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Mr. Justice Rutledge, Fred M. Vinson Jul 1960

Mr. Justice Rutledge, Fred M. Vinson

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.


The Quality Of Judges, Robert A. Leflar Apr 1960

The Quality Of Judges, Robert A. Leflar

Indiana Law Journal

This address was delivered at the Indiana World War Memorial, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 18, 1960, and was sponsored by the Indiana University School of Law in cooperation with the Indiana State Bar Association as the first of the 1960 Addison C. Harris Memorial Lectures. .


The Judge's Responsibility On A Plea Of Guilty, William J. Thompson Apr 1960

The Judge's Responsibility On A Plea Of Guilty, William J. Thompson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.


Mr. Justice Cardozo, William O. Douglas Feb 1960

Mr. Justice Cardozo, William O. Douglas

Michigan Law Review

I never knew Cardozo intimately. I read most of his opinions and all of his books; and I heard him lecture. My personal association with him, however, was limited. When he came to Washington, D. C., he lived in rather lonely isolation. I visited with him occasionally in his apartment where we talked about trivial, as well as philosophical, things. He was a gentle-almost self-effacing-man. Yet he had a mind with as keen a cutting edge as any I ever knew.


University Of Richmond Law Notes, J. Westwood Smithers Jan 1960

University Of Richmond Law Notes, J. Westwood Smithers

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Judicial Process, Lee E. Skeel Jan 1960

The Judicial Process, Lee E. Skeel

Cleveland State Law Review

The judicial process is that technique by which coherent direction of thought on the basic principles of social rights and duties is made available for judicial officers. It is the duty of such officers diligently to seek out the rules which must be used as the bases of judgment. The sources from which they must seek help are as wide and varied as the sum total of past and present human experience.


Natural Law And Everyday Law, Joseph O'Meara Jan 1960

Natural Law And Everyday Law, Joseph O'Meara

Journal Articles

Like most terms "natural law" has had, and has, a variety of meanings. In most of its meanings it touches scarcely at all the professional concerns of the lawyer but moves, rather, on a plane widely separated from his daily cares and duties. Thus, for the most part, natural law stands aloof from the urgent here-and-now with which lawyer and judge necessarily are preoccupied; it inhabits a world apart.

In these remarks I hope to suggest an approach to natural law which will make it useful on a day-to-day basis in the perplexities by which practitioners and judges constantly are …