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15 Cornell Law Forum (Student ed.) 1 (1962-1963)

handle is hein.journals/corlawfose15 and id is 1 raw text is: Forrester T neto Replace Bean nhron William Ray Forrester, an authority on Constitutional law and the practice of law in federal courts, has been named dean of the Cor- nell University Law School, Deane W. Malott, president of Cornell announced on Oct. 24. Dean Forrester was appointed to his new post by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. Chairman of the Board is Walker Cisler; vice-chairman is the Hon. Mary Donlon, Judge of the United States Customs Court and alumna of the Cornell Law School. . Mr. Forrester, who is dean of the Tulane University School of Law, will assume his new post next July 1. He will succeed Dean Gray Thoron, who has asked to be relieved of his duties as dean at Cornell in order to be able to devote full time to his academic work. Forrester to Meet Students Dean Thoron said that the Tulane law dean will be making some visits during the year, and we'll make arrangements for him to meet the students when he comes. I have known Dean Forrester since I've been going around the law school league, Thoron said. I think very highly of his ability, stature and personality. Asked about his own plans, Dean Thoron said, shortly before the official announcement, I'm assuming I'm going to be a full-time teacher, but all I can say is you never know. He added that he had ben tempted by a number of other offers. The new dean is W. R. Irby Professor of Law at Tulane and has headed the Tulane School of Law since 1952. Previously he served as dean of the Law-School at Vanderbilt University from 1949 to 1952. Except for those three years at Vanderbilt and one semester as a visit- ing professor at Yale, he has been at Tulane since 1941. Casebook Editor Dean Forrester has been active in legislative reform, is a Com- missioner on Uniform State Laws in Louisiana, and has served ex- tensively on arbitration boards. He has edited a casebook on Federal practice, in 1962, and another one on Constitutional law, in 1959, with a supplement this year, and has written a number of articles in these and other legal fields for professional publications. He has taught in summer sessions at Washington, Stanford, and the Universities of Puerto Rico, North Carolina, Mississippi and Wisconsin. Practiced in Chicago A graduate of the University of Arkansas, he received his law degree from the University of Chicago and practiced law in Chicago for six years before going to Tulane. At Tulane he has been assistant professor, faculty adviser to the Tulane Law Review and secretary of the faculty. He is 51 years old and a native of Little Rock, Atk. He is mar- ried and the father of three sons and a daughter. * LAWr U IJ THE CORNELL LAW FORUM, ITHACA, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1962., 'Quarterly Compets Named; Fall Issue Devoted to UCC Once again Cornell alumni are in the preponderence among the candidates for the Cornell Law Quarterly. Of the ten second year and two third year students selected to compete for the Quarterly, six men spent their undergraduate years at Cornell. i The two third year students moved up from Legal Aid Clinic are: James W. Hagan, Boston College, a native of Gardner, Mass., and Alan F. Hilfiker, Rochester University, of Rochester, N. Y. The six Cornell graduates among the second year students selected to compete are: Jerome Elbaum, West Hartford, Conn.; Arnold Jacobs, New York City; Richard A. Lang, Pelham, N. Y.; Peter E. Nilsson, Moses Lake, Wash.; Duncan J. Stew- art, Amsterdam, N. Y.; Roger J. Weiss, New Rochelle, N. Y. The four additional second year students are: William J. Kupinse, Dartmouth, West Haven, Conn.; Ar- thur J. Paone, Georgetown, Brooklyn, N. Y.; James T. Ryan, Connecticut, Thomaston, Conn.; William W. Weber, Trinity College, New Britain, Conn. One other second year student withdrew his Quarterly candidacy in tavor of membership in the Legal Aid Clinic. U.C.C. Issue The fall issue of the Quarterly will be devoted entirely to the Uniform Commercial Code. The Code, aidopted by New York State during tho 1962 esion of the legislature and efiacted in seventeen other states, is .a com- plete revision of the law of commer- Alan Militiker (seated), James Hagan cial transactions. The Code replaces and includes nearly all sales contracts statutes. The Quarterly's treatment of the Code will be in symposium form and entitled: A Critical Analysis of the Uniform Commercial Code. Harlan Speaker at Council Convocation Speaking informally at a convoca- tion in the Moot Court Room on Oct. 26 attended by the Alumni Council, the law school r, -ulty and student body, Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court John Marshall Harlan (other story, page 3) said that the number of cases on the Court's docket remains level but that the Court is facing a busy term as a result of a number of factors. One factor, he said, is the change in the member- ship of the Court. The new members must go through the trials and tribu- lations each of us must go through if he is to feel he is contributing his fair share to the workload of the Court. One way in which the workload could be eased, he said, would be for legal aid representatives in prisons and major cities to seek legal counsel before filing cases of indigent-clients on the Court's Miscellaneous Docket. This would bring important cases to the Court's attention and would spare the Court some work in scotching before they are filed with the Court petitions that are obviously of no merit. Mr. Justice Harlan said he viewed the present time as one of the most exciting periods for one entering the law and advised students to be heart- ened by the knowledge that they are moving into a world in which the talents of young people are recog- nized. He said that responsibility is being put on young people as never before and that a vast body of work is being done by young men and young women. NO.I Moot Court Contest Saturday Cornell Host to Three Schools by Paid LaRocca Moot Court Chancellor Ira N. Smith announced that Cornell Law School will act as host for this year's Regional Moot Court Competition, to be held on Saturday, Nov. 3. The morning contes, in 'which Cornell argues against Syracuse and Albany meets Buffalo,, will take place at 10:30 a.m. in the Supreme Court room at the Ithaca Courthouse. The finalists will meet at 2:30 p.m. on the same day in the law school Moot Court Room. The Young Lawyers' Section of the New York Bar Association, which sponsors the annual meet, has not yet announced the judges or the prizes. Finals in December The winning school will then prog- ress to the national finals to be held early in December in New York City. Trying for Cornell's fifth victory in the competition in ten years are Frank P. Villanova, Mark S. Moller, and Ira N. Smith, coached by Profes- sor Ian MacNiel, the team's faculty adviser. The case the team is prepar- ing to argue concerns the indigent defendant's right to have counsel ap- pointed at the pretrial proceedings in non-capital cases. Later this fall, second year law students will begin their Moot Court competition. The semi-final winners will meet next semester with new briefs to determine the winning team. All semifinalists will become mem- bers of the Moot Court Board, with the duty of organizing and operating Moot Court for the 1963-64 -ichool year. (See CLSA story, page 5). This year ten teams of two men each will participate in Moot Court. This represents significantly fewer teams than last year, a result of the Law School's abolition of the area of concentration plan of law studies. Under the former system the proced- ure and advocacy program required competition in the Moot Court; com- pletely voluntary competition now r- places this. Now Procedure The Moot Court Board has ex- pressed the hope that the quantity of the past will be replaced by higher quality, and has announced a new format for the preliminary rounds. Each team now has three weeks to prepare its brief, instead of last year's two week period. Furthermore, a sys- tem of round-robin arguments in the early rounds replaces the one-round elimination. The new emphasis on length of time in preparing the briefs will af- fect the scoring system which will raise the value of the written brief to 50%, equalling the weight of the oral arguing. The new policy represents an alignment of Moot Court proceed- ings with the first year practice train- ing program, which now stresses briefing rather than the preparation of memoranda. Legal Aid in 3rd Year; 12 Chosen from Class of 1964 SECOND YEAR COMPETS-Seated, I. to r., Jerome Elbaum, William Weber, Roger Weiss, Arnold Jacobs. Standing, I. to r., J. Theodore Ryan, Richard Lang, Peter Nilsson, William Kupinse, Duncan Stewart. Missing, Arthur Pasone. This September the Cornell Law School Legal Aid Clinic began its third year of assistance to indigent persons seeking legal defenses and advice. The Clinic has two divisions which are staffed by second and third year law students who rank in the second ten per cent of their classes. Public eligibility for Clinic aid is limited to persons financially Inca. pable of defense. No cases incorpo. rating contingent fees are considered. The original division of the Clinic deals with civil cases and includes domestic relations, landlord-tenant and small claims areas. All 21 mem- bers handle civil cases. They inter- view clients and witnesses and do the legal research for each case. Proced- ural documents are all processed by the staff and the final court work is handled by Directing Attorney Mrs. Betty Friedlander (LLB. Cornell; see Forum, May, 1962). The Criminal Division is a recent innovation (see Forum, March, 1962) which serves two primary functions. Clinic members answer letters from inmates of New York prisons who seek counsel. They also do research and other work requested by Tomp- kins County attorneys in preparation for the defense of indigent clients. Activities of the Legal Aid Clinic include various private luncheons for (CONTINUED o tPAE 4) VOLUME 15 NEW LAW DEAN-W. f. Forrester, 51, Dean at Tulane Law School, Will take office as Dean of law school on July 1. A former Chicago lawyer, he has been at Tulane since 1941, ed- ited two casebooks and served ex- tensively on arbitration boards. He will visit Cornell during this school year.

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