Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experiment in legal education will start at the Law School today, when over 30 lawyers from 20 eastern law offices and business firms will make up the faculty of a two-day "School for Young Lawyers" which opens this afternoon in Langdell-land...
...School, a new departure in legal education, is intended to fill the gaps between academics and practice in the law. It is hoped that talks with men in all branches of the profession will enable many students to make their choice of type of practice while they are still in school, according to Richard A. Holman...
...Legal Mind. In Minot, N.D., Judge Roy A. Ilvedson ordered Theodore Baker, who had been arrested for drunken driving, to go at once and get himself a driver's license, so that the state could revoke...
...guest list at Oppie's hotel this year will also include Historian Arnold Toynbee, Poet T. S. Eliot, Legal Philosopher Max Radin-and a literary critic, a bureaucrat and an airlines executive. There was no telling who might turn up next: maybe a psychologist, a Prime Minister, a composer or a painter. Oppenheimer was just working up courage: "If a man is a full professor at Harvard, he may be a fool, but he's a respectable fool. In the world of action, criteria for acceptability are more confused...
Actually, both sides had been willing to get together all along, if a nice legal way could be found to do it. In the old days, record makers paid royalties directly into the union's welfare fund, which Petrillo controls. The Taft-Hartley Act stopped that: it forbade the union to have the sole say-so on the fund. Now that everyone was friendly again, neither side expected any trouble in finding a neutral trustee to handle the money, acceptable both to Uncle Sam and to Little Caesar Petrillo...