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Natural Law Demythologized: A Functional Theory Of Norms For A Revolutionary Epoch, E. F. Roberts

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Jurisprudence can afford us some insight into whether a particular system is functioning effectively. To do this jurisprudes must extrapolate the aims of the society and then evaluate how effectively its legal system functions to structure social activity so that those aims are realized in an orderly fashion. Jurisprudence is seen, therefore, to be a form of time and motion study on a grand scale. Judgments about the ultimate worth of a given society’s aims are excluded from jurisprudence, however, on the ground that such emotionally charged and ethically relative conclusions cannot be proved by any empirically verifiable scale of …

Graves: American Intergovernmental Relations: Their Origins, Historical Development, And Current Status, Joseph E. Kallenbach

Michigan Law Review

A Review of American Intergovernmental Relations: Their Origins, Historical Development, and Current Status. By W. Brooke Graves.

The Educated Citizen's Responsibility In An Age Of Change, John F. Kennedy

Vanderbilt Law Review

Many things bring us together today. We are saluting the ninetieth anniversary of Vanderbilt University, which has grown from a small Tennessee university and institution to one of our nation's greatest, with seven different colleges, and with more than half of its 4,200 students from outside of the State of Tennessee. And we are saluting the thirtieth anniversary of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which transformed a parched, depressed, and flood-ravaged region into a fertile, productive center of industry, science,and agriculture. We are saluting-by initiating construction of a dam in his name--a great Tennessee statesman, Cordell Hull, the father of reciprocal …

Professor H.L.A. Hart's Concept Of Law, Robert S. Summers

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Hurst: Law And Social Process In United States History, Robert S. Hunt

Michigan Law Review

A Review of Law and Social Process in United States History. By James Willard Hurst.

The Prospet Of Liberty Or The View From Saint-Remy, Ralph M. Carson

Michigan Law Review

This celebration of the first century of the Michigan Law School recalls the vain endeavor of the Holy Roman Empire to keep the craft of the law out of the Americas. Que no passasen abogados ni procuradores a las Indias was a clause inserted by the Emperor Charles V into the capitulation of 1540 with Alvar Nunez which sanctioned the exploration of the River Plate. Perhaps it was the futility of lawyers which prompted the Imperial veto. Twenty years before, when the Governor of Cuba sought to halt Cortez with decrees of outlawry from Spain, his cunning captain Sandoval evaded …

Anglo-American Legal History, Joseph A. Cox

Cleveland State Law Review

In this swiftly moving age, with its revolutionary advances in so many diverse fields of activity, it is well to pause and reflect upon the Role of the Law in American life. Unfortunately, in our pre-occupation with daily chores, we miss the trees for the forest, for to a large extent the Lawyer's time is taken up with private interests which, while important to the individual, do not touch the great and vital issues affecting the community. Yet no Lawyer can have any real pride in his profession unless he has the capacity for interpreting to himself and to his …

Book Reviews, Paul Carrington, J. Allen Smith, Stanley D. Rose

Vanderbilt Law Review

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The John Randolph Tucker Lectures--1953-1956 Lexington, Virginia School of Law, Washington and Lee University, 1957. Pp. 208.

reviewer: Paul Carrington

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Desegregation and the Law By Albert P. Blaustein and Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,1957. Pp. xiv, 332.

reviewer: J. Allen Smith

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The Federal Tort Claims Act By William B. Wright Forward by Emile Z. Berman New York: Central Book Co., 1957. Pp. 248.

reviewer: Stanley D. Rose

Press Release: October 22, 1957, Lectures And Honorary Degrees To Precede New Law Building Dedication, Indiana University News Bureau

Law School Building

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Lectures on three phases of law -- practice, judicial interpretation, and teaching -- will provide a two-day program preceding the dedication Nov. 2 of the new law school building at Indiana University.

Addison C. Harris Lectures, a series provided from the estate of the late Indianapolis attorney, have been scheduled by the School of Law for the afternoon of Oct. 31 and on Nov. 1.

The University, it was announced Monday by Dean Leon H. Wallace, will confer honorary doctor of laws degrees at the convocation on Chief Justice Warren, Herman C. Krannert, board chairman of Inland …

Letter From Luther M. Grimes, Class Of 1893 (1957), Luther M. Grimes

Law School Building

Upon receiving an invitation to attend the 1957 dedication festivities for the newly built law building, Class of 1893 alum Luther M. Grimes hand wrote a response that is one part RSVP and one part trip down memory lane.

He said that he was regretfully unable to attend; at 87 1/2 years it was "on account of age" that he couldn't travel from his Iowa home. He considered that he may have been among the oldest living Indiana University alums, and was, with certainty, the last surviving member of his law class.

As a Bloomington native with familial ties to …

Book Reviews, Jay W. Murphy, Edmund M. Morgan (Reviewer), Reginald Parker (Reviewer)

Vanderbilt Law Review

Readings in Jurisprudence and Legal Philosophy

By Morris R. Cohen and Felix S. Cohen

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1951. Pp. viii, 944, $8.50

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Jurisprudence: Men and Ideas of the Law

By Edwin W. Patterson

Brooklyn: The Foundation Press, Inc., 1953. Pp. viii, 649.

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Jurisprudence -- Its American Prophets

By Harold Gill Reuschlein

Introduction by Roscoe Pound

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1951. Pp. xii, 527, $7.50

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Law and Society in Evolution

By Sidney Post Simpson and Julius Stone

Introduction by Roscoe Pound

St. Paul: West Publishing Co.,1948. Pp. xlvi, 692

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Law in Modern Democratic Society

By …

Book Review. The Growth Of American Law: The Law Makers By James Willard Hurst, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Lawyer Population In Indiana, Indiana University

Historic Documents

Preface:

The purpose of this report is to give a comparative picture of the distribution of lawyers throughout the state. The statistics concerning the number of lawyers, their ages, years of service and education are taken from the 1947 Martindale-Hubbell directory.

Legal Techniques And Political Ideologies: A Comparative Study, Alexander H. Pekelis

Michigan Law Review

The problem with which we are going to deal is one of comparative law, a discipline probably even more illusory than legal science itself. A body of laws represents in itself neither a social reality nor a social ideal. One of the difficulties that every historian faces in trying to reconstruct a period of the past with the help of legal monuments is due to the great variety of relations existing between legal rules and social reality. So, e.g., legal monuments generally contain in an inextricable confusion at least two contradictory types of rules: rules which are a simple restatement …

Book Review. Timasheff, N. S. An Introduction To The Sociology Of Law, Jerome Hall

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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The Essential Nature Of Law, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Edwin W. Patterson, Edson R. Sunderland, C E. Griffin

Michigan Law Review

The title of this brilliant little volume might, more accurately, have been, "The Spirits of the Common Law," for it depicts the common law as the battleground of many conflicting spirits, from which a few relatively permanent ideas and ideals have emerged triumphant. As a whole, the book is a pluralistic-idealistic interpretation of legal history. Idealistic, because Dean Pound finds that the fundamentals of the 'common law have been shaped by ideas and ideals rather than by economic determinism or class struggle; he definitely rejects a purely economic interpretation of legal history, although he demands a sociological one (pp. io-ii). …

The Law In The Past And Present, Edward J. Mcdermott

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Equity 1900-1901 3rd Year, Donald Frank Matheson

Thompson Rare Book Collection

This notebook was used by D. Frank Matheson, an alumnus of Dalhousie Law School, Class of 1901, in his third year Equity Law class.

The Matheson Notebooks are a collection of seven bound notebooks used by Frank Matheson during his time at Dalhousie School of Law between 1898 and 1901. In 2018, they were found in the basement of a Lunenburg law firm and donated to Schulich School of Law. There are two or three notebooks from each year of Matheson’s studies, ranging slightly in size and style. The notebooks have pages made from linen rags, are bound with paper …

Our National Police, William Case Clarke

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

A brief history and review of the effectiveness of the nineteenth century army, or ‘national police’ of the United States.

Civil Government. Its Origin, Mission, And Destiny, And The Christian's Relation To It., David Lipscomb

Stone-Campbell Books

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Thoughts In Prison, William Dodd

Thompson Rare Book Collection

The following work, as the dates of the respective parts evince, was begun by its unhappy Author in his apartments at Newgate, on the evening of the day subsequent to his trial and conviction at Justice Hall; and was finished, amidst various necessary interruptions, in little more than the space of two months.

The few little pieces subjoined to the Thoughts, and the Author’s Last Prayer, were found amongst his papers. Their evident connection with the Poem was the inducement for adding them to the volume.

Written by the Rev. William Dodd, during his time in prison prior to …