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Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy Dec 1940

Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy

Michigan Law Review

In 1887 John Henry Wigmore graduated from Harvard Law School. Only four years later, in 1891, there came from his pen an article in the Harvard Law Review entitled "Nemo Tenetur Seipsum Prodere," which showed to the profession that there had arrived at the bar a writer who was not only a deep student of legal history and knew his law of evidence, but who had no hesitation in smashing images, regardless of how sacredly they had theretofore been worshiped.


Legal Institute, Michigan Law Review May 1940

Legal Institute, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Following its very successful Law Institute of last year, when more than one hundred and seventy-five lawyers from all parts of the United States gathered on its campus to spend three days in earnest study of certain recent developments in the law, the University of Michigan Law School has decided to make the Institute an annual event.


The Proposed Four-Year Law Curriculum: A Dissenting Opinion, Philip Mechem May 1940

The Proposed Four-Year Law Curriculum: A Dissenting Opinion, Philip Mechem

Michigan Law Review

A conspicuous and very wholesome manifestation today in legal education is dissatisfaction with legal education. With education in general for that matter. Doubtless the dissatisfaction begins with the general and extends to the particular. The law teacher, that is, observes that the college graduate who comes to him can barely read and write the English language, is scarcely aware that there are any other languages, is wholly devoid of intellectual curiosity, wholly untrained in hard thinking, wholly uninformed about and uninterested in the ideas which make for or against civilization. It makes the law teacher think there must be something …