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Wigmore On Evidence-A Review, John E. Tracy
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.
Scott On Trusts: A Review, Lewis M. Simes
Scott On Trusts: A Review, Lewis M. Simes
Michigan Law Review
Professor Scott, in his four volume work on the Law of Trusts, has given us a book worthy to stand beside the two other great American treatises on this subject, the American Law Institute Restatement of the Law of Trusts, and Bogert on Trusts and Trustees. Since the reviews of Professor Scott's book already published have been as numerous as they have been favorable, I shall content myself with discussing it as a whole and shall refrain from detailed comment on its treatment of particular rules. More particularly, I shall attempt to compare it with the two …
Woe Unto You Lawyers: A Review, Max Radin
Woe Unto You Lawyers: A Review, Max Radin
Michigan Law Review
The blurb on the cover twice calls this book a "lusty, gusty attack on The Law." No writer can be held responsible for the blurbs with which his book is commended to the public by those whose business it is to sell it. But many who read it--there will undoubtedly be many--will do so in the hope that it is precisely what the cover describes, since lusty, gusty attacks on anything make juicy reading and law and lawyers have been fair game almost ever since either word became a term of common speech. Professor Rodell's title is taken from the …