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The San Diego Law Review has published a special edition devoted

to the law of the seas. The review features articles by foremost

authorities in this field of law.

Articles include: "The United Nations and the Bed of the Sea," by

Clark M. Eichelberger, executive director of the Commission to Study the

Organization of Peace; "Consideration of Anticipatory Uses in Decisions

on Coastal Development," Daniel Wilkes, associate professor of political

science at the Law of the Sea Institute; "Admiralty Jurisdiction, Uni­

fication, and the American Law Institute," Hiller B. Zobel, professor

of law, Boston College Law School.

Subjects of other articles include the new Soviet Maritime Code,

the recent tuna boat seizures in the southeastern Pacific, problems

of oceanfront boundaries and beach ownership in California, jurisdiction­

al problems of maritime personal injury and property damage actions, and

the claims of acquisition by private parties on the Continental Shelf.

USO will host the 1970 Regional Round of the Philip Jessup Inter­

national Moot Court competition, sponsored by the American Society. The

USO International Law Society and the Appellate Moot Court Board will

jointly organiz~ the event, now in its 10th year of competition.

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An expansion of the Law School Placement Service has been

achieved through the cooperation of law professor Leo D. Hermle,

placement coordinator, and the Student Bar Association. Kenneth

Ruderian, in charge of the SBA branch of placement, has created a

staff of 15 volunteer law wives to assist the regular staff.

An article in the January 1969 San Diego Law Review was cited

by Justice Stanley Mosk writing the majority opinion in the case of

In re Mark (71 Adv. Ca. 33,55) decided in April. The author of the

article, "Control and Treatment of Narcotic Addicts: Civil Commit­

ment in California," was Sherry Eckhardt, note and comment editor

and third year day student.

Another article in the same edition of the law review was reprinted

in the July edition of "The Monthly Digest of Legal Articles," published

in Greenvale, N.Y. Donald S. Bolles, lead article editor, and third

yeat day student, was the author of "Bankruptcy: Enforcing a Chapter

XIII Wage Earner's Plan Over the Objection of a Second Creditor."

Two summer interships sponsored by the Law Students Civil Rights

Research Council were held by USD students. Kenneth Wass ~ner worked

with a San Diego attorney on cases selected by the legal panel of the

local chapter of ACLU.

Alexander Landon, president of the USD chapter, served as an

assistant to State Senator Mervyn Dymally for the establishment of the

Free University which opened its doors in Watts in September to provide

pracical skills for members of the black community.

The USD chpater this year will work on cases involving First Ammend­

ment rights. They will also research the propriety of permanent explusion ~

of high school students for use of drugs, and the role of police in (MO.RE)

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community disturbances.

LSCRRC sponsored a seminar led by San Diego attorney Howard Be­

chevsky on bail procedure at the Community Crisis Center. Other

seminars have been on landlord-tenant problems, led by attorney Charles

Lynch, and practices of the San Diego Police Department, led by

Ken Hegland 9 attorney.

Law professor Herbert I. Lazerow has been appointed for the second

year as chairman of the legal panel of the ACLU San Diego chapter.

Lazerow recently submitted briefs as amicus curiae in a case involving the 1

right of a defendant to a state-provided transcript of trial proceedings,

and a brief in support of Judge Hugo Fisher's ruling in a case involving

the constitutional rights of the mentally ill. He is also a member of

the San Diego Mayor's Social Science Advisory Committee.

Charles Garry, San Francisco attorney, and defender of Black Pan­

ther Huey Newton and the draft-opposing Oakland Seven spoke in More Hall

in September. Garry attacked the present legal structure as "archaic"

and said the task of young lawyers was to change the structure. He spoke

at length on the proper selection of a jury in a felony case, and

especially in cases involving black militants.

The International Law Society presented the first of its area

studies programs. John Harlan, Intelligence Division, 11th Naval

District, spoke on insurgency as it relates to international law and

the military. Harlan is a first year evening law student.

( San Diego attorney Vincent Whelan spoke at an ILS meeting on

international law and domestic procedure.

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Phi Delta Phi's Speakers Forum breakfast seminar was led by

Robert Thomas, assistant district attorney for San Diego County. The

subject was criminal law with emphasis on pre-trial relationships

between the district attorney and the defense attorney.

The DPD Speakers Forum is supplemented by a film forum; the first

in the series is based on Gideon v. Wainwright.

A Saturday seminar for freshmen :. had contracts as its topic., the

first of the series. Other seminars will cover the subjects of civil

procedure, criminal law, property, and torts.

The San Diego 200th Anniversary Pilgrimage Tour to Italy, France,

Spain and Portugal this summer was led by the Rev. Alfred F. Geimer,

law library director.

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