Word: filmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale still offers courses oriented to the "policy approach." Professor Harold Lasswell, for instance, a social scientist on the Law faculty, with Professor Myers McDougal, gives a course in "World Community and Law," which presents international law "in the perspective of the world-power process." Philosopher-lawyer Filmer Northrop teaches "Philosophy of Natural Science and Natural Law." Professor Fowler Harper, too, in his course on "Family Law," considers not only such things as divorce law, but also the psychological and personality conflicts that lead to divorce. As he says, "We want to go behind the law to find what makes...
...career men are generally quiet men, and inclined to be scholarly. One (W. Walton Butterworth, in Sweden) is a Rhodes Scholar; another (J. Rives Childs, in Ethiopia) writes novels and histories under a pseudonym (Henry Filmer), and carries an enormous private library with him wherever he goes...