Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Experience is showing that these expedients are by no means diminishing friction nor eliminating waste. In the end we shall have to fall back upon careful, continuous, scientific research for the underlying conditions, for the limits and scope of the problem, for the materials available for solutions, for the factors involved in each solution, and for the means of making our legal solutions effective in action when devised and formulated...
...field of research then is the functioning of our law with respect to the needs for modern business organization; the adaptation of our modes of finding and applying legal precepts, our judicial organization, and our administration of justice, to the modern system of production and distribution which has arisen since our legal apparatus was devised and has given us business institutions new to legal thought and out of line with traditional legal ideas...
...study of how to make the law effective with respect to the exigencies of business stand for one example of research work. Another is study of the whole field of criminal law, criminal procedure, the administration of criminal justice, and the legal phases of penal treatment. Still another is the respective provinces of adjudication and administration; how to achieve a proper balance between treatment of individual cases as types of generalized classes of cases, governed by broad principles, and treatment of each particular case as unique. Still another is preventive justice something no less fraught with possibilities than preventive medicine...
Dean Pound emphasized that there is general agreement that the law schools must engage in and stimulate research work, a field in which the Harvard Law School is actively engaged and for the furtherance of which work an endowment fund is being raised...
...research of which there is crying need", he said, "is the research that American law schools are imperatively called to carry on; it is investigation by legal scholars who devote their lives to the study of some field of the administration of justice, to some field of the legal adjustment of human relations, in order to teach us what its problems are and how to meet these problems effectively by means...