Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with a growing tendency to give scholarship everyday usefulness. The CRIMSON commented recently upon the way in which Professor Chafee, speaking against capital punishment, demonstrated the usefulness of a professor in a legislative body. It will be also remembered that Professor Frankfurter took a prominent part in clarifying the legal situation involved in the Sacco-Venzetti case...
...formation of this Advisory Committee grew out of a resolution adopted by the Fifth Assembly of the League of Nations on September 22, 1924. In this resolution the Council of the League was requested to convene a committee of experts representing the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world, which should have the duty, without trespassing in any way upon the official initiative which may have been taken by particular states...
...Assembly further resolved to entrust the Council with the task of appointing a Preparatory Committee, composed of five persons possessing a wide knowledge of international practice, legal precedents, and scientific data relating to the questions mentioned above. This committee met in Geneva, February 6 to 15, 1928, and prepared a "Schedule of Points", which was circulated to various governments with requests for information on the points listed...
Rapid changes in a progressive society necessitate new legal codes and judicial methods. The average lawyer is too prone to cling to the traditional systems, which he absorbed in youth, without considering the advisability of their application today. State legislatures, for the most part, are composed of small-town lawyers too often bound not only by their legal but by the popular prejudices of their constituents. In such matters as this the opinion of the law expert, constantly in touch with all new ideas as well as familiar with the heritage of the past, may well be of significance...
Last week, friends and admirers of Lawyer Longley read with amazement the following newsflash from Detroit: "The legal department of the Ford Motor Company has been abolished and its entire personnel dismissed as of next pay day." Pressed for explanations, Lawyer Longley grinned. He knew, of course, that the despatch had stated only a half-truth. It was true that the Ford company had abolished its legal department. But Lawyer Longley, as a member of the Detroit firm of Longley & Middleton, remains chief Ford counsel, and with him will be most or all the dozen lawyers who sensationally "lost" their...