Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Storey, 63, dean of Southern Methodist University's law school, a onetime Texas assistant attorney general, executive counsel to Justice Robert H. Jackson at the Nurnberg war crimes trials, onetime president of the American Bar Association. Democrat Storey is credited with building up S.M.U.'s respected Southwestern Legal Center, which includes the university law school, a foundation for research and study, and a graduate school of U.S. and foreign...
This is not to "take sides" with the Anti-Vivisection Society, or with either opposition in the recent legal breaching of the Animal Rescue Societies by the Medical Laboratories in Massachusetts. It is to say that some of the profoundest thinkers on the troubles of our times have pointed out a peril involved in scientific animal experimentation which does not clearly face the meaning of the physical torture it is based upon, and that such residual indifference to suffering is a breeder for the gas chamber and human lamp-shade...
Various government and United Nations officials as well as lawyers are now trying to avoid the legal chaos which could easily result. The President of the International Astronautical Federation, Andrew G. Haley, will deliver a lecture on space law at the Law School November 25. Haley and others have even made suggestions as to how mankind must treat any alien races it meets in its future explorations of space. But the problems that have now grown to immediate concern are the old thorny ones of sovereignty that have constantly plagued international relations on this sphere...
...various agreements formulated for the International Geophysical Year, each nation supporting the satellite project agreed in effect to the legal validity of the project and did not quibble about violations of its air space. If, however, reconnaissance or military satellites are built, what would be the legal rights a country has to prevent their passing over its territory...
...state of and by itself protect legal rights. "There is no moral right to property, to liberty, to life itself, in the absence of good will. The dilemma of the state is that this condition, as a moral condition, cannot be legally administered." The power of the state must come from a law higher than itself. "It is clearly not the destiny of the secular state to render the functions of a religious community superfluous. On the contrary, with the advance of a technical civilization, a church in our broad sense . . . instead of tending to wither away, becomes increasingly necessary...