Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legal scholars, James W. Hurst and George O. Sayles, have received the James Barr Ames Award, the Law School announced today. The prize, established in 1898, is awarded every four years "for a meritorious essay or book on some legal subject...
...University of Wisconsin Law School will receive his award from President Pusey at a meeting of the Law Faculty on January 13, 1959. The award to Sayles, who is Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen, will be made by Samuel E. Horne, professor of Legal History...
...speech to the Divinity School Student Association Forum, the Rev. Mr. Opitz asserted that "the principle of every welfare state has always been to deprive deserving people of money to supply the favored few." He further maintained that this "legal robbery" has been a feature of "every government since the beginning of civilization...
About 18 per cent of the Cage collection, however, has been put there for reasons which are similar to censorship. Yet the library does not really censor. It places "questionable" materials in the Cage for legal and protective reasons. There are certain Federal and state laws prohibiting distribution of erotic material to minors. The University acts in such situations to avoid being considered agent provocateur. In addition it proscribes literature which would be subject to mutilations if left on the open shelf. Included in this category are Esquire, certain French journals, and the more prominent photography magazines...
...legal difficulties are involved in granting the license to such a private club, the problem is only one of a long wait. Cambridge has a perpetually filled quota of licenses, and can only dispense more when active licenses are revoked or expire...