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...does the Supreme Court go on reversing state criminal decisions? Is it really soft on criminals? Is it unlawfully amending the Constitution? Harvard's Law School Dean Erwin N. Griswold told the Cleveland Bar Association last week that if anything, the court has been remarkably restrained in exercising its "clear responsibility" to make states follow the national standard set by the 14th Amendment under which "no state . . . shall deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process...
Taking the Cue. As Registrar Hood appeared last week, Harvard Law School Dean Erwin Griswold, a member of the commission, leaned toward him and said: "I hand you a copy of Section 182 of the Mississippi state constitution. For the benefit of the commission, would you give us a reasonable interpretation of it?" Hood read silently, then said, "Well, it means that the power to tax corporations and their property . . ." Interrupted Griswold: "I didn't ask you to read it-I asked you to interpret...
...Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Faculty of Law, will conduct the service. Speakers will include Paul A. Freund, Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Austin W. Scott '37, Dane Professor of Law emeritus, and John H. Mansfield '51, professor...
...center of Frankfurter's life in those years was Harvard Law School. In his 23 years on the faculty he sent out hundreds of students fired by his personality, his learning, his passionate concern for justice under law. One of his students, Erwin N. Griswold, Dean and Langdell Professor of Law, has recalled that Frankfurter taught courses in public utilities, administrative law, and Federal jurisdiction, but that "all of these ... were essentially courses in Frankfurter--or perhaps more accurately, in being stimulated by Frankfurter...
Yale College stands with Princeton-for reasons best expressed by the late President A. Whitney Griswold who remarked that the school might consider coeducation if it had $50 million to spare. On the other hand, Yale's graduate schools enroll 800 women. Harvard has long since gone coed and likes it. "Women are people, and they're here to stay," says Harvard College Dean John Monro. Harvard began admitting Radcliffe girls to its classes during World War II, eventually abolished separate courses. Since coeducation came gradually, it did not require any major policy changes. Coeducation, says Monro, "proved...