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...have tried to remedy that lack at the National College of State Trial Judges on the Reno campus of the University of Nevada. The stu dent body consists of 96 recent recruits to the bench in 45 states; they range from a Philadelphia Negro judge to a jurist from Fairbanks, Alaska. First proposed in 1961 by Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, the school has been financed by the W. K. Kellogg and Max C. Fleischmann foundations, may soon have an Eastern branch as well as the one at Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Back to School | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...four-week course, which has been oversubscribed each year, combines the study of largely staff-written textbooks and probing seminars on hypothetical trial problems. In the primary text, The State Trial Judge's Book, a budding jurist is taught such crucial arts as how to determine whether evidence is relevant as well as admissible under the ever more complex rules of exclusion. As for deportment: "He should accept this change [from lawyer to judge] modestly, graciously and with dignity. He is not required to be a jolly good fellow nor to depreciate himself over his new lot." Judges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judges: Back to School | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

Duty to Enjoy. He was born in Edinburgh, the first son of a stern Scots jurist and a mother who spoiled her little Jamie to make up for his father's puritanical severity. At 17, while studying in Edinburgh, he fell platonically in love with an older woman who was Catholic, and when his father precautiously transferred him to the University of Glasgow, Boswell ran off to London, intending to be converted and take holy orders. Before taking orders, he took a girl named Sally Forrester, whose charms persuaded him of his "duty to enjoy" a secular life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Genius | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

Last week Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld of New York's Southern District answered firmly that judges have no business getting mixed up in such deals. A 65-year-old jurist with a reputation for working long hours and never ducking the tough cases, Weinfeld insisted that the bargain deprives a defendant of his rights without due process, impairs a judge's objectivity, makes a sham of the guilty plea and "has no place in a system of justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: An End to Copping | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...Trumbull Professorship, which has been vacant since Key's death in 1963, was created to honor an 18th century jurist who was chief justice and then governor of Connecticut. It is an nonorary position. "I can't even graze my cows in the yard," McCloskey said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McCloskey Given Trumbull Chair; Math, Biology Professorships Filled | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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