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Justice John Hessin Clarke, noted jurist and associate justice of the Supreme Court, will speak on the question as to whether America should join the League of Nations, in the living room of the Union at 7.30 o'clock Thursday evening, it was announced last night...
...compared and contrasted the Supreme Court of the United States and England's Privy Council. These are the two leading tribunals of the civilized world. Mr. Beck, who won a case before the Privy Council last Summer, is said to have been the first American jurist to appear before Great Britain's highest judicial tribunal. He was compelled to wear a gown...
...however, in the world of law that he was best known, and it is as a great Latin-American jurist-statesman that his name will live...
...enable the student to verify every citation which is made in Blackstone's Commentaries, and nearly complete the collection of European law, both British and Continental, from the earliest times down to the eighteenth century" the library was far from being complete. A writer in the "American Jurist" in 1841 said that though the departments of English and American law were nearly complete, "there is a great deal to be desired in some departments of general jurisprudence". There were almost no books on Roman law, suited for the modern student; on criminal law and prison discipline; on public...
...available for the purpose can be spent so as to give the largest possible returns. To have good public administration we must unite our efforts and powers in the same way. We must utilize the researches of the scientific expert of every kind, physicist or chemist, physician or engineer, jurist or statistician; but we must have this work directed and organized by men who understand the conduct of business in the best sense of the word. The same spirit of co-operation is needed in order to bring our standards of public morality into line with the needs...