Word: law
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...class-room ought not to be supposed to be utterances for the public at large. They are often designed to provoke opposition or arouse debate. It has, unfortunately, sometimes happened in this country that sensational newspapers have quoted and garbled such remarks. As a matter of common law, it is clear that the utterances of an academic instructor are privileged, and may not be published, in whole or part, without his authorization. But our practice, unfortunately, still differs from that of foreign countries, and no effective check has in this country been put upon, such unauthorized and often misleading publication...
...bequest of the late Addison Brown '52, formerly judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York, has provided for the offering of a $100 prize in the Law School. The award is to be made for the best essay on a subject of maritime or private international law. Any student in the Law School who is a candidate for a degree offered by the school may compete for the prize. A copy of the successful essay will be given to the Law School Library immediately after the award, and it will be printed in the Law...
...comparison of the British marine insurance act of 1906 with American law...
...Jurisdiction and law of prize cases...
...politics than our own professors do. Granted that our most immediate interest is commercial, and that time will be needed to build up closer intellectual relations, one further practical gain will result. The southern scholars, with their training in public affairs, can teach us the very problems of law, banking, and transportation, ignorance of which now seriously handicaps American business houses. The war has made available the best of Latin American professors and has opened to us the field of southern trade. Now is the time to build up permanent results...