Word: laws
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...treated when he demanded to plead guilty and defend himself at his trial [March 7]. In "the land of liberty and justice for all," can a citizen sit still when a person is forced to accept lawyers he does not want and to be a mere pawn while law is manipulated and twisted to the point that neither truth nor justice prevails? Worse yet in the eyes of the outside world is the manner in which the judge threatened the defendant...
Goldberg said the present grading system leads to two kinds of legal education--a superior one for students whose first-year grades qualify them for the Law Review, the mot prestigious student organization, and another for the rest of the student body. He added that he favors doing away with "Law reviews" at Harvard and other schools...
Goldberg was in Cambridge to judge the finals of the Ames Competition at the Law School last night. He volunteered his views on pass-fail before about the 1952 steel plant seizures in an afternoon class on Development of Law and Legal Institutions...
...reply to questions after the lecture, Goldberg said law firms would be willing to examine an applicant's portfolio, as the student report suggested, instead of relying on his grades. he said that when he taught a diplomacy course at a law school several years ago he found it was absurd to make fine distinctions among students...
...also suggested that law students might attend only one-and-a-half years of classes. The rest of the three-year program could be spent working in communities for academic credit, he said...