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11 Law Student 1 (1933-1934)

handle is hein.journals/lwstud11 and id is 1 raw text is: LA THE VOL. 11, No. 1 Printed in UJ. S. A. BROOKLYN, N. Y. Published by The American Law '13.k C.. OCTOBER, 1933 The Frontier of the Law - Suggestions for Improvement in Legal Education By ORVILL C. SNYDER, Dean, The Columbus College of Law, Columbus, Ohio After the foregoing array of criticisms of legal education, pecially, with any general movement, is to reach for a book what suggestions can be made for improvement? Let us con- on the shelf and try to find a case on all fours. Life keeps sider this question under the following headings: moving and moves away from the lawyers, who are dragged, Purposes; grumbling, in its wake. From the first day in law we have i ~~ i-,n Materials and Methods. I may say here in self-protec- tion that the suggestions con- tained herein are not supposed to Special Articl be exhaustive but are provoca- tive merely. The Frontier of The Prime Purpose tions for I The writer of this article Legal heartily agrees with the thesis, touched upon by Mr. William H. The L Boyd in his address before the Ohio Bar Association at Cedar Shall an Actic Point in July of the present year, to the effect that all the great Injuries by Expa movements of constructive thought of Le in American Civilization have been directed and carried to suc- Everyon cess by lawyers; that the great lawyers of the past have been leaders in sound and balanced The Per thinking in all matters of hu- man affairs; that the legal pro- For Complete fession was where it belonged then; and that it ought to be there now. Therefore, I assume that the primary purpose of legal - - education is to help to prepare the future members of the Bar for the place that they ought to occupy. As I have indicated in my first article, The Frontier of the Law, the legal profession has of late vacated the proud lead- ership which it held under the Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, Webster Calhoun, Lincoln, Marshall and Taney, and has become a e hand-maiden to the designs of more practical and couriageN vocations. The reason why the egal profession has forfeited its heritage is due, not sligh , to a type of legal instruction. Exclusive preoccupation wi h decided cases is the fault. Lawyers always have their faces turned to the past; all they know, when dealing with a particular controversy and, es- ___ been tra nng (not e ca g) them to be that way. es in This Number The Lawyer's Place in Social Thought A, T C I Just what, a little more fully, is a proper conception of the lawyer's place? He should not be the first to move but he should not be an obstructionist. When he moves it should be sensibly, with balance, and with the power which comes from the fact that the law is the only profession possessing inductive techniques which have been tested in the domain of human conduct. When social consciousness has become aroused to a substantial degree, then the lawyer should come for- ward with balanced judgment, trustworthy vision, and wise counsel to work into practical ad- vance the ideals and aspirations of those less intensively trained. The law must be the profession devoted to seasoned and cour- ageous progress. Objectives of Legal Education to Accomplish The Prime Purpose The first objective is the development of a sound tech- nique of case study, which of necessity will involve a large informational content of the doctrines, principles, and rules, of the case system of law. The second objective is turning the faces of our students to the future; we must aid them to paint dynamic pictures of the law in their minds. It is the glory of the law that its books contain the wisest counsel of the past; but it is the futility of the law if that counsel be regarded as all in all (Continued o) Page 23) STUDENT Students & Lawyers A Magazine for tV aw - uggs UJ1. L.4 mprovement in Education awyer's Part n Lie for Prenatal nsion of the Doctrine gal Duty? e A Criminal sonal Element Index, See Page 31

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