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8 Law Student 1 (1930-1931)

handle is hein.journals/lwstud8 and id is 1 raw text is: THE LAW STUDENT A Magazine for Students and Lawyers Copyright, 1930, by Prind in VOL. VIII, No. 1 The American Law Book Co. BROOKLYN, N. Y. 24 pages U.nt. A. OCTOBER, 1930 WRITING A LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIA Some years ago the multiplication and consequent inaccessibility of judi cial precedents-cases-rendered im- peratively necessary a modern Corpu Juris-a complete statement, in ency- lopedic form, alphabetically arrangec by legal titles, of all the law as deter- mined by all the cases. It is our pur- pose here to explain just what is in- volved in the compilation of such an encyclopedia of the law. In the first place, since our Corpus Juris is to be a complete statement of all the law, it is necessary that our edi- tors, in compiling and writing any title or treatise for the work, should read each and every case touching upon the given subject-matter in any way. And before the reading process preliminary to compilation can begin, it is neces- sary that all the cases touching upon the subject-matter be located and iso- lated for the editors to read. Such a list of cases having to do with any one subject constitutes the plant for the treatise. (Continued page 11, col. 1) In This Issue Page Writing a Legal Encyclopedia 1 Our Lawyer Presidents ..... 1 News of the Schools ......1. Lore and Legend of the Death Penalty ................ 3 By S. Jackson Coleman Carnegie Foundation Review of Legal Education....... 5 Attorney White ........... 6 By Elmer Richardson Legal Oddities ............ 8 John Norton Pomeroy ...... 10 The Law Student's Digest. . . 14 Concerning Jury Trial ...... 14 By Abner C. Surpless Comment on Cases ......... 16 Cases of Interest............ 18 Legal Ethics .............. 19 Bar Examination Questions. 20 Book Reviews ............. 23 - Born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, on November 2nd, 1795, the subject of this sketch, who became our eleventh president and ninth lawyer president, removed in 1806 to Tennes- see. He graduated with highest honors in the classics and mathematics from the University of North Carolina in 1818. His course in the study of law he pursued in the office of the noted Felix Grundy, winning admission to the bar in 1820. At Columbia, Ten- nessee, he secured a large practice al- most immediately. Elected to the legislature in 1823, he pressed to passage a law against duelling, and proved so satisfactory to his constituency that he was elected to the national House of Representatives, where he served continuously from 1825 to 1839. There he showed him- self a ready debater, and was frequent- ly the spokesman of the Jackson ad- ministration. He became chairman of the important Ways and Means Com- mittee. During his last two terms, he was Speaker of the House. In 1838, being nominated for gov- ernor of Tennessee, he was such a suc- cessful canpaigner that. notwithstand- NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS Yale School of Law New Haven, Conn. New appointments at the Yale School of Law for the academic year 1930-31 include Roger S. Foster, B.A., Yale 1921, LL.B., Harvard 1924, As- sistant Professor of Law at Harvard, Visiting Professor at Yale last year, as Associate Professor -of Law; Harry Shulman, B.A., Brown 1923, LL.B., 1926, S.J.D., Harvard 1927, as In- structor; James W. Cooper, B.A., Yale 1926, LL.B., 1929; Paul W. Bruton, B.A., University of California, 1929, LL.B., 1929, J.S.D., Yale 1930, as In- structor; and George H. Dession, B.A., Cornell 1929, M. A., 1927 LL.B., Yale 1930, as Teaching Fellow. Dean Thurman W. Arnold of the West Virginia College of Law, will be Visiting Professor, working in the field of Procedure. Professor Ernest G. Lorenzen will occupy the Sterling Research Chair for half of the year, the other occupant being Professor Gilbert Gidel of the University of Paris, an authority on international maritime law. Professor Gidel will also give a seminar course and some public lectures on the topic while in residence. Professor Dorothy S. Thomas, a dis- tinguished sociologist, appointed to the (Continued page 4, col. 1) STATES WHICH HAVE ADOPTED BAR RE- SEARCH TEST The following states now give to all applicants for admission to the bar in conjunction with the regular bar examination a test in legal research or the use of law books: Arizona Delaware Idaho Kansas Nebraska New Mexico Ohio Utah Vermont Wyoming (Print by Brown Bros.) OUR LAWYER PRESIDENTS IX James Knox Polk (1795-1849)

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