Association of American Law Schools Convenes (Continued from page 1) among good sized library will not wisdom and their devotion. dispositions "One of you may arise and ary certitude is generally meas- membership in the Associa- "So we may end by breaking each other's sacred dolls; you, the scholar; I, the man of affairs. It will be a generous controversy, if a little absurd, each protesting that the other thinks too well of him. The honors in modesty Election of Officers Wilson's Degrees Woodrow Wilson, who PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE VOLS. 1 & 2 By DONALD J. KISER, LL.D. VOL. I contains practice "By sociological research I mean the type of research which Dean Pound has made familiar to us by his writings on Sociological Jurisprudence. The object of this type of research is to test the law by some standard derived from outside the law. I include not men; they have their will be easy, and each may would have been 69 on De- twelve lessons in only investigation of socio- jealousies, their desire for go away unconvinced. But cember 28th, 1925, had he logical and economic data, shoddy notoriety, the temer- the law must go on none the lived, held more university Legal Research, Selfbut also the investigation of ity of those whose decisions less, and you and I, its arti- degrees than any other indi- Quizzer, legal probadministrative and judicial involve no responsibility. ficers, for one reason or an- vidual of modern times, acrecords. Some say we should They are doctrinaire; they other, will continue to work cording to V. Lansing Collins, lems for leave to the economist and are arrogant; they are fancitogether. The Temple of Jus- secretary of Princeton Unisociologist the investigation ful; most of all do they need tice we think of as especially versity. Eighteen American work, The Law of the data of those fields; so the correction of practical our own, but its roof covers and nine European universi- Chart, Legal Bibliogfar as their results parallel life. Only yesterday I came more than we can occupy. ties had conferred degrees our legal problems we may the Thrasymadius I For Justice is no less than the upon him. raphy, Legal Abconveniently and safely do so. was looking for. He is Mr. Good Life, and we shall have But the vital process in any Stuart Sherman, and this is but a small part in bringing plates for the portraits of In preparing new inscription breviations, etc. research is the selection of what he says: 'I am ac- that to pass, so far as it former Princeton presidents the data, and that selection quainted with no more essen- comes. With confidence in and trustees, which hang in should be done by a person tially sluggish, improvident, the greatness of our share, if the faculty room of Nassau who is familiar with legal resourceless and time-wasting not in the sufficiency of our Hall, Secretary, Collins, dis- VOL. II contains a problems. You cannot expect powers, we pledge ourselves covered Wilson's remarkable practical brief-makthe economist or the socioas fellow servants in the record. He also found that logist, who is not trained in law, to select the data for the solution of legal problems. The Harvard School of Business Administration has recognized this by calling one of our brilliant law teachers to supervise the work of collect ing a museum of forms of business contracts in use in this country." across creature than the ordinary ture or hope than the future years of his career, daily to and long-lived, allows him to So. Judge Learned Hand At the afternoon session, We are all prone to fetDecember iches; I must confess that the 30th, Judge Learned Hand addressed the scholar is mine. Doubtless if I knew him better and at close range, on an equality, I might see with Mr. Sherman that he was after all, like other fetiches, nothing but a Association on the subject, Our common rather ugly rag baby to whom his aura. Amendment of Articles 1901, and he also received the A motion to amend the Ar- degree of Doctor of Laws ticles of the Association in from the following universiseveral proposed forms, in es- ties: Wake Forest, 1887; Tu- with a sence, to require each mem- lane, 1899; Johns Hopkins, ber school to exact from all 1900; Brown, 1903; University candidates for its degree at of Pennsylvania, 1903; Rutwork I have assigned to you the time of admission to the gers, 1902; Harvard, 1907; too high a place, I ask parschool completion of two Williams, 1908; Dartmouth, lon of those not here present years of such college work as 1909; Princeton, 1910; and who, like myself, use the law would be accepted towards a Lincoln Memorial University, as an instrument for daily bachelor's degree in the state 1918. President Wilson received needs. My colleagues at the "But if I am wrong about university or in the principal bar and bench may, if they him, I shall at least insist colleges and universities in honorary doctorates from the like, put me down as a case upon your equal error if you the state of the school, was University of Paris in 1917, of delayed maturity, of chron- insist upon the supernatural laid on the table; while an the University of Turin in ic adolescence. I shall not powers of another fetish, the amendment to require that 1919, the Sorbonne in 1918 and complain, because in truth I Practical Man. Him I know each member school, begin- the University of Paris in have in in and he is a god of mud, I ning September, 1927, 1919, and degrees of Doctor shaking off the deference, I would not scorn or dishonor shall own a law library of not of Laws from Cracow Uniof hope it may not be a subser- him; he is my friend, he is less than seventy-five hun- versity, as Athens, the University of vience, which possessed me my colleague; he is me; he is dred volumes, housed so some thirty years since to the backbone of his country, to be readily available for Prague, the University of great scholars and great he is useful, at least he is use by students and faculty, teachers, now nearly all gone. necessary. But if you propose was adopted. No others whom I have met his apotheosis, I shall not at never succeeded in the profession seem to me tend, or if I do it will be with Readmission of Georgetown to measure with these men, stones. Within his experience the University Louvain and the University of Geneva, all in 1919. The following cities granted him "freedom of the city" University or "honorary citizenship:" with their The Law School of George- Paris, Manchester, Rome, Tuinsight, their he may be admirable, but learning, their patience, their the scope of the law lies. be- town University, Washington, rin, Milan, Cork, Lausanne, kindness, their tolerance, their yond that experience. His D. C., was readmitted to and the San Marino Republic: 20 to be admitted. Progress of Research Tests (Continued from page 1) Vermont New Brunswick, Canada South Carolina bar, an excellent one. My experience as an appellate court judge has strongly inclined me to the view that the majority of lawyers, even after woe years of practice, are Isince I have been a member the improvement and eleva- did not anticipate that so legal attainments of students edge of how to use the tools "It has been my practise, of the Bar Examining Board, to give at least half of the questions based upon a state tion of the standards for ad- Pennsylvania success therein." ment of facts, and ask the tinued students to say what the de- Louie W. Strum, Justice of cision should be and discuss Supreme Court of Florida, reasons and cite authority, if Tallahassee. any they have, supporting their conclusions. I believe the proposition of giving them an opportunity to go to the library and support their conclusion by cases would be a valuable addition to the examination."-T. E. Munson, member of Board of Law Examiners, Colorado. Tennessee adjudicated cases and proper- cal test of this kind would be ly apply them to the case at a most illuminating aid to the "I wish at this time to ex- "I have much pleasure, "I think the suggestion as hand is a very essential pre-examining board in determinrequisite for the proper pres- ing the resourcefulness and press to you my heartfelt ap- though a bit late, in acknowl- to including a test of the apentation of the case in Court. practical knowledge of the preciation of your kindness in edging the receipt of your plicant's ability to use law publishing the letters you letter of November last, in- books as a part of the exam"If this be true, then the applicant for admission. have received from the vari- closing a report of Mr. Jus- ination for admission to the ability of the student to find "I think your organization ous justices of the highest tice Button, re the research the law and apply it ought to the test included in the Vermont be an important matter to is rendering very valuable as- courts, commenting on consider by the Examining sistance to both the Bench very hasty report which I bar examinations. "The report was most inBoard in determining whether and Bar in the instant under- made to you of the results or not he is a proper subject taking, as well as in many of the research test given interesting, presenting as it did an entirely new method, to other respects in which you connection with the Vermont me at least, of testing the have interested yourself in bar examination last October. much publicity would result desirous of being admitted from this first co-operation of their profession."-J. H. Attorneys of Law, and I fully with you in your campaign agree that such a test must Marion, Judge Supreme Court to establish these tests. I am afford a means of estimating of South Carolina. very sure, however, that you and ascertaining the general are doing a splendid work and as well as the legal knowledge that your campaign not only of the applicants, and their is bearing fruit but that you fitness for the practice of the "With reference to the have hit upon something that law. movement to introduce a lethere is a consensus of opinion meets a real need. In "In this Province the Judges gal research test in the varithe publicity which has been of the Superior Court have ous state bar examinations : "I think there is decided given to this examination, I nothing whatever to do with I have been interested in this merit in the suggestion that think you have been too mod- the examination of law stu- effort and am in sympathy It is entirely in the with the idea. Preparation such a test would be a valu- est in explaining that the dents. pre- hands of the Barristers So- along this line seems to me as able means of ascertaining actual questions were the actual qualifications of pared by Dr. Kiser, the As-ciety, whose affairs are man- important as any other detail Editor of Corpus aged by a Council elected an- of a law student's education." the young men applying for sociate nually, and which in turn ap--Grafton Green, Chief Jusadmission to the bar, though Juris. points from its members, who tice of Supreme Court of Ten"I am of the opinion the it would be outside the ordinnessee, Nashville. is research examination a ary methods of procedure in are usually the leading lawone."-William valuable R. such examinations, so far as yers of the Province, the examiners of student applicants. Kelly, Character and Fitness I am acquainted with such Upon their report the sucCommittee, Colorado. methods."-Thomas Stephen cessful applicants are presentBrown, Pennsylvania Board ed before the Supreme Court of Law Examiners. of Appeal and duly sworn. "The suggestions of the Feeling I have your permisChief Justice of Ohio in the sion, I propose submitting the January number of The Law report you so kindly sent me Student I think are wholly to the President of the Barsound and practicable. As isters Society, suggesting that you know, we did not give he take the matter up, with much thought to the method a view of profiting from the of marking this additional information it supplies, thus, test. Indeed it was almost in my opinion, bringing about wholly an experiment. That a very substantial improveit should have worked out so ment in the method of conbar examinations Arizona "I have followed with much interest, through The Law Student, the development of this idea in the United States. I have discussed the question with our Board of Examiners, and they heartily approve of this system in principle."-Alfred C. Lockwood, Judge of the Supreme Court of Arizona. Florida "I am inclined to believe that a legal research test is a very good idea."-Armstead Brown, Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Florida, Tallahassee. "I can see much good to come from these tests and I appreciate them."-Glenn Terrell, Justice of Supreme Court of Florida. What price intelligence? Which is the more valuable-an average intellect, supplemented by average eyesight, or a brilliant mentality, minus sight? Life has chalked out this problem for George Weinmann, twenty-five years old, to answer. Since the discovery in his babyhood that vision would be forever denied him he has been preparing himself to prove that superior intelligence takes precedence over average mentality and average sight. The preparation finished, he has started in under propitious in a tiny law office over a clothing store at 457 West North Avenue, Chicago, Ill., to win his way in the world. At the Northwestern University Law School one nearly with the ideals sug- ducting gested by Chief Justice Mar- here. shall is most pleasing. I feel "At the City of Fredericton, confident that where the examination is given to small where the students are classes near an excellent law amined, there is a very exlibrary, such as that of the cellent law library Vermont State Library, it is would be available to them conditions anything but lawyer does, in active prac- the ideal place in which to for research work."-W. C. For large classes I Hazen Grimmer, Judge of Aptice, but I have never been hold it. see that extra sets of peal Division, Supreme Court, satisfied that this could be can a special room New Brunswick, Canada. worked out in any practical books and way in the short period of would be necessary."-Chas. time which is now allotted for I. Button, member Board of examinations. Of course, this Bar Examiners, Middlebury, "In the Our jurisdiction would have to be surrounded Vt. by safeguards so that it would Judges take no part in the be known absolutely that the examinations leading to call to the bar and therefore the student was getting the work, "Relative to the movement subject does not come direct"Concerning the introduc- and it was not a mere reflecly before us. It would seem tion of a legal research test tion of what he had obtained to introduce a legal research in connection with the state from someone else. I have test in the various state bar reasonable, however, that the I have not course of instruction should bar examination: It seems to not thought out the details, examinations: have regard some to the me that such a test would but, in principle, I think it is been able to give the matter be a most enlightening and the most perfect form of exhelpful factor in determining amination. I understand it is have been so impressed with character of the work the its importance that I am call- lawyer and judge have to do the practical ability of the ap- the form used in West Viring it to the attention of the and that the examinations plicant practitioner. ginia for civil engineers, and committee of the state bar should furnish some indicaWhile the retention of a cer- it seems to me much more which conducts the examina- tion of the applicant's ability do it."-Justice Horace tain amount of theoretical appropriate for lawyers."- tions in this state."-William to questioning is essential in Simeon S. Willis, Ashland. E. Lee, Justice of the Supreme Harvey, Supreme Court of Althese examinations, a practi- Kentucky. Court of Idaho. berta. Edmonton, Canada. Idaho the attention it deserves but Weinmann in year won both the Rufus H. Sage and the Charles A. In Koepke scholarships. 1917, at Waller High School, he was city champion extemporaneous speaker. Dean John H. 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