Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jocular mood, Louis L. Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Law, the moderator, opened the meeting by raising the question of whether lawyers are conservative and opposed to legal reform...
Humor persisted. Dean Eriwn N. Griswold of the Law School, the first speaker, who announced that he was going to exhaust the topic, explained that lawyers as individual citizens are active in social reform and that the bar associations are often involved in legal reform...
...however, see much direct relation between the organizations and social reform, and concluded that as members of bar associations lawyers can "participate in law reform and even from time to time (although I'm not quite sure what that means) social reform...
...same doubts seemed to plague the other speakers, and they too tended to discuss law reform when they discussed reforms at all. The most serious point in the evening came when Morris Ernst, a New York civil rights lawyer, called upon the "legal establishment" to act in the face of threats to due process...
Craig said lawyers, through their associations, are especially qualified to promote social reform, especially by promoting order. Freely admitting his depature from the topic, Countryman emphasized the lawyer's "special competency" for a conservative role in the legal system...