University of Wisconsin Law School Gargoyle Alumni Magazine

Alumni Bulletin of the Univ~rsity of Wisconsin Law SchoolVol. 7 Autumn 1975

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:J~eqal"0'llelaw SchoolUniversity of WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin 53706

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THEDEAN ISGONE-

On Monday morning, June 30,Associate Dean Orrin Helstad be-came Acting Dean. Because of hislong experience as teacher andadministrator, the transition wassmooth, and the general atmos-phere is relaxed and purposeful.

On the last Friday of June, witha friendly wave of farewell, DeanGeorge Bunn vacated his officeand took off on a vacation trip toCalifornia. He and his wife Annespent a couple of weeks en routewith their camper. In August theywere in the High Sierras on a trek.During the first semester, 1975-76,Professor Bunn will be back inMadison to serve as one of thelaw professors who supervise thework of law students who haveclinical placements at the Centerfor Public Representation. At itssummer meeting, the State Bar ofWisconsin honored Dean Bunn forhis successful efforts to foster goodrelations between the Law Schooland the Bar.

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Greetings From TheActing Dean . .

Book Award ForAlex Brooks . .

James E. Jones Jr.Wears Many Hats

Many Professors OnLeave, 1975-76 ..

Visiting Lecturers TakeTheir Places . . . . . .

CLEO Comes to Wisconsin

MacDonalds to Far East .

ALI-ABA Pioneers InContinuing EducationFor Lawyers

TABLE OF CONTENTS

An Irish Summer

A Noble (And Successful)Experiment .

Tuerkheimer Returns ToThe Law School

Legal Assistance toInmates . . . . . .

Where Are You Now? .

Things Are ToughAllOver

Notice To All Alumni

WLAA Annual Fund Drive-Volunteers Needed

New Hastie Fellows . . . . .

Summer Sessions ContinueTo Grow.

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

Vol. 7 No. I Autumn 1975Ruth B. Doyle, editor

Publication office, law School, Universityof Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Second classpostage paid at Madison, Wis. and Water-loo, Wis.Postmaster's Note: Please send form 3579to "Gargoyle", University of WisconsinLaw School, Madison, Wisconsin.Subscription Price: 50¢ per year for mem-bers, $1.00 per year for non-members.

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associate with the Wisconsin Leg-islative Council, he joined the LawSchool faculty in 1961. He hastaught co u r s e s in CommercialLaw, Creditor's Rights, Land UseControls and Local GovernmentLaw, among others.

Dean Helstad is a Wisconsinnative. He graduated from BlairHigh School, spent two years atwhat is now the University ofWisconsin-LaCrosse and anotheryear on the Madison campus be-fore going to Law School. HisLaw School class had its 25threunion in May, 1975. He servedas Note Editor of the WisconsinLaw Review, and was chosen amember of Coif.

Good thing, too. The search fora permanent Dean will continue.It may be another year before thevacancy is filled on a semi-perma-nent basis. It appears that thereare no permanent law schooldeans anymore. Abner Brodie,Chairman of the Search andScreen Committee, has expressedoptimism, howe v e r , that nextyear's Committee will be able tofind a person who meets the highstandards of scholarly activities,interest in legal education andleadership qua l iti e s which theCommittee and Chancellor haveset for the job. He noted "an un-derstanding and sympathetic re-sponse to the needs of the School"on the part of the Regents and theMadison Campus administration.

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The Gargoyle, of Summer, t• 1975 (Vol. 6, No.4) carried •

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GREETINGS

fROM THE ACTING DEAN

As the Editor of the Gargoylehas just told you, I became theActing Dean of the Law School atthe beginning of July. I expect mytenure to be even less permanentthan that of most deans. Fortu-nately, I can start my tenure witha considerable degree of optimism.

You will recall that in the im-mediately preceding issues of theGargoyle, former Dean GeorgeBunn reported to you in eitherpessimistic or optimistic tones, de-pending on the status of the budgetbattle as of the particular moment.I can now report that the "goodguys" eventually won. A total of$236,800 for the biennium, abovewhat we thought in our mostpessimistic moments we were go-ing to get, was added to the LawSchook's budget, thanks to theefforts of a number of people, in-cluding alumni and other friendsof the Law School both in and outof the Legislature.

This money will enable us tocontinue and strengthen a numberof programs which at times withinthe past year we thought we wouldhave to abandon. We will be ableto continue our clinical programat least at the same level as in thepast, continue our small sectionprogram and intensive LegalWriting program for first yearstudents, continue to offer twosections of General Practice eachyear and continue our extensiveofferings of lecturer-taught coursesin the trial court and trial ad-vocacy area.

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I do not wish to imply that thefinancial problems of the LawSchool have been solved. For themost part, we merely are contin-uing programs which we have hadin the past, funded now by statefunds rather than from federal andfoundation grants. We still havetoo many large classes and toofew seminars. We clearly will needto continue to strive for improve-ments. We will need to continueto rely heavily on both the moraland financial support of our alum-ni. Nevertheless, in an age ofausterity, I feel we have made realprogress. Our students will con-tinue to get an excellent education.And so I look forward to the1975-76 academic year withoptimism.

Orrin L. HelstadProf. Orrin Helstad

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BOOK AWARDFOR ALEX BROOKS

Because he has taught a sum-mer course in the Law School forthe past 10 summers, the an-nouncement that Professor Brookshas been awarded the GuttmacherPrize for his book on Law, Psy-chiatry and Mental Health by theAmerican Psychiatric Associationwill be of interest to many alumni.

During his stay in Wisconsinthis past summer, he appeared ona panel at the summer meeting ofthe State Bar of Wisconsin. Hisintriguing subject was that ofdangerousness.

Recent decisions in a number offederal courts have said that aperson cannot be institutionalizedas a mental patient against his orher will unless it is determined thatrelease would provide real dangerto the person or others.

Professor Brooks is a seniorFaculty member at Rutgers Uni-versity Law School, Newark.

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AN IRISH SUMMER

A United Nations study whichseeks to establish an equitablesystem of international taxationto which the developing nationsof Africa and the western countriessubscribe has provided ProfessorCharles Irish with a Kissinger-likesummer, travelling from capitalto capital in western Europe andAfrica.

The absence of enforceable taxsystems in the African nations hasslowed development, because reve-nue needed is not available. Taxeson property owned and incomeearned within the countries arehard to collect. In Z ambia, forexample, the many thousands ofsole proprietors of shops, taxies,taverns, etc. pay no taxes at all.Taxes on international transac-tions-such as royalties on export-ed raw materials-are more oftenevaded than not.

Competition for foreign tradeand foreign exchange among theAfrican nations has so far pre-vented the development of a soundsystem of payments by the na-tions of western Europe.

The U.N. Economic Commis-sion for Africa seeks to change allthat through a simple treaty inwhich the developing countries willagree with each other on a singlesystem which will be fair andworkable-producing revenues onthe same basis for all.

After months of study of theAfrican economies, Professor Irishstarted his journeys at the close ofthe school year in May by visitingthe governments of England, Bel-gium, the Netherlands and WestGermany. He sought from eachof them some tentative agreementon the terms which would be neces-sary to encourage internationaltrade and at the same time providerevenue for the development pro-grams of the African nations.

Thus armed with an under-standing of the problems faced byWestern nations which serve asthe market for African products,Professor Irish proceeded to con-ferences in E t hi 0 pia, Tunisia,Egypt, Kenya, Botswana, Nigeriaand Ghana. All arrangements forhis visits and introductions to theeconomic ministers were made bythe United Nations representativesin the Afrtcan nations.

The goal of the mission is thepreparation of a multi-nationtreaty. Professor Irish's report willbe presented to a conference of theAfrican nations during 1976.

Professor Irish believes thatsuch a treaty will provide a solu-tion to some of Africa's economicproblems-but certainly not all.

The United States is a relativelysmall beneficiary of African rawmaterials, and does not figure atall in the negotiations at this stage.

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Professor June Weisberger tookup the challenge to provide a com-plete course in Trusts and Estates(3 credits) during the University'snow officially established inter-session-May 19 to June 6.

The class began at 9: 15 everymorning and ended at 12:00. Theparticipants reported that the timewent quickly. Mrs. Weisberger lec-tured only part of the time-par-ticularly in the final meetings. Thecourse included a visit to theProbate Court. Each student wrotea paper, and completed a will-drafting exercise. There was aregular examination at the end ofthe course.

The experiment awaits a de-tailed evaluation; student opinionshave been requested. Immediatereactions from both teacher (hav-ing read the papers and exams)and the students were heartening.Students reported a feeling of ac-complishment on the completionof such an intensive task. TheProfessor acknowledges a quali-fied success, although she wouldmake a few relatively minorchanges another time-allowing aday or two to elapse between theclass and the examination, forexample. She does feel that a fullsemester's work was covered suc-cessfully.

For the students enrolled, itprovided a profitable use for threeweeks which might otherwise havebeen idle.

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This is an example of thechanges in legal education, devel-oped not because of any grandplan, but because they make sense,to students and faculty; bothgroups are becoming more flexiblein the approach to legal education.

TUERKHEIMER RETURNSTO THE LAW SCHOOL

In the fall of 1973, ProfessorFrank Tuerkheimer took leave ofthe Law School to serve in Wash-ington on the staff of the Water-

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gate Special Prosecutor as anAssociate Special Prosecutor.

He has now returned to aca-deme; he began by teaching Evi-dence for seven weeks in the sum-mer session. Although the 18months he and his family spent inWashington were exciting and anhistorically unique experience, theyare glad to be back in Madison.

While in the Special Prosecu-tor's office, Professor Tuerkheimerwas in charge of the investigationinto possible violations of lawarising out of contributions madeby dairy interests. This investiga-tion led to charges against Associ-ated Milk Producers, Inc., two ofits former officers, two former at-torneys for AMPI, two principalsof a computer service firm doingbusiness with AMPI, a formercampaign manager of HubertHumphrey and former Treasury-Secretary Connolly. All but Con-nolly, the former Humphrey cam-paign manager and one of thelawyers pleaded guilty. The threecontested cases ended with guiltyverdicts in two cases and an ac-quittal in the Connolly case. Pro-fessor Tuerkheimer was the chiefprosecution attorney in the Con-nolly case. Connolly was repre-sented by Edward Bennett Wil-liams. The trial, before a D.C.jury, lasted three weeks.

In addition, Tuerkheimer ar-gued a mandamus action beforethe Fifth Circuit Court of Appealsdealing with the power of a federaljudge to contravene the.provisionsof a plea agreement reached be-tween government and defense at-torneys. He also dealt with theWhite House, the Senate Select(Ervin) Committee and the HouseJudiciary (Impeachment) Commit-tee on issues related to the dairyinvestigation. Five Assistant Spe-cial Prosecutors worked with Pro-fessor Tuerkheimer on thesevarious matters.

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LEGALASSISTANCE TO INMATES

By John NorsetterClass of 1971

Supervising attorney in LegalAssistance to Inmates Program.

The increasingly wide varietyof services for which governmentmoney is spent has had an im-pact on social service programsthroughout the country. Agenciesrepresenting everything from daycare centers to vocational coun-selling to various components ofthe criminal justice and mentalhealth systems find themselves vy-ing for a limited amount of funds.Even within the criminal justicesystem, controversy exists overwhere money should be spent.Should some of it be used to com-pensate the victims of crime, toimp rove law enforcement andcrime control, to provide morejudges and prosecutors for speedyprocessing of cases, or for commu-nity based treatment facilities?Some persons contend moreshould be spent on "crime preven-tion" social service programs suchas alcohol and drug counselling,family support services, and in-creased educational and voca-tional opportunities.

Given these sometimes compet-ing philosophies concerning gov-ernment expenditures in this area,certain groups have traditionallybeen given lower priority in theallocation of available resources.One such group is the inmates ofcorrectional and mental healthfacilities, and thus the provisionof adequate legal services for this

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group has been difficult to achieve.Partially due to a lack of anyorganized representation on theirbehalf, partially due to publicattitudes concerning the personaland monetary loss sustained byvictims of crime, and partially be-cause deviant behavior is some-thing the public would generallyprefer not to think about, the legalneeds of these inmates are, in com-parison to most groups, generallyunfulfIlled. With this difficult de-cision-making process as a frameof reference, it is encouraging tonote that the state of Wisconsin,long considered to have one of themore humane and better adminis-tered correctional and mentalhealth systems in the country, alsohas one of the most comprehensivesystems of post conviction andpost commitment legal assistanceto inmates. The system encom-passes state programs supportedby federal Law Enforcement As-sistance funds and a state-sup-ported program which operatesout of the University of WisconsinLaw SchooL

On April 23, 1975, the legis-lature's joint finance committeevoted to add $172,800 to the lawschool's biennial budget abovewhat Governor Lucey's ExecutiveBudget recommended. Included inthis amount was $127,700 desig-nated to assist in the continuationof the Legal Assistance to Inmates

Program. LAIP, a joint law schooland U.W. Extension activity, wasin danger of being discontinueddue to a lack of funds. Initiallyfunded by foundation grants andlater by federal LEAA fundsthrough the Wisconsin Council onCriminal Justice, the program wasjeopardized by the termination ofsupport from these sources. WCCJpolicy attempts to encourage localor state government assumptionof financial responsibility for pro-grams deemed to be worthy oflong-term continuation and it wasfor this that the joint finance com-mittee's action provided. Thebudget bill subsequently passedboth houses of the legislature andwas signed by Governor Lucey onJuly 29, 1975.

The specific line item appropri-ation for LAIP provided an essen-tial .component of funding for theprogram, which also receives di-rect financial support from theState of Wisconsin Division ofCorrections, the Division of Men-tal Hygiene, and the Federal Bu-reau of Prisons. Funding responsi-bilities for the program servesboth the educational needs of thelaw school and the legal servicesneeds of inmates held in institu-tions in Wisconsin. This schemeprovides for a program whichserves the legal needs of over3,000 inmates and helps exposeabout 100 law students each yearto the correctional process andvarious aspects of the criminaljustice system.

The legal assistance program,which is offered as a law schoolcourse, began under the supervi-sion of Professor Frank J. Rem-ington of the U.W. Law Schoolfaculty in 1963. It has expanded,both in terms of staff and numbersof students involved, as programmembers developed a greatersensitivity to the services legallytrained persons could provide forinmates and as financial supportfor the program increased.

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Currently, there are 7 attorneys,both full and part-time, who super-vise the work of students renderinglegal assistance to the inmates ofWaupun State Prison, the GreenBay Reformatory, the WisconsinHome for Women Tacheedah, theWisconsin Cor recti 0 n al Insti-tutions at Fox Lake and KettleMoraine, the Correctional CampSystem, Central State Hospital,Mendota Mental Health Instituteand the Federal Correctional In-stitution at Oxford, Wisconsin.

In addition to Professor Rem-ington, program staff membersinclude attorneys Jon Axelrod,Barbara Bird,. Walter Dickey,Kevin Lyons, John Norsetter andEric Schulenburg. The staff mem-bers bring a variety of teachingand practice skills to the program,with each staff member assumingprimary responsibility for one ormore mental health or correctionalinstitutions. A seminar is con-ducted concurrent with the coursein which problems relating to post-conviction practice, as well asbroader issues relating to correc-tions and the criminal justice sys-tem, are discussed.

A course in law and corrections,which stresses a combination ofprisoner's rights issues, constitu-tional law and post convictionremedies is taught by WalterDickey. This course, which is nota requirement for participation inthe legal assistance to inmates pro-gram, has attracted law students,persons from other criminal justiceprofessions such as police andsocial work. It also provides stu-dents in LAIP with the opportuni-ty to learn about litigation directedagainst the institutions, in whichthe program itself does not becomedirectly involved.

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In its present form, the legalassistance program provides bothdiagnostic and remedial legalservices. Each student, workingunder the supervision of a licensedattorney, is assigned to an institu-tion and conducts interviews ofinmates. In general, at the diag-nostic stage newly admitted in-mates are asked questions regard-ing: the likelihood of appeal orpost conviction attack; the exist-ence of intra- or interstate de-tainers; whether they desire tochallenge parole or probation re-vocations; and the existence ofcivil problems, such as family-related matters or debts.

Inmates who are not new ad-missions are seen upon request bythe inmate. Remedial legal servicesinclude assistance in: the use ofpost conviction remedies in stateand federal court; dealing withdetainers; applications for execu-tive clemency; making motions toreduce or amend sentence; reviewof parole and probation revoca-tion decisions; and, in some in-stances, civil matters. Many of thecivil law problems are referred tothe Corrections Leg al ServicesProgram or to an appropriatelocal legal aid organization.

Complaints about treatmentwithin the institution are raisedadministratively in the Departmentof Health and Social Services andthe Bureau of Prisons. This mayinvolve discussing the problemwith a social worker or correc-tional administrator or advisingthe inmate to use the institutionalcomplaint procedure. If adminis-trative action is not satisfactory,it is suggested that the inmate con-tact the Corrections Legal ServicesProgram which does handle, for

state inmates, court challenges toex is ti n g institutional programsand practices. The legal assistanceto in mat e s program does notbring legal actions against par-ticular institutions for specific com-plaints about institutional prac-tices or treatment of inmates.

During 1974, the program dealtin one form or another with thelegal problems of about 1700 in-mates of state correctional andmental health institutions. In ad-dition program members saw an-other 200 inmates at the FederalCorrectional Institution at Oxford,Wisconsin.

The program has both a serviceobjective and an educational ob-jective. Both are important to thestate of Wisconsin. Educationallythe objectives are at least fourfold:

(1) Most importantly, the lawstudent is given an opportunity toobserve closely the human conse-quence of criminal conviction andmental commitment. Every day,lawyers give advice and make de-cisions which have a profoundimpact upon the lives of individu-als. Too often a lawyer does sowithout understanding the conse-quences of his advice or his de-cisions. The result has often beendevastating. For example, in thepast, lawyers have on occasionargued that their clients were in-competent to stand trial, assumingthat a determination of incompe-tency would be better than a crimi-nal conviction. In part this as-

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sumption was based upon a naiveimpression that those held to beincompetent went to a hospitalmuch like that with which theaverage citizen is familiar. It oftenreflected also an assumption thatthe period of incarceration wouldbe shorter than it would be werethere a criminal conviction. Inreality the commitment was to amaximum sec uri ty institution,much like a prison, and the periodof incarceration very often ex-ceeded the time which would havebeen served had there been acriminal conviction.

(2) The program enables thelaw student to gain an understand-ing of the professional role of thelawyer. In the past, members ofthe bar have been uncertain oftheir responsibility, particularly insituations involving young peopleand persons alleged to be mentallyill. It is not easy to know whethera lawyer's responsibility is to keepthe person out of an institution,on the one hand, or to obtain forhim some form of treatment whichwill help resolve his delinquencyor mental illness. The best way towork through this very difficultprofessional judgment is to learnof the impact of commitment onthe individual. Persons who knowinstitutions and who have learnedabout people confined in institu-tions are much better able, as law-yers, to understand the functionwhich they are called upon to per-form when asked to represent anindividual facing possible institu-tionalization.

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A LAIP program memberlearns, by virtue of the spectrumof problems with which he deals,to redefine what "being a lawyer"means. Often, a person will cometo the program with a narrow,litigation-oriented concept of therole of an attorney. He frequentlyfinds, however, that his client'sgoals are better achieved throughinformal negotiations thanthrough court or administrativeagency proceedings.

The stu den t also finds thatproblems which seem of smallsignificance for someone on theoutside can be overwhelming forsomeone confined in an institution.An appreciation of this fact helpsthe student to realize that themajority of the problems whichare important to inmates are thosewhich would not result in the in-mate's release or a substantial re-duction in his sentence. Thus, theinmate who can leave the institu-tion knowing that his mortgagehas not been foreclosed, or that hecan qualify for an occupationaldrivers license, is often relievedand in a better position to copewith problems on the outside thanthe inmate who, by virtue of somecourt action, has had his manda-tory release date advanced severalmonths.

(3) The Program affords an ex-cellent opportunity to gain a betterunderstanding of the criminal jus-tice and mental health systems.The fact that students frequentlymust read trial transcripts of men-tal commitments provides an op-portunity to see the criminal justiceand mental health systems "in ac-tion. " It is thought that the factthat the student can look at thetrial or commitment proceedingswith the advantage of "hindsight"enhances the value of the learningexperience.

(4) The Program affords anopportunity for the student to de-velop specific lawyer skills. He/shemust learn to interview and coun-sel hard-to-interview clients. Theseclients range from the most naiveto the most sophisticated offender,from the seriously mentally ill ormentally defective person to theperson with high educationalachievement. Students have saidthat this experience makes subse-quent interviewing of business cli-ents seem simple by comparison.In addition, the student must learnhow to deal effectively with admin-istrative and institutional person-nel if he is to achieve his client'sgoals. There is also an opportu-nity to deal with a wide range ofagencies inc l u d i n g prosecutors,defender offices, judges, probationand parole agents, members of theparole board, and others.

Conventional lawyer skills arealso stressed. A student developsthe ability to write letters effective-ly, to draft habeas corpus andexecutive clemency petitions, andto write briefs and memoranda.He confronts on numerous occa-sions the question of the ethicalresponsibility of the lawyer to hisclient and the relationship of onemember of the bar (the student)to another member of the bar (thetrial attorney), whose familiaritywith the case can help providevaluable assistance to the pro-gram in pursuing post convictionrelief.

Each student in LAIP worksclosely with a supervising attor-ney. A program member has theopportunity to define the legalproblems confronting that personin the first instance. Often, whatthe client perceives to be a problemwill not be the problem at all, or

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will be only part of the problem.The student may confront an in-mate who will distort or withholdfacts or who, because of some men-tal incapacity, cannot communi-cate at all.

The student learns to identifyand pursue the relevant facts andthen to determine the legal issuesthey present. He then proposesa course of action and with hissupervising attorney decideswhether it is the most appropriateaction to take.

This experience has benefits thatdiffer significantly from those de-rived from more traditional lawschool courses. First, and mostimportantly, the problem involvesa real person with whom the stu-dent must relate and to whom hehas a professional responsibility.It is hard not to share the anxietyof an inmate wondering about hisfamily's well-being and it is noeasy task to tell a person, espe-cially one you do not believeshould be in an institution, thatthere is nothing you can doto I affect his conviction or com-mitment.

Second, unlike most exam ques-tions, problem solving for pro-gram members does not beginwith a "given" statement of facts.On most occasions all the studentknows when he sees an inmate forthe first time is the inmate's name.He usually does not even knowwhether he will be dealing with acontract action, an alleged tort, orsomething relating to the inmate'sconviction. Any additional infor-mation must be obtained fromasking questions, writing letters,and making phone calls, all ofwhich help to increase the student'sability to communicate effectively.

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Institutionalized persons receiv-ing the program's services benefitas well. The students and super-vising attorneys who represent theinmates interests are enthusiasticadvocates and h a v e developedconsiderable expertise in this areaof criminal law practice. Thus, thequality of representation given bythe program is superior to thatrendered by the jailhouse lawyerwho does not have the backgroundor the research and investigativeresources at his disposal in theway the program does.

As mentioned before, the prob-lems to which program membersare exposed are extremely varied.Many are of the nature that some-one "on the streets" would have,e.g., problems with a lease, a re-voked drivers license, an impa-tient creditor, or a family problem,such as a divorce or support ac-tion. In many instances, at leasttemporarily, these problems seemof greater consequence to an in-mate than the problems relatingto the legality of his/her convictionor commitment.

There are differences, however,in the ability of these inmates, ascompared to persons on the out-side, to deal with their legal prob-lems. Communication to the out-side from within an institution canbe a very frustrating process.

The basis of the problem formany is the lack of education andsocialization. The institutions havea large number of persons withverbal aptitudes at below the sixthgrade level, in spite of the fact thatmany of this group have beenawarded high school diplomas

before they were incarcer.ated orcommitted. In addition, a crimi-nally sophisticated person is notlikely to be one who is adept atdealing with the "straight" worldof administrative agencies, courts,judges, banks, and credit compa-nies. Most inmates then, even ifthey have a legitimate defense orclaim, have great difficulty articu-lating it in a convincing manner.They do not know the "right"placeto write to get the information theyneed or that they might, for exam-ple, be successful in getting a credi-tor to toll principal and interestpayments on a loan until they arereleased and working.

The pro g ram also achievesmany goals of direct value to theinmates in relation to their con-victions and commitments. Whenassessing these benefits it is impor-tant to realize that, in most in-stances, the further a case goes inthe post conviction process the lesslikely is the inmate to obtain relief.Thus, a motion to withdraw aguilty plea, once it has been deniedby the trial court and the Wiscon-sin Supreme Court, has relativelylittle chance of success. Cases inwhich a conviction is overturnedand a new trial granted are but asmall proportion of those initiallyfiled by inmates seeking post con-viction relief.

The program has had successat all levels of post convictionrelief. Because of the large numberof cases handled, and the previouslack of any systematic analysis ofsituations in which the programachieved its objective, it is imprac-tical to attempt to chronicle five orsix years of work. Nonetheless, itis enlightening to put down a fewof the program's recent accom-plishments bee au s e they showwhat a substantial benefit someinmates receive, as well as thevariety of remedies and problemswith which the program deals.

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Habeas Corpus: In 1968 a Mil-waukee juvenile was tried as anadult and found guilty of injuryby conduct regardless of life (Wis.Stat. 940.23) and indecent be-havior with a child (Wis. Stat.

944.11(2)). After exhaustingstate remedies, the petitioner pur-sued his case to the Seventh CircuitCourt of Appeals where the courtheld the process by which he waswaived into adult court was con-stitutionally deficient. The resultof the petition was his release fromprison and a return to his parents'home. He was assisted in the prep-aration of his petition by a studentin the legal assistance program.

Habeas Corpus: An inmate inthe Wisconsin correctional system,alleged that he was unlawfullydenied representation by counselat his parole revocation hearing.He was given assistance in draft-ing his habeas petition and repre-sented by a legal assistance pro-gram student until counsel wasappointed to -represent the petition-er in the Seventh Circuit Court ofAppeals. His case was remandedfor further proceedings to deter-mine if he should have been ap-pointed counsel at his revocationhearing.

Habeas Corpus: The programhas succeeded in getting severalalleged federal parole violatorsreleased for failure by the U.S.Parole Board to provide the in-mates with speedy revocationhearings.

These are some of the rare in-stances in which the program'swork has resulted in a person'simmediate release from confine-ment, as opposed to a reduction insentence or an advanced paroleeligibility.

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Detainers: An inmate at the stateprison had two detainers lodgedagainst him by out-of-state author-ities. These detainers were havingan immediate and adverse effecton the inmate's security status andon his eligibility for certain job-training programs. As a result ofefforts by two different programstudents both det ainer s weredropped, and the inamte is nowparticipating in a Xerox trainingprogram.

Another inmate had three out-standing charges in his home statewhich he was concerned wouldeither result in his arrest by Michi-gan authorities upon his releaseby Wisconsin, or which would ef-fectively prohibit his returning toMichigan to see his father. Theintern working on the case, citingthe inmate's rehabilitative effortsin the institution, succeeded in get-ting all three complaints dis-missed.

Administrative agency decisions:Under normal circumstances, so-cial security dis a b il ity benefitsare awarded to sex offenders onlyupon a showing, supported bymedical evidence, that they arepsychotic. The leg a 1 assistanceprogram recently won benefits fora sex offender who was alleged tohave a personality disorder, a lesssevere form of mental disability.This decision, which is likely to befollowed in future agency proceed-ings in this geographic area, is animportant recognition of the dis-abilities and rights of personscommitted by virtue of a moremoderate degree of mental in-capacity.

. Credit for Time Served: Manymmates spend time in county jailsbefore conviction, after convictionand before sentencing, and aftersentencing but before their transfer'to the correctional facility to whichthey are sentenced. Another groupof persons spends up to 60 dayseach in Central State Hospital orsome other facility pursuant topre-sentence examinations underthe Sex Crimes Law, observationorders, etc. Finally, some inmatesspend time in a county jail await-ing parole or probation revoca-tion proceedings.

Recent decisions by the Wiscon-sin Supreme Court have dealt withmany aspects of such "jail time"situations and in some instanceshave clarified Wisconsin case lawin the area. The program hasbeen active in making motions toamend sentence on behalf of in-mates who have spent time, par-ticularly pre-conviction time, incounty jails which has not beencredited tow a r d satisfaction oftheir sentences. The program thissummer has been responsible forseveral successful motions involv-ing pre-conviction jail time, in-cluding one which resulted in areduction of 7 months in an in-mate's sentence.

Petitions for reexamination: Thelegal assistance program has in anumber of instances helped to ob-tain the release of persons com-mitted involuntarily (under Ch.51) or as incompetent to standtrial or as not guilty by reason ofmental disease or defect, by pre-paring petitions for reexaminationof their mental condition. Whilepreparation of these petitions isnot technically difficult, the factremains that if the students werenot available to prepare themsome inmates who are eligibleunder current 1ega 1 guidelines,would not be released.

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Informal pressure or negotia-tion: An inmate at Central StateHospital was recently awarded$800 in back pay from AmericanMotors as a result of efforts bythe program. Another inmate wascommitted to Central State Hospi-tal as incompetent to stand trial oncharges of carrying a concealedweapon and disorderly conduct.He was not, however, given thehearing mandated by State v.McCreddin, to determine if therewas probable cause to believe hecommitted the c rim e s charged.Program personnel intervened onthe inmate's behalf and the felonycharge was soon dismissed, whilea sentence of five days or a $50fine was imposed on the disorderlyconduct charge. The five days wasthe amount of time the inmate hadalready spent in custody, so hewas immediately released.

Law Reform: Because until re-cently there were few legal organi-zations which worked on behalf ofinmates and because, even now,prisoners are generally consideredto have low-priority problems, re-form efforts in the law relating topost conviction remedies have pro-ceeded slowly. The Legal Assis-tance to Inmates Program hasparticipated in law reform effortsin at least two direct ways. Thefirst is providing inmates with rep-resentation in cases which mayhave precedential val u e. Whilemuch of this litigation is done bythe State Public Defender's officethe Program is the only organiza~tion in the state dealing with cer-tain legal problems on a routinehigh-volume basis (e.g., detain~ers ), In addition, unlike the officeof the State Public Defender, pro-gram representatives can go intothe fed era 1 court system fromwhich a significant number of thelaw reform decisions emerge.

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Statutory changes affecting pris-oners, e.g., statutes relating togood time, parole, time for filingmotions, credit for time served, andsentencing provisions is anothermeans of accomplishing law re-form. Because of its involvementwith inmate legal problems, pro-gram staff members have maderecommendations 0 n legislationdesigned to c rea tea statewidelegal services corporation, and onlegislation pro v i din g for moreprotection of the rights of thoseagainst whom civil commitmentproceedings have been initiated.Program staff members had sub-stantial input into a bill that wouldprovide statutory credit on sen-tences for time served in a varietyof "jail time" situations.

Students in the program work-ing on such law reform activitiescan learn a great deal about ju-dicial decision making and thelegislative process. They are alsoprovided with a unique opportuni-ty to have some influence uponthe way society deals with institu-tionalized persons.

Another component of the legalassistance to inm a tes programand funded by the WisconsinCouncil on Criminal Justice is thePost Conviction Defense Project.This program is corrently staffedby Charles Vetzner and is de-signed to provide representation tostate inmates in the federal courtsystem.

This office makes use of refer-rals from LAIP and the StatePublic Defender's office as well asappointments by the Eastern andWestern District Federal Courts inWisconsin. It also provides stu-dents with an opportunity to doresearch on substantive and pro-cedural issues.

Most of the cases handled bythe Post Conviction Defense Projectare taken with an eye towardspreparation of Writs of HabeasCorpus to be sought in the federalcourt system. Occasionally thiswill require efforts in the state sys-tem to exhaust available state rem-edies (a pre-requisite to the con-sideration of a petition), but mostof the project's work is done in theWisconsin Federal District Courts,the 7th Circuit Court of Appealsand if necessary, the U. S. SupremeCourt.

Thus, by virtue of support fromboth the state and federal govern-ment, the Law School and U.W.Extension administer a panoplyof activities which could be broad-ly termed legal assistance to in-mates. This assistance encom-passes both state and federal in-stitutions, and provides a range ofservices and law reform activities.

Participation in these programshas proved, on the basis of studentevaluations, to be a valuable ex-perience. The courses offered re-lated to the programs renderinglegal assistance to inmates help togive students a knowledge of therelevant law and procedure tocomplement their first-hand experi-ences with institutionalized personsand the correctional and mentalhealth systems.

Certainly, prOVISiOn of qualitylegal services for inmates from asource outside the institutions ben-efits society generally. Inmates are

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less inclined toward complete cyni-cism and alienation from "thesystem." One inmate, upon havingan out-of-state detainer droppedthrough the efforts of the program,wrote to the student involved inhis case saying, ". . . you havehelped to restore my faith in thelegal system." While these effortsclearly do not effect instant reha-bilitation, such an experience haspositive aspects for both the in-mate and the student. Eliminationof the possibility for more intelli-gent or persuasive inmates (Le.,the jailhouse lawyers) to com-mand some sort of reimburse-ment for their services is obviouslydesirable, because such barter sys-tems almost always involve ma-nipulation and exploitation.

Finally, programs such as thishelp to establish high standardsin the administration of criminaljustice. Students who were not pre-viously inclined to do so have, byvirtue of their participation in theprogram, decided to pursue ca-reers in criminal law. One suchstudent wrote, "Prior to this pro-gram, I did not intend to practicecriminal law. Now I definitelyplan to seek a criminal law job."

Mistakes and abuses can anddo occur at any stage of a crimi-nal case or civil commitment ac-tion, in revocation proceedings,etc. A systematic and competentprogram of post conviction reliefhelps to make "equal justice underlaw" more than a hollow platitude.This requires the type of commit-ment which students in the legalassistance program tend to evi-dence, and a greater number ofknowledgeable people operatingat all levels of the criminal justicesystem, which the program helpsto provide.

lI WHERE AREYOU NOW? I.i ~i~ 1975 has been a year of reminiscence and nostalgia. How many ~.~;:IJ times have you said this year, "Whatever happened to old what's-his/ ~I her name?" The Bicentennial mood (looking backward) has captured II us all-the Gargoyle included. I~ Can you help us to locate these old What's-Their-Names?,~~~ ~~ ~I Charles S~~'::i~ht Cla~~~: '31 L;~~~7;,w:zAddress ~~I Robert R. Burgess Class of '35 Racine, WI I

I"· Albert D. Nohr Class of '36 Merrill, WI I.,• • Evlyn G. Overgard Class of '38 Aberdeen, SD I· Harold E. Rieve Class of '42 Falls Church, VA I'" Edward G. Chambers Class of '46 St. Paul, MN I

I_ Hart E. Meyer Class of '47 Lawrenceville, IL 18· Mrs. Lawrence Fawcett Class of '48 Weed Heights, NV'N William A. Tincher Class of '48 Palo Alto, CA ;.'.g Rudy B. Wolter, Jr. Class of '49 Tallahassee, FL .~, Launie M. Ziebell Class of '51 McLean, VA iI Edward L. Shenkenberg Class of '52 Kansasville, WI ~

I~. ~~~':;~,J;r~~", g:::~:~~ ~~:~:'07iberia I~II James R. Cohen Class of '63 Chicago, IL .

R' h d J S Class of '66 Paris ;i!!ii:.. IC ar . cott II Robert O. Wienke CCllaassssoOff:6687 M

SilwFaukee:WI CA I:~'

,,;, James P. Hargarten an rancisco,I Harry W. Knight, Jr. Class of '69 New York, NY ~~~ William B. Johnson Class of '70 Seattle, WA II %I I~ ~i Ii~:f.~~~~~C!t~"lft~»~i~i(~:'C~;:~~.»:~~!.!~X~.~~~~~-:~~'~;~~~m~~~~~"'~~~~'~~!KC~:';;i~~~~%%~,~~~~;~~.~~~~~d

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THINGS ARE TOUGHJAMES E. JONES JR. WEARS MANY HATS

ALL OVER

This year resident tuition at theLaw School reaches $900 for thefirst time. (Many of us, includingthe Gargoyle remember the an-guish generated when tuition wentfrom $32.50 to $37.50-per se-mester.) Non-residents pay $2856for the year. The amount of tuitionis set after the state budget isadopted. Students, through tuition,pay a substantial percentage ofthe cost of instruction, making upthe difference between actual costsand state appropriations.

We are not alone. The HarvardAlumni Bulletin reveals that Har-vard students will pay $2950, plusa health fee of $150. At Chicagoit is $3600, at Columbia, $3740,Pennsylvania will charge $3760,Stanford $3810 and Yale, $3750.All have had major increases in1975-76.

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HURSTSPEAKSTO ABA CON FERENCE

On June 14, Professor WillardHurst was one of the speakers ata conference on Federal and Stateroles in establishing standards ofconduct for corporate manage-ment. The Conference was broughttogether by the ABA Committee onFederal Regulation and Securities,Section on Corporations, Bankingand Business Law.

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Ever since he joined the LawSchool Faculty in 1969, ProfessorJames E. Jones Jr. (Class of '56)has carried a heavy load of civicand professional responsibilities.During recent months, his calen-dar included the following:

Participation in a conferencejointly sp 0 n s 0 red by the NewYork School of Industrial andLabor Relations (Cornell Univer-sity) and the U.S. Department ofLabor on the subject of Evaluatingthe Effects of the Federal ContractCompliance Program on May 8and 9, 1975, where he served asa discussant for three papers onthe Legal and Institutional As-pects of the Fed era I ContractCompliance.

Participation in the seventh an-nual conference of the Recruitmentand Training Program, Inc., June4-8 in Washington. His part ofthe program concerned ResolvingConflicts Between Affirmative Ac-tion and the Seniority System.

Lecturer on Insights into theIntent and Implementation of Ju-dicial Mandates, as part of theIowa Governor's Conference onUnderstanding Affirmative Action,February 27, 1975, at DrakeUniversity.

James E. Jones, Jr.

Consultant to Washington, D.C.,Board of Higher Education ondevelopment of a policy of labor-management relations. The Fed-eral City College and the D.C.Teachers College are presently theinstitutions under control of theBoard of Higher Education.

One of the speakers at a work-shop, Affirmative Action for Jobs:The Battle Against Discriminationand Layoff and Dismissal whichwas part of the program at theNAACP national convention inWashington on July 1, 1975.

Member of the Committee onStandards and Goals of the Wis-consin Council on Criminal Jus-tice which conducted a series often public hearings around Wis-consin to see k suggestions onWhat to Do About Youth in Trou-ble. He sits on a sub-committee onapprehension and detection. Pro-fessor Margo Melli serves on thesub-committee on Adjudication.

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MANY PROfESSORS

ON lEAVE, 1975-76

VISITING LECTURERS

TAKE THEIR PLACES

Anumber of distinguished mem-bers of the Bar have agreed toteach on a part-time basis duringthe year. Some of them have beenpart of the Law School scene formany years. Others are new. Theyare:

Leaves of absence for researchand leaves to participate in vari-ous public service positions aretraditional at the University ofWisconsin Law School. Theseleaves have several useful func-tions: (a) For many faculty mem-bers they serve as a substitute fora sabbatical leave policy-a re-spite from teaching and a time forrenewal. This is important in aninstitution which officially does nothave a sabbatical leave policy.(b) They provide an importantservice to other University depart-ments and to state and federalagencies which seek the expertisewhich our faculty members oftencan provide. (c) The leaves areimportant for budgetary reasonsbecause the law school budget inrecent years has not been largeenough to support every memberof the faculty at any given time.

It may be that uncertaintiesabout the recent budget causedmore than the usual number toseek outside commitments for1975-76. Opportunities for Wis-consin faculty members were notwanting, it seems.

Professor William Whitford willbe a Fulbright Professor of Lawat University of Nairobi (Kenya);Professor Gordon B a I dwin isserving as an Assistant to theCounselor of the United StatesState Department; Professor Sam-

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A. Roy Anderson of the Madi-son firm of LaFollette, Sinykin,Anderson and Abrahamson istea chi n g Professional Responsi-bilities.

Daniel W. Hildebrand of theMadison firm of Ross & Stevens,S.C. is teaching Federal Jurisdic-tion.

James Shellow of the Milwau-kee firm of Shellow & Shellow isconducting a course in AdvancedCriminal Procedure.

Gerald T. Conklin and MichaelW. Wilcox of the Madison firm ofBoardman, Suhr, Curry and Fieldare teaching a course in ClientCounselling.

Accounting and Law will be of-fered by Ted Gunkel, a Madisonaccountant.

William A. Chatterton of theMadison firm of Ross & Chat-terton is teaching a course onCreditor- Debtor Relations.

A seminar in Problems of Con-sumer Law is under the directionof James D. Jeffries, Assistant At-torney General.

Conrad G. Goodkind, DeputyCommissioner of Securities forWisconsin, is teaching a seminarin state securities law.

Joseph F. Thomas, ExecutiveCouncil for Consumer Affairs, isteaching a seminar in LegislativeProblems.

The following trial lawyers willteach courses in Trial Court andTrial Advocacy:

1) Robert L. Habush of theMilwaukee firm of Habush, Gil-lick, Habush, Davis & Murphy;

2) J. Richard Long of Beloit;

3) Frank A. Ross, Jr. of theMadison firm of Ross & Chat-terton;

4) James R. Cole of the Madi-son firm of Ross and Stevens,S.C.;

5) Francis R. Croak of the Mil-waukee firm of Cook & Franke;

6) Paul C. Gartzke of the Madi-son firm of Bieberstein, Cooper,Bruemmer, Gartzke & Hanson;

7) Richard L. Cates of theMadison firm of Lawton & Cates

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CLEO COMES

TO WISCONSIN

Do not confuse CLEO with LEO

MacDONAlDS

TO fAR EAST

The Council on Legal Educa-tion Opportunity (CLEO) is a fed-erally funded project, sponsoredby the American Bar Association,the Association of American LawSchools, the La Raza NationalLawyers Association, and the Na-tional Bar Association.

Its purpose is to provide somepre-law experience to educational-ly disadvantaged students. Threehundred students are selected frommany applicants to attend one ofthe 7 institutes held each summer.Each summer since 1969, therehave been CLEO Institutes in var-ious law schools throughout thecountry. In summer, 1975, it wasWisconsin's turn for the MidwestInstitute.

Professor Law r enee Churchserved as director of the program.He was assisted by Wisconsin Pro-fessors Herzberg and Kidwell andProfessor Holm from Southern il-linois University and Dean Slaglefrom Ohio State. There were alsoseveral teaching assistants, six ofthem from Wisconsin. As therewere only 31 students, a highlyintensive program was possiblefor the six-week course. Almostall of the students obtained admis-sion to law school; three or fourwill remain in Madison as mem-bers of the first-year class. All ex-penses were paid by the CLEOprogram-salaries of faculty andliving expenses of the students.Graduates of the program receivescholarships of $1,000 each yearduring attendance in law school.

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The CLEO Institute consistedof courses dealing with issues fre-quently encountered in first-yearcourses. The development of writ-ing skills and of the methods oflegal analysis were emphasizedthroughout the program. Eachstudent submitted some four writ-ten papers of legal substance eachweek. The CLEO Faculty evalu-ated the work of each student,using class participation and prep-aration, written ex ere i s e sandexaminations.

Faculty members working inthe Institute during June and Julyreported that the students werearticulate and diligent. All who areadmitted to law school are expect-ed to be successful law students.

Prof. Church

It was because of Betty Mac-Donald's long time and effectiveservice through the League ofWomen Voters in Madison, inWisconsin and in Washington,D.C. that she and her husband,Professor James MacDonald, wereinvited by the U.S. State Depart-ment (United States InformationAgency) to visit the USIA centersin Japan, Maylasia and the Phil-ippines during five weeks of theearly summer, mid-May to mid-June.

Citizen Participation in Govern-ment was their assigned mission.They gave joint lectures and con-ducted small discussion groups.Audiences varied from 150 at sev-eral Center programs to 6 in smallworking meetings. Mrs. MacDon-ald spoke of methods used bycitizens in the United States toinfluence legislation; Mr. Mac-Donald spoke about litigation inthe United States as a way ofinfluencing public policy, particu-larly in the areas of land use, airand water pollution, and othercontroversies over environmentalquality.

Most who attended these meet-ings were invited guests, selectedby the USIS because of their in-terests in environment issues andIn mobilizing citizens to take great-er part in community decisions.The lecture groups were diverse-


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NOTICE TO ALL ALUMNI

SEE IT NOWSTATESTREET SEPTEMBER,1975

Tax Planning. A total of 450 stu-dents attended the courses in Mad-ison-just two of 16 programssponsored by ALI-ABA alloverthe United States.

A year ago we reported that there would be a chapter aboutthe Law School in a volume prepared to celebrate the University's125th anniversary, entitled A Resourceful University-the Univer-sity-Madison in its 125th year. We have a number of reprints ofthis chapter, and would like to send you one, on request. Nocharge.

The Faculty for the Estate Plan-ning series included 17 practicingattorneys and university profes-sors oflaw, while 19 faculty taughtthe course on Advanced Business

This year, from June 22-28,ALI-ABA offered courses in Ad-vanced Business Tax Planningand Estate Planning in Depth. Thelatter was the fourth in an annualseries, updated periodically to re-flect the latest changes in practice.

All lawyers are observing andwondering about the trend towardcertified specialization of membersof the Bar and its companion, thedeveloping requirements for con-tinuing legal education.

AlI·ABAPIONEERS IN

CONTINUING EDUCATIONfOR LAWYERS

For 11 years, a program hasbeen sponsored on the Universityof Wisconsin campus by the Amer-ican Law Institute and the Ameri-can Bar Association (ALI-ABA).The University of Wisconsin Ex-tension Law Department has beenlocal s p 0 n s 0 r , and ProfessorArnon Allen has been the coor-dinator.

Arnon Allen

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WLAA ANNUAL FUND DRIVE NEW HASTIE FEllOWS

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

WLAA's staff is working onnext falls' annual fund drive. Ex-ecutive Director Bill Lewis said hewill emphasize finding volunteersto make personal contact with ouralumni.

Mr. Lewis pointed out that themajor share of WLAA funds havebeen used in the past for studentfinancial aids. "This continues tobe an area of need," he said, "butit is becoming increasingly appar-ent that alumni funds are neededin other areas as well." He notedthat alumni funds at some otherlaw schools he has visited areused in a variety of ways in sup-port of the instructional program.

"Committed volunteers are thekey to any successful fund drive,"Bill said. "However, most poten-tial volunteers fear they will becommitting themselves to morethan a few hours of work. If they

say "yes" once, they fear they willbe called upon again and again.We must take steps to avoid thisreaction if we are to build a largevolunteer network." Bill hopes tohave each volunteer assigned nomore than 15 U.W. law grads tocontact in whatever way he or shechooses. This should not takemore than 2-5 hours of work. Ifthere aren't enough volunteers inan area, then some alumni simplywill not be assigned to volunteers."Above all," Bill emphasized, "wemust not overload our volunteers. "

It may take 3 to 5 years to findenough volunteers to cover allalumni. If you are willing to do-nate a few hours of your time tothis year's fund drive, please fillout the coupon below and mail itto the Law School.

Two new William H. Hastiefellows have been added to theLaw School community. They areVictoria Palacios, a recent gradu-ate of the University of NebraskaLaw School and Joseph Sales,who earned his JD degree at theUniversity of Miami Law Schoolin Coral Gables, Florida.

They will succeed Nancy andDaniel Bernstine who have leftMadison after three semesters. Mr.Bernstine has joined the faculty atHoward University Law School.

The Hastie Fellows are mem-bers of minority groups who areinterested in law school teachingcareers. Half their time is com-mitted to research and study lead-ing to the LLM degree. The otherhalf is devoted to providing aca-demic assistance to participants inthe Legal Education OpportunitiesProgram. This includes makingarrangements for study groups,encouraging inform al student-faculty interchange and other proj-ects designed to increase readingand writing skills.


I would like to help with the 1975-76 WLAA FUND DRIVE:

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HASTIES

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SUMMER SESSIONS

CONTINUE TO GROW

The fellowships are named tohonor William H. Hastie, a dis-tinguished senior Federal AppealsCourt judge and former Dean ofthe Howard Law School.

Ms. Palacios is a native ofStandardville, Utah. Her under-graduate degree was earned at theUniversity of Utah. While in LawSchool, she was a teaching assist-ant at the CLEO (Council on Le-gal Education Opportunity) Insti-tute at the University of NewMexico in Albuquerque. Also,while a student, she was Directorof the Student Tutorial Service,co-sponsored by the Chicano stu-dents and the Utah Law School.She is married and has one child.

Mr. Sales received his Bache-lor's degree from the Universityof Georgia. Before going to LawSchool he was a junior highschool 'social studies teacher. Hewas on the Dean's list in LawSchool. A member of the BlackAmerican Law Students Associa-tion, he took a very active role inthe recruitment of minority stu-dents for the Miami Law School.He is also married and the fatherof one.

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Summer session has been partof the academic program of theLaw School since the early 20thcentury. In the aftermath of WorldWar II, there was a 3rd full se-mester offered during the summer.In addition to regular summerofferings, the Summer Programcourse and its successor, the Gen-eral Practice Course, kept manystudents enrolled during the sum-mer to get the practical require-ments for graduation. The pre-admission screening program forseveral years had 70-80 studentscompeting for places in the first-year class.

During the past two years, therehas been an expansion of theregular curricular offerings duringthe summer session so that somestudents can earn all or a sub-stantial part of a semester's creditby attending summer school. Theshortage of summer jobs and therising costs of education havecombined to encourage many stu-dents to finish law school in 2%years instead of three.

During summer, 1975, therewere 329 students enrolled in thevarious sessions, which now in-clude the intersession (see articleon Professor June Weisberger'scourse), the ten wee k s session(from June 19 to August 15) andthe first and second five weekssessions (from June to July 11;July 14 to August 15). Eighty-four students participated in theintersession. The first five weekscourses had an enrollment of 214;the second, 219. The ten weekssessions had 320 enrolled. Someof the 329 were enrolled in allavailable sessions; others in one

or two of them. Trial court, trialadvocacy, and the clinical pro-gram had classes of 30, 64, and34.

Although most of those attend-ing are Wisconsin Law Schoolstudents, there are always a fewwho come from law schools with-out summer sessions to earn a fewextra, transferrable credits.

Courses offered included: RealEstate Transactions, E vi den ce ,Constitutional Law, Trial Advo-cacy, Trial Court, in the 10 weeksession; Taxation of Trusts andEstates, Psychiatry and Law, So-ciology of Law, Business Associ-ations, and Professional Responsi-bility, in the first five weeks; Lawand Contemporary Problems(childhood, fa mil y and state),Taxation I, Real Estate Trans-actions II, Environmental Litiga-tion and Land Use Controls inthe 2nd five weeks.

It is possible for a highly moti-vated student to earn 3 credits inthe Intercession, 8 in the ten weekssession, plus 3 in each of the fiveweeks sessions, a solid semester'sachievement.

The expansion of summer ses-sions provides a fuller use ofspace and faculty and may, asit continues to grow, become amajor part of the solution to theproblem of over-crowding in theLaw School.

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PROFESSORS ON LEAVE

James MacDonald

erage. In Osaka, they were theguests on a major radio morningshow (estimated audience, morethan a million), the first time thatprogram had use d consecutivetranslation.

Professor and Mrs. MacDonaldvisited USIS centers in six citiesof Japan over a three week period.In Maylasia, they were programedin Kwala Lampur, and Penang,with side trips to Singapore andHong Kong. In the Philippinesthey w 0 r ked only in Manila,where they spent four days.

continued from page 15MAC DONALDS

Betty MacDonald

UW-Madison does not discriminate on the basisof sex, race, or religion in its education programsor activities. This statement is published, in part,to fulfill requirements of Section 86.9 of Title 45,Code of Federal Regulations, which implementsTitle IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.Inquiries about the policy may be directed to theappropriate campus admitting or employing officeor to the campus Affirmative Action Office, 175Bascom Hall.

including professors, governmentofficials, activist citizens. Small·working meetings were often at-tended by me m b e r s of singlegroups, such as newsmen, stu-dents, and labor leaders.

The audiences' appetites wereenormous, according to ProfessorMacDonald. The j 0 i n t lectureslasted an hour and the questionperiod was more often than nottwo hours long.

They were interviewed on radioand television. Several newspapersprovided them with extensive cov-

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JONES

Several faculty members will beon part-time leave from the LawSchool to other departments ofthe University. Professors NeilKomesar, Joel Handler, ThomasHeller, Gerald Thain and JamesE. Jones, Jr. will teach and doresearch in the departments ofEconomics, Environmental Studiesand Industrial Relations. Profes-sors David Trubek, George Bunnand Arlen Christenson are em-ployed part-time at the Center forPublic Representation. SmongeskiResearch Professorships will beheld by Professor Frank Tuerk-heimer in the first semester, andProfessor Stephen Herzberg in thesecond.


A past Director of the IndustrialRelations Research Institute, theUW-Madison Graduate School ofIndustrial Relations, he is the Di-rector of the Center for the Studyof Equal Employment and Affirm-ative Action which is associatedwith the IRRI. The Center andCLEW co-sponsored the program"Making Title VII Pay" at theMadison Center last November.

uel Mermin is a Fulbright Pro-fessor in Japan. Professor Law-rence Ch u r c h will be VisitingProfessor at Brigham Young Uni-versity in the second semester;Professor St ephen Cohen is aVisiting Professor at Stanford.

Professor Jones is a member ofthe Madison Police and Fire Com-mission, the State Manpower Plan-ning Council and The Public Re-view Board of the InternationalUnion UAW.

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