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The Contribution Of Professional Organizations To Stability And Change Through Law, Glenn R. Winters

Vanderbilt Law Review

The term "stability" pertains more directly to the physical sciences than to law. Offhand, one associates stability with rest and instability with motion. Gibraltar is stable; a rowboat in rough water is not.There can be, however, stable motion and precarious rest. The earth moves at more than a thousand miles a minute in a stable orbit, and a railroad train thundering down a smooth and level track at ninety miles an hour may have a high degree of stability. On the other hand, the mass of rock and earth that recently plunged into the water behind an Italian dam killing …