Word: griswold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though we have always detected the caste system of India, the fact is that since Emancipation we have clearly maintained a caste system in the United States," Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Faculty of Law, said in a book published yesterday by the Harvard University Press...
...book, entitled Law and Lawyers in the United States: The Common Law Under Stress, Griswold said that the great hopes embodied in the Civil War Amendments to the Constitution "have continuously eluded our grasp...
...Dean Griswold traces the origin of the gap between white and Negro in the United States to the English common law of chattels, which governed the possession of slaves in the American colonies. The law of chattels regarded slaves as no different from any other form of property, having neither personality, nor rights against their owners...
...Griswold, for example, was convinced that "Lee Harvey Oswald could not have received a fair trial anywhere in the U.S. and the Supreme Court would have so held." Nothing like the Oswald case, said the Warren Commission, has so dramatized "the need for steps to bring about a proper balance between the right of the public to be kept informed and the right of the individual to a fair and impartial trial...
...Problem. The New Jersey court apparently does not go along with Harvard's Dean Griswold and others who favor use of the contempt power to shut up talkative policemen. Superior officers should deal with improper statements that "constitute conduct unbecoming a police officer," said the court. As for inquisitive newsmen, the court added that nothing in its order "proscribes the reporting of the evidence as it is introduced before the jury by the state and the defendant during the course of the trial...