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Hugh Calkins 45, the youngest member of the Corporation and a Cleveland lawyer, yesterday accused Harvard law students of oversimplifying by seeking quick solutions to social problems...
Speaking at a Law School forum on the public responsibility of the private law firm. Calkins used the pollution problem in Cleveland to show the complexity of social issues...
...restating his position, Calkins said, it is important that lawyers "pursue in theirown way efforts to change the political, economic, and social structure of the United States." However, the problems are not as simple as many law students believe, he added...
Calkins said that law firms- like universities- "lose their effectiveness" when they back social change as an institution. Instead, they should encourage individual firm members to provide their legal services to social causes, he said...
...growing sense of specific community. Prodded by the black power advocates, even liberals have been pushing "community control." Such localism has inevitable racial overtones, which may one day result in intricate warfare. Whether or not it increases the self-reliance of the blacks, in the white areas localism means law-and-order and school segregation. Moynihan ignores these unhappy political realities. To him, the neighborhood-oriented approach is self-defeating if the neighborhoods are human cesspools. Though he may be right, the relocation proposal is foolishly bucking a powerful trend on the most volatile of issues...