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Law Reform And Law For The Layman: A Challenge To Legal Education, Walter Barnett

Vanderbilt Law Review

Most of the current debate over academic neutrality has centered on whether the university as an institution--the faculty and students as a corporate body--should take formal positions on political issues, such as the war in Vietnam. This article will address the related, but perhaps more mundane, question whether law professors should take a more active role in providing legal services to government and to the public when this activity might provoke attacks on academic freedom. Traditionally, law professors who have sought to serve society in ways other than educating lawyers have engaged in the following five extramural activities:' (1) The …

Book Reviews, Francis E. Barkman, Stephen Gorove

Vanderbilt Law Review

An Anatomy of Values: Problems of Personal and Social Choice

Charles Reich, of Yale Law School, has given us a vision of a whole new society in The Greening of America. Charles Fried, of Harvard Law School, has more limited objectives in An Anatomy of Values: Problems of Personal and Social Choice. He is content for the moment to examine the nature of a rational end and, in light of this analysis, to discuss limited aspects of traditional ends such as morality and justice.

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The Law Relating to Activities of Man in Space:

This book may be regarded as …

Ethical And Value Issues In Population Limitation And Distribution In The United States, Martin P. Golding, Naomi Holtzman Golding

Vanderbilt Law Review

Any discussion of the ethical issues in population limitation and redistribution must begin by focusing upon the definition of "the problem," because how one views the problem, and its urgency and gravity, inevitably determines whether there is something that ought to be done and what it is that ought to be done.

As laymen in many of the areas that are relevant to the population problem, we are forced to rely on the expert knowledge of others. It would be highly salutary if there were a body of received opinion that could be used without hesitation. Unfortunately, on many crucial …