Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jackson said that a chair in criminal justice in the first concrete component of a proposed research center to study policing, courts, corrections and legal issues...
Cutter, who graduated from both the College and the Law School, is now president of the American Law Institute. His legal career included 16 years with the Massachusetts Supreme Court, where he served as an associate justice. Cutter has been especially active in Harvard activities, serving as director of the Harvard Alumni Association, secretary of his Law School class of 1929, president of the Law School Association and a member of two Board of Overseers visiting committees...
Laskin, an expert on Canadian legal history and a past professor of law at the University of Toronto, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard in 1937. Albert Sacks, dean of the Law School, called him "one of the foremost judicial figures in the court of England and the English-speaking parts of the Commonwealth." He was appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 1970 and became its chief justice in 1973. He is the author of The British Tradition in Canadian...
Laskin's inscription: A distinguished legal scholar now firmly and wisely interpreting constitutional questions from Canada's supreme bench...
...expectations for the pace of change in the regular curriculum were too high. The associates did not succeed very well in their efforts to develop women's studies interests among regular faculty members. The associates have offered courses in Hindu goddesses, black female notions of Christ and the legal status of women under traditional Jewish marria laws, but one critic points out, "You could go all the way through the Divinity School and never see any of that stuff...