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32 Law Mag. & Rev. Quart. Rev. Juris. 5th ser. 87 (1906-1907)
The International Law Association at Berlin

handle is hein.journals/lmagd32 and id is 99 raw text is: THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION AT BERLIN. 87 plausible theory, when once it is started, is amazing, and although trial by jury was for a time partially abrogated by Cromwell, largely in consequence of Lilburn's acquittals, this theory never afterwards altogether lost its hold on the popular mind. Lilburn's two juries were undoubtedly in- fluenced by political considerations, but they made this theory their excuse, their stalking-horse, as it were, and it answered its purpose. Thus it was politics that gave to the jury its power and popularity, and the subsequent history of the jury confirms this statement. In the first part of this article we ventured to express our belief that these two trials of Lilburn proved the turning point of the jury system. We now venture to assert that the facts and considerations we have put forward prove the correctness of this view G. GLOVER ALEXANDER. VI.-THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ASSOCIATION AT BERLIN. N accepting the invitation of the leading law societies of Berlin to hold its twenty-third Conference in that city last month, the International Law Association not only furthered the progress of legal science, but performed a valuable service towards the promotion of national under standing and good feeling. Though the Association, as Mr. Justice Phillimore pointed out in his Presidential address, has its headquarters in England, its membership is drawn from all civilised nations, whose representatives mustered in great force at Berlin. Still the English element preponderated, and it may have seemed to some an experi- ment of doubtful expediency, to venture on a gathering in Germany at a time when causes of national rivalry between the two countries have been so assiduously magnified by an

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