Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second-year students were granted four hours of substitution, but their class "chairman" (advisor) must agree that the courses will "further some special objective in their legal education." Acting Dean A. James Casner said yesterday that a second-year student concentrating in anti-trust law, for example, would be allowed to take courses in economics...
ABDICATION of legal responsibility has led to a concession of power, by default, to the psychiatric profession. Individual psychiatrists have been empowered to make uncontested pseudo-legal decisions on purely medical bases. The result of this psychiatric involvement in the legal process, says Professor Dershowitz, "has been the gradual introduction of a medical model in place of the laws' efforts to articulate legally relevant criteria." In other words, the presence or absence of "mental illness," a poorly defined and widely questioned concept, about which even psychiatrists disagree, has practically become the exclusive basis for decisions of preventive detention...
...either "incompetency to stand trial" or "not guilty by reason of insanity," thousands of accused criminals have spent decades imprisoned in institutions that authorities benignly call "hospitals for the criminally insane." In the vast majority of cases, these people have been convicted of no crime. The medical and legal problems that they present have been reversed and confused, since a psychiatrist's statement that there is mental illness is enough to cause incarceration in these institutions. But the euphemism of "hospital" rarely corresponds to the reality...
Kahlenberg's chief frustration is the necessity of tedious and tactful nego- tiation in bringing collectors out into the open, and convincing them to help. Like the studios, collectors sense the complex nature of the legal problems involved in film ownership and often prefer to hide their prints rather than risk legal battles and long expenditure of time. Although the AFI's cordial connection with the Library of Congress gives them an invaluable aid in negotiating for copies of rare films, they cannot legally guarantee an amnesty to collectors who admit ownership of black-market prints. Consequently, no uncertain skill...
...commercial commercial film fell subject to varying fates: films were allowed to rot in forgotten Hollywood vaults; original producers sold their distribution rights to smaller distributors; copyrights elapsed and films were turned over to family heirs; others were chopped to ribbons, sections used in the making of other films; legal problems of ownership and distribution rights mounted until films became hopelessly inaccessible (Hughes's, for example), or until studios found it convenient to forget about them...