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Page 2 — ANNOTATIONS - October 1981
New faculty at South Texas...
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In addition to 260 new freshman faces
at STCL this fall, several new faculty
members have joined the staff. Following
is a brief biographical sketch of each.
Professor David East received both
undergraduate and J.D. degrees from
David East
Baylor University where he was also Notes
Editor of the Baylor Law Review. He re-
ceived his LL.M. at George Washington
University School of Law with a concentra-
tion on Land Use and Environmental Law.
Before coming to South Texas, East
taught at McGeorge School of Law. And
prior to that position he was in private prac-
tice with a firm in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He is the co-author of "Federal Taxa-
tion and Urban Land Development: Does
the Tail Wag the Dog?" in the Real Estate
Law Journal, Winter 1979.
East teaches Commercial Law I and II,
an area of the law he concentrated on in
private practice.
Dr. Matthews
Dr. Can Matthews teaches Criminal
Law and Legal Research & Writing this
fall. She is a graduate of Hunter College in
Manhatten where she received her BA in
English. She received a J.D. at the
University of Miami School of Law where
she graduated in the upper 10 percent of
her class.
Before coming to Houston, Matthews
practiced three years in Miami with her
husband's firm, Crammer & Matthews,
where she practiced mostly admiralty and
administrative law.
She also worked in the U.S. Attorney's
office in Miami prosecuting drug-related
offenders. During this time, she worked
up one of the first BANCO cases (noted on
the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes). Out
of 100 cases she had a 100 percent
conviction rate at the U.S. Attorney's
Office, all affirmed on appeal.
Cari Matthews
Dr. Crump
Dr. David Crump is a visiting pro-
fessor at STCL this fall, apart from his full-
time faculty position at the University of
Houston. He is teaching Procedure I and
Torts at South Texas. At the University of
Houston his courses include Procedure I,
II, and III, Constitutional Law, Evidence
and Torts.
Crump received his undergraduate
degree in chemistry from Harvard Univer-
sity. He went to law school at the
University of Texas where he was on the
Texas Law Review and published as a stu-
dent.
He is the co-author of Texas Civil Pro-
cedure: Pretrial Litigation, and Texas Civil
Procedure: Trial and Appellate Litigation.
In addition, he has authored several articles
in various law reviews.
In addition to his teaching duties, Dr.
Crump is the President of the Legal Foun-
dation of America, a public interest law
firm in Houston.
Dr. George
Dr. Pamela George wears two hats at
STCL. She teaches Legal Research &
Writing and is also positioned in the library
as an assistant librarian.
George received a BS in Education
and a Masters in Library Science at the
University of Texas where she also
received her J.D. After law school she
worked for then Attorney General John Hill
in the Enforcement Division where she did
mostly criminal appellate work in the
federal courts.
In addition to her experience in the
Attorney General's office, George was in
private practice with a Houston firm
concentrating on family law trial work.
George is licensed to practice in the
U.S. District courts of the Southern,
Western, Eastern and Northern Districts of
Texas.
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New Officers
The Delta Theta Phi Law
Fraternity officers for 1981-82
are (left to right): Byron
Berry, Clerk of the Eschequer;
Gary Butler, Bailiff/His-
torian; Jen Ihlo, Clerk of the
Rolls; John -Reeves, Vice-
Dean; Katy Farley, Tribune;
Pam Gay, Dean; and Phil
Azar, Master of the Ritual.
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