John Atta Mills, the president of Ghana since 2009, passed away on July 24, 2012. He was 68 years old. Mills came to Stanford Law School in 1971 and spent a year on campus as a Fulbright Scholar enrolled in the LLM program. Previously, he had studied law at the [...]

On Sunday, June 3, 2012, Tom Elke, LLB ’52 (BS ’49), one of the founders of Elke Farella & Braun and my dear friend, passed away. Tom, Jerry Braun, LLB ’53 (BA ’51), and I met at Stanford Law School in 1951—and despite our wildly disparate geographic origins and life [...]

At the outset, I should admit bias: Pam Rymer was a classmate of mine at Stanford Law School; she hired my son, Reed Gaither, JD/MBA ’96, as a summer law clerk during his days at Stanford Law School; and I nominated her for and served with her on the Stanford [...]

David L. Rosenhan, professor, emeritus, at Stanford University and leading expert 
on psychology and the law, died February 6, 2012, at Stanford University Hospital. He was 82 years old. Professor of law and of psychology at 
Stanford since 1971, Rosenhan was a pioneer in the application of psychological methods to [...]

Bayless Manning, a former Stanford Law School dean and leading authority on 
corporate law, died on Sunday, September 18, 2011, at his home in Boise, Idaho. He was 88 years old. Dean of the law school from 1964 to 1971, Manning made groundbreaking changes to the curriculum and produced scholarship [...]

When I heard the shocking news of Warren Christopher’s death on March 18, 2011, my many experiences with Chris flashed through my mind, from his call in 1963 to recruit me to Stanford Law School to our recent Santa Barbara dinners, Chris and Marie, Nancy and I. In the days [...]