Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Wesley A. Sturges of the Yale Law School replies to Dean Griswold's appraisal of Harvard's legal education system tonight when he discusses "Legal Education at Yale." The talk, sponsored by the Law School Forum, will be held in Langdell Court Room...
Dean Sturges is expected to defend the small legal institution, stressing its benefits of individual attention and informality...
...trial of the convicted murderers of George Polk, CBS correspondent, "was not a legal trial, not a legal case--but a political battle between the guerilla Communists and the government of Greece," his brother, William R. Polk '51 claimed last night. He gave his report off the trial at an American Veterans Committee meeting in Phillips Brooks House...
Another moral matter (situated on a different plane) occupied the Legal Committee last week. Yugoslavia placed before it a Draft Declaration on the Rights, and Duties of States. A clear indictment of Russia's actions against Yugoslavia., the declaration said: "Every people has the right to self-determination . . . without any economic, political or military pressures or interferences on the part of other states . . . Every state has the duty ... to curb all activities calculated to spread hatred toward other peoples, to affront their honor or offend the dignity of and slander, other states...
Russia entrusted the guidance of the East German Republic yesterday to a tight-slipped diplomat who pulled the strings for the Communist coup in Hungary after the war. Naming Gregori M. Pushkin chief of its diplomatic mission, the Soviet Union became the first power in the world to grant legal recognition to the nine day old state...