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Traynor To Speak Here

An address by the former chief
justice of the California Supreme
Court will highlight the annual
University Law Alumni DAY May
1-2.

Justice Roger J. Traynor,
visiting James Monroe professor of
law at the University's School of
Law, will speak on "Reasoning in a
Circle of Law," at the 8 p.m.
banquet May 2 in Memorial
Gymnasium.

A member of the California
Supreme Court since 1940 and
Chief Justice from 1964 until his
retirement this year, Justice
Traynor has written more than 900
opinions. His landmark decisions on
racial discrimination and criminal
procedure were followed by the
United States Supreme Court as
much as 19 years later. While at the
University this semester, Justice
Traynor is teaching a course in
conflicts of laws.

That afternoon Justice Traynor
and four alumni will participate in a
panel on "Law and Legal
Institutions in the 70's: The Judges
Take a Look," Alumni serving on
the panel will be Judge John D.
Butzner of the United States Court
of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, a 1941
graduate; Justice Thomas C.
Gordon Jr. of the Virginia Supreme
Court of Appeals, a 1938 graduate;
Judge John A. Field Jr. of the
United States District Court,
Southern District of West Virginia,
a 1935 graduate, and Justice
George M. Cochtan of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of Virginia, a
1936 graduate.

The panel, to be moderated by
Monrad G. Paulsen, dean of the law
school, will begin at 2:15 p.m. in
the Newcomb Hall ballroom.

Also on May 2, Bernard P.
Chamberlain, president of the law
School Alumni Association, will
present 50-year awards to alumni at
the business meeting of the
association.

The two-day program will open
at 9:45 a.m. May 1 with a meeting
of the law alumni association's
council, with a luncheon for the
council, Law Day Committee and
trustees of the Law School
Foundation following.

Also on May 1, alumni will have
an opportunity to attend regularly
scheduled classes on creditors'
rights an; property at the law
school.