Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such changes as a modernized course structure, a step-up in hours, teaching follows as guides for first year students, and a program to improve seniors' legal writing have all been instituted this term. But it is "still too early" to tell how the new curriculum is working, Lon, L. Fuller, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, said yesterday...
Professor Fuller heads a six-man Committee on Legal Education which spent three years in study aided by opinion surveys, to plan the School's new curriculum...
Because many people thought that the Taft-Hartley Law would be repealed this year a great number of labor suits were put off or not appealed from NLRB decisions. This backlog, including cases concerning the definition of legal picketing methods under the Act is already on the Court docket. And, sooner or later, the Supreme Court will have to give a positive decision on Congressional legislation involving the Wages and Hours Law. So far, for example, the Jusices have refused to decide any appeal made on the Portal-to-Portal bill...
Though Coffman plans no radical departures from the tried & true methods of legal education, his five-man faculty will "update the students on the new kinds of law which have become important-administrative law, taxation and labor law." Says he: "We believe in the blocking and tackling school of education-good fundamental training . . . We want to turn out men who will become leaders...
Speaking last, Professor Brameld upheld the right of teachers, as citizens, to the full benefits of the Bill of Rights, no matter what their membership in legal political parties. "The Communist Party is legal in the United States until the Supreme Court decides otherwise," he declared. "And I should prefer to take the Court's word...