Oregon daily emerald., April 18, 1973, Page 8, Image 8

Law
dean
resigns
position
I I
Eugene Scales, dean of the
University Law School since 1968,
has resigned his administrative
position to return to the
classroom. He will become a
teacher of law in the School.
The resignation, effective July
1, 1974, is announced at this time
in order to allow adequate search
time for a replacement.
In announcing the resignation,
University President Robert
Clark expressed deep ap
preciation for the direction and
service Dean Scoles has given the
Law School.
“It is with extreme reluctance
that I accept the resignation of
Dean Scoles,” Clark said. “Hie
current status and national
recognition of the Law School is
due in no small measure to Dean
Scoles’ energy, enthusiasm, and
dynamic leadership. While I
personally subscribe to the
theory of limited appointments
for academic administrators as a
means of continuing the vitality
of an institution, when an ad
ministrator of Dean Scoles’
recognized abilities acts on the
theory, I am hard pressed to
accept the decision.”
Scoles came to the University
Law School from the University
of Illinois College of Law, where
he had taught for 12 years and
had a distinguished career. At
the time he accepted the Oregon
position he was one of nine
Reporters drafting a Uniform
Probate Code under the joint
sponsorship of the National
Conference of Commissioners on
Uniform State Law and the
American Bar Association.
When he came to Oregon, the
Law School was still housed in
Fenton Hall. Construction of the
new Law Center, which Scoles
said “marked the beginning of a
new era in legal education in the
State of Oregon,” started late in
1968 and was completed in 1970.
Scoles has, in his term as dean,
advocated greater flexibility in
curricula and increased em
phasis on research and service,
and has encouraged “en
thusiastic teaching."
It was Scoles who instigated the
formation of a Law School Board
of Visitors. This 15-member
board of attorneys and laymen
from throughout the state serves
to “promote easy communication
between the teaching part of the
legal profession and the rest of
the profession and the public.”
Under his leadership, the Law
School has made strong efforts to
enroll students from minority
groups. The School has also
employed its first woman law
professor.
Vice Provost of Academic
Affairs Harry Alpert said of the
Eugene Scoles
Law School Dean
resignation, ‘‘I have great
respect and admiration for the
vigorous leadership that Dean
Scoles has shown in this period of
remarkable growth and
development of the Law School
and Legal Center.”
“I am delighted that he has
decided to stay at the University
of Oregon to pursue his out
standing career as a professor of
law and scholar in many legal
areas.”
Scoles is a graduate of the
University of Iowa in 1943, where
he also received a doctor of
jurisprudence degree in 1945. He :
received a master of laws degree :
from Harvard University in 1949 :
and a doctor of juristic science \
from Columbia University in
1955.
Before teaching at Illinois, he
taught at the University of
Florida College of Law from 1949
to 1956.
His special fields of interest in :
the law include conflict of laws, \
decedents’ estates and trusts, \
future interests, estate planning, \
legal profession, and legal \
method.
Intimate Awareness
, their togetherness and their
wanting
being alive,
more
Weds., April 18
The Savage
Innocents"
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8 pm
SI.00
Thurs.
A pril
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EMU Ballroom
8 pm no admission
presented by ASUO Cultural Forum & ACME BIJOU
Constitutional
amendment
proposed
A petition to place a con
stitutional amendment, which
would increase the number of
Incidental Fees Committee
(IFC) members, on the ballot for
the general elections is being
circulated now by Fred Loveys,
ASUO vice-president.
Signatures of 1,500 students are
needed to put the amendment on
the ballot for the April 23 and 24
elections.
The amendment would change
the committee membership from
five to ten elected students.
There would be nine voting
members and the committee
chairman would have voting
rights only in case of a tie vote
during a regular meeting of the
IFC.
The amendment further states
that a majority of seven out of the
nine voting members is required
to override a veto of the ASUO
president relating to incidental
fees.
Election procedures are
clarifed in the amendment, which
states that one election will be
held in the spring each year. The
ASUO president, vice-president,
class officers, delegates to IUS
and delegates to OSPIRG will be
elected in that election.
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• •
‘Mock Laic Office ’ to be
an innovative classroom
As a result of a $3500 gift from
Louis Brown, a University cf
Southern California law
professor, the University Law
School will hold dedication
ceremonies next fall for one of
the most innovative classrooms
in the nation.
Establishment of a Mock Law
Office will give law students a
chance to practice interviewing
and counseling techniques in a
simulated attorney’s office. The
only other such “office”
currently operating in the
country was started by Brown at
use.
Brown, one of the originators of
the “prevention law” concept,
has visited the University Law
School to talk to students and
faculty twice, once in 1970 and
again in 1971. It was during the
1971 visit that Brown offered to
finance the establishment of a
Mock Law Office at the
University Law School.
Arrangements for the “office”
are being made by Dominick
Vetri, University Law School
associate professor. While doing
research Vetri became familiar
with Brown’s concepts of
“preventive law” and during
Brown’s first visit to the Law
School they formed a friendship
that has continued through
correspondence and occasional
meetings.
According to Vetri, video
taping equipment will be pur
chased as well as office furniture.
Vetri said the video-taping will
allow students to “step aside and
see themselves” as they practice
working with “clients” in the
Mock Law Office.
Local lawyers will be invited to
use the “office” for actual in
terviews with clients to
demonstrate interviewing and
counseling skills needed when
taking depositions.
The Mock Law Office which
will be located on the ground
level of the Law School, will be
dedicated to “Brown’s approach
of ‘preventive law’ ”, said Vetri.
Brown looks at “preventive
law” as being foresight on the
part of lawyers, when first
dealing with their clients, to
make sure that their clients'
matters are handled in such a
way as to prevent legal com
plications later on. The
significance of this approach is
seen in the fact that most cases
never reach the courts but are
handled in the lawyer’s office,
said Vetri.
Brown, who has published a
number of works on law and who
originated the National Mock
Law Office Competition for law
students, will come to the
Ihiiversity campus for th< fall
dedication. Currently ht is
working with other USC faculty
to acquaint law students there
with the concepts and importance
of “preventive law.”
Licensing practices report
releasee} by research center
■ A r®plort ®n city business licensing practices in Oregon has been
released by the Bureau of Governmental Research and Service at the
University.
The study, “Municipal Business License Fees and Taxes in
regon, is designed to help cities evaluate their licensing programs
and is part of the Urban Service Program sponsored by the Bureau in
cooperation with the League of Oregon Cities.
The report examines the uses of business licensing as a source of
revenue and as a means of regulation, aswell as reviewing the legal
basis for municipal business licensing in Oregon. It provides general
background information on licensing and suggests criteria which
c ,e"may use to evaluate their own programs, whether their concern
is wi present rate structures, administrative provisions, or scope of
business regulation.