v

I

I

L

University of Wisconsin Law School236 Law Building975 Bascom MallMadison, WI 53706-1399

Nonprofit Org.U.S. Postage

PAIDMadison. WI.

Permit No. 658

VOLUME XXIV NUMBER 3

sFrom the DeanDean Daniel O. Bernstine

President's PageJohn S. Skilton

Don Ameche, Law Grad?Asst. Dean EdwardReisner

Wisconsin's Legal TraditionProf. Stewart Macaulay

Advising on the Law of Private Land Ownership in Dubna, RussiaProf. Walter Raushenbush

The Power of One: Charles E. Hanson ('73) in RussiaLisaKaiser

By Popular Demand ...Asst. Dean EdwardReisner

New FacultyKathryn HendleyVictoria Nourse

LisaKaiser

New Assistant DeansRobert CorrealesJamesThomas

LisaKaiser

Class of '68 Sponsors New Lecture HallCook & Franke Gift Supports Computer FacilitiesDistinguished Service Award: Philip S. Habermann ('47)Have YouHeard?Sixth Fairchild LectureEditor's Note

2

4

5

6

11

14

17

18 and 19

20 and 21

222324272829

Bulletin of the University of Wisconsin Law School,published quarterly.Editor: Edward J. ReisnerDesign: Earl J. Madden, University Publications

Production: University PublicationsLaw School Publications OfficeUniversity of WisconsinMadison, W'I 53706-1399

Postmaster's note: Please send form 3579 to"GARGOYLE,"University of Wisconsin Law School,Madison, W'I 53706-1399

SSN0148-9623 USPS768-300

Cover Photo: While the Law building is changing, thegreat tradition of the Homecoming cane toss lives on.

There are some duties that a dean really enjoys, likereceiving big checks, big checks representing substantialcontributions to our Law School. The two photos includedin this column represent two of those happy occasions.The Winnebago Tribe of Wisconsin has made a contribu-tion in support of our Great Lakes Indian Law Center, aclinical program which has placed students with each ofWisconsin's tribes. The other contribution was from MeadData Central in support of our building project.

As we travel around the state and around the country,raising funds for the building expansion and improvement

Dean Daniel O. Bernstine

project, several common myths about funding for the LawSchool and voluntary support are repeated. I thought thatby sharing them with you here, I might be able to spendmore time with you in person explaining our needs andhow your assistance can help us all.

Myth #1: I am a member of WLAA, I already pay $20per year and have done so for many years.

Once upon a time, WLAA was the major source of vol-untary support for the Law School and twenty dollars ayear was indeed a big help. Unfortunately, times havechanged. Part of the annual dues of most WLAA membersgoes to support the Law Review. In return, you receive allsix issues of the Law Review at a greatly reduced cost.Whatever is left over, about $10,000, becomes part of theannual budget for alumni relations. For 1994-95, that bud-get will probably exceed $400,000. Obviously either thereare not enough WLAA members or dues are not highenough to do what needs to be done.

Myth #2: I live and work in Wisconsin. My taxes sup-port the Law School. I don't have to give any more.

About 60% of our graduates reside in Wisconsin andmost, presumably, pay state taxes. These taxes, again inyears gone by, did "support" the University. Today, how-ever, state taxes only "assist" the University. State supportmakes up less than 25% of the University budget. Theremainder comes from research grants and contracts,tuition, and voluntary contributions. While the portion ofthe Law School budget that comes from state taxes is high-er (about 60%), our share of research funds is substantiallyless, placing the same emphasis on private contributions tomaintain our level of excellence. A few years ago we didsome math to learn just what an "average state taxpayer"might contribute to the Law School budget. I think youwill agree that, if you are average, three dollars a yeardoes not constitute sufficient support of this School by oneof its resident graduates.

2

Myth #3: Why should I help, the School never did any-thing for me while I was there!

Part of the answer to this one is shown above, but moreimportantly I ask you to consider what your life would havebeen like without the training you received here. Surveys ofour alumni indicate that the great majority have spent atleast part of their lives using the training received here. Noteveryone enjoyed being a law student, especially the hoursof study, faculty that could test your preparation, and morework than most of us previously experienced. Most of thesebad feelings seem to abate with time, however. The intellec-tual skills, the discipline and the friendships formed in LawSchool have value even to those who have left the law topursue other paths. Perhaps we did something for you evenif you have not discovered it yet.

As we clean and move in preparation for the start ofconstruction we sometimes find the most interesting items. Iwould like to quote from a letter found in our files:

Another need which can hardly be fully realized with-in our present limitations of space is the need ofrooms for training in practice both before the courtsand administrative tribunals. Something might bedone in the way of fitting up some rooms made avail-able by the removal of our library to the new librarywing, But the real need is for specially designedrooms in a new or an enlarged law building.

Of course the great need the Law School has is for

A representative from Mead Data Central presents a contributionto Dean Bernstine.

more space. Our need has been somewhat relievedbut not met by the new library addition, the productof federal aid and borrowed funds.These comments were written in 1945 from Dean Oliver

S. Rundell to Basil Peterson, who had asked how contribu-tions could be used by the Law School. Dean Rundell mustbe smiling today, 49 years later, as the same issues face usagain. Let us solve them now so that all of you, and severalgenerations of our successors, can benefit and prosper.

Dean Bernstine receives a contributionfrom Winnebago Tribal Chair ]0Ann]ones ('87).

3

A new day has dawned!In my roughly 40 years of contact with theLaw School I believe that the faculty andalumni have never had more reason towalk the same path as they do today. Thisis so, in my opinion, because the prob-lems of providing an appropriate legaleducation to meet the demand of stu-dents, those who hire them and thosewho will ultimately use their services, andthe coincident needs for private resourceshave never been so real and immediate.

In short, we need each other.

On the legal education front, close scruti-ny is being given to the question ofwhether law schools in general, includingthis Law School, are providing adequateeducation and training to students, partic-ularly those who ultimately choose topractice law. Recently, for example, theseissues have had the express attention ofthe UW Board of Regents.

Are law graduates being properly pre-pared to enter the practice? Is this theresponsibility of the Law School or the Bar?What do students want-particularly thosestudents who want to enter the practice?These same questions are being askednationally. For example, the ABA's Mac-Crate Commission Report addresses similarprovocative questions and concerns.

Last spring our Board of Visitors metand began the process of reexaminingthese questions. Their report will be pub-lished in the next issue of the Gargoyle. Ingeneral it confirms what most of us, I amsure, have assumed: Generally speaking,the faculty is doing a fine job of deliveringa legal education to a diverse student com-munity, maximizing limited resources andusing an outdated facility. Our Visitors'Report begins the dialogue in this state.

With the support and participation of

both law schools in this state, the StateBar of Wisconsin likewise is about toundertake a two-year study of these andrelated issues. Chief Justice Nathan Heffer-nan, a UW Law School alumnus, hasagreed to chair this committee. EricaEisinger, also an alumna, will be thereporter. Associate Dean Gerald Thain,Emeritus Professor Stuart Gullickson, andClinical Professor Ralph Cagle will alsoserve.

As the work on this front continues Iwill attempt to keep you posted. In themeantime, if you wish to express yourviews on this important subject, please feelfree to write me. What is clear to me is thatthe common goals of both the faculty ofthis Law School and its alumni are to con-tinue to improve the final product and tomaintain, and hopefully enhance, the LawSchool's standing as one of the premier lawschools in the country.

ResourcesRegardless of training and curriculumissues, it is manifest that the Law Schoolmust have improved alumni financial sup-port. There can be no question that theLaw building is outdated and inadequate.It is probably true to say that the list ofwhat it lacks as a modem legal educationfacility is longer than the list of what it cannow provide. These deficiencies are erod-ing the faculty's ability to deliver a state-of-the-art education.

And we are doing something about it.As hopefully you now well know, we arein the midst of a capital fund drive thatwill raise the required $5 million to meetthe private funding requirement for ourbuilding addition and remodeling. (TheDean's column more fully reports on ourprogress.) The WLAAhas jumped into themiddle of this drive. We have formed aliaison committee to the national drive; a

member of our Board, Lane Ware, hasbecome the Vice Chair for the nationaldrive. We are in the midst of organizingour alumni throughout the state andnation to facilitate the maximum participa-tion. Recently, WLAAdedicated $500,000of unrestricted and available WLAA fundsto guarantee pledges up to $4 million tomeet State Building Commission require-ments for breaking ground.

Our Dean has spent untold hours visit-ing alumni and getting their support. Hehas done an outstanding job. But he can-not do it alone. I have committed mypresidency to reaching the $5 million goal.As a team, led on the national level byDavid Ruder, and with your help, we willget the job done.

And we cannot stop with bricks andmortar. Today's competitive world of legaleducation requires program and researchsupport from private sources. It is nolonger accurate to describe the LawSchool strictly as a state school to rational-ize a lack of private funds. In fact, the LawSchool, like the University, is now moreaccurately described as a "state assisted"school. As alumni of a state school, wesimply have not been called upon to giveat the level historically associated with pri-vate schools. This cannot continue. Wemust accept our obligation to supportquality legal education in this state. With-out us, the Law School will continue tohave difficulty competing against its heavi-ly funded competition.

Recently the Law School greatly bene-fitted from a gift of more than $1 millionfrom the estate of former Governor War-ren P. Knowles. This is a good begin-ning-but only a beginning. Each of usowes much to the Law School. It's pay-back time.

John S. SkiltonPresident, W'LAA

L.------.-----------~---.----___f4l------------------.JL-.-J

c , d.

BY ASSISTANT DEANEUWARD REISNERWhen Don Ameche died in December1993, some of you may have been sur-prised by his obituary. It indicated that Mr.Ameche had studied law at the Universityof Wisconsin Law School before becominga full-time actor.

Almost twenty years ago, when Ibegan working at the Law School, Ilearned this fact, although it almostseemed an urban legend. Some quickresearch in the archives, however, turnedup a microfilmed copy of his record card,indicating a brief and fairly undistin-guished academic career here. But therewas much more to the story and years ofpursuing the facts before all was revealed.

In the mid-1980s, under Cliff Thomp-son's direction, we were busy collectingstories about the legendary Prof. HerbiePage. One of those stories, submitted byGlenn Bell ('27) went as follows:

Page hated to hear a student say he was"unprepared." He would often jump downthe throats of such students. One day inConstitutional Law, Don Amecbe, who wasactive in various dramatic productions

around campus and had peformed in astudent production the night before, was thefirst person Page called on.

"Unprepared,"said Ameche.There was a moment of uncomfortable

silence. At last Page said, "Well,Mr.Amecbe, 1enjoyed your play last night.You did a fine job. But 1think the time hascome for you to decide whether you wantto be a lawyer or an actor. "

Ameche stood up. "Mr.Page, you'reright, » he said, and walked out of the roomand the Law School into a long, successfulcareer as an actor.

Dean Thompson decided that he want-ed first-person confirmation of whatseemed a story almost too good to betrue. I was assigned the task of trying toget Ameche's version of these events. Anumber of attempts were made withoutsuccess before a chance meeting withMark Goldstein ('81), practicing withLionel, Sawyer in Las Vegas. Thinking thata firm in that location might do someentertainment law, I mentioned my questto Mark. Amazingly, he mentioned thatAmeche lived near a relative of his andvolunteered to give me his home address.

Shortly after sending Ameche a directletter I received a handwritten responsethat read:

Dear Mr. Reisner,1 remember Mr. Page very well. He was amost remarkable man. 1can say thatbecause he is one of the veryfew teachers 1do recall. And, of course his record speaksfor itself. Whether the words ... are exact, 1don't know but the confrontation with medid occur. 1hope you do justice to theman.

Sincere best wishes,Don Ameche

The obituaries also reported thatAmeche left law school when the lead ina show became ill and he took over asunderstudy. Given the long and produc-tive nature of his career as an actor, thecoincidence of another actor's illness andAmeche's attendance in Page's class seemsto have been providential. The LawSchool may have lost a promising student,but entertainment gained a wonderfulactor who would entertain several genera-tions of audiences for more than 65 years!

,

Speaking for everyone at the Law School, Iwant to thank Mrs. Mary Virginia Brazeaufor the generous gift of the professorship. Ialso want to thank my colleagues for nomi-nating me for this great honor.

Dean Bernstine has asked me to talkabout the Law School, considering issuesthat might interest both alumni and facul-tv. The most significant development atthe Law School is that the faculty ischanging rapidly. In the past five years,seven senior faculty members have retiredand one has died. Two more will retire atthe end of this year. Six more are in theirsixties and could retire within a few years.These are experienced and talented peo-ple. In addition, seven extraordinary facul-ty members have left over the same peri-od to teach at such places as Columbia,Princeton and Yale.

We have appointed many excellentnew faculty members, and we will appointmore soon. Alumni who have been prac-ticing for some time will have to look hardto find people at the Law School whotaught them during their student years.Sweeping changes in the faculty couldmake us better, as new people bring new

ideas and energy, but drastic change alsoinvolves risks. I don't have to tell membersof this Law School community that Wis-consin is not just a generic state lawschool. It long has been something specialin American legal education. In a time ofgreat change of the faculty, can Wisconsincontinue to be something special?

To keep our tradition alive, we mustunderstand it. Our merit does not rest onthose indirect indicators of quality sobeloved by U.S. News & World Report. Interms of return on investment, Wisconsinmust be one of the world's greatest lawschools. As is true of so many things inWisconsin, dedicated people, workingabove and beyond the call of duty, haveovercome resource constraints. Wisconsinlaw professors have drafted path-breakingstatutes that have become models for otherstates. TI1eyhave answered calls for helpfrom legislators and the staff of administra-tive agencies. They have served on local,state, national and international committeesand boards. Many have responded to asteady flow of questions about their areasfrom practicing lawyers. They have pro-duced innovative teaching materials anddone highly original research. As lawschool enrollment has increased, they havetaught students in large classes, small semi-nars and clinical programs. Many havedone a great deal of one-an-one teaching.At a time when professor-bashing is a pop-ular indoor sport, I must call attention tothe contributions to the state and thenation of so many of my colleagues.

Another part of the Law School's tradi-tion is our "law in action" approach to

issues. This is recognized nationally andinternationally, and it is something that wecannot afford to lose. We are one of thefew state law schools that want to bemore than a version of Harvard or Yale.

I'll trv to sketch important elements ofthis \\Tis~onsin tradition by looking atthree great faculty members who servedhere during the period 1929 to 1981: NateFeinsinger, Jake Beuscher and WillardHurst. AlI three were teaching here whenI joined the faculty 37 years ago, so I'lldraw on mv own memories as well asthose of others. In addition, I'll quoteexcerpts from tributes that appeared in theWisconsin Law Review.

Nate Feinsinger served at the Law Schoolfrom 1929 to 1973. He was one of theinventors of modern labor law. He wasthe permanent umpire under severalimportant collective bargaining contracts.But we are more likely to remember thathe was called manv times when majorstrikes created great social problems.Willard Wirtz said:

Leaving to less adventurous counseland judges the arguing and deciding ofcases in court, where there were rules to goby, he chose eme~!5ency situations thatdeveloped so fast that a sometimes roughfrontierjustice had to be improvised to putout flames that were spreading. (1)

Nate had a photograph on his wall thatshowed him with President Truman at theWhite House. Nate said that he had toldPresident Truman that as president he hadthe power to seize the steel mills that had

6

1 1

,1

In December 1992, while serving as a vis-iting law professor at the University of SanDiego, I received a long-distance call fromLa Crosse, Wisconsin. It turned out to bevery different from the occasional calls Iget from Wisconsin lawyers asking ques-tions about real estate law. The caller wasCharles E. Hanson, Wisconsin Law Classof 1973, a partner in the Hale, Skemp,Hanson & Skemp firm active in the livelysister-city relationship between La Crosseand Dubna, a Russian city of 70,000 popu-lation located about 65 miles north ofMoscow. He had recently been in Dubna,and had been asked some good questionsby Dubna officials about the possibleneed for a new legal foundation to sup-port the land privatization process alreadybegun in Russia.

It had occurred to Chuck that maybehis Property and Real Estate professor atthe uw might be interested in helpingprovide advice for Dubna, and participat-ing in activity which conceivably couldexpand to drafting legislation for consider-ation by appropriate legislative bodies inRussia. He happened to call at a timewhen I was considering joining a toursponsored by the Wisconsin Alumni Asso-ciation, with the principle feature beingnine days on a special "Orient Express"train which would follow the Trans-Siberi-an route for much of its length, then dropsouth through Outer and Inner Mongolia,ending at the Great Wall of China nearBeijing. We were able to work out an

arrangement by which I would travel toRussia early and spend nine days inDubna. Dubna's only expense would beto meet me at the Moscow airport, houseand support me during my stay, and thenget me to St. Petersburg (formerlyLeningrad) to join the WAA tour group.

I soon learned that the La Crosse-Dubna sister-city relationship involved farmore than the usual exchange of officialvisits, banquets, and flowery toasts.Dubna was developed from a sleepy vil-lage, starting during World War II, as acenter for theoretical and nuclear physicsin the Soviet Union. During the Cold War,it was not about to be sisterly with anyU.S. city. But by the late 1980s, as weknow, much had changed. Chuck Hansonhad been a principal leader and catalyst instarting and building a sister-city relation-ship with substance. In the '90s, three LaCrosse-area colleges are helping Dubnacreate a new business college to teachentrepreneurial methods and marketing.During the recent winter of acute foodshortage in Russia, the La Crosse organiza-tion obtained and arranged for shipmentto Dubna of an extraordinary 400 tons offood. While I was in Dubna in early June1993, three groups from La Crosse totalingabout 40 people were also there-includ-ing the mayor, city officials, andmedical/health experts-meeting withDubna counterparts, offering help andadvice.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of La Crossepeople are involved in all this, but ChuckHanson has been the key. As I learnedthis, I thought to myself how little we pro-

fessors know of what our graduates do tomake a difference in the communitieswhere they live and work.

Dubna welcomed the proposal for myvisit. As preparation, for me and for them,I had committed to preparing a fairlyextensive memo explaining some of thebasic matters which Russian land lawought to cover as a basis for private own-ership of land. It was understood that mysuggestions would be based primarily onland law in the United States, thoughother models could be followed.

The memo, addressed to the DubnaCity Council, began with a summary ofbasic property law and went on to discusspossible methods of transferring real prop-erty from public to private ownership.One particular focus, because of the7Q-year history of publicly owned apart-ments, were the special problems attachedto privatizing these units. While I am not aland economist or land-use planner, I alsoincluded some fundamental material onthese matters since they will be of impor-tance to Russia in the near future.

•••My memo was sent to Dubna in early

May. I was there May 29 through June 7,1993. My host and primary contact wasErnest (Eric) Taghirov, a physics Ph,D.who is a member of the Dubna CityCouncil and Chairman of the city's Com-mission on Ecology and Land Planning. Itwas interesting to learn that his role in citygovernment came about because of hispolitical participation in the Green envi-ronmental movement, which resulted in

11

Prof Walter Raushenbush

his election to office. I washoused as a guest in his pleasantflat. His attractive and hospitablewife Tamara was persuaded thatanytime I was in her home with-out food in front of me, I mustbe starving! I still haven't gottenrid of all the weight I gained.

Eric and I met repeatedly forprobing discussions which couldlast several hours. In addition, Imet and had brief discussionswith the Mayor, Vice-Mayor,Chairman of the City Council,and some Council members. Onthe last day, I presented a two-hour "seminar" lecture to many(30-35) Dubna city officials.Interest seemed high, and ques-tions were varied and quitegood. I also went with Eric toMoscow, and spoke to about tenstaff bureaucrats employed bythe Moscow Region (roughlyequivalent to a U.S. state), theregion of which includes Dubna.Also in Moscow, we met for anhour with Prof. Kemer Nordkin,the General Director of a coordi-nating committee of officials of bothMoscow City and the Moscow region. Thecity of Moscow turns out to be its ownregion for purposes of governmentalpower, even though surrounded by the(governmentally separate) MoscowRegion.

Nordkin spoke perfect English, andturned out to be a person of considerablesophistication, power and influence whohas been much involved in some landdevelopment joint ventures in and nearMoscow. He indicated that various visitorsfrom the U.S. and elsewhere had beeninterested in helping Russia with privatiza-tion, but that they tended to submit not-very-valuable reports, and to leave whenthe vodka, caviar, and money ran out. Heseemed impressed that I was paying myown expenses and received no compen-sation.

It is not clear to me to what extentexisting Russian law is even relevant toland privatization, or to land and landowners once land is in private hands. MyDubna hosts, though interested and highlyintelligent, were not lawyers. In discus-

sions with them, I gained an impression-possibly inaccurate-that Russia is doingquite a bit of land privatizing withouteven a basic legal structure in place. Whatis frustrating is that in most respects,Dubna does not have the political/govern-mental power to create such a structure.That power, I gather, lies partly with theMoscow Region and partly with thenational government of the Russian Feder-ation. A legal structure for private proper-ty can hardly have been on Boris Yeltsin'sfront burner when I was there, or at anytime since.

But privatizing is going on. Someapartments are being transferred so thelongtime occupants now own them."Kitchen-garden" small plots are beingtransferred to "owners" who have workedthem in years past. Land plots are beingtransferred to owners who are buildinghouses (some very large, which I saw) onthem. And without enumerating (which Icould not) all the legal questions whichEric and others raised about all this activi-ty, I can forecast that legal issues will arisewhich no existing statute or ordinance

will solve. Some of them will,presumably, come to the Russiancourts, which may need to per-form a lawmaking role familiarin common-law countries, butnot in Russia.

One matter which Dubna canaddress locally is the develop-ment of a land records system.Some land records exist. Thecity's human talent is as comput-er-sophisticated as any in theworld, I believe. In my closingseminar for the Dubna officials, Iemphasized how important itmight be to develop a compre-hensive. automated land infor-mation system at the beginningof privatization.

Dubna apparently has thepower and authority to leasepublicly owned land to individu-als, cooperatives, etc. It is doingsome of this in a way that mightbe characterized as "incrementalprivatization." Some of the leasesinvolve an option to purchaseafter some period of years. Quitea few of my discussions with

Eric and others had to do with terms andproblems relating to such leases.

•• •This was my first visit to Russia-indeed,my first to Eastern Europe, unless youcount a 1965 week in Yugoslavia. It is notan easy time for ordinary Russians,whether highly educated or not. Sometraders and entrepreneurs, evidently, havecaught the '.'{ave of economic freedomand made a killing. But Eric Taghirov andhis fellow Dubna physicists, formerly anear-elite group, have been shoved byinflation into an economic lower middleclass where luxuries and recreations existonly in memory. They understand andvalue the new political and personal free-doms, but they tend to view the newtraders as parasites hardly better than thegrowing organized crime presence in thelarger cities. Eric listened with respectfulskepticism to my argument that profitsfrom trade were an essential element of afree-market economy. I said, "Eric, I'm notreally sure that you believe in privatiza-tion." He admitted I might be right.

12

A few years ago, artificial economicbarriers erected by the Soviet Unionmeant that it took about $1.50 to buy aSoviet ruble legally. In June, in a Russianbank branch inside an American Expressoffice in the gorgeous St. Petersburg hotelwhere my Wisconsin Alumni tour began, Iexchanged twenty dollars for rubles: 1,280rubles per dollar.

Until then, I had seen ruble transac-tions, but had not known even theapproximate dollar relationship. Examples:(1) Eric told me that although Dubnaunderstood and appreciated that I was notbeing paid, the city wanted me to havesome rubles for incidentals or possibleemergency; he gave me 2,000 rubles. (2)We spent one night in Moscow, anddecided to go that evening to one ofMoscow's two top-ranked circuses. Ericwent to the box office and was disap-pointed to find the performance sold out.As he walked back to the car, two youngmen spoke to him; he then reported tome that the box office had no tickets, butthe scalpers had offered him two tickets atan outrageous price. He could not accept,but if I wanted to see the circus we couldhave the tickets for five dollars apiece. Weenjoyed the circus. 0) On my last day inDubna, Eric took me to a small cafeteriarestaurant for lunch. Filled to the brim fornine days by his wife, all I wanted was abowl of hearty soup with meatballs. I hap-pened to notice the price, 80 rubles. NowI knew it was six cents. (4) Later that day,we were riding to Moscow for theovernight train to St. Petersburg, chauf-feured by the city's driver who had beenat our service when needed all during my

visit. I asked Eric if it would be acceptableto give the driver a tip, suggesting five toten dollars. Eric said a tip would be okay,but the amount was too much; two orthree dollars would be plenty. I said that Iwould give him five. Eric said I could dowhat I wished, but should understand thatfive dollars would be nearly one-fifth ofthe driver's monthly salary.

An American with dollars (orDeutschmarks, yen or Swiss francs) whocan cross over from the tourist economyto the ruble economy can do and buy agreat deal for very low cost by our stand-ards. But what he can buy will normallynot include luxury lodging and transporta-tion, or gourmet food. For those, youneed hard currency and you'll pay inter-national tourist prices.

After three days in St. Petersburg, ourtour group flew to Moscow to board ourtrans-Siberian train. Then, we joined trav-elers who had not chosen the St. Peters-burg option. One was an old friend anddistinguished Uw Law alumnus, BobFroehlke ('49). As our train left Moscow inthe late afternoon, Bob and his roommatesummoned me to the bar car for pre-din-ner vodka. It was served ice-cold in a shotglass-delicious-for one dollar a shot.Bob bought. The second evening, ourtrain was still rolling eastward towardSiberia. Bob's lifelong friend and room-mate, John McDonald of Denver, boughtthe vodka. It had clearly become my turn.The next day we stopped for lunch, sight-seeing and dinner in the western Siberiancity of Omsk, recently opened to tourists.There turned out to be only one Omskrestaurant able to handle a tour group our

13

size-about 80 people. We went there forlunch, and we went there for dinner, andthe lunch and dinner menus were essen-tially identical. But at dinner I was able toorder vodka. They brought a decanterabout one-third full, enough to fill ourthree small glasses twice. The vodka wasperfectly good, though not chilled. Thewaitress presented a bill, which I paid.Froehlke and McDonald had not changeddollars for rubles in Moscow, and did notknow the exchange rate. They asked howmuch I had paid in U.S. money. I wastempted to lie, but decided it would bemore fun to tell the truth. I said, "Includ-ing the tip. 23 cents." The bill had been271 rubles; I had paid 300 rubles and toldthe waitress to keep the change; she wasdelighted. Froehlke and McDonald,though, were poor sports-they firmlytold me that I had not met my obligation,that it was still my turn to buy!

As I write, a month into 1994, I won-der whether recent developments in theRussian cabinet may have the effect ofslowing, or halting, land privatization. Aslow-down, so the law can catch up,might not be bad. A halt, given theamount of privatizing already done, wouldyield an awkward, fractured situation. Anattempt at reversal suggests legal andother problems too frightful to contem-plate. It will be interesting to see whetherthe momentum of land privatization, evenwithout an adequate legal foundation, isone of the phenomena that will makemovement toward a market economy inRussia hard to stop.

c ( J ,.•..)'I I r'i S I,,-'l

" i ; :"J

In 1994 it may not seem unusual for Ameri-cans and Russians to see each other asfriends and potential allies. But in 1988,before the fall of the Berlin Wall andbefore all of the extraordinary events thathave since occurred in Russia, the citizensof La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Dubna, Rus-sia, saw beyond their political differences.

Now, through the La Crosse-DubnaFriendship Association, they are workingto set up new democratic institutions inDubna, a center of nuclear research whichhad always been cut off from westerners.

According to Charles E. Hanson (73), apartner in the La Crosse law firm of Hale,Skernp, Hanson & Skemp and foundinzpresident of the La Crosse-Dubna Frier~l-ship Association, Inc., the sister-city rela-tionship of La Crosse and Dubna has flour-ished in ways that he never predicted."This wasn't the result of a master plan, it'sevolved over the years and I definitelycould not have foreseen it," he said.

The relationship began in 1988 when aletter was sent from Dubna to the mayorof La Crosse, Patrick Zielke, with the ideaof creating a sister-city relationship whichwould encourage cultural and educationalexchanges in the hope of increasingawareness of both Russian and Americancultures. Zilke turned to Hanson becauseHanson had been interested in Russiasince he had visited the Soviet Union withhis wife Cheryl in 1985 as part of a citizendiplomacy group.

After almost two years of work therelationship was formed as a not-for-profit

Charles Hanson (73), President, LaCrosse-Dubna Friendship Organization

Wisconsin corporation and in August 1990a formal sister-city protocol was signedand recognized by the federal govern-ments of both countries. Since that timemany projects typical of sister cities havebeen carried out, including exchanges ofgirl and boy scouts, hosting high schoolstudents and college and non-traditionalstudents who traveled to Dubna or LaCrosse to study, hosting musicians andteachers, and sponsoring medical anddental professionals to share their suppliesand expertise.

In the medical field, La Crosse hasbeen the recipient of a major grant fromthe American International Health Allianceto work on Dubna's medical resources.According to Hanson, this effort has beensuccessful because La Crosse focused onhelping the Russians improve medical care'with their existing equipment rather than

14

trying to immediately install sophisticatedequipment which they were not preparedto use.

But these projects are just the begin-ning-the two cities are creating businessrelationships, a business school and amore-democratic government. Hansonsaid that despite Dubna's historv as a sci-entific center crucial to the defe'nse of theSoviet Union, it's actually quite receptiveto western ideas since most of its citizensare highly educated. "It's this intellectualbase that has helped our relationshipbecause they have a lot of knowledge tobuild on," Hanson said.

Besides its human resources, Dubna isalso the home of the Cosmos Space Com-munications Station, built to transmit viasatellite the 1980 Olympics and to com-municate with cosmonauts. It was alsoused to receive western news reports ofthe 1991 coup attempt despite a newsblackout within the Soviet Union. Thisinformation helped to foster support forBoris Yeltsin and progressive reform.

The Cosmos Center is integral to Rus-sian and American relations at all levels."It's now the conduit for the Washington-Moscow hotline, but we also use it for theLa Crosse-Dubna communications," Han-son said.

They're now using the Center and theInternet to help them set up new institu-tions. Dubna, with a population of 65,000and located on the Volga River about 70miles from Moscow, is now a free tradezone, which will help attract internationalbusinesses since much of the bureaucraticprocessing will be reduced.

This development has led to the cre-ation of the Russian American TransportAssociation, the first joint venture estab-lished in Russia. This trucking companywas originally owned by the regional gov-ernment, then sold to Dubna and priva-tized to allow the company to become ajoint stock company with both Americanand Russian stockholders.

The company was set up by the Com-monwealth American Development Cor-poration, a private consulting corporationestablished by Hanson and Morris Patter-son to help Wisconsin businesses createjoint ventures or develop trading partnersin Russia. Hanson said that they're helpedby the personal relationships built up overthe years which will protect them fromsome of the riskier aspects of Russianbusiness. Hanson is also responsible forcreating a Rotary Club in Dubna, the firstsuch club in a Russian city with a popula-tion of less than one million.

Dubna will also make strides in businessbecause three La Crosse institutions-CW-La Crosse, Viterbo College and West-ern Wisconsin Technical College-are help-ing to set up a business college in Dubnathat will teach western business practices.Classes will start in the fall of 1994 since theRussian Federation has just given a federallicense to this new institution. Hanson isone of the founding directors.

The sister-city organization is alsoinvolved in the public sector. Since gov-ernments existing at the municipal levelhave just been officially recognized by theRussian constitution, La Crosse officialsand political science professors, alongwith UW Law Professor Walter Raushen-bush, are helping to develop the Dubnacity charter and to advise on variousaspects of local government from landreform to elections.

"We're helping them to create a newdemocratic system of local government,"Hanson said. "From a professional stand-point I'm delighted, and it's especially funto bring my professional background intoplay with the sister-city project."

Hanson said that Dubna is ideal forleading the way in setting up new govern-mental structures since it has relativelyfew social problems such as organizedcrime, has a great location and is smallenough so that you can know all of thekey people.

Morris Patterson, Chuck Hanson and Gennady Strogov (l to r) at the first stockholders'meeting of the Russian American Transport Association.

Hanson welcomes Mayor Prokh of Dubna at the La Crosse Airport.

15

Hands Across the Heartland, 1992: Russians offer the American pilot of a C-5Acargo planea traditional welcome of bread and salt at the Moscow airport.

"We think of Dubna as a great oppor-tunity to develop different prototype sys-tems. whether it be in the area of landreform, municipal government, or educa-tion," he said. "We can experiment inDubna and it will be less complicatedthan if we tried to do things in Moscow.Ultimately, whatever model the people inDubna come up with it will be uniquelyRussian. We can just offer our experiencein what we do here."

Despite these achievements, Hansonsaid that his most rewarding experiencecame from chairing the Hands Across theHeartland Campaign, a community-basedeffort that collected food and medical aidfor Dubna during the food crisis in the

winter of 1991-92. Individuals and privatebusinesses from the La Crosse area andeastern Minnesota donated 402,000pounds of food, medicine and clothingwhile their friends in Dubna organized thedistribution of the aid. Hanson estimatedthat about 12,000 people in Dubna werehelped by this effort,

Hanson was with a delegation from LaCrosse which flew to Dubna on a militarycargo plane to help ensure that the reliefgot to the right people. "That was a reallymoving experience for me, seeing our mil-itary working with their Russian counter-parts to deliver food," he said. Not onebox was lost along the way.

Hands Across the Heartland II sent

16

over 218,000 pounds of aid again in 1993.Hanson said that he's impressed with theway the effort brought together so manydifferent people both in Russia and \,(/is-consin. "We didn't know that it could notbe done, so we just went ahead and didit," Hanson said.

But Hanson said that the best humani-tarian aid is that which will help the peo-ple of Dubna help themselves. "I've madeseven trips to Russia, not to tell them whatto do, but to help provide them withoptions and the opportunity to see whathas worked for us," Hanson said. "It is upto the Russians to decide what is going towork for them. They're going to have aRussian form of whatever model theyadopt-they won't just borrow everythingfrom another culture."

Hanson also said that building person-al relationships will in turn encourageRussians to take a chance on what "tillsometimes be painful reforms as theywork to develop a fully democratic soci-ety. The work of the La Crosse-DubnaFriendship Association is proof of whatcan be accomplished.

"I'm a firm believer of the power ofone," Hanson said. "It's easy to throw upyour hands and say that there are too manyproblems and that 'those problems are toobig to solve. But one person, or one group,or one city, really can make a difference.You don't have to have a huge governmentprogram to do it. You do have to be will-ing to begin with what you have and seeyourself as part of the solution."

~ t

While it wasn't even a mystery picture,what a surprise to find so many peopleinterested in the old faculty photo on thecover of the last issue, If I had thoughtyou'd want to know who they were andwhen it was taken, I could have included aproper caption but then I wouldn't havegotten all those "nice" letters,

The reverside side of the originalphoto indicated that the picture was takenin May 1930 and named the faculty pre-sent. They were: Top Row-(from left)Alfred Gausewitz, Charles Gregory,Howard Hall, William Rice, Philip La Fol-lette and Nathan Feinsinger. BottomRow-Malcolm Sharp, John Wickhem,Oliver Rundell, John Sanborn, Frank Boe-sel and Ray Brown,

We did notice that Herbie Page "asabsent. From what I know about ProfPage, I can imagine that he was leaningout of the Dean's window while the pho-tographer was focusing, complaining thatit was all a "waste of time,"

17

Contracts. Supplies. Paychecks.Fundamental concepts in our soci-ety. But not in the former SovietUnion, says Asst. Professor KathrynHendley, who studied an aviationplant in Sarotov, Russia, and nowteaches International BusinessTransactions at the Law School.Hendley has a joint appointmentwith the political science depart-ment, for which she teaches Com-parative Legal Institutions.

Hendley became intrigued bythese cultural concepts after travel-ing through Europe, the SovietUnion, China and Israel whileworking on her B.A. at Indiana Uni-versity and J.D. at the UCLASchool of Law.These thoughts came back to her while sheworked at a Dallas law firm in themid-1980s.

"I had been struck, both in Russia andin other places, about the whole questionof concepts that we take so for zranted inothe United States and how differentlvthey're interpreted," Hendley said. wYounever think that there could be anybodywho disagrees."

Hendley left Dallas to work on her mas-ter's degree at Georgetown and went backto Russia in the fall of 1989 for a year ofwork on her dissertation on legal reformand labor law. She then earned a doctorateat the University of California at Berkeleyin 1992

Besides her academic work, Hendleyalso advised managers of an aviation plantin Sarotov, Russia. Her first visit to Sarotovwas with a group of American business-

people to consult on privatization ques-tions and continued her research at the avi-ation plant in the spring of 1993. "Inessence I worked there," Hendley said. "Iwould go out every day just like a normalworker and talk to people and try to findout how they were coping with thechanges that were happening every day."

These changes include learning how todeal with Western concepts, especially theidea of contracts. The Soviets used theirministries to enforce contracts or else leftthem to be settled on an informal basis.The Russian parliament has developed aneconomic COUlt system that can handle dis-putes between private companies, althoughlarge firms usually ignore the new policies.For example, the plant that Hendley stud-ied employs 15,000 workers, and suppliersare happy to deal with such a large factoryinformally.

"The trade patterns that developed

under the Soviet system were basedon personal contacts, so to a largeextent they still exist," Hendley said."But when you talk to managersabout the extent to which they usethe economic court system, theyjust laugh, as if this would even becontemplated. If contracts are notenforceable, then it's not surprisingthat they don't take them seriously."

Smaller firms, however, rely onpersonal contacts of a different sort."It's in this small-business areawhere you see the emergence ofwhat they call the Mafia or what areessentially private contractenforcers," Hendley said. "Basicallythese are people who if you orderwidgets will guarantee that they'll

come on time. And they don't do it forfree. As somebody who studies legal devel-opment it's not exactly the most positivething, but it's understandable."

Even paying employees often becomesproblematic, since payday entails checkingoff your name and wages from a list ofyour fellow workers. You then get thecash: no checks, no stubs, no directdeposit. "I don't think an American canactually conceive of getting a wad of tensor hundreds when they get their pay-check-well, there's no such thinz as ab

paycheck," Hendley said. "They literallyhand you the pack of rubles."

Hendley has maintained her Russiancontacts through a group of U\V-Madisonprofessors who contracted with the Russiangovernment to help set up new legal struc-tures and she has also hosted visitors fromRussia-including the manager of the Saro-tOYaviation plant-s-this past school year.

"I took a big chance on lawschool," said Victoria Nourse, anew assistant professor who nowteaches Criminal Law, CriminalProcedure, and Legislation at theLaw School. Nourse began hercareer as an engineering studentand then a history major at Stan-ford. After enrolling at the lawschool at the University of Califor-nia at Berkeley, Nourse found thatlaw suited her talents well. "Ifound the law liberating," Noursesaid. "It offered me the conceptualchallenges I found in science butplaced those challenges within amore human discipline."

Prof. Nourse's varied academic careerturned into a varied work career, whichalwavs included her ambition to teachlaw. ;'1 always wanted to teach, but I keptfinding myself doing other things," Noursesaid.

Those "other things" include workingon some of the most controversial legalissues of the 1980s. Two and a half yearsafter her law school graduation, Noursefound herself helping to investigate anational scandal, the Iran-Contra affair.She got there after a clerkship with notedNew York Federal Judge Edward Weinfeldled to a job as an associate at the law finnof Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garri-son. Nourse's hard work and respect fordetail caught the attention of ArthurLiman, the head of the firm, and he hand-ed her a huge break-a position in Wash-ington as an assistant counsel to the Sen-ate Iran-Contra Committee.

"Looking back, I had an enormousamount of responsibility for a younglawyer," said Nourse. "Along with inter-viewing a number of top government offi-cials, I was assigned to read some of themost sensitive documents in the WhiteHouse. My job was to know the facts bet-ter than anyone else. I read and re-readeverything that Oliver North ever wrote.Still, to this day, I can repeat some choicelines from his memoranda,"

After the investigation, Nourse left thefirm to spend two years sharpening herskills as an appellate advocate at theDepartment of Justice. "I thought aboutseeking a teaching job at that time, but Iwasn't really sure if I was ready for it,"Nourse said. "1 wanted to be a 'real'lawyer, to argue 'real' cases before 'real'judges."

In 1990, as she was preparing to arguea case in the D.C. Circuit, Capitol Hillcalled once more, this time in the form of

19

an offer to become Special Councilto the Senate judiciary Committee.During her three-year tenure there,the Judiciary Committee wasembroiled in some of the mostcontroversial hearings in its history,including the hearings of SupremeCourt Justice Clarence Thomas andAttorney General-designate ZoeBaird.

"In one capacity or another, Iworked on most Committee hear-ings," Nourse said. "But my princi-pal job was to develop legislationand, in particular, crime legisla-tion." Soon after she arrived, thechairman of the Committee, Sena-tor Joseph Biden, asked Nourse totake the lead on a bill that would

become a centerpiece of her work there-the Violence Against Women Act. "I'mvery proud of my work on that," she said,"It was something that I never could haveanticipated, but something that has cometo mean more to me than almost anythingelse I have done in the past ten years."

Her work on the legislation wasn'talways easy. At first, interest groups resist-ed· they woudn't even return Nourse's, ,telephone calls. "So I did what a law pro-fessor would do-I went to the Library ofCongress," Nourse said,

Despite her success in Washington,Nourse admits to enjoying the relaxedatmosphere of Madison. "Many of my for-mer colleagues on the Hill would love theopportunity to leave Washington to cometo a place where people were actuallycivil to each other and where they had theluxury of pursuing their true interests,"Nourse said.

Asst. Dean Robert Correales beganhis law studies after a ten-yearcareer as a chemist in Tex~s. "Thecurious thing is that if you look atmy employment history as achemist, you'll see the 'ebb andflow of the Texas economy," Cor-reales said.

Correales worked as a lab tech-nician dealing with kidney trans-plants at the Southwestern MedicalSchool, in the quality control lab at TexasInstruments, as a chemical analyst in thegas and oil field at Dresser Ind~stries. inthe pharmaceutical industry at CullumCompanies, and as a process chemist in acement plant at Texas Industries.

Correales decided to go into law sothat he could work on civil rights issues,and also because he wanted a career thatwouldn't depend on economic cycles. "Ialso wanted to get a job that I could takewith me and use anywhere," Correalessaid.

Correales left Texas and earned hisJ.D. in 1991 from the University of KansasSchool of Law, where he was the studentdirector of the Douglas County Legal AidClinic. He then became a graduate fellowat the Institute for Public Representation

OPR) at Georgetown University School ofLaw while working on his LL.ir., which hecompleted in June 1993-

Correales said that his most memorablecase at the IPR involved the environmen-tal problems of Washington, D.C., inwhich inner city residents were beingharmed by a local landfill and a pollutedtributary of the Potomac River that carriedwaste from an automobile recycling plant.Correales represented a nearby neighbor-hood and was able to block the plant'sexpansion. The Environmental ProtectionAgency got involved in the case later. "Itwas mostly due to the fact that the resi-dents rose up and complained about theconditions in their neighborhood," Cor-reales said. "It was through their politicalefforts that changes were made."

At the IPR Correales helped supervise

20

30 student interns who were prac-ticing their skills in legal researchand writing and drafting briefs andmotions. "I loved working with thestudents in the clinic," Correalessaid. "We worked heavily on thestudents' skills as attorneys."

This experience led him to hisposition as Assistant Dean for Stu-dent and Academic Affairs at theLaw School, which he began inJuly 1993. "When I stumbled intothe placement office at George-town and saw that this positionwas open, I knew that this was theperfect job for me," Correales said.

Correales said that he's finallysettling into his new job. "This'

position is very promising," Correales said."This job can be an awful lot of fun andno two days are the same. I'm gettingmore comfortable-I wanted to do a goodjob but I didn't know what to expect fromthe students." His duties include helpingbstudents with their personal and academicquestions and helping to build a sense ofcommunity among the diverse studentpopulation.

Correales said that communication isimportant, and before the fall semesterbegan he and Asst. Dean Reisner builtcabinets that now hold hanging folders forevery law student, which are used forsending messages. "This has helped estab-lish a sense of community and studentswill always benefit from communication."Correales said. .

James Thomas can explain why hehas been so successful at recruitingnew law students: "I speak candid-ly and tell the truth." These quali-ties would have been appreciatedby Thomas when he was lookingat law schools to earn his J.D. inthe mid-1980s. Thomas is now theAssistant Dean of Admissions andFinancial Aid at the Law Schooland represents the school to 'prospective students and supervises schol-arship funds.

"My own past experience with therecruiting process was really aggravating,and to this day I think that I relive myown agony in terms of deciding whichschool to attend," Thomas said.

Thomas received his J.D. from the Uni-versity of Iowa College of Law in 1986. Hethen worked at the university as a Compli-ance Officer in the Affinnative ActionOffice. In March 1988 he became Associ-ate Director of Law Admissions, and waslater promoted to Director. He becamenationally known as an admissions profes-sional and recruiter working on manynational committees.

While at Iowa, Thomas directed theBridging the Gap program, which beganin 1978 as a way to increase knowledge ofskills that successful students need and to

create awareness of the opportunities thatlaw school can give. Thomas also expand-ed the concept of the Bridging the GapPre-Law Conference.

Thomas initiated a program here thatencourages high school students in Madi-son, Milwaukee and Racine to prepare fortheir academic careers beyond attainingan undergraduate degree.

"It may be a scaled-down version ini-tially but the idea is to begin a dialogue sothat we can keep students in communica-tion, because the greatest thing highschool students can say is that they metsome law students and they were reallyfriendly and cared sincerely about theirfuture," Thomas said.

Thomas said that he knows first-handthat this exposure can influence kids' lives,since that's how he became interested inthe law. "I was exposed to law school

21

when I was five or six years old,"Thomas said. "Having that expo-sure so early meant there neverwas a question of law school beingattainable."

Thomas considers the financialrealities of attending law schoolwhen he counsels students. "As afinancial aid dean I have some realconcerns about the amount of debtthat students are involving them-selves in," Thomas said.

Despite the obstacles studentsmay encounter during and afterlaw school, Thomas still encour-ages people to go for it. "I thinkthat with the downsizing of themarkets, the realization is that the

J.D. is still the most flexible, terminaldegree that one can attain," Thomas said.

Thomas travels extensively to recruitstudents from around the country, whichtakes him away from his wife, a registerednurse, and their children.

Thomas admitted that the move wasdifficult for him personally. "It's probablymy adjustment to Madison that has beenthe most difficult," Thomas said. "WhenyOUbring in a class, you've basicallv obli-gated yourself to be there when tha't classgraduates. Therefore as each class enteredat Iowa, I wanted to see that class gradu-ate. The gratification each vear fromwatching an entire class w~lk across thatstage and get their diplomas and do wellis unreal."

The Class of '68 celebrated the 25thanniversary of its graduation by sponsor-ing a new lecture hall in the remodeledLaw School. The organizers of the effort,Jeffrey Bartell of the Madison office ofQuarles & Brady, and Frank Jesse, Jr., ofGray, Plant, Mooty, Mooty & Bennett inMinneapolis, planned the fundraising tocoincide with their class reunion held dur-ing Homecoming last fall.

"We gathered to celebrate our LawSchool years and take note of everythingthat the Law School did for us-ourcareers and our lives," Bartell said. "Wewanted to translate those good feelingsinto a gift to the Law School."

Almost half of the Class came to thereunion the weekend of October 9 and 10to see the Badgers trounce Northwesternand to hear Dean Daniel Bernstine speak

along with a handful of distinguished classmembers. These speakers included Con-gressman James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Wis-consin Minority Leader James Prosser, Wis-consin Supreme Court Justice WilliamBablitch, and Assistant General Counsel forMobile Oil, Kay Ellen Hayes Consolver.

"It was a happy occasion," Bartell said."Our class is generally quite successfuland I think everybody is pretty grateful tothe Law School."

Bartell and Jesse were aided by mem-bers of the reunion committee consistingof Jon Axelrod, Dave Hanson, Jack Shair-er, Bill Bablitch and Ray Riordan. Bartellsaid that they also credit Dean Bernstineand Chris Richards of the UW Foundationfor the success of the class fundraisingefforts.

The committee's initial contacts toclassmates raised about $100,000 beforethe reunion weekend and the fund has

22

now surpassed $130,000. The Class isseeking a total of $150,000 to name thelecture hall.

Bartell attributed the generosity of theClass to the circumstances of their years inlaw school. He said that the Class of '68was close-knit and stuck together duringthe troubles on campus during the Viet-nam years.

The Class was also fortunate to usefacilities that were then state-of-the-art. "Ithink our class wants future UW Law stu-dents to study in the best facilities possi-ble, just as we had," Bartell said.

He laughed when he said that they stillthought of the current building as the"new" Law School. "Back then it was allbright and shiny and we couldn't imagineanything better, but the intervening 25years have certainly taken their toll on thebuilding," Bartell said.

Law students will benefit greatly from thelatest gift from the members of the Mil-waukee firm Cook & Franke. The gift willhelp pay for new computer facilities to behoused in the remodeled Law School.

The effort was spearheaded by firmpresident Francis R. Croak ('53), who sug-gested that members pledge and that thefirm match the funds contributed by theindividuals. Almost $80,000 was pledgedby individuals; the total amount contribut-ed is more than $105,000.

Croak stated that raising the moneyrequired little effort. "It was surprisinglyeasy," Croak said. "There was a great dealof enthusiasm. Especially the youngerpeople felt that with a computer lab theywanted to be involved."

The gift will help alleviate the stress onthe current computer facilities, which aretoo small to handle all of the students'needs, especially when it comes toinstruction.

Presently computers are scatteredthroughout the building, but the maincomputer lab used for instruction containsonly 12 computers-not enough to meetthe demands of 285 Legal Writing stu-dents. Groups of a dozen students aretaught basic research skills every hour, butthat prevents other students from usingthe room. The lab must be shut down fora week to teach the Legal Writing stu-dents, preventing the rest of the lawstudents from using the lab.

The Cook & Franke contribution willend this situation by doubling the size ofthe instructional lab. A second lab willprovide additional computer access. Onelab will always be open for students touse on their own, regardless of teachingschedules.

The new labs will also be larger for theaccommodation of 25 computers in eachroom, and also provide for increasedwork space.

Despite the space problems, the LawSchool has earned a national reputation

for using computers creatively. The Schoolis hooked up to larger information net-works such as CD-Rom, LEXIS/NEXIS, andWESTLA..W to make research more effi-cient and thorough. Additionally, studentscan check out laptop and notebook com-puters to plug into networks throughoutthe library or take home.

The School's influence can also be feltin the daily practice of law, according toCroak. "The Wisconsin Law School hasalways been involved in programs thataffect the practice of law, so that you havea continuing relationship if you're at allactive in the field," Croak said. "There's aconstant relationship, a continuing rela-tionship between graduates and theSchool. If you practice law in Wisconsinyou're aware of the Law School and whatit's doing."

------

1994 Distinguished Service Award

1 1

WLAA President John Skilton presents the 1994 WLAA Distinguished Service Award to Philip S.Habermann ('47) in recognition of his work on behalf of Wisconsin lawyers.

T

The Distinguished Service Award is thehighest honor presented by the Universityof Wisconsin Law School. Since its incep-tion in 1967 there have been 50 winners.The Award recognizes an "outstandingcontribution to the profession" by analumnus or faculty member of the School.

For 1994, the Board of Directors of theWisconsin Law Alumni Association haschosen to present one of these awards toPhilip S. Habermann, Class of 1947.

For 25 years. the name Phil Haber-mann was synonymous with the State Barof Wisconsin. When lawyers around thestate encountered a problem with theirpractice or with the law itself, they werelikely to think, "I need to call Phil!"

From a one-person operation in small,rented quarters to a building owned freeand clear by the Bar; from one file cabinetand an old typewriter to an efficient staffdoing a variety of work relating tolawyers, courts and the administration ofjustice; from a few thousand lawyersbelonging to a voluntary organization tomore than 9,800 diverse members of themandatory bar; Phil was there organizing,negotiating, conducting public relationsprograms, lobbying for the efficientadministration of justice, traveling to everycounty seat in Wisconsin, innovating solu-tions to the fair provision of legal services,and creating friendships across the stateand around the country.

Born in Lodi, Wisconsin, in 1913, Philbegan his career in association manage-

ment even before earning his undergradu-ate degree from the University of Wiscon-sin-Madison. In 1935 he became AssistantSecretary of the League of WisconsinMunicipalities. Shortly after receiving hisPh.B. in 1941, Phil left the state briefly torun the Maine Municipal Associationbefore entering the U.S. Navy as a supplyofficer in 1943. Alter World War II, Philreturned to the campus as a law student,earning his LL.B. in 1947.

As a new lawyer in 1947, phil was cho-sen as the first director of the new \1\'is-

consin Legislative Council, where heworked with Warren Knowles and Gor-don Bubolz to organize and get the Coun-cil running. In 1948, he was chosen to bethe first full-time executive of the Wiscon-sin Bar Association and was given freerein to organize and activate the Associa-tion. In 1956, when the Supreme Courtordered the creation of the mandatory bar,Phil became the first Executive Director ofthe State Bar of \1\'isconsin, a position heheld until he retired late in 1974.

As Executive Director, Phil gained

24

25

recognition throughout the country as anexpert on association management. Afterhis retirement, he was called upon by theAmerican Bar Association to conduct 72intensive management surveys and localbar associations, where for six years hisinsightful comments and recommenda-tions helped reorganize and revitalizeweak organizations.

Phil was also innovative during hisyears with the State Bar. He is creditedwith the creation of the Judicare plan forproviding legal assistance to low-incomeclients in rural areas. For his work in thearea Phil received the Reginald HeberSmith Award in 1964. Phil also took theBar "on the road" in the early years, trav-eling the state with his "Regional Meeting"series. Building on the success of theAnnual Tax School and the NegligenceLaw Section Programs, phil originated theconcept of continuing legal education forWisconsin lawyers, Under his guidancethe Bar organized Advanced TrainingSeminars in 1969. Several years later, Wis-

consin became one of the first states tomake continuing legal education arequirement for all lawyers. He servedwith distinction on a number of ABA com-mittees and commissions relating to theeconomics of the bar and public relations.

In 1984, the State Bar commissionedPhil to prepare an exhaustive history ofthe organized bar in Wisconsin. In1983-84 he served as a part-time consult-ant to the Legal Services Corporations,working to build better liaison with localbar associations and to develop a vouchersystem for delivering legal assistance tothe needy.

In 1986, Phil was called upon to headthe staffing of the commission of theBicentennial of the Constitution, where heorganized the statewide programs ofrededication of courthouses and spear-headed the move to bring the MagnaCarta to Wisconsin.

A prolific author, Phil not only wrotefor and edited the Wisconsin Bar Bulletinbut also wrote for a wide variety of legal

publications. He continues to write nowduring his retirement as any reader of theletters to the editor section of our Madisonnewspapers will know.

For over forty years, Phil Habermannhas been a friend, advisor and confidantof the giants of the legal profession inWisconsin. While he has chosen to remainprimarily offstage, his contribution to thesuccess of the organized bar is clearly rec-ognized by those who pay attention. In1977, Phil presented this DistinguishedService Award to Warren Resh, a leg-endary figure in the \,(Tisconsin Depart-ment of Justice. Phil told the audienceabout how, in the great timber-cutting era,prudent loggers would leave a "Grandfa-ther Pine" in an otherwise clear-cut area, atree with strong genes that could reseedthe area. In the legal forest, Phil Haber-mann is clearly another of those Grandfa-ther Pines, his influence on the professionwill be felt long after our generation oflawyers has left the field.

______________~-----------.J

7e

E. Ernest Goldstein (S..J.D. '56) has justreturned from a stint in Paris to become theDirector of the Endowment for VietnameseEducation, the Chair of the Advisory Boardof the Business Alliance for Vietnamese Edu-cation, and an adjunct professor at the Uni-versity of Texas School of Law.

Russell G, Cleary ('57) rejoined theboard of directors of G. Heileman BrewingCo., the company he had served for 18years as chairman and chief executive offi-cer. Cleary left the company in 1988 after ithad been acquired in a hostile takeover byan Australian company. He is president andchairman of Cleary Management Corp. in LaCrosse, Wis.

Allen Samson ('65) has become thePresident and Chairman of the Board of Lib-erty Bank in Milwaukee.

T. Dennis George ('66) took office asPresident of the Federal Bar Association ofthe Western District of Washington. He isone of the founders of the Seattle firmGeorge, Hull, Porter & Kohli, P.S., and is amember of the local Bar chapter "Rain CityBadgers,"

Johnathan 1. Charney ('68), a law pro-fessor at Vanderbilt University, was electedto membership in the Council on ForeignRelations and to serve as Vice President ofthe American Society of International Law.His book, International Maritime Bound-aries (1993), was honored by the AmericanSociety of International Law in April, and healso lectured in Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo, Kyotoand Hiroshima this summer,

Marty Oberman ('69) ran in the Demo-cratic primary for the Illinois Attorney Gen-eral. He is a former Chicago alderman.

Charles W. Wheeler ('70) joined KPMGPeat Marwick as National Director of TaxServices for its banking and finance practice.He was the National Director of Bank TaxServices at Ernst & Young in the NationalTax Office,

Nathaniel E. Friends ('71) has joinedAT&TFederal Systems, which is responsiblefor all AT&T sales of services and productsto domestic and foreign governments. Hewas Vice President and General Counsel ofAT&T Easyl.ink.

John L. Buckley (73) was named Chiefof Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxationin April. He was the Assistant House Legisla-tive Counsel at the time of his appointment.

Ronald Albers (74) was honored with acommunity service award from the Bay AreaLawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF)inSan Francisco. He has been with the SanFrancisco Public Defender's Office for 15years and is currently serving a one-yearterm as chair of the California State Bar'sJudicial Nominees Evaluation Commission.He is co-founder and past chairman of theNational Lesbian & Gay Law Association andfounder of BALIF,

Robert E. Cattanach (75) joined theMinneapolis office of Dorsey & Whitney,specializing in environmental litigation.

Randolph Stone (75), a law professorat the University of Chicago, was electedchairman of the ABA's criminal justice sec-tion,

Susan Steingass (76) is now a share-holder in Habush, Habush, Davis & Rottler.She is a former Circuit Judge for DaneCounty and 1992 ABOTA Trial]udge of theYear.

Elena A, Cappella ('79) was elected aDeputy Director of the American Law Insti-tute, a position she has held since 1993, butis now an elective office. She served asExecutive Director of the Wisconsin JudicialCommission and is a former lecturer at theLaw School.

Warren D, Woessner ('81) has formedSchwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, a Min-neapolis firm specializing in high-technologypatent law. He was formerly with Merchant& Gould of Minneapolis and is currently thechairman of the Chemical Practice Commit-tee of the American Intellectual PropertyLaw Association.

Margaret M. Derus ('82) joined the taxdivision of Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren,Norris & Rieselbach in Milwaukee. She wasthe Executive Assistant to the Secretary ofthe Wisconsin Department of Revenue,

Thomas R. Grogan ('82) was namedDirector of Administrative Services at theUniversity of Wisconsin-oshkosh and willalso continue to serve as Special Assistant tothe Chancellor.

Nancy K. Peterson ('83) has become apartner in the Milwaukee office of Quarles &Brady.

Amy 1. Wachs ('83), who practices envi-ronmentallaw, has become a partner in theSt. Louis office of Husch & Eppenberger.

----27

Daniel E. Conley ('85), Fredrick G.Lautz ('85) and David P. Olson ('85) havebecome partners in the Milwaukee office ofQuarles & Brady,

Richard B, Lapp ('85) has become apartner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth,Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson, where hepractices labor and employment law.

Christopher Byers ('86) has become alitigation partner in the San Francisco officeof Pillsbury Madison & Sutro.

John C. Stathas ('86) has joined theMadison office of Quarles & Brady as anassociate.

David R.]. Stiennon ('86) has become apartner at Lathrop & Clark in Madison, Hespecializes in intellectual property lawincluding patents, trademarks and copy-rights,

Hannah C. Dugan ('87) joined the LegalAid Society in Milwaukee as a project attor-ney for the Municipal Ordinance DefenseProject.

John Halloran Heide ('87) has becomea shareholder with the Green Bay firm ofEverson, Whitney, Everson & Brehin, S,c.He concentrates in family law and realestate.

Karl Kramer ('87) has been made apartner in the Palo Alto firm of Brown &Bain, which specializes in litigation in thehigh-tech industry,

James F. Killian ('88) has become anassociate attorney in the Minneapolis firm ofMaslen Edelman Borman & Brand and prac-tices exclusively in the construction lawarea.

Rhonda]. Martinson ('89) has joinedLorman Business Center, Inc., in Eau Claire,\X'is" to develop continuing education semi-nars for lawyers. She is a former Wisconsinprosecutor in La Crosse and Calumet coun-ties.

Kenneth Port ('89) has been appointedto the faculty of Marquette University LawSchool and will teach courses in intellectualproperty and comparative law beginning inthe fall of 1994.

Guri Ademi ('93), Ronni 1\1. Flannery('93), Michael M. Grebe ('93) and MichaelLappin ('93) have become associates in theMilwaukee office of Quarles & Brady.

Nicholas J. McNamara ('93) has joinedHabush, Habush, Davis & Rotlier as an asso-ciate,

11 eileli,

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice ShirleyS. Abrahamson will deliver the SixthThomas E. Fairchild Lecture at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin Grainger Hall School ofBusiness at 4:00 p.rn. on October 28th,The Fairchild Lectureship was establishedat the University of Wisconsin Law Schoolin 1988 as a tribute to Judge Thomas E.Fairchild, a 1937 law graduate, former Jus-tice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, laterChief Judge and now Senior Circuit Judgeon the U,S. Court of Appeals for the Sev-enth Circuit. Initiated by Judge Fairchild'spast and present law clerks, the lecture-ship brings to the University of WisconsinLaw School distinguished members of the

legal profession to speak on a topic ofimportance to the profession,

Justice Abrahamson's lecture this yearwill address the history of the AmericanLaw Institute and its connection to Wis-consin, The topic is particularly appropri-ate in light of Judge Fairchild's longstand-ing membership in the American LawInstitute and his continuing service on itsgoverning council. The American LawInstitute was organized in 1923 by leadingjudges, academics and practitioners of thetime, including William H, Taft, CharlesEvans Hughes and Elihu Root, "to pro-mote the clarification and simplification ofthe law and its better adaptation to social

needs, to secure the better administrationof justice, and to encourage and carry onscholarly and scientific legal work." Sincethat time the Institute has been at the fore-front of legal analysis and creative work.

Past Fairchild lecturers have beengiven by United States Justice John PaulStevens; former Chair of the Securities andExchange Commission and NorthwesternLaw Dean David S. Ruder; former SolicitorGeneral, D.C. Circuit Judge and now attor-ney Kenneth W. Starr; and Ninth CircuitJudge Mary Schroeder. Each of these lec-tures have been published in the Wiscon-sin Law Review,

l ~~ .J

For the past 18-and-a-half years I haveworn several hats at the Law School, par-ticularly those of Director of Alumni Rela-tions and Director of Career Services, In1976, when I started, such job sharing wasnot uncommon either here at our Schoolor at law schools throughout the country.But times change: Changes in the marketfor law graduates have greatly changedthe nature of work in Career Services, aswell as its volume, while the necessity ofraising funds from our alumni becomesmore apparent every day. Clearly some-thing had to give.

By the time you read this, one of myhats will have been passed. Anne Court-ney, a 1991 graduate of our School andthe Director of Career Services at the Uni-versity of Louisville Law School since hergraduation, has accepted the position ofDirector of Career Services at our School.Ann's talent, training and time will allowgreatly enhanced services to begin flowingto our students and alumni. As the yearends a second person will be recruited toensure that our School has a level of ser-vice in this area compatible with ourstature in the legal community.

This has been a bittersweet decisionfor me. I have enjoyed working with hun-dreds of students each year and with thehundreds of employers who have soughtout our talented graduates. Each year Icelebrate some anniversary of my 29thbirthday partly in self-denial of being anyolder but also because our students arealways about the same average age. Howcan I be getting any older if they aren't?Many of them have become close friends,people I continue to rely on for assistancewith alumni events, class reunions or lead-ership responsibility in the Law AlumniAssociation.

My new duties, however, are not reallynew, just current activities enlarged to servemore alumni and the greater demands ourCU1Tenteconomy places on publicly assistedschools. So it isn't goodbye to any of you,you'll be hearing from me!

J. Edmund Smith ('64) wrote to answermy recent question concerning a possibleappearance at the Law School by JimmyHoffa in the early 1960s. Mr. Smith wasable to confirm the report offered byGeorge Whyte ('65). He says, "I attendedthe seminar and recall that a great deal ofcontroversy was swirling around Mr. Hoffanationally at the time. I also recall that thelocal newspaper was irate because Hoffawould not give any of their reporters aninterview. The lecture by Mr. Hoffa wasquite informative. I remember beingimpressed by the fact that Mr. Hoffa had amanner of speaking to our class that wastotally different than the face he presentedin his public appearances, i.e., he sound-ed like a professor in our seminar."

I also received a copy of a letter fromRoy Traynor ('62) to Prof. Gordon Bald-win commenting on Gordon's memorialresolution written upon the death of Prof.Abner Brodie. Roy said, "Back in the dayswhen Wisconsin's law profesors were stillcalled 'Mr.' instead of 'Professor', and Iwas an incessantly working law student,Abner Brodie was the finest teacher of lawthat I ever had. A lot of the guys didn'twarm up to Mr. Brodie because he was

Mystery Picture

29

pretty blunt and tough in the classroombut that didn't bother me .... I was able toeasily see beyond the bluntness and thegruffness to appreciate what Vias beingtaught by a very kindly and thoughtfulperson .... More than any other teacher,he taught me skills which I still utilize tothis day."

Since the last issue was our directoryyou may not recall the last mystery pic-ture, but Judge Michael Brennan ('64) andG. George Lawrence ('65) had no troublewith it. Between them they identified JohnHanson, John Michler, Phil Atinsky, IrvKahn, Bruce Craig, Howie Myers, RichardBaumann and the Judge himself in thephoto. George suggests that the photowas taken at the Hoffman House beforethe 1963 Homecoming game and that hemust have been at the bar getting a drinkwhen it was taken.

Since we are on the subject of Home-coming, this mystery picture was takenduring a cane parade. I'd really like toknow who is canying the pig, and why? Ithink perhaps any warrants which mayhave been issued from the incident haveexpired so won't someone please explainthis to me'

LAW SCHOOL

~ ~UNIVERSITY Of WISCONSIN

Years and miles no longer need to separate you from your Law School.Show your Law School colors!

Item Number and price* Subtotal 'Prices include postage and tax.

Mailmerchandise to:

Name: _

City: State: Zip: _

Make check payable and mail to:Wisconsin Law Alumni AssociationUniversity of Wisconsin Law SchoolMadison, Wisconsin 53706

Address: _

_@$5

_@$25_@$25_@$25_@ $25

_ @$15_@$15

_@$3

_ @$5

TiesMen's tie-blueMen's tie-redWomen's bow tie-blueWomen's bow tie-red

Gargoyle pin, antique bronze,3/4", pin back

Law School license plate frame

Law School business card holder

Women's scarf, synthetic blend, ivory backgroundwith dark blue Gargoyles25" square11"x 42" rectangle

Law School 5" x 7" picture frame _@ $5

Law Bucky poster _@ $62.70

TOTAL $__