Word: mooting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale school does not wholly subscribe to the theories of Legal Realism or of Policy Science, although it draws on them both. Thus to teach the "realistic" actualities of law practice, there is the required moot court work and courses in case presentation and in case studies. An entire term is spent on the study of one actual case under direction of one of the original counsels. In line with the Policy Science, emphasis on allied fields. Yale has two non-lawyers on the teaching staff, F.S.C. Northrop and Lasswell...
Sturges believes that grading on a quality basis will increase interest in such activities as the "Law Journal" and Moot Court...
...Moot, who also attended the Law School, was one of ten graduates nominated last month by a committee of the Alumni Association. Five men are annually named to the Board of Overseers in spring elections open to degree-holding alumni...
...Moot holds his enforcement post as one of his duties as a member of the state Board of Regents. The Regents, who supervise the public school system of the entire state, were given the job of compiling the subversive list by the legislature...
Although enacted in March, 1949, the Feinberg Law has not yet been put into effect because of court tests. No list has yet been announced by the Regents although Moot's committee held a public hearing in July of 1949 at which certain groups were invited to show why they should not be declared subversive...