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Vanderbilt Law Review

Debtors in Court: The Consumption of Government Services

By Herbert Jacobs. Chicago: American Politics Research Series, Rand McNally & Co., 1969, Pp. xv, 244.

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The Infamous of Nuremberg

By Col. Burton C. Andrus

London: Leslie Frewin, 1969. Pp. 211. $4.00

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Labor and the Legal Process

By Harry H. Wellington

NewHaven: Yale University Press, 1968. Pp. viii, 409. $10.00.

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Obscenity and Public Morality

By Harry M. Clor

Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. xii, 315. $9.50.

Civil Disobedience And The Law, Frank M. Johnson, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

This article is based on a speech delivered by Judge Frank M.Johnson, Jr. to the faculty and students of the Vanderbilt Law School. Judge Johnson's thesis is that "civil disobedience" presents a special challenge to judges and lawyers. He feels that there are alternatives to "civil disobedience" for challenging and protesting the law and that lawyers have a duty to inform the public of these alternate methods. Only in extreme cases does Judge Johnson believe that "civil disobedience" is justified. He illustrates his thesis with a discussion of the events surrounding the Democratic Convention at Chicago.

The Constitution On The Campus, Charles A. Wright

Vanderbilt Law Review

This article is the text of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, delivered by Professor Wright at the Vanderbilt University School of Law in April, 1969. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., left a large part of his estate to the United States at his death in 1935. By Act of Congress in 1955, the disposition of the property was entrusted to a Permanent Committee, which, among other projects, sponsors the, annual Hohnes Lectures by a distinguished legal scholar.

Professor Wright has brought to this topic both profound constitutional scholarship and wide experience in dealing with related problems at his university. His thesis …