Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evidence, and G. Louis Joughin of the New School for Social Research have combined to write what is undoubtedly the most detailed and comprehensive study of the case and its affects. In separate and yet dovetailing sections of the book, the authors have examined the highly complicated legal aspects together with the resulting sociological reflections...
Professor Morgan calls his part of the book "The Legacy of the Law: Doubt." He recounts the sequence of events of the crime in so far as they are definitely known, and then discusses every conceivable legal angle of the case, ranging from the circumstances of the first arrests to the desperate and unsuccessful attempts to have the case brought before a Federal court as a last resort. He describes the trials, the controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question...
Professor Morgan treats his highly technical subject in an eminently readable fashion. He makes the course of the trials, the many important personalities involved in the case, and the abstract legal problems entirely clear to the reader without ever losing his dignified and scientific tone...
Georges Rouault, the 77-year-old French modern whose paintings glow like hot coals, burned up 315 of them last week. He had gotten them back, along with 400 others, from the heirs of Dealer Ambroise Vollard, on a legal technicality (TIME, July 22, 1946). His argument: the dealer was entitled only to his finished pictures, and since he had never signed the pictures, they were unfinished and therefore his own property...
Criminal law provides the opportunity for the cleanest form of legal practice, Leibowitz said. He advised against objectionable courtroom practices, warning that they would turn the jury against...