Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...administration of justice in general, and the administration of criminal justice in particular, are subjects of serious crit- icism on the part of the lay public. The strain upon law due to the changes in modern life, and the resulting delays, uncertainties and miscarriages demand a service from legal scholars in national law schools that can be performed by no one else...
...view of the problems of justice which any court may get is too fragmentary, and its experience is too specialized or too local to make it possible for courts to do for our time the sort of thing they did so well in the formative era of American legal institutions...
...national law school, and a school of the common law, the Harvard Law School believes in social control through reason, not through arbitrary flats of the sovereign will. It believes in law as the scientific application of reason to the problems of the legal order, not in rules of law resting upon the authority of its sovereign. It seeks to find this reason, and the means and modes of applying it, through study of the experience of English-speaking peoples in administering justice. It takes it for a postulate of civilized society that every one, in or out of authority...
...teach the experience of English-speaking peoples in the administration of justice scientifically and sympathetically is one of the surest ways of perpetuating American institutions, of dispelling plausible political crudities, and of insuring a sane and orderly legal and political development. The proper functioning of our political institutions presupposes the orderly maintenance of right by the state...
...Economic institutions, economic progress and material prosperity presuppose the legal ordering of conduct whereby division of labor and specialized activity become possible. Public order is as fundamental for our economic structure as is public health. Behind one quite as much as the other there must be continuous scientific research. The proposed plans for the development of the Harvard Law School have been worked out, and will be carried out, in the hope that in the future it may be able not merely to train lawyers, but to make a fundamental contribution to the upholding and development of justice through American...