Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There has been no progress in legal education since the time of Dean Samuel Langdell of the Harvard Law School, according to Robert M. Hutchins, Yale '21, dean of the Yale Law School...
...Dean Langdell was working with a small group of selected enthusiastic students who were willing to make themselves the guinea pigs for experiment in legal education. But classes have grown since then, incidentally being less carefully selected and the case system is poorly suited for giving large groups of students a practical legal education. Although with a few selected men the system of instruction makes little difference, the case method has limitations with a crowded schedule and crowded classrooms...
...trying to broaden the field of our curriculum. An economist, a political scientist, and a psychologist, have recently been added to our faculty, each of whom deals with the legal aspect of his field...
Engaged. Miss Catherine Smith, 22, younger daughter of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York; to Francis J. Quillinan, a deputy Attorney General of New York State and member of the legal staff of U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner...
...Legal Aid Society, run by law students, gives advice on legal matters free of charge. If a case is carried to court, the bureau demands merely that its expenses in conducting the case be paid. All types of cases have been handled, except bankruptcy and admiralty. Cases of contracts, bills, and between landlord and tenant comprise most of the suits. Advice has been sought even on divorce, and once on international affairs...