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6 Am. B. News 1 (1961)

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a monthly news bulletin of the American Bar Association
Vol. 6, No. 1                                     January 15, 1961
ABF 10 Year Goal: Fresh Research Leadership For U. S. Bar

A FAR-SIGHTED 10-year program of research and de-
velopment, aimed at improving the administration
of justice in the U.S. and the strengthening of ties with
friendly nations of the free world, was proposed this month
by the American Bar Foundation.
The proposed program is calculated to provide the bar
of America with decisive leadership in the challenging
decade of the 60s. It was outlined by the Foundation
in a 29-page prospectus for financial support, directed to
private and professional legal sources. The report was
drafted by E. Blythe Stason, ABF Administrator and
former dean of the University of Michigan law school.
It was approved by the board of directors of the Founda-
tion.
In the years to come new and important guiding
policies must be formulated for all levels of the social
order-local, state, national and international, the report
declared. Law guides as well as governs, and a changing
social order demands changes in the law and the legal
system. Science and technology are currently outrunning
the social sciences, including the law. In an explosive
technological society, much remains to be done in the
latter field to assure the peaceful coexistence of peoples
and nations. The time is now.
In announcing its long-range plans, the Foundation
said that if funds become available some 16 subjects
would be assigned as specific projects to be studied dur-
ing the first five-year phase of the program, including:
Administrative Agency Studies 0 Principal federal administra-
tive agencies to be studied and a monograph prepared analyzing
the duties, procedures and powers of each.
Corporate Debt Financing 0 An analysis of corporate debt
financing to be made and model forms and statutes drafted.
Model Corporation Acts 0 Pocket-size annual supplements to
Model Business Corporation Act Annotated along with a
companion volume to serve as a basic American treatise on
the non-profit corporation.
Pension Trusts and Plans 0 Monographs to be written an-
alyzing the responsibilities and needed federal regulations to
govern pension plans, trusts and reserve programs.
Statutory Laws 0 Existing state statutory laws to be examined
and compiled, with citations to state codes, in a form easily
accessible to lawyers.
Criminal Justice 0 Continuing survey of the administration
of criminal justice in the U.S.
Federal Tax Procedure 0 Undertake study of federal court
and U.S. Tax Court tax procedures.
Professional Responsibility 0 Prepare series of monographs
on duties and functions of the bar, representation of indigent
persons and unpopular causes, professional ethics, and other
subjects.
Continuing Legal Education 0 Publish series of monographs
on frontier subjects of increasing interest to lawyers, e.g.,
the mentally disabled, civil rights, criminal law, etc.
Survey of the Legal Profession 0 Compiling basic factual and
statistical data concerning the legal profession.
Opportunities at the Bar 0 ABF to document career oppor-
tunities for lawyers, needs of clients, and the public responsi-
bilities of the profession.
International Trade 0 Assemble for publication data regard-
ing a wide range of subjects in the international trade field-
multiple taxation, customs barriers, enforcement foreign
decrees, etc.
Agrarian Planning 0 Oversee holding of one or more inter-
national conferences to deal with proposed agrarian land
reform laws and planning techniques.
Foreign Visitors 0 Assist in establishing a central information
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T HE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT under Attorney General
Robert Kennedy and the American Bar Association
Committee on the Federal Judiciary will continue to co-
operate in the investigation of persons under consideration
for appointment as federal judges.
President Whitney North   Seymour and Chairman
Bernard G. Segal of the Judiciary Committee conferred
Jan. 9 in Washington with Attorney General-designate.
Kennedy and the new deputy attorney general, Byron
White.
The purpose of the cooperative arrangement is to bring
to the federal judiciary the best qualified lawyers and
judges available, without regard to party affiliations. It
was first established about a decade ago, when former
ABA President Ross L. Malone was deputy attorney gen-
eral. The procedure is entirely objective and advisory; the
ABA committee does not suggest judicial candidates but
merely investigates and reports to the Justice Department
and the Senate Judiciary Committee on the qualifications
of those whose names are submitted to the committee by
the department. It reports whether it finds the candidate
to be qualified, or, as has occurred in some instances,
not qualified.
(Continued on Page 2)
Choose First Peace Through
Law Conference Sites
T  HE CITY of San Jose, capital of Costa Rica, has been
chosen for the first of four continental conferences of
lawyers and judges planned to be held in 1961 under the
auspices of the American Bar Association Committee on
World Peace Through Law. The second conference will
be in Tokyo, Japan, for lawyers of Asian nations.
Present plans are to hold the San Jose Americas
Conference as soon as possible after March 1 and the
Tokyo conference about two or three months later, it was
announced by Charles S. Rhyne of Washington, D.C.,
former ABA president and chairman of the committee.
The initial planning sessions-two others are to be held
later in Africa and Europe-will explore agenda items
for a projected world conference in 1962 to consider
steps that can be taken to extend the rule of law in in-
ternational affairs.
President Whitney North Seymour, speaking before the
Association of American Law Schools in Philadelphia
Dec. 28, referred to the ABA committee's work as a
necessary step to channel the thought and effort of the
legal profession in the direction of a stronger world legal
structure.
He said some pessimists have mistakenly thought of
the program as only a public relations effort and added:
The fact is that we have a very strong committee contain-
ing outstanding leaders of the profession from the teach-
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