Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know how to refer legal questions to principles in moral and political philosophy...
...able to formulate legislation and to interpret legal language...
...curriculum Educator Hutchins said: "Not the study of cases alone, nor the study of how the law operates.in fact, nor the study of legal philosophy will give us legal education. We must have all three [and] jurisprudence is the ordered relation of all these studies...
Then Educator Hutchins issued his challenge: "The Bar has enthusiastically opposed successive reforms in legal education and has accepted them only when it was beginning to be clear that these reforms had missed the point. I cannot hope that the program I have advanced will meet with the favor of the Bar. It contains all the things they have opposed in the past and a good many more that they have never had a chance to oppose before...
Huckster's Trade. Educator Hutchins was not the only reformer to speak last week to the New York Bar. A speaker who "conceded that the prestige of the legal profession has been rapidly sinking in the public mind during the past quarter of a century" was the only salaried "proctor of the Bar" in the U. S. He is Karl A. McCormick, 50, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose job as watchdog of the Western New York judicial district was created last year by the New York Legislature to check the qualification of Bar candidates, investigate charges of unethical...