Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heralded as a reply to the innovations at the Yale Law School. Dean Pound's annual report fails to stress sufficiently the fundamental issue which challenges law schools all over the country, namely, whether or not the theory that judgment is a matter of purely legal logic, upon which most of our law training is based, has outlived its usefulness...
With the increasing belief in individual treatment of each problem, a belief admirably demonstrated, in criminal cases at least, by Professor Glueck's studies, a grave question is raised on the matter of methods in legal training. If a lawyer in presenting a case and a judge in passing judgment on it, must obey the monistic theory now so favorably regarded, it is doubtful whether the case-system and the methods which it implies, is a satisfactory medium of approach...
This would not trespass upon the boundaries of the Confidential Guide, which seeks rather to present as impartial a critical judgment as possible of the merits and faults of the more important courses. The proposed pamphlet would instead let the course speak for itself, giving the student a basis for choice according to the standards of the University, and would greatly lesson the number of misfits that are an inevitable consequence of the prevailing lack of information...
...allow a creed of non-violence to be pushed so far by logic that it is destroyed along with its believers by the ruthless powers which still exist in the world? Can any individual rightly jeopardize the safety of his own country by clinging to his own judgment even in the face of an opposed political majority? These are some of the questions suggested by "Taps." In provoking thought among his readers on such vital problems, Hector Lazo has performed a notable patriotic service...
...Taps" shows once more that the only time for an individual to make a rational decision about war-resistance is in the months of peace. It is a tragic human failing which makes men shrink from decision until they are no longer masters of their own powers of judgment...