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The Future Of America And The Role Of Law, Ray Forrester
The Future Of America And The Role Of Law, Ray Forrester
Vanderbilt Law Review
On August 22, 1970, Dean Ray Forrester of the Cornell Law School presented this paper to the Southeastern Conference of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Association of Law Libraries meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Because the question of negativism in the academic community seldom has been raised by a highly respected legal educator, the Vanderbilt Law Review felt that these remarks were particularly significant. To test the reaction of other prominent legal educators to Dean Forrester's position, the Vanderbilt Law Review solicited the comments of the deans of various law schools. This paper and the comments that …
On Dissent, Violence, And The Intellectual, Page Keeton
On Dissent, Violence, And The Intellectual, Page Keeton
Vanderbilt Law Review
If I have properly assessed the meaning of Dean Forrester's comments, he stated that: (1) America is now in the midst of an attempted revolution, an attempt to create a new society by force and violence; (2) war, race relations, poverty, environment, and the other festers in our society, while great problems, are not the real causes of the discontent; (3) the attempted revolution is the product of a generation of university teaching and writing which has created the intellectual atmosphere and the state of mind that sustain the conflict. I respectfully dissent while recognizing at the same time the …