Packer, Herbert L.

Professor Herbert Packer, of Stanford Law School (1956-1972) began gathering these research materials on the Second Circuit in order to write a history of the court. His research was cut short by his death in 1972 and Professor Michael Smith of Berkeley Law School took up the project. Professor Smith was not able to complete the book before his death in 2009. Professor Michael E. Smith, 1935-2009, spent his career as a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, joining the faculty in 1967. ct: "Judge Charles E. Clark and the Rules of Civil Procedure," "How Liberated Was Judge Jerome Frank?," and "Justice on Appeal."