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...immediate problem of law is really the one of the judge and the controversy before his court, of the lawyer and his client, and of the student and his case book. Everything in life is a part of law," said Professor Llewellyn...
Definitions, comments, and theories on the subject were offered by University Professor Roscoe Pound, Huntington Cairns, author, and Karl Llewellyn, Columbia University professor of law. Moderator was James M. Landis, dean of the Law School...
While Cairns presented an academic interpretation of law and Professor Pound traced its philosophy and development, Professor Llewellyn dealt with its modern day-to-day application...
After defining the terms "philosophy" and "law" in beginning his discussion, Professor Pound, who was referred to as the "dean of American jurisprudence" by professor Llewellyn, said that "law was the result of experience developed by reason and that reason was in turn tested by experience...
...Foulest & Vilest." First witness was Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, of the British medical corps ("I have never seen anything that would touch [Belsen]. . . . There were piles of corpses lying all over the camp. . . . The huts were full to overflowing with prisoners in every state of emaciation and disease. There was every known variety of disease in that camp Dead lay where they fell . . ."). His testimony would have been enough to hang most of the 45 defendants (who are charged with an average 1,000 murders each). But there were other witnesses...