Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the chronicle reaches the establishment of TVA and its legal ups-&-downs, the Opposition is given a curt inning. An actor, who evidently did not see dynamic young President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern Corp. in the MARCH OF TIME'S TVA sequence last year, dodders out as Mr. Willkie in a white wig to declaim: "The duplication of transmission systems and the giving of money from the Federal Treasury to cities to duplicate our distribution systems is undermining the credit of companies in the TVA area . . . destruction . . . inevitable . . . cruel jest." But by this time the sheer momentum...
...Legal education today is an impractical educational program masquerading as a practical one . . . [Law teachers] do not know the economic, social or political basis of legal decisions [or] their economic, social or political effects...
...been back in Chicago three weeks when last week it was announced that Chicago's Law School was henceforth going to practice what the University's president had preached, in an "attempt to fulfill more thoroughly the obligation that law schools owe to the legal profession and to the country. . . . The lawyer and the judge must be much more than well-trained legal technicians...
...reforms in the Chicago Law School's curriculum as outlined by Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow will rearrange the traditional pattern of U. S. legal education. Chicago Law next autumn will offer a four-year course which takes the emphasis away from the casebook method introduced some 65 years ago by Harvard's late great Christopher Columbus Langdell. The approved U. S. law course lasts three years. Chicago's students will still study cases, but besides such standbys as torts, contracts, property and procedure, the new Chicago plan calls for courses integrating with the law materials of economics...
...application of the approaches. . . . The sit-down strike, the State and National legislation that has been produced and proposed in the last few years obviously involve problems to which a merely legalistic approach is not adequate." Added President Hutchins, onetime (1928-29) Yale Law Dean: "We hope to remove legal education from its remoteness from reality...