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Paulsen Heads Panel

New Dean Judges Semi-Finals

Making his first public appearance
since the announcement of
his becoming the new Dean of
the Law School, Mr. Monrad G.
Paulsen will act as chief judge
of a panel of three judges for
the semi-final round of the Lile
Moot Court competition.

Announced by President Shannon
to the Board of Visitors in
October of last year, the appointment
of Mr. Paulsen broke
a long standing tradition of naming
a Dean from the ranks of the
University Law School. Being
the fifth Dean of the Law School
since its establishment, Mr. Paulsen
is a well-known legal scholar
in the fields of criminal and family
law.

The contest hearings will be
held both tonight and Saturday
night with the last eight participants
defending a predetermined
case. The semi-finalists, working
in teams, are required to first submit
a brief explaining their position
on the case.

Tonight at 7:30 in Cabell Hall
the first two of the four pairs
will argue against each other before
Mr. Hardy C. Dillard, the
outgoing Dean of the Law
School, Mr. A. C. Epps, a member
of the Board of Visitors of
the University Law School and
a prominent member of the Virginia
Bar, and Mr. Bernard
Dunau, a visiting professor at the
Law School who has argued before
the Supreme Court. The participants
William Norman and
Bob Sachs will argue against
Buck Cuddy and Tom Lavoy.

The predetermined problem for
this case is a question over civil
rights. It involves a Negro couple
who are in all ways qualified to
adopt a child and try to do so.
There are only white children up
for adoption at the time, and the
state refuses to let the couple
continue with the adoption procedures.
The couple takes the
case to the highest state court
and wins, but the state goes to
the Supreme Court of the United
States for support in the refusal
of the execution of the adoption
procedures. William Norman and
Bob Sachs will side with the state
while the team of Cuddy and
Lavoy will take the side of the
Negro couple.

The second presentation by the
remaining two pair of contestants
will be given Saturday night at 8,
also in Cabell Hall. The board
of three judges will be headed by

Mr. Paulsen. Assisting him will
be Mr. Edward C. Jaegerman, the
Chief Investigation Council for
the Securities Exchange Commission
in Washington, D. C., and
Mr. Thomas Michie Jr., son of
a famous judge and a prominent
lawyer himself in Charlottesville.

Michael Willner and Donald
Zachary will argue for the state
while Raymond Battocchi and
Peter Jenkins do the Honors for
the distressed couple. From the
outcome of the semi-finals, the
two winning teams will compete
against each other under the
watchful eye of a Supreme Court.