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29 Syllabus 1 (1998)

handle is hein.journals/syllabus29 and id is 1 raw text is: American Bar Association Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar • Volume XXIX, Number 1 - Winter 1998

Twenty-Seventh Annual
Deans' Workshop

he Twenty-Seventh Annual
Deans' Workshop will be held
January 29-31, 1998, at the
Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Ten-
nessee. Dean Teree Foster and Dean
Larry Dessem are the co-chairpersons
for the Deans' Workshop this year.
The Deans' Workshop is designed
to be a candid and off-the-record
exchange of the views and expres-
sions among the deans of ABA
approved law schools. The meetings
are closed meetings and no minutes
are taken. Only deans of ABA
approved law schools, the Chairper-
son of the Section of Legal Education
and Admissions to the Bar, the Con-
sultant, Deputy Consultant, Presi-
dent of AALS, Executive Director of
AALS, Chairperson of LSAC and
Executive Director of LSAC, will be
in attendance during the Deans'
Workshop. Deans may not send a
representative to this workshop in
their absence.
This year's conference, which is
divided into five panels, will focus
on leadership. The first panel, which
will include three University Presi-
dents, will discuss the role of a law
school dean as a leader within the
University community. Does the law
dean, with particular expertise in
due process and rights and obliga-
tions of individuals and institutions,
have a special role to play in the
University community? How can a
law school dean assist in shaping
the mission and objectives of the
University? How can a dean fashion
strategies for integrating the law
school more fully into the life of the
University?
The second panel will focus on
the role of the law school dean as the

leader of the law school administra-
tive team. What factors should the
dean bring to bear in considering the
optimum structure and organization
of the administrative staff? What
principles and considerations should
govern decisions about priorities and

resource allocation? What is the
nature of the career services/place-
ment function in a rapidly changing
employment market? What roles or
functions might be combined; e.g., in
an era of diminishing applications,
can the Admissions Office provide
more assistance to Student Affairs?
On the other hand, are there admin-
istrative duties that should be sepa-
rated for greater effectiveness? In the
Continued on page 18

Gordon D. Schaber, Former
Section Chairperson Dies

I t's a rare man who receives the
kind of birthday gift the late
Gordon D. Schaber was given
Saturday morning in downtown
Sacramento.
On the day the former McGeorge
School of Law dean would have
turned 70, more than
750 political digni-
taries, judges, lawyers,
friends and admirers
showed up at Memori-
al Auditorium to cele-
brate Schaber's extraor-
dinary life-two weeks
after he died of kidney
failure and complica-
tions from diabetes.
A letter from Presi-
dent Clinton to Sch-
aber's 89-year-old
mother, Esther, was         Gordo
read, with Clinton
calling Schaber a
legendary jurist, civic leader, educa-
tor and philanthropist.
Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy, an old friend who taught
constitutional law at McGeorge for
23 years, spoke of Schaber's fierce

commitment to a law that seeks
compassion, to a law that ensures
progress.
And Gregory Favre, who knew
Schaber for 13 years, said, He died
as he lived, with amazing grace and
dignity and courage, with a sense of
humor to the end, and
with deep devotion to
those he loved, endur-
ing the pain of body
and mind in a kingly
fashion.
All the while, the
beatific image of
Schaber's round face
stared across the
ornate hall from a
giant video screen.
The stage was filled
with red, yellow and
Schaber      violet flowers.
The Chamber Music
Society of Sacramento
played mournful but poetic selec-
tions such as Handel's Water
Music. Vocalists sang The Lord's
Prayer and a pop tune called
Goodbye My Friend, accompanied
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