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...annual report to President Nathan M. Pusey, Dean Griswold contrasted the small research investment for disarmament studies with the necessary large expenditures for defense research, the small expenditure for auto accident research with large outlay for studying cancer. He proposed that research Institutes of Law be associated with several of the nation's law schools, supported preferably by private funds...
...Dean's proposal is the fact that the American law teacher has been a "loner." He is burdened with heavy teaching assignments since there are insufficient funds for the employment of junior teachers. Legal scholarship has thus focused around personal teaching. This is not always desirable says Griswold, for it "leaves little room at a for juniors whose talents in the field of legal scholarship, commentary, and leadership lie in other areas than teaching...
Further, says Griswold, a method is needed in law schools whereby a "particularly able senior man may extend his influence and abilities...
...Dean Griswold pointed out that at present the law schools are unable to channel the idealism of the college youths who go on to study law. "The student is caught in the current which says that the real measure of success is a clerkship with a prominent judge followed by an association with a large metropolitan law firm...
...schools to show the rewards and personal satisfactions to be gained by the lawyer who works on the great unsolved problems of the twentieth century, says Griswold. But the openings must be available. "If we had Institutes of Law functioning at various places in the country, employing a sizable number of lawyers--though only a fraction of the number of persons engaged in research in the natural sciences and in medicine--we would not only provide an outlet for the idealism which many of our students bring to law school, but we would also bring about a significant change...