Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history. It was immediately after the war, and the School faced great challenges and great changes. The law at Harvard required a leader to guide it into the new era and to maintain the tradition of greatness in teaching and thinking which had made Harvard Law School the preeminent legal academy in the English speaking world. Dean James Landis had resigned in confusing and unhappy circumstances. The lawyers at Harvard required a friend to help them in healing painful wounds...
...American law and American society, and the importance of its Dean to Harvard Law School, one might justifiably argue that the job Griswold is leaving is more important over the long perspective than the job he is taking. The Solicitor's job, however, is probably the most interesting legal position in the United States, barring not even a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. Griswold's friends and admirers will thus understand his decision to accept this exciting and significant work, however much they may regret his departure. And they will remember that Erwin Griswold leaves the Harvard Law School...
Griswold, who has presided over 21 years of expansion and innovation at the nation's most venerable legal academy, will be nominated to succeed Thurgood Marshall. Today, Marshall will sit as the first Negro Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...appointment came as a big surprise to the Harvard community. His longtime associate, A. James Casner, the Law School's Associate Dean, said late Sunday, "It's kind of a shock, but from the standpoint of the country and the legal profession, it's a great appointment." I knew the Dean was going somewhere this weekend, but didn't know this would happen...
...case for the resolution (for legal purposes the suits brought by the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam and the Vote on Vietnam Committee have been combined) depends on a straightforward reading of the General Laws of Massachusetts...