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...virtues of law and order. They have trained great lawyers, and great legal theorists, and it was upon this that much of the pious twittering of the early post-war prophecies was based. But one of the greatest of these apostles of the rule of law, the British Dicey, was very careful to draw its circle so that international law was excluded, excluded as an inhabitant of that legal periphery more closely related to public ethics than to law. Anyone who has examined, with whatever percipience, the history of the League must commend Dicey's distinction as well drawn...
...catchword which embodies a principle good in itself, without a perception on the part of the crowd that it has its limit, and that they are in effect being urged beyond that limit. Group psychology has been studied until we are familiar with its principles and its use. Professor Dicey remarked, in criticising the historical method of studying human problems, that when the cause of an abuse has been explained the abuse itself is half condoned. Let us not suppose that because psychology of crowds is a fact its results are therefore right; or that, because organization and machinery furnish...
...November number of the Harvard Law Review contains the following articles: "The Extension of Law Teaching at Oxford," by A. V. Dicey; "Constitutional Aspects of the Federal Tax on the Income of Corporations," by F. W. Baird '04; "English Common Law in the United States," by Herbert Page...
...Sturgis, James Lowndes, Dr. Charles McBurney, Eugene Delano, Clemence H. Crafts, Stuart Wood, F. W. Whitredge, Mrs. Henry Whitman, Frederick W. Rhinelander, Louise Lee Schuyler, Mrs. Hartman Kuhn, Mrs. Abraham B. Sands. Frederick deP. Foster, J. Rodman Paul. Joseph H. Choate, Anson Phelps Stockes, Professor A. V. Dicey...
...November number of the Contemporary Review contains the lecture on "Teaching of English Law at Harvard," which Professor A. V. Dicey delivered last spring upon his return to England. In a most eulogistic manner he analyses the methods used at the Law School, and after showing that the students have been taught to live in a legal atmosphere by means of their clubs and magazine, draws some lessons from the workings which Oxford would do well to follow...