Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a faculty committee poring over an exhaustive report on the curriculum, the Law School this fall has begun to play the part of a major university problem. Beset on the outside by rapidly shifting concepts of legal thinking and tied from within by the system of teaching to which it has adhered for a generation, the school which was once the brightest star in the Harvard firmament has suffered a threat to its supremacy. That the faculty has waked up to the dangers is an encouraging sign, but in planning any changes in legal education the committee should keep...
...past the Law School has embodied the policy of splendid isolation. Even in the realm of higher learning no attempt has been made to bridge the gap between legal thinking and other branches of learning, such as history and philosophy, on which the law depends. President Conant's plan for "university professors", men who have all knowledge for their province, should widen the horizons of departments which have tended to inbreed and have lost the perspective that a broad intellectual outlook gives. For the Law School is not only a trade school for lawyers, but also a temple of legal...
...body. At present the neophyte gets no inkling of what subjects are of value in preparation for life at the bar, and students are allowed to wander in the college wilderness without the guidance that would help them immeasurably when once they enter the professional division. Although rigorous pre-legal requirements should not be laid down, lest they limit too strictly the freedom of choice in college, the school should not shirk the responsibility of pointing out the undergraduate courses that form a valuable introduction...
...Department of Justice lawyer in Washington presently announced that there is no law covering the situation. Said he: "There are many crimes on the seas for which we have no laws. If the castaways had been members of the crew the case would have been very different, but legal rights of stowaways are problemtical...
...Geneva. Devoted to the sanity of the law, he has shown a liberalism no less profound, if less spectacular than that of his old friend, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. His decision in the famed anti-trust case against the Sugar Institute in 1934 stands as a weighty legal precedent in the interpretation of "fair trade practice." On the morning of Armistice Day last week Judge Mack sat down in the big, airy room of the new Federal District Court in Manhattan's Foley Square to hear arguments in another great test case, this one brought by the Securities...