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Class Of 1964 Fifteen Year Report Alumni Comments, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This addendum is a compilation of alumni responses to the open-ended comments sections.

Law Quadrangle Notes, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

U-M Television legal series wins ABA honors; The viewers' response; Law School receives gift for H. L. Harley Fellowship; John Reed named Dean of Colorado Law School; Kahn, Kauper, and White join law school faculty; Dean's report to the president notes changes in curriculum and faculty; Case Clubs ask aid in finding trial records; Faculty news notes; Law School Fund begins September 1

Courts-Scope Of Authority-Sterilization Of Mental Defectives, William R. Warnock

Michigan Law Review

Respondent, age nineteen, appeared before the probate court of Muskingum County, Ohio, upon an affidavit filed by her mother alleging the child to be feeble-minded and in need of medical treatment. Results of psychological tests were presented at the hearing, revealing that respondent had an intelligence quotient of thirty-six and was therefore a feeble-minded person within the statutory definition. Respondent had had one illegitimate child, for whom she was unable to provide even rudimentary care or financial support, and was physically capable of bearing more children. Taking judicial notice that the state mental hospitals were then overcrowded and unable to …

Mason: The Supreme Court: Palladium: Of Freedom, Joseph E. Kallenbach

Michigan Law Review

A Review of The Supreme Court: Palladium: Of Freedom . By Alpheus T. Mason.

Law Quadrangle Notes, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Survey checks class standing as index of professional ability; Thoma V. Koykka is Law Fund chairman; Two students win Law School's Case Club 1963 Campbell Competition; Pooley receives faculty appointment; Competition stays open for Broomfield essays by students and alumni; Advocacy Institute draws 1,300 lawyers; Two visiting scholars spend semester at U-M; Fellowships are awarded for legal study abroad; Reunion calendar; The report of the Committee of Visitors of the University of Michigan Law School; Faculty news notes

Law Quadrangle Notes, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

From the Dean; Law School Fund plans in progress; Professor Plant is co-author of casebook; Senator Hart speaks at banquet honoring 114 Law School students; "Review" editors are announced; Law School Alumnus receives U-M Doctor of Laws degree; Professor Francis A. Allen resigns from law faculty; Knauss and Gray are named Associate Professors of Law; Prof. Kauper discusses civil rights controversy; Six visiting professors to join Law School faculty; Four receive leaves for teaching, research; Dean reports "excellent year" for Law School during 1962-1963; Thirty seniors named to Order of the Coif; Federal grant awarded for juvenile court program; Proposed …

Gideon V. Wainwright: The Art Of Overruling, Jerold H. Israel

Articles

During the 1962 Term, the Supreme Court, on a single Monday, announced six decisions concerned with constitutional limitations upon state criminal procedure. The most publicized of these, though probably not the most important in terms of legal theory or practical effect, was Gideon v. Wainwright. In an era of constantly expanding federal restrictions on state criminal processes, the holding of Gideon-that an indigent defendant in a state criminal prosecution has an unqualified right to the appointment of counsel-was hardly startling. And while Gideon will obviously have an important effect in the handful of states that still fail to appoint counsel …

Nonpopulation Factors Relevant To An Acceptable Standard For Apportionment, Jerold H. Israel

Articles

Of the many problems left unanswered in Baker v. Carr,' the one that has received the most attention both from lower courts and commentators is that of prescribing a specific standard for determining what constitutes a denial of "equal protection" in legislative apportionment.2 The starting point universally accepted - indeed, probably required by Baker - for attacking this problem is the definition of apportionment equality in terms of mathematical measurement of the individual's "voting power."3 Perfect equality in apportionment is viewed as requiring that each election district contain an equal population, so that every individual's vote in his district will …

The Constitution And Contempt Of Court, Ronald Goldfarb

Michigan Law Review

Few legal devices find conflict within the lines of our Constitution with the ubiquity of the contempt power. These conflicts involve issues concerning the governmental power structure such as the separation of powers and the delicate balancing of federal-state relations. In addition, there are civil rights issues attributable to the conflict between the use of the contempt power and such vital procedural protections as the right to trial by jury, freedom from self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and indictment-to name only the most recurrent and controversial examples. Aside from these problems, there are other civil liberties issues, such as those involving freedom …

Betts V. Brady Twenty Years Later: The Right To Counself And Due Process Values, Yale Kamisar

Michigan Law Review

I am quite distressed by talk that the landmark case of Mapp v. Ohio "suggests by analogy" that the Court may now overrule Betts v. Brady. For whether one talks about the fourth or the sixth amendment, there is much to be said for Justice Harlan's dissenting views in Mapp. "[W]hatever configurations ... have been developed in the particularizing federal precedents" should not be "deemed a part of 'ordered liberty,' and as such ... enforceable against the States .... [W]e would not be true to the Fourteenth Amendment were we merely to stretch the general principle [ of …

Law Quadrangle Notes, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

From the Dean; Radio and television bring law to laymen; Six faculty members attend meeting of American Bar Association; Hessel E. Yntema receives honor from Luxembourg; Roger C. Cramton heads federal committee staff; Alumni meetings held; Revised Judicature Act courses are scheduled in 13 locations; Three instructors named to faculty; Poverty and criminal justice is studied by Francis Allen; Committee of Visitors holds first meeting - hears reports from faculty and administrators; Admissions office report; Scholarship committee report; Progress report: Institute of Continuing Legal Education; Faculty research; Placement office report; Faculty news note

Survey Of Metropolitan Courts: Final Report, Maxine Boord Virtue

Michigan Legal Studies Series

Adhering to the view that the original question is important, unanswered, and essential to a proper development of standards of judicial administration, the Section arranged for the University of Michigan Law School to supervise and for the author of the Detroit study to prepare a final report for the metropolitan court survey, which will make use of such material as comes to hand from all available sources in an attempt to identify, characterize, and classify the special problems of metropolitan courts. The report will also include a discussion of the methods being brought to bear on those problems, their advantages …

The Challenge Of The Rule Of Law, W. Burnett Harvey

Michigan Law Review

The lecture last week considered the Rule of Law concept in historical perspective. Aside from its possible, highly restricted connotation of public order maintained by the force of politically organized society, three basic meanings or emphases were identified in discussions of the Rule of Law: first, certain constitutional principles, particularly those ascribed by Dicey to 19th-century Britain; second, certain valuable procedural safeguards of a fair trial; and third, those asserted universal and perhaps immutable principles, derived from God or Nature by the rational faculties of man, available to guide and, in some views, to invalidate positive legal action. Without denying …

Class Of 1961 Fifteen Year Report, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This report summarizes the responses to a questionnaire sent to University of Michigan Law School alumni fifteen years after graduation.

Constitutional Law- Due Process- Conviction Without Evidence Of Guilt, Donald A. Slichter

Michigan Law Review

Petitioner was convicted in the Police Court of Louisville, Kentucky, of two offenses. After seeing petitioner "dancing by himself" on the dance floor, the police charged him with loitering; when he became argumentative about this arrest, he was also charged with disorderly conduct. Although he protested that he had come into the restaurant where he was arrested to "wait on a bus" and have a meal, he was nevertheless taken into custody. At the trial the arresting officer testified that the manager had told him that petitioner had been there "a little over a half hour and that he had …

Vol. 10, No. 7, November 11, 1960, University Of Michigan Law School

Res Gestae

•Our Man in Hutchins •Visitors •Air Force JAGC •Graduate Studies •Medicine and Law •Fraternity News •Over the Weekend

Civil Procedure - Disclosure Of Minutes When Grand Jury Was Used For Purpose Of Preparing For Civil Action, L. Vastine Stabler Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Three weeks after the close of a grand jury investigation of charges of criminal antitrust violations, the Government filed a civil complaint against defendants based upon materials accumulated by the grand jury. Defendants obtained discovery of the grand jury transcript, but the United States Supreme Court overruled, holding that defendants, by merely showing that the Government had not requested an indictment, had not shown "good cause" for discovery under rule 34 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Court did indicate that a use by the Government of the grand jury for the sole purpose of preparing for a …

Free Will In The Frontiers Of Federalism, John R. Brown

Michigan Law Review

In an assembly dedicated, as this one is, to frontiers in law and legal education in celebration of the centennial of this great Law School and forecasting what is to be expected in the next one hundred years, the idea of states' rights-of the federal-state relationship-has seemed almost ironic.

Constitutional Law - Due Process And Right Of Confrontation- Jencks Act, Robert J. Margolin S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The Jencks Act like the rule it purportedly reaffirmed, was designed to insure "justice." Although the stated purpose of the act was to preserve the rights of any defendant under due process of law, the question remains unresolved whether, in articulating the rule in terms of "justice," the Court in Jencks v. United States incorporated it into the requirements of due process. To be sure, the underlying intent of both the Court and Congress is unclear, but of far more concern than the intent is whether the Jencks Act, in fact, violates the constitutional mandates of the Fifth and Sixth …

Frank: Marble Palace. The Supreme Court In American Life, Earl Latham

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Marble Palace. The Supreme Court in American Life. By John P. Frank.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

A List of Books Received by Michigan Law Review

Law Quadrangle Notes, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

From the Dean; Law School Centennial; Miss Murray sees alumni on tour of western states; Emeritus faculty busy writing and traveling; Water resources and law considered at institute; Law School research program progresses; Law Placement Office gets larger quarters; Philip Jessup to give annual Cooley Lectures; New Law Associates program now started; Yale's Dean Rostow to be Cook lecturer; International legal studies continue to expand; Student Bar Association aided by $2,500 gift; Zweigert gets big send-off; Faculty visit alumni; Four books on school's fall publication list; Six courses added to law curriculum; Briggs receives fellowship; Student aid funds in great …

Class Of 1957 Fifteen Year Report Preface, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This preface describes changes at the University of Michigan Law School between the time the class of 1956 came to the Law School (1954) and the time of the survey (1972).

Legislation - Federal Criminal Procedure - Modification Of Jencks Decision, Raymond J. Dittrich, Jr. S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

Defendant was convicted of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §1001. During the trial, the court denied defendant's motion to order the government to produce for defendant's inspection reports submitted by government witnesses to government agents. The reports dealt with the same subject about which these witnesses later testified. The court of appeals affirmed the decision. On certiorari to the United States Supreme Court, held, reversed, one justice dissenting. The government has a privilege to refuse to surrender statements made by its prospective witnesses, but it may claim the privilege only at the expense of a dismissal of its case …

Constitutional Law - Post-Conviction Due Process - Right Of Indigent To Review Of Non-Constitutional Trial Errors, Robert C. Casad S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The purpose of this comment is to examine a new development. in post-conviction due process: Griffin v. Illinois. This case announces a new principle of constitutional right under the Fourteenth Amendment based on an almost indistinguishable combination of due process and equal protection elements.

Compelling The Testimony Of Political Deviants, O. John Rogge

Michigan Law Review

At the last term the United States Supreme Court in Ullmann v. United States upheld the constitutionality of paragraph (c) of a federal act of August 1954 which seeks to compel the testimony of communists and other political deviants. Paragraph (c) relates to witnesses before federal courts and grand juries. The Court specifically left open the question of the validity of paragraphs (a) and (b) relating to congressional witnesses. Justice Frankfurter delivered the Court's opinion. Justice Douglas, with the concurrence of Justice Black, wrote a dissent.

It is our purpose to consider the background, history and terms of this compulsory …

Class Of 1956 Fifteen Year Report Preface, University Of Michigan Law School

UMLS Alumni Survey Class Reports

This preface describes changes at the University of Michigan Law School between the time the class of 1956 came to the Law School (1953) and the time of the survey (1971).

Legislation - Witness Immunity Act Of 1954 - Constitutional And Interpretative Problem, George S. Flint S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

The passage in August, 1954 of a federal statute granting immunity under specified conditions to witnesses before congressional committees and in the federal courts marks a third legislative experiment designed to soften the effect of the Fifth Amendment as a limitation on the investigatory power of Congress. The first two attempts were less than successful. This comment will discuss the historical background of immunity legislation, and some possible constitutional pitfalls and problems of construction created by the statutory language.

Monthly Periodical Index, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

This department lists the articles and comments which appear in leading law reviews. The index embraces material published since the last issue of this REVIEW.

The Privy Council And Private Law In The Tudor And Stuart Periods: I, John P. Dawson

Michigan Law Review

It has been often said that the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England were pre-eminently the age of conciliar government. The activities of the Tudor Privy Council extended into every phase of national life and were responsible, more than any other single factor, for the effective organization of an English national state. These activities continued under the first two Stuarts, with no break in institutional development, though they widened the gulf between Crown and people and hastened a revolution.