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...developed, Griswold's critique proved to be his valedictory as well. At week's end, President Johnson announced his appointment as the next U.S. Solicitor General. As the nation's top trial lawyer, succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Griswold will shortly be exercising both his dialectical skill and his spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...lucky enough to be the first-year men of 1967 (out of 3,250 applicants) have every reason to expect that they are in for a rich educational experience. Under Dean Erwin Griswold, Harvard Law School is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and the sum of what it has accomplished in those years is indeed impressive. Its faculty is regarded by many as the finest in the U.S. More than 40,000 lawyers have studied there, including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...lead the most recent major movement in the law. Legal realism-the sociological observation that judges make law rather than find it-was nurtured at Columbia and Yale in the '30s. Though Harvard Law Dean Roscoe Pound was a leading sociological scholar, his colleagues did not follow. Griswold ("the Griz"), who has been in the dean's chair since 1946, has made a determined effort to press once again into the vanguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...Dean Griswold himself is not satisfied with Harvard Law's current approach. As part of the two day sesquicentennial celebration, he sounded off on one lack that he considers paramount. Said Griswold: "It has often been said, for a smile, that legal education sharpens the mind by narrowing it. To my mind, there is more truth to this than we have been willing to admit. The methods fostered at this school and widely adopted elsewhere do have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Schools: Harvard at 150 | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

...James Casner, presently associate dean, will be named acting dean when Griswold retires to become U.S. Solicitor General. Griswold said Monday that he will be leaving within two weeks, although he does not yet know when the Senate will confirm his appointment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey Soliciting Suggestions For New Law Dean | 10/4/1967 | See Source »

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