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56 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1973)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec56 and id is 1 raw text is: 4ARAR 4AW 4RECORD VOL. 56, NO. I America's Oldest Law School Newspaper JANUARY 26, 1973 TWENTY CENTS Harvard Names '70 Grad First Woman Dean Jeanne Charn Kettleson '70 was named Monday by the Har- vard Corporation to be Assistant Dean of the Law School and Di- rector of Administration for Clinical Programs. Kettleson will fill a newly created position in- tended to strengthen clincial pro- grams here said Dean Albert M. Sacks. The new position is essentially one recommended by a report of the faculty committee on clinical legal education last spring. (Continued on Page 3) Sacks Terms WLA Charge Of Male Bias 'Groundless' By David 3. Cocke In response to a complaint by Charle Sobuman Dean Albert M. Sacks Hub Police Hit Court Nominees; Two of 29 Are HLS Teachers By Gary L. Rubin Amid considerable fanfare and official ballyhoo, Governor Fran- cis W. Sargent has nominated 29 men and women - including two teachers at the Law School - to fill some of the 38 judicial vacancies created when voters approved a constitutional amend- ment requiring that state judges be retired at the age of 70. Among the nominees are Teaching Fellow John C. Crats- ley and Lecturer David S. Nel- son, and 11 graduates of the Law School. The 29 nominations are expected to be confirmed by the Governor's Executive Council during the next several weeks. But a Boston policemen's group is threatening to counter the Governor's appointments -with a constitutional amendment of its (Continued on Page 5) two women law students of al- leged sex discrimination by the Law School in violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Dean Al- bert M, Sacks labeled the claims groundless and unjustified in an interview with the RECORD earlier this week. Sacks specifical- ly refuted every allegation in the complaint and maintained that the charges would make it harder rather than easier to re- cruit more women to come to the Law School. The two women, Alice W. Bal- lard, 3L and Rosalind A. Lazarus, 3L, filed their complaint on be- half of the Women's Law Associa- tion with the director of the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health, Education and Wel- fare. That office is in charge of enforcing Title IX of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits sex dishrimination in schools receiv- ing Federal assistance. Since the charges were filed Lazarus has become a special stu- (Continued on Page 2) Freund Defends Court Plan By Daniel rM. Taubman One month after a blue-ribbon committee of law professors and practicing lawyers recommended the establishment of a National Court of Appeals to ease the mounting caseload of the Su- preme Court, the group's chair- man defended the proposals in the face of mounting criticism. In an exclusive interview with the RECORD, committee chairman and Loeb University Professor Paul A. Freund noted that any new departure is bound to pro- duce initially some resistance. I would hope that after more reflec- tion people would come to agree with the committee's proposals. l he proposals officially titled Federal Judicial Center Report of the Study Group on the Case- load of the Supreme Court, have (Continued on Page 12)

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