofthe times. Senator LaFollette decided toreturn to the Republican Party, since the"populism" of the Progressive Party whichhe had been elected from, seemed out ofstep with the normalcy of the times. I wasa student at Madison at the time, and weDemocrats had a splendid candidate forthe senate by the name of Howard Mac-Murray, a political science professor hereat the University. We knew it would bevirtually impossible to beat anybodynamed LaFol1ette in Wisconsin. We decid-ed to take advantage of the open primarylaw in Wisconsin, and even though mostof us were to young to vote (it was before18 year old voting) we urged al1 of ourDemocratic friends to cross over to theRepublican primary and vote for anobscure, upstate divorce judge fromAppleton, by the name of]osephMcCarthy. I can stil1 recal1 wearing aMcCarthy button, and thinking it al1 tooclever. Years after we reaped our primarysuccess, and our Autumn failure, I thoughtof the consequences of that escapade andguilt stil1 abides. I remember that whenanother McCarthy, Gene McCarthy, madehis effort to win the Democratic nomina-tion, I winced every time I saw a Demo-crat wearing a McCarthy button.

Joe McCarthy did not have too manyreal allies in the Congress. Aside fromRichard Nixon, Martin Dies, and a fewother opportunists, the anti-communistextremists were few in number. But theystruck fear into hearts of a lot of peoplewho should have known better. PresidentEisenhower chose Richard Nixon as hisrunning-mate because it appeased theright wing of the Republican party. News-papers, with the possible exception of theCap-Times, went out of their way to avoidclashing with McCarthy and his ilk. And alot of good moderate citizens, in and outof Wisconsin, while thinking that perhapsMcCarthy went too far, believed that itwas necessary to bel1 the Communist cat,and that he and his tactics were worth theprice. It is not too similar from some ofthe apologies I hear made from some ofmy former colleagues who end for

extreme proposals, knowing they are bad,but feeling it is necessary to bell the biggovernment cat, (or the Socks cat), andtherefore Gingrich is good for the country.Now I want to make it perfectly clear thatI am not comparing Speaker Gingrich toJoe McCarthy. McCarthy never called him-self a radical. And Newt Gingrich didnothing to help Phil Gramm stay out ofthe Army. I merely point out that extrem-ist rhetoric and extremist proposals in theCongress can come about (indeed usuallydo come about) in perfectly normal times,when the body politic ought to be reason-ably happy with their government. It isparadoxical that when the political systemreally is in extremis-the Great Depres-sion, the earlier economic disasters, thecorruption scandals of a Teapot Dome ora U.S. Grant or a Richard Nixon-the elec-torate are more likely to turn to moderatesfor leadership and for membership in theCongress. I realize that there are somewho stil1 think that Social Security or ruralelectrification are radical proposal, but forthe rest of us) the New Deal was a moder-ate shift in our economic system that pre-served its capitalism roots.

The biggest difference in today's radi-calism is that the civilian counterpart ofthe extremists in government seem moredangerous than their predecessors. Therealways are counterparts: the McCarthymovement had its auxiliaries among some

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of the veterans' groups, among some ofthe ethnic groups that were vigorousopponents of the Soviet Union and its rolein Eastern Europe. But the violence wasby and large in the rhetoric. Extremistsduring the post-Reconstruction era werepretty vigorous. Whether one looks at theKu Klux Klan which came into promi-nence somewhat later, or the Klan'santecedents-the armed, masked riderswho formed lynching parties to distributejustice their way-they were pretty scary.But they did not seem to be engaging infrontal attack on the institutions of govern-ment.

But when a national campaign officialof one of the leading candidates for Presi-dent says that the Oklahoma City bombersdescended to the level of the FBI-that ispretty frontal. When the various militiagroups around the country emphasizetheir authority with their large arsenals ofguns and their paramilitary training, that isfrontal and scary. I wil1 admit that I amafraid of guns. I was afraid of them whenI handled them in the Army, and I ameven more afraid of them just from seeingtheir impact on our society. I am alsoafraid of them politically. I have seen-and felt-the power of the National RifleAssociation in our electoral politics.

Wisconsin always has been a harbingerof all kinds of political tidings-it is hardto find a state that had a succession ofU.S. Senators as varied as Robert LaFol-lette, Joseph McCarthy and William Prox-mire, one after the other. If this were notmy home state and I didn't know better, Iwould think that Wisconsin voters almostexult in their perversity. But Badgers cer-tainly do come in bright colors when itcomes to extremism. Wisconsin has somemilitia groups in the western part of thestate that have organized their ownSupreme Court. And they threaten toenforce their orders "vi et armis"-byforce of arms as it was explained to us inlaw school. This Wisconsin court claims itslegitimacy comes from the Constitution,the Magna Carta and the Bible. I havecarefully examined my copy of my con-tract with America, the Constitution of the

United States, and I can't find any encour-agement for the lawlessness of the currentWisconsin group or any of their counter-parts,

But there is no question that the pre-sent is more fraught with clear danger.One need only look at the bloody calami-ties involving the Branch Davidians inWaco, the extremists at Ruby Ridge, Idahoand the Oklahoma City bombing to realizethat this current bout with extremism inour country is more violent-and moresquarely challenging the very bedrock ofour government.

We can't be too surprised at the escala-tion of radical expression and action bothin the public and the private sectors,When one looks at the 1994 electionresults, almost without exception, the suc-cessful challengers to incumbents werethose who challenged not only the incum-bent and his or her record, but challengedthe very notion of government as well,Many of the freshmen members ofCongress came to Washington having runagainst the Congress, against the federalgovernment. Most of the issues on whichthey campaigned were hostile to govern-ment: term limits for elected officials sug-gest that the people need to be protectedagainst their weakness in reelectingincumbents too often, The proposed bal-anced budget amendment to the Constitu-tion is premised on the notion that thepeople need protection against representa-tive government-that you cannot trustgovernment officials to do the right thing.The two shutdowns of the federal govern-ment both came about because many ofthe freshmen members of the house thinkthat stalemate is good for the country->that we can get along without governmentvery well. (flat earth society story aboutbalancing the budget.)

The House of Representatives is takinggreat pride in their proposal to sell off oneof the House buildings-any building, justso they can show that they have shrunkgovernment.

One need look no further than Iowa,New Hampshire and Arizona to note thatthe primaries for the 1996 election, at leaston the Republican side, have escalated therhetoric of nihilism, anarchy, anti-anybodywho has ever been to Washington. Mr.Forbes takes great pride in the fact that hehas never held any office of any kind. Mr.Buchanan pretends that he was never aninsider, hoping that people will forget hislong tenure with the Nixon Administra-tion. Governor Alexander hopes that bywearing a plaid shirt, he can prove that hehas nothing to do with the political estab-lishment. It is true that he never woresuch a shirt to work when he was Secre-tary of Education, or even while he wasGovernor of Tennessee, And Mr.Buchanan seems to have set the tone ofthe primaries so far by his soundbitewhich covers all situations where he dis-approves of decisions that have beenmade, whether they deal with trade, withBosnia, with affirmative action, whatever.Says Candidate Buchanan, "What wouldour ancestors have done when confrontedwith such a decision by government? Theywould have said 'Lock and load."

Someone opined to the late essayistand newspaperman, Robert Benchley, thatpeople get the kind of government theydeserve, "Wrong," said Benchley: "Theyget much better government than theydeserve," It is pretty hard to find a mea-suring stick that has any creditability formeasuring the efficacy of governmenttoday. Most political scientists would saythat government is not functioning veryefficiently, but most would still defend thestructure as basically sound. What seemsto be 'wrong with government mostly isthat the electoral process is being used asa protest vehicle rather than as a meansfor electing effective officials. The mostrecent elections seem to be saying that thepeople don't want anybody who will do itright-they don't think it can be doneright. I would even say that a politicalmalaise has overtaken the electorate,except that the last Democrat who saidthat lost the next election, one JimmyCarter.

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I think that the biggest problem withthe electoral process is the way it isfinanced. One of the reasons that govern-ment is held in such low repute is thatpeople sense that their elected officials arenot responsible to their constituency asmuch as they are responsible to theirfinancial patrons, If I had to seek a singlereform measure to push, it would be acampaign reform measure that broke thelock between big money and elections,When a Huffington can spend over 40million dollars in a senatorial campaign,and barely lose only because a very cred-itable incumbent was able to spend $36million, something is wrong. When aSteve Forbes is able to come fromnowhere and almost upset the frontrunnerpersonally and does upset him vicarious-ly) by spending a good piece of his per-sonal fortune in a few states, there isclearly a need for reform. The problem isthat some of the reforms being suggestedare not going to do very much, if any-thing.

We need to recognize that it is nomore likely that an elected official cantake money from a lobbying interest andstill make his decisions on the merits as itis that a judge can accept expensive pre-sents from a litigant and still make hisdecisions on the merits. I would bar any-one from making a contribution to anycandidate who can have an input into adecision that will benefit the contributorfinancially. And I would bar elected offi-cials from voting on any matters wheretheir contributors, past, present or future,are involved. The details and the enforce-ment would be complicated, but nowherenear as complicated as some of the Mick-ey Mouse campaign finance laws we nowhave on the books.

Would campaign finance reform dimin-ish extremism? Not directly. But anythingthat breaks down the cynicism of the pre-sent body politic is an absolutely neces-sary condition precedent to doing any-thing about the problem.

Report on the East Asian Legal Studies CenterPROFESSOR CHARLES IRISHVolkman-Bascom Professor of Law

The Center was established in April, 1990,with several areas offocus related to thelaw and East Asia: student assistance;scholarly exchange; outreach andresearch; and curriculum and libraryenhancement.

Student AssistanceThe core of the Center's assistance to stu-dents lies in its ability to help structureindividualized study programs for studentsfrom East and Southeast Asia who cometo the Law School for advanced legal stud-ies.' Most of these students are degree can-didates in the Legal Institutions program(MLI), a coursebased master's in legalstudies which allows students to selectwidely from Law School courses as wellas from the offerings of other departmentsat the University. With minimal mandatorycourses and a broad range of University-wide course offerings, students are afford-ed great flexibility to design a customizedprogram of course study and research.

The Center is also able to provide spe-cial training programs to those who areadmitted, with the permission of the Deanof the Law School, as non-degree studentsat the Law School. The course of studyand research for non-degree students ismore flexible than that of the MLI candi-dates, because of not having to meet spe-cific degree requirements.

The Center also assists students fromEast Asia who are interested solely inresearch and writing who are LLMcandi-dates. Many of you have occasionally hadMLI students in your classes, and many ofyou also have acted as advisors to MLIcandidates, as well as LLMand SJD candi-dates.

The Center helps JD students who areinterested in Centerrelated topics by actingas a general clearing house of informationand resources. In addition, it has encour-aged JD students to consider projectsinvolving East Asia by offering travelgrants to those interested in doingresearch on legal issues involving coun-tries of East Asia and Southeast Asia, aswell as trying to link students with profes-sors in East Asia who are able to advisethem regarding a specific topic. With trav-el assistance from the Center, JD studentshave done field research in Vietnam,Malaysia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, andThailand.

The Center was also instrumental inthe Law School is receiving a grant fromthe UW's Office of International Studiesand Programs for its Fund for Internation-al Education Program. This Program, withseed money from OISP, offered JD stu-dents a one-semester study abroad oppor-tunity. The grant was from 1992-1995, andled to exchanges with Portales Law Schoolin Santiago, Chile, as well as exchangeswith Osaka University and Aichi Universi-ty (near Nagoya) in Japan.

Scholarly ExchangeIn working to promote scholarly ex-changes between the Law School anduniversities of East Asia, the Center hasinvited several professionals to be VisitingFellows and has sponsored visiting pro-fessors who have corne to the Law Schoolto lecture.

During 1991-92, the Center hostedProfessor Seokin Huang of Seoul NationalUniversity and Professor Koichiro Fujikuraof the University of Tokyo, both of whomgave lectures at the Law School. In the

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92-93 academic year, the Center helpedbring attorney Craig Ehrlich, now practic-ing in Seoul, Korea, to speak at theInternational Law Society's Symposium.The Center was delighted to help the LawSchool be a Japan Foundation VisitingProfessorship recipient; in the spring of1993, Professors Itsuko and YoshiharuMatsuura were Japan Foundation VisitingProfessors at the Law School and taught athree-credit J.D. seminar, "Introduction tothe Japanese Legal System." Last year, theCenter hosted Wang Feng-yuan from theEast China University- of Politics and Law,Shanghai, as a Visiting Fellow.

Several distinguished visiting facultyhave come to the Law School for shortperiods to teach a 2 credit course entitled"Asian Law" that was offered in the springof 1995 for J.D. and master's candidates.Invited faculty were Takao Tanase (KyotoUniversity), Satoru Osanai (Chuo Universi-ty), Seokin Huang (Seoul National Univer-sity), Chen Zhidong (East China Universityof Politics and Law, Shanghai), PisawatSukonthapan (Thammasat University,Bangkok), Masaki Abe (Osaka City Uni-versity), and Itsuko Matsuura (Aichi Uni-versity, Japan).

Other visitors at the Center haveincluded e.e. Yen from Taipei, ]eong-OhKim from Yonsei University, Yungho Kimfrom Dong-A University, Peter Wesley-Smith from University of Hong Kong,Zhang Qiang from Nankai University,Yusuke Kikuchi from Asahi University,Hee-Tae Suk from Kyonggi University,Sun Chao from East China University ofPolitics and Law, Xu Xianghua from EastChina University of Politics and Law,Wang Chenguang from City University of

from the International Bureau of FiscalDocumentation (The Netherlands).

Since 1991, the Center has workedwith the Public Finance Training Institute,a governmental agency in Taipei, tocosponsor a 14-week international trainingprogram for customs officials from Taiwanand several other countries. The program'slecturers covered current issues of interna-tional trade relevant to customs officials.

This past year, the Center was involvedwith the establishment of the ChinaInternational Lawyers Training Center inShanghai, a nine-week training programon international commercial law for Chi-nese lawyers.

In the near future, the Center is plan-ning to co-sponsor professional trainingprograms in Hong Kong (with the CityUniversity of Hong Kong) and Bangkok(with Thammasat University).

Hong Kong, and Fumitoshi Tamakuni ofMeiji Gakuin University.

The Center has also tried to assist theLaw School's faculty and academic stafffind possibilities for lecturing and doingresearch in East Asia. We have compileda booklet of those interested in teachingin East Asia; I have used this bookletwhen I have met with university officialsin Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Thai-land, and China, as well as in Australia.Thus far, members .,of our faculty whohave given lectures in East Asia are DanBernstine, Arlen Christenson, LarryChurch, Linda Greene, Beverly Moran, andGerry Thain. In addition, under the Cen-ter's sponsorship, Linda Greene gave aprofessional presentation at the Confer-ence on Non-Governmental Organizationsrecently concluded in China.

The Law School recently signed anagreement with Chuo University, a privateuniversity in Tokyo, for a law facultymember to teach a short course on Ameri-can La-w beginning in 1995. Arlen Chris-tenson will be the first participant, begin-ning this fall. We also have good working

relationships with Seoul National Universi-ty, Korea University, and Yonsei Universi-ty in Korea; Chulalongkorn University andThanunasat University in Thailand; Univer-sity of Indonesia in Indonesia; National.Taiwan University, National Cheng ChiUniversity, Soochow University, and theMinistry of Finance in Taiwan; Hong KongUniversity and City University of HongKong in Hong Kong; Aichi University andOsaka University in Japan; and the EastChina University of Politics and Law, theMinistry of Justice, and the State Bureau ofForeign Experts in China. During the sum-mer of 1995, the Center hosted a delega-tion of Chinese professors working withthe State Bureau of Foreign Experts.

The Center has involved itself in severaleducational outreach ventures. In the sum-mer of 1991, the Center organized and co-sponsored an international conference onthe Taxation of Tax-Exempt Organiza-tions. The conference was held in Taipeiwith presentation of papers by scholarsfrom nine countries; the proceedings weresubsequently published in the Bulletin

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During the past five years, the Center hasbeen instrumental in having several newcourses added to the Law School's curricu-lum. Some were for a limited time only,such as Chinese Law, International Negoti-ations, Introduction to the Legal System ofJapan, and Asian Law. Others havebecome regular offerings of Law School;these are Legal Issues between Countriesof North America and East Asia, Contem-porary Issues in American Law, LegalSources, and Legal Writing for ForeignStudents.

To supplement the Library's East Asiancollection, the Center has underwrittensubscriptions to various periodicals andjournals from with East and SoutheastAsia, as well as a number of looseleaf ser-vices, books, and reference materials.

Please give me a call if you want anyadditional information about the Center'sprojects.

GALACELEBRATION I

A Law School for the21st Century

Join us for the Dedicationof the New and Renovated

Law School Building

Saturday) April26, 1997630 to 10.,00pm

RefreshmentsEntertainment

ToursDedication Ceremony

Dean Daniel O. Bernstine cordially invites you to the Dedication of our new andrenovated Law School building. The $16.1million project, begun in the fall of 1994, isnow completed. Students, faculty, and staff are now enjoying what must be one of the

finest teaching and research facilities in the world of legal education.

Wewill be proud to have you attend our ceremonies. For more information, contact:

Edward J. Reisner, Assistant DeanUniversity of Wisconsin Law School

975 Bascom MallMadison, Wisconsin 53706

608/262-8554ereisner@facstaff.wisc.edu

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Editors note: In tbe last issue, we noted tbedeath of Professor Frank]. Remington andpromised an appropriate memorial to bislife and service to this Law Scbool, to biscountry and to bis contributions to thedevelopment of criminal law. Perhapsnothing shorter than a booh could coversuch an ambitious project. The articlebelow, prepared for the presentation of theWisconsin Law Alumni Association's Dis-tinguisbed Sennce Award, captures thehigh admiration we bad for Frank and thegreat bumility he bad for bis own accom-plisbmenis.

onight, the Wisconsin LawAlumni Association honorsboth an alumnus of this lawschool and a long-time memberof its faculty in giving the

Alumni Association Distinguished ServiceAward to Frank J. Remington. For almosthalf a century Frank has been a part ofthe life of this institution. He entered theLaw School in January 1947 and graduat-ed first in his class in January 1949. Hebegan his teaching career on the facultyin September 1949 and retired after 43years in June 1992.

A Distinguished Service Award is avery appropriate title for an honorbestowed by this Law School on Frankbecause that is an excellent brief descrip-tion of his career at Wisconsin: distin-guished service.

Frank has given distinguished serviceto the criminal law, his academic special-ty. His research and writing has helpedshape its intellectual directions anddimensions. As a result of his experiencewith the American Bar Foundation Surveyof Criminal Justice Administration, he pio-neered new ways of thinking about the

Professor Frank]. Remington

criminal law. Instead of concentrating ondoctrinal issues (although he has certainlymade major contributions there) he hasviewed the criminal law as an administra-tive system for the processing of allegedoffenders, a system made up of police,prosecutors, judges, corrections officialsand characterized by the necessary exer-cise of discretion. Controlling that discre-tion, making it accountable and fair,became a focus of Frank's work and amajor contribution of his scholarship.

Frank has given distinguished serviceto his students and his law schooL He hasalways carried a heavy course load. Hisroutine assignment-as anyone who hasgone to law school in the last 40 yearsknows-is a large class at 7:45 a.m. Hisconceptualization of a criminal justice sys-tem which included the exploration ofissues with the police and corrections aswell as those in the judicial trial of a case

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has expanded thecriminal law curricu-lum and made Wis-consin a leader in thecriminal justice field.

He has sought newways of teachingcriminal law andfounded one of themost successful andprestigious clinicalprograms in the coun-try: The Legal Assis-tance to Institutional-ized Persons Program(LAIP).

He has promotedprograms for minoritystudents. His workwas recognized by

the students at the Legal EducationOpportunities Program banquet in 1992with a tribute to "Campus Legend," FrankRemington.

He has done yeoman service in theLaw School serving on innumerable com-mittees. He has been a major force in thedevelopment of many law school pro-grams and services. One of his mostnoted successes, was a coup he pulled off as chair of the Faculty AppointmentsCommittee. The Chancellor hadannounced a plan, called the MadisonPlan, to increase diversity on the Madisoncampus. It involved a carrot; an additionalfaculty position was made available forany department that had a need it couldfill with a highly qualified minority facultyperson. Frank and his Appointments Com-mittee came up with not one, but foursuperbly qualified minority candidates.Although the law school did not have

ment. For many years 0959-1986) heserved as the Faculty Representative to theBig Ten, a position that fitted well with hislife-long interest in sports. Being FacultyRepresentative led to his involvement withthe National Collegiate Athletic Associa-tion and service, among other activities onits Infractions Committee, which he alsochaired for several years. As Frank's nextdoor neighbor (my office was next to his)I often marveled at the stream of visitorsto see him that this generated.

Finally, Frank has given distinguishedservice as a colleague-which is an awk-ward way of saying he is a splendid one. Ishould know. I have known Frank Rem-ington since we both began law schoolback in January 1947. I have worked withhim on a variety of projects, the Wiscon-sin Criminal Code being the most famous.I have served with him on more commit-tees than either of us would like toremember. For 20 years or so my officewas next to his.

four vacancies, we got all fourappointments.

Frank has given distinguishedservice to the state of Wisconsin,epitomizing the Wisconsin Idea ofcooperation between the universi-ty and the state. He chaired thedrafting committee that devel-oped the Wisconsin CriminalCode. Wisconsin was the first ofthe common law states to system-atically codify its substantive crim-inallaw. He then helped createthe Wisconsin Jury InstructionsCommittee to aid in implementingthe Criminal Code. That commit-tee combined the talents of trialcourt judges and university facul-ty to establish model instructionsin criminal cases, an innovativeapproach to standardization ofthe law at the trial court level.

He has given distinguishedservice to the criminal justice sys-tem at the national level, servingas a consultant on the AmericanLaw Institute Model Penal Codeproject, as director of the Ameri- Professor Margo Mellican Bar Foundation Survey of theAdministration of Criminal Justice,as reporter for the Federal Rulesof Criminal Procedure, and as consultantto numerous national projects, includingthe President's Commission on LawEnforcement and Administration of Justiceand the National Advisory Commission onCivil Disorder (Kerner Commission). Inthese and countless other ways, he hasplayed a major role nationally in thedevelopment of the criminal law in thelatter part of the 20th Century.

Frank has given distinguished serviceto his community-his country, his univer-sity. For his service as a pilot in WWII hewas awarded the Distinguished FlyingCross. From 1954-1961 he served as aCaptain in the Judge Advocate GeneralCorps.

For the University he has advised manychancellors, served on countless commit-tees including the Committee on Non-Cur-ricular Life of Students, which he chaired,and the Committee on Nondiscriminationand Affirmative Action in Faculty Employ-

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Frank is a considerate andintellectually exciting co-worker.His feedback on drafts ormanuscripts is legendary. Henever criticizes what you havedone. He just leans back in his-chair and begins to suggest otherthings you might have said. He isa bottomless pit of ideas.

As a committee member he isinvaluable. He has a remarkableability to cut through the hazegenerated by his fellow commit-tee members and get to the coreof the issues. I remember count-less meetings in which every-one-myself included-wouldhave much to say around theissue. Frank characteristically hadlittle to say at first. But when hespoke up, he often had the issuessorted out and the beginning of asolution to propose.

In spite of his involvement inso many things, Frank is nevertoo busy to help you sort outissues in a problem, to listen toyou blow off steam at someaggravation or just to chat aboutthe state of the world.

My favorite story about Frankas a colleague has nothing to do with thelaw, but it does involve another of Frank'sinterests-sports. As you know, Frank is asuperb athlete. I am not. But at the age of45 I decided to take up downhill skiingbecause my four children-ages 5-11-wanted to ski and I knew I would have totake them. So one weekend, the Melliswent up to Ironwood, Michigan andarmed with borrowed equipment, I wasgoing to learn to ski. The Remingtonswere there also and Frank tried to be ofsome help, taking me up the chair lift andgrabbing my elbow as I started to fall get-ting off. The next Monday morning Frankstopped in my office.

He sat down, looked me in the eyeand said, "This noon I think we shouldbuy you some good ski equipment."

"That's a waste of money," I said. "Ihave no athletic ability."

"That's what I mean," said Frank. "Youneed all the help you can get."

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Professor Jacob H. Beuscher

resources, and especially of wateras well as of soil and land surface."Highly respected, indeed beloved,as a teacher Beuscher consideredhimself first and foremost a scholarand researcher. But he was not justa library researcher. He was one ofthe inventors of what has beencalled the study of "law in action."He wanted to know how the lawreally worked and how it interact-ed with the economy and the com-munity. This interest, as well as hislove of the out of doors, led himinevitably to his deep involvementwith the state legislature, stateagencies and with natural resourceconservation policy.

HistoryBorn April 4, 1907, in Cudahy,Wisconsin, Jacob H. Beuscher wasthe son of a practicing lawyer anda member of a family of Judgesand lawyers. He graduated first in

his class from the University of WisconsinLaw School in 1930 and went on to earnan SJD as a Sterling Fellow at Yale LawSchool 1932. After a stint in private prac-tice in the family firm he began a 32-yearcareer as a law professor in 1935, takingtime out only for service in the OPA andthe U.S. Navy during World War II. As aprofessor at the University of WisconsinLaw School he pioneered in the field thatlater came to be known as environmentallaw. He created the first course at the lawschool in Land Use Regulation, taught aRiver Basin Planning Seminar and a vari-ety of other seminars and courses that

Jake Beuscher was a scholar, a teacherand a participant in public policy. Hiseminent colleague Professor Willard Hurst,said of him: "To law teaching andresearch . . . he brought the hardheadedinsistence on relevance, the pragmaticskills in problem solution, and the disci-plined work habits of the capable lawyer,It was natural to his qualities of mind thathe steadily developed his work beyondconcern with familiar questions of 'markettransactions in land titles, to inquiries intothe relations between the general econo-my and legal controls on the uses of land,an then into questions of the proper pub-lic policy to guide the use of all natural

Editors Note: Recently long-timeUW Law School Professor jakeBeuscber was nominated for theWisconsin Conservation Hall ofFame, Emeritus Prof Arlen Chris-tenson prepared the/allowingmaterial/or the nomination,

For 32 years, from 1935 until hisuntimely death in 1967, Jacob H,(lake) Beuscher was a leadingmember of the University of Wis-consin law faculty where he per-sonified the "Wisconsin Idea" thatthe boundaries of the campus arethe boundaries of the state. Gover-nor Gaylord Nelson called him"one of the most importantresource experts on whom Irelied." Governor Warren Knowles,within a week of Beuscher's death,paid tribute to him as he signedone of that sessions most impor-tant conservation bills. FormerSpeaker of the Assembly and lead-ing conservation legislator NormanAnderson called Beuscher "a well-springof creative ideas about how things couldget done [who] made a great contributionto the environmental laws of this state."The Wisconsin legislature, in a joint reso-lution, pointed out that he "donatedcountless hours to serving as a consultantand member of committees advising theWisconsin legislature and state govern-ment generally" and that "he played amajor role in ... drafting a water pollu-tion control law and the comprehensivelaw which was enacted in 1966 was areflection of his efforts."

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combined study of traditional legal princi-ples with other disciplines concerned withissue of land and water protection. Hewas instrumental in creating an inter-disci-plinary approach to the problems of landand water conservation and was one ofthe founders of the university's successfulWater Resources Management Program.That program was the first of the manyprograms now under the auspices of theInstitute for Environmental Studies. Profes-sor Beuscher was one of the most respect-ed members of the University Faculty atthe time of his sudden death in 1967. Buthe was much more. He was lover of theout of doors, an activist and a leader informulating and implementing naturalresource conservation policy.

Professor Beuscher's contributions toresource conservation policy are wellsummarized by Fran Thomas in hermonograph entitled Law in Action: LegalFrontiers for Natural Resource Planning.The Work of Professor Jacob H. Beuscber(Land Economics Monograph No.4,UW-Madison 1972):

For thirty years "Jake" as he wasknown to his associates, wrote, andreviewed, and proposed legislation. Hisprimary continuing affiliations werewith various committees of the NaturalResources Committee of State Agencies(NRCSA), the Department of ResourceDevelopment (DRD), the WisconsinLegislative Council, and the state Soiland Water Conservation Committee.Under NRCSA,from 1951 to 1967, he

prepared reports and worked on legis-lation relating to a possible water usecode, underground water, water pollu-tion, flood Plain zoning and shore landregulations. As a member of the Wis-consin Development Commission, Pro-fessor Beuscher was in 1958 requestedby the Governor to write a proposal[which led to] legislation creating the

Department of Resource Development .... Within the DRD he was asked to super-vise a study regarding the place of landuse controls in the State Plan. He was onthe Water Resources Advisory Board ofthe DRD and assisted in a shore landstudy.

He was a vice-chairman of the Gover-nor's Advisory Committee on StateResource Planning, a group chargedwith creating a "plan for planning;" amember of the Governor's Committeeon Wisconsin Water Resources, agroup called upon to review and rec-ornmend water legislation; and heworked with the Governor's Commit-tee on Eminent Domain.As a member of the Wisconsin Leg-

islative Council's Water ResourcesCommittee he and others wrote legisla-tion regarding water use, watershedcontrol, and drainage laws. On theUrban Problems Committee of theCouncil he was involved in draftingincorporation standards, regional plan-ning and counting planning and zon-ing. He worked with others on a revi-sion of Chapter 236, Wisconsin'sSubdivision and Platting Code.His concern for planning for the

future and his interest in the conserva-tion of natural resources combine insome of his region-wide memberships,such as that on the Fox River ValleyRegional Planning Commission, onwhich he and others wrote legislationto create multiple -purpose conservan-cy districts, and on various committeesrelating to the Wolf River basin. TheWolf River Basin Study which he pro-vided to the Wisconsin Legislatureserved as a beginning subject matterfor a River Basin Planning Seminar totrain young planners, engineers" politi-cal scientists, economists and lawyersin a real-life setting. He was in chargeof preparing two reports-one onwater law in southeastern Wisconsinand one on land use controls-as a

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member of the Southeastern WisconsinRegional Planning Commission, aseven-county regional planning com-mission which he helped 'propagan-dize ... into existence" and whichexemplified his belief that decornpart-mentalized planning would yield valu-able results. (Emphasis in original)

There was little, if any, conservationlegislation adopted by the Wisconsin legis-lature between the late fifties and Profes-sor Beuscher's death in 1967 that did notbear his stamp. Among the laws withwhich he was intimately involved werethe following:~ Chapter 442, Laws of 1959 creating the

Department of Resource Development1>. Chapter 427, Laws of 1961; the Out-

door Recreation Act (ORAP) usingfunds from cigarette taxes to acquireand develop for public use lands forsport recreation, access and scenic andother easements.

~ Chapter 253, Laws of 1963: barringfuture dams from the Wolf River northof the south boundary of ShawanoCounty.

~ Chapter 263, Laws of 1965; providingfor the purchase of easements overshore land along the Wolf River.

~ Chapters 274 and 573, Laws of 1965:authorizing participation by Wisconsinin interstate boundary waters commis-sions with Minnesota and Michiganrespectively.

!> Chapter 445, Laws of 1965: requiringfor the first time state permissionbefore an industry could dischargenew or additional wastes into the sur-face waters of the state.

~ Chapter 502, Laws of 1965: providingfor water studies, data collection andresearch. The University of WisconsinWater Resource Center which ProfessorBeuscher helped establish, was tooversee the studies.

~ Chapter 614, Laws of 1966, the monu-mental water resource protection law,enacted to "organize a comprehensiveprogram under a single state agencyfor the enhancement of the quality,

management and protection of all thewaters of the state, ground and surface,public and private" was, no doubt,Professor Beuscher's crowningachievement. This landmark lawincluded the fundamental water pro-tection provisions that continue to belaw today and formed the foundationfor the impressive water clean up thathas occurred in Wisconsin in the lastthirty years. In addition it included theprecedent setting provisions still inplace for flood plain and shore landzoning. Governor Gaylord Nelson saidabout this legislation, "It was a newbeginning for Wisconsin's fight to pro-tect water resources and Jake Beuscherplayed a em cia I role."

Jake Beuscher's final contribution toWisconsin's natural resource protectionlaws came in the last year of his life dur-ing the legislative battles surrounding theenactment of the Kellett Bill and its mas-sive reorganization of the executivebranch of state government. When the billwas stalled due to the opposition of con-servationist to the elimination of the Con-servation Department as a voice on behalfof protecting natural resources, Beuscher'sidea for a state Public Intervenor to playthat role was critical to making the billlaw. It was also a visionary idea that pro-duced great benefit to the cause ofresource conservation. For almost thirtyyears, until its powers were taken away inlast year's budget bill the Public Inter-venor led the fight for public rights in nat-ural resources. Without the Public Inter-venor in the bill, Governor Knowlesgovernment reorganization plans wouldhave failed. With Jake Beuscher's idea thebill was saved and the public's voice innatural resource protection continued tobe heard for thirty more years.

Emeritus Professor Arlen Christenson

ConclusionProfessor Beuscher was indeed a "foun-tain of ideas." He publicized those ideasin more that 150 books, papers and arti-cles published over almost 40 years. Char-acteristically many of those publicationswere not in the usual academic journalsbut in places like Hoard's Dairyman, theHighway Research Board Bulletin, LocalPlanning Administration and the Munici-pal Law Service Letter where his ideaswere accessible to the people who couldput them into practice. A true scholar anda widely admired academic, Jake Beusch-er wanted to make things happen. Hecared deeply about the environment andabout natural resources and he saw it ashis duty to do something about the grow-ing threats he saw much earlier than mostpeople.

Jake Beuscher's ideas were innumer-able and they were also prophetic in thetrue sense of that word. Here is what hetold us more than thirty years ago when,in the words of his biographer "he listedthe three most serious problems facing usboth at present and in the future, all threespringing from our affluence, mobility andexpanding population;"

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(I) An increasing demand that openspaces, outdoor amenities, and estheti-cally pleasing surroundings be pre-served. To these ends there must beorderly growth, prepared for throughplanning, in part by the use of regula-tory tools used singly and in combina-tion. (2) "Staggering demand"-anddemands that will continue toincrease- for open, clean water forevery legitimate use, ... (3) A "grow-ing a deep-rooted concern about thequality of our environment and thethreats to this quality from residues andwastes of our onrushing technology"

This prophecy was pronounced beforeEarth Day, before Rachel Carson's book,before the National Environmental PolicyAct and before there were more than ahandful of people who thought aboutthese things. To say that Jake Beuscherwas a man ahead of his time is to state theobvious, He was one of a kind. No one inthe history of the University of Wisconsinhas matched his contributions to the statein which he was born and to which hedevoted a life time of accomplishment. Atruly gifted teacher he introduced a gener-ations of students, in law, agriculture,planning and environmental studies to hisdisciplined and scholarly approach toproblems-legal, policy and political, andto his love of the natural world aroundhim. Professor Jacob H. Beuscher personi-fied conservation leadership. His leader-ship produced concrete results in legisla-tion, administrative policy and education.His memory lives on in the lives andworks of those he influenced so mucinand it is fitting that he be recognized bybeing enshrined with other leaders. ,0many of whom he knew, worked wiH;and inspired.

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Four new faculty membersjoined us this fall: Gregory Shaf-fer, Stanford '88; Bernard Trujil-lo, Yale '92; Heinz Klug, Hast-ings '89 and D.W. SJD '96; andJane Larson, Minnesota '85.Watch upcoming issues for a fullreport on these outstanding addi-tions to our teaching staff.

Prof. Joseph Thome reportson the on-going success of ourexchange program with the Uni-versity of Diego Portales LawSchool in Chile. After visitingthere recently, Prof. Thomereturned with the photo repro-duced here.

The Institute for Legal Studiesrecently hosted a major national confer-ence on the Future of Punitive Damages.Over three days in October, experts in liti-gation, damages, and legal reform met anddiscussed the history, current status andfuture of punitive damages. Prof. MarcGalanter, director of the Institute, indi-cates that the conference was a great suc-cess in assessing information on punitivedamages and suggesting the future of suchawards.

Clinical Professor Louise Trubek,who was recently honored with the SallySunde Award for Social Justice by Commu-nity Shares of Wisconsin, has also recentlypublished a new poverty law casebook.

Prof. Alan Weisbard was an invitedparticipant in the U.S. Holocaust ResearchInstitute's Conference on the Obligationsof Medicine to the State. Weisbard's pre-sentation was entitled: Devaluing Life:Does the Nazi Experience have Implica-tions for Contemporary Health Care.

(From L to R): Dean Sergio Illanes, University of Diego PortalesLaw School in Chile; UWexchange students Thomas Martin andSara Fiscus; Professor Joseph Thome; Felipe Gonzalez, professorat Portales and advisor to UW students.

Professor Roger C. Cramton ofCornell Law School will be thefirst Warren P. Knowles Professorat our School. The estate of thelate Governor Knowles ('33)created the professorship in thearea of ethics in government andlaw. Proceeds from the profes-sorship will be used to bring dis-tinguished visitors to the LawSchool for teaching and scholar-ship. Prof. Cramton will be herein the fall of 1997. A former clerkto U.S. Supreme Court JusticeHarold Burton (1956-57), formerdean at Cornell (1973-80), andnoted author, Prof. Cramton is amost appropriate choice to inau-gurate this professorship.

U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District ofWisconsin, Thomas P. Schneider (72),recently negotiated a substantial "gift" tothe Law School as part of a sentencingpackage in a federal conspiracy case.Schneider included a "community servicepayment" of $100,000, equally split byWisconsin's two law schools, to fund pro-grams on business law ethics.

Prof. Frank Tuerkheimer reports thatKim Mayer, a current third-year student,recently won a reversal for an indigentdefendant. Mayer was supervised byTuerkheimer on the appeal of a case tothe Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals underthe Criminal Justice Act. The issueinvolved sentencing procedures.

Charles F. Ince ('41) recently made amajor gift to the Law School to complete

the J. Willard Hurst Professor-History. Luce, Hurst's first

student research assistant, retired as chair-nun chief executive officer of Consoli-Lilted Edison in New York in 1982.

Consumer Law Project announcesrhat David Vladeck, an attorney with thePublic Citizen Litigation Group, will be theconsumer-advocate-in-residence in earlyMarch 1997. Mr. Vladeck, a graduate ofColumbia University Law School, will givea general law school talk, meet with facul-ty, and be available to guest lecture in anumber of classes during his stay.

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Rudolph P. Regez ('36) reports that hisclass held a 60th reunion recently in Madi-son. Attending were: George Kowalczyk,Austin Smith and Regez.

lloyd A. Barbee ('55), a former mem-ber of the Law School's Board of Visitors,has received the seventh annual]amesHoward Baker Award from the Communi-ty Brainstroming Conference for his life-time efforts in civil rights and equalopportunities.

Patrick Dolan ('61) has joined theMadison office of Reinhart, Boerner, VanDeuren, Norris & Rieselbach. Dolan willdo labor and employment litigation.

Wisconsin Supreme Court JusticeJon P. Wilcox ('65) has been named afellow of the American Bar Foundation.The selection recognizes outstanding dedi-cation to the highest principles of thelegal profession.

Thomas J. Bauch ('66) has retired assenior vice prseident, general counsel, andcorporate secretary of Levi Strauss & Co.Bauch will remain with the company as aconsultant.

Patrick Jordan ('67) has joined theSan Franciso firm of jeffer, Mangels, Butler& Marrnaro.

Prof. Robert]. Wright ill ('67), Uni-versity of Arkansas-Little Rock School ofLaw, has been elected chair of the Gener-al Practice, Solo and Small Firm Section ofthe American Bar Association.

Prof. John McCormack ('68), LoyolaUniversity of Chicago School of Law, hasbeen honored for twenty-five years ofteaching service to his school.

James G. Derouin ('68) has joined thePhoenix office of Steptoe & Johnson.

Paul H. Dawes (70) has been selectedas chair of the litigation department ofLatham & Watkins. Dawes is a partner inthe San Francisco office of that firm.

Thomas J. Kennedy ('72) has joinedthe Phoenix firm, Ryley, Carlock & Apple-white, where he will practice labor law.

Anthony J. Randall (73) has beensworn in as a U.S. Immigration Judge inMiami.

Mark A. Nordenberg (73) has beenappointed as Chancellor of the Universityof Pittsburgh. Nordenberg had previouslyserved as Dean of that University's LawSchool.

Mari Gursky Shaw (73) has joinedthe Philadelphia office of Akin, Gump,Strauss, Hauer & Feld as Managing Part-ner.

William D. Harvey (74) has beennamed President of Wisconsin Power andLight and Vice President of InterstateEnergy Corporation.

Leon Z. Heller (74) has been namedGeneral Counsel & Secretary of Envi-roxource, Inc., in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

Sidney M. Nowell (75) has joined theFlordia Aviation Management Develop-ment Associates (FAMDA) where he willfocus on employment and managementlaw matters.

jann Ozzelo Wilcox (77) has beennamed to the Board of Directors of ZomaxOptical Media, Inc. Wilcox is senior vicepresident and chief financial officer ofMarquette Bancshares, Inc., in Minneapo-lis.

David G. Deininger (78) is thenewest judge of the Wisconsin Court ofAppeals.

Mary Hanson (78), who practicesbusiness law in Torrance, California,announces thate three of her business lawarticles have been licensed by Time maga-zine and can be found on their website at:httpv/www.timevista.corn.

Josephine V. Dye ('81), chief attorneyof the family and education law divisionof Legal Services of North Texas, has wonthe J. Chrys Dougherty Legal ServicesAward for her innovations in her field,

Greg D. Richardson ('81) has left theJustice Fellowship to establish and directthe Restroative Justice Institute in Wash-ington, DC.

Melanie Aska Knox ('83), a share-holder in the Milwaukee firm Godfrey &Kahn, recently co-authored Pension Dis-tribuition Answer Book, her fourth bookin the area of pension and benefit man-agement.

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Brian R. Garves ('85) has joined thenew firm, Willmarth & Tanoury, in Detroit.The firm will do defense of medical mal-practice, health care consulting and gener-alliability defense.

Vincent A. Thomas ('86), a memberof the Law School Board of Visitors, hasbeen named Assistant Dean of Students atHamline Law School in St. Paul.

Will Morris ('86) has been namedAssociate Head Men's Basketball Coach atCalifornia State University, Hayward, anNCAADivision II school. While in LawSchool, Morris coached the "LearnedHands," a team of women students andalumni.

William Oemichen ('86) has beennamed director of Wisconsin's Division ofTrade and Consumer Protection.Oemichen had been deputy commissionerand chief legal counsel for the MinnesotaAgriculture Department.

Daniel T. Flaherty ('86), formerlywith the U.S. Attorney's Office in Milwau-kee, has joined Godfrey & Kahn where hewill concentrate in business litigation.

Daniel 1. Woehrer ('87) has beennamed a vice president of Norwest Invest-ment Management & Trust in Milwaukee.Woehrer will serve as a personal trust offi-cer and offer estate and investmentadvice.

Kevin G. Fitzgerald ('87) has beennamed a partner at Foley & Lardner.Fitzgerald practices in the insurance groupat the firms offices in Milwaukee and Tal-lahassee.

Christopher C. Dickinson ('8b/become a partner at Jenner & Block,Chicago.

Helen Abrams Winder ('88), ofEdina, Minnesota, has been certified as areal property law specialist by the Min-nesota State Bar Association.

Kristine M. Strodthoff ('89) hasjoined the Milwaukee office of Godfrey &Kahn where she will practice in the Intel-lectual Property group.

Michele Powers ('94) has joined theLos Angeles firm Pircher, Nichols &Meeks. Powers will do environmental andreal estate litigation.

Rachel M. Bacalzo ('94) has joined thePhoenix firm of Yen & Pilch where shewill do civil litigation.

Nancy Noet ('94) has joined the litiga-tion department of Reinhart, Boerner, VanDeuren, Norris & Rieselbach in its Milwau-kee office.

Jacob P. Westerhof ('95) has joinedDeWitt Ross & Stevens, Madison, wherehe will do general litigation.

Sarah E. Coyne ('95) has joined theMadison office of Quarles & Brady. Coynewill do litigation.

Michael D. Morneault ('95) hasjoined the Pittsburgh office of Morgan,Lewis & Bockius where he will do corpo-rate and securities law.

Quarles & Brady announces that ScottL. Langlois ('86) and Francis H. LoCoco('86) have become partners in the firm'sMilwaukee office while Kevin A. Delorey('86) is a new partner in the Madisonoffice.

von Briesen, Purtell & Roper, Milwau-kee announce that Catherine F. Conway('86), Timothy C. McDonald ('84) andWilliam R. West ('86) have becomeshareholders. Conway and McDonald willfocus on employee benefits, West will dobusiness and tax practice. Also joining thefirm are: David I. Nestingen ('78),Thomas ]. Kammerait ('81) and MichaelT. Byrnes ('95), formerly of Prieve &Meyer; Betty J. Juler ('95), from the Rein-hart firm: and David P. Muth ('96).

Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, I\ladi-son, announce that Richard L. Schmidt('89) and Anita T. Gallucci ('89) havebecome partners while Richard L. Bolton('84), Jennifer S. Mirus ('93), M. TessO'Brien-Heinzen ('93) and Susan L.Collins ('95) are new associates.

The Financial Accounting Foundation,who helps set financial reporting stan-dards for businesses, non-profit organiza-tions and governmental units, has appoint-ed David Ruder ('57) and Paul Soglin(72) to its Board of Trustees. Ruder is theformer chair of the U.S. Securities andExchange Commission. Soglin is theMayor of Madison, Wisconsin.

The Association for Women Lawyers,Milwaukee, announces that Louise H.Stone ('81), Joan Bartels Farrell ('87)and Sarah]. Elliott ('84) have beenappointed to its Board of Directors. TheAssociation also presentd its MentorAward to Amy R. Seibel ('80), in recogni-tion of her contributions to the profession-al developemnt of women lawyers. Seibelpractices with Weiss, Berzowski, Brady &Donahue in Milwaukee

Harnischfeger Industries, Inc.,announces the promotion of Eric Fonstad(73) and Kim Kodousek ('79) to associ-ate general counsels.

William R. West

Michele A. Powers

Timothy C. McDonald

Eric Fonstad

Raymond}, Ramsey('91), former law clerk toJudge Cecil F. Poole and for-mer staff attorney for theU.S. Court of Appeals, NinthCircuit, has joined the SanFrancisco office of Baker &McKenzie where he willpractice in the corporate liti-gation group.

April D. Madison-Ram-sey ('92), former staff attor-ney for the U.S. Court ofAppeals, Ninth Circuit, hasjoined the San Franciscooffice of Morrison and Foer-ster where she will do cor-porate litigation.

Kevin ], Palmersheim ('92) hasbecome a shareholder in the Madison firmof Haley Palmersheim. The firm does busi-ness law and business litigation.

Claire Ann Resop ('93) has joined theHartford. Wisconsin, office of Mohr &Arld~r~on.

joelyn Knopf ('93) has joined the cor-porate legal staff of BR Health System inSt. Louis. Knopf previously practiced withPillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francis-co.

Natalia C. Walter ('94) has joined theCatholic Legal Immigration Network(CLINIC) as a staff attorney in EI Paso,Texax. She will coordinate a new detaineerepresentation program.

Catherine F. Conway

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s I write I am beginning my twen-ty-second year as Assistant Dean atthe Law School. As I remembered

that first day, it occurred to me how muchhas changed around me. I reported to theold Placement Office, an area that wasrenamed Career Services in the 1980's andgutted and rebuilt in the recent renova-tion. The old facility had four interviewrooms. During the boom-years we had asmany as eleven rooms going per day andaveraged about seven during the fall inter-viewing season. The new facility hasseven within the office, all nicely decorat-ed and furnished.

The Law School in 1976 was only thir-teen years old, at least the classroom por-tion. In fact, when I began as a student in1969, it was only six years old. Even thenit looked far older, worn beyond its years.By 1976, many of the classroom deskswere "decorated" with duct tape and thewallpaper meant to cheer up the trulyinstitutional hallways was about to bepainted in yet another attempt to instillsome life (later, Cliff Thompson would tryplants in the wall mounted ashtrays, butthere never was enough light). Two of ourlarger clinical programs were housed inthe old state crime lab across UniversityAvenue, next door to the old bank build-ing that housed CLEW, our continuinglegal education program.

Orrin Helstad was the interim deanwho hired me. During my first year, Orrinbecame the first of the three deans I haveworked with (so far). In 1984, CliffThompson arrived one morning in August.In the great Wisconsin tradition, Cliffarrived towing a U-haul trailer which heproceeded to unload by himself. In 1991,Cliff gave way to Dan Bernstine, who hasannounced his resignation elsewhere inthis issue. This School has been blessedby a series of dedicated, talented deanswho have each stayed almost twice aslong as the national average giving thisSchool an added measure of stability.

Our School has also been blessed byan unusually talented group of faculty,many of whom are still here serving our

students, the State and Nation, and theprofession. Of those who left, most werelured away to Schools with larger endow-ments. Some of the great ones haveretired and others have gone to their greatreward: Bob Skilton, who entertained mewith his recollections and writings until aweek before his death; Frank Remington,who taught me about life over a cup ofcoffee before his 7:45 am classes; GeorgeYoung, who found a joy to life that hecould share with the twinkle in his eyes;and Abner Brodie, who inspired fear inthe classroom and warmth everywhereelse.

Fortunately, not everything haschanged. Current faculty continue toinspire students to a wide variety of tradi-tional and non-traditional careers. Studentscontinue to report to the School with avariety of motivations reflecting the needsof our society. Alumni continue to giveback to the School a measure of what theSchool gave to them. Recently the Dean,Chris Richards and I met with a donorwho said, "I don't know why more peopledon't give, it's so much fun!" Our recentbuilding project caused a large number ofalumni to give, and give generously.While "fun" may not have been their origi-nal motivation, I hope they all discoveredhow pleasant giving can be. I hope so

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because we may just ask them again,sometime in my next twenty-one years.

Four alumni from the 1950's helpedidentify the last mystery picture: LeonSheehan ('50), La Crosse; Bob Consigney('55), Janesville; Jim Vessey ('56), Min-neapolis; William Dolson ('56), Louisville;and Hugh Hafer ('56) Seattle. Seated, fromthe right, were Dick Donaldson ('56),Seattle, and either Jim Vessey ('56), Min-neapolis, Larry Hammond ('55), Milwau-kee, or Judge Lincoln Neprud, who servedthe La Crosse Circuit court in the 1950'sand 60's (one vote apiece and one absten-tion). Since Jim Vessey is willing to identi-fy himself, I suspect that he is the personpictured. Standing in the back, from theright, were: Hugh Hafer, one of the identi-fiers; Dick Robinson ('56), Milwaukee; andDave MacGregor ('56), also of Milwaukee.

In honor of my anniversary, I've decid-ed to make it easy on you with this mys-tery picture. Any guesses of people not inthe Class of 1950 will be automatically dis-qualified. Anyone in the Class of 1950 thatcan't identify at least three of these peoplewill have their diplomas cancelled. Andanyone who wants one of the pieces ofart visible in the picture should write tothe Wisconsin Center.