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11 Cornell Law Forum (Student ed.) 1 (1958-1959)

handle is hein.journals/corlawfose11 and id is 1 raw text is: TmiL C CORNELL LAW rEA I 3 1J M VOLUME I! THE CORNELL LAW FORUM, ITHACA, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1958 NO. I Placement Bureau Established; Awards Presented Advisory Board Formed; Lewis Morse Chosen -Director To Halpern, Others Members Visit Law School Cornell Law School each year rec- By Mort Bittker ognizes superior scholastic achieve- For the primary purpose of helping located in room 280M of Myron Tay- ment by awarding prizes to students whose performances have been out. third year students find employment, lor Hail, does provide law firms with standing. This year several new names the Cornell Law School operates a information about law students and sa ndg.this a s ne nme Placement Service. Activities are un- also keeps students informed about have been added to this list of honor- aries. der the direction of a faculty com- available openings. Current. opportu- Joint winners of the W.D.P. Carey nities are posted according to geo- Exhibition Prize, awarded by the fac- graphical areas, and interested stu- ulty to the graduating students ex- dents are urged to check these listings celling in the comprehensive examina- in the Placement Office. The Office tion and the library problem, were also maintains complete folders on all Bruce 0. Becker and Ronald S. Lock- students and often renders valuable hart. service to graduates who wish to im- Sheldon W. Halpern won the $100 prove their employment situations. Boardman third year Law Prize for At present there are openings listed in being, in the judgment of the faculty, several areas of the country. Staffed the student having done the best work by Mrs. Mary Lobur and Mrs. Doris Strong, this office also helps the June through the second year. Choosing from a list of third year graduates prepare their resumfs, candidates submitted by the faculty, The' new faculty committee has a the third year class voted the first functional arrangement whereby each Fraser Prize of $100 to Edward member advises students according to Bloustein and the second prize of $50 Standing (I. to r.)-Louis W. Dawson, W. Clyde O'Brien, Robert J. McDonald, Frank B. Ingersoll, the geographical area in which the to Joseph I. Bugliari. Judge John D. Bennett, Alfred M. Saperston, Frank C. Heath, and Associate Dean Curtiss. students would like to practice. Those Robert Orseck received the Wil- Seated (I. to r.) - Chief Justice Raymond S. Wilkins, Dean Thoron, Franklin S. Wood, interested in upstate New York will hams Press Offcial Reports award. Chairman, Att. Gen. William P. Rogers, Chief Justice Joseph Weintraub, Robert E. Coulson. consult with Professors Penney and This new prize, consisting of a com- Warren; for New York City, Profes- plte set of the New York Appellate By J. F. Mulcahy, Jr. sors Wilcox and Pasley. Professor Division and Miscellaneous Reports, Professor Lewis W. Morse Pasley will also cover Washington, 2d Series and a year's subscription to President Deane W. Malott has an- the Law School, the new Council will D.C., and Dean Thoron will advise the official reports goes to the student nounced the formation of a Law have an opportunity to observe every mittee whose chairman is Professor students on judge clerkships. residing and intending to practice in School Advisory Council elected by aspect of the School's operations, and Lewis Morse. Other members of the During the course of the year a New York State, who maintains the the Board of Trustees. The new Coun- • thus will be a source of invaluable committee are Professors Penney, steady schedule of interviews are car highest standing in the course on cil is comprised of fifteen distin- advice to the School and its faeulty. Pasley, Warren, Wilcox, and Dean ried on at the Law School. Last year, Pleading and Practice. guished members of the bench and The first unting of the Cornell Thoron. one dozen law firms, three corpora- The United States Law Week bar. The members include the Attor- Law School Council was held in . Placement is probably a mislead- tions, and three governmncntal bodices Award, given by the Bureau of Na- ,ey Guniaal uf the United Suib, Lhe lltaca on tie otwk-end of October ing term, for the service rendered is sent representatives here. Two hun- - Governor of Maine-now Senator- 24-25. By reason of a pre-arranged akin to that of a clearing house. The dred twenty-one interviews were held (Continued on page 5) t elect, and the Chief Justices of Massa- schedule, the members were able to Placement Service dnes not nlaes for third ear students while forty. (Co d on pa ge 5 All .... -. !. anyone, for that involves a decision that only employer and employee can make. However, the Placement Office, This year, as in years past, the Cor- nell Law School offers an exciting array of moot court activities for first, second, and third-year students. On October 20th and 21st sixteen budding advocates of the third-year class and one winner of the 1958 first year competition competed for a place on Cornell's team in the Ninth Annual Moot Court Competition which is sponsored by the Young Lawyers' Committee of the Associa- tion of the Bar of the City of New York. Edward Bloustein, Samuel Frank- enheim and Warren Radler were selected from among this group to compete in the National Competition. The case argued deals with a fed- eral prohibition on political contri- butions and expenditures: whether a corporation, indicted under the Fed- eral Corrupt Practices Act for alleg- edly paying a sum to defray the costs of a television broadcast on which a candidate for the United States Sen- ate was endorsed, is deprived of its constitutional rights under the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The Cornell team will argue the foregoing case in the regional compe- tition against Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse Law Schools. If, as it did last year, the team vanquishes its re- giosial opponents, they will go to New York City to compete in the final rounds of argument. The second-year competition offers its entrants, of whom there are two interviews were held for second year students. Interviews for this year are already under way. thirty-five, an opportunity to do trial by argumentation during the fall and spring semesters. No person will be singled out for honors at the close of the fall rounds, but winners will be chosen during the spring semester by a distinguished bench of judges on Law Day, May 1, 1959. First-year competition is obliga- tory. All first-year students, under the direction of Professor Hanslowe, will brief and argue a case in the spring semester before benches composed of two second-year students and one fac- (Continued on page 4) Competitors Chosen For Law Quarterly By Neil Kurlander The faculty has selected twelve sec- ond year students, and two third year students, to compete for Cornell Law Quarterly membership. S. Barrett Hickman and Saul Kramer were selected from the third year class. Barry, a 1951 graduate of Hamilton College, is married and has two children. He has served in the U.S. Air Force and is a member of the Law School singing group, the Ad-vo-cats. Saul Kramer received a B.S. degree from the Cornell I. & L.R. School in 1954. Saul completed his first ac- ademic year in the Law School in 1955 and then served in the U.S. Army for two years, returning to Cor- (Continued on page 3) Brownstein Directs Revived Barrister Tentative plans have been made to revive the Barrister, a tradition in the Law School for many years. Final decision to publish the year book is still pending, but preliminary plans are going forward and recruitment of personnel for the publication has begun. A recent poll of the three classes in- dicated a willingness on the part of 180 persons to support the publica- tion to the extent of $5.00 which is the contemplated charge for the year- book. This figure is $3.00 below the actual publication cost. It is expected that the difference will be made up from advertising and a grant from the Law Student Association during the first year of publication. Heading the revitalized publication will be Daniel Brownstein, third year, a member of the former editorial board of the publication. Assisting him will be Samuel Pierson, third year managing editor of the Law School Forum. Serving as advisors will be Larry Fleckenstein, former editor of the Barrister, and George Kleinberger, former business man- ager who edited and directed the re- cent student poll. Both of these men are also third year students. The new Barrister will maintain the same policy of producing a complete account of the activities of the Law School during the academic year, and will include individual pictures of all students. A large portion of the Barrister will be-dedicated to the ac- tivities, interests, and accomplish- ments of each law student. Subscrip- tions for the Barrister will be taken before Christmas vacation, and the publication date has tentatively been set for mid-April. czuL s anu ew ersey. mem u~t- bers have been elected for a term of one year. It is planned that the Council will make annual visits to the Law School at which time its members will attend classes and meet with the faculty, stu- dents, and administration. While at LnAIU ,Anon LU ULt55littt, 5 1p1a p formal discussion with the faculty, to hold a conference with President Malott, and to conduct two business sessions with Dean Thoron, as well as to attend various functions of a social nature. (Continued on page 3) Prof. Curtiss Named Associate Dean; Continues to Teach Favorite Courses the many societies of the bench and bar. While Dean Thoron is away giv- ing visible reassurance of the supe- riority of a Cornell Law School edu- cation to groups across the nation, Professor Curtiss will step in to as- sure the smooth running of the home front. In additional to his general duties of assisting Dean Thoron, Professor Curtiss will have responsibility on a continuing basis for the handling of student academic problems. While en- joying academic administration and welcoming the added opportunities for working with the students outside of the classroom, Professor Curtiss does express one regret. I do regret having to give up teaching Mortgages and Negotiable Instruments. But I am more than consoled by the interesting ...avd.rt.sand challenging opportunity which W. David Curtiss the Associate Deanship gives me and Professor W. David Curtiss, more by the retention of my classes in familiar to first and third year stu- Criminal Law and in Criminal Pro- dents in his role as trenchant expositor cedure and Administration. My first of the Criminal Law and Procedure, love is still the Criminal Law. now also bears the tide of Associate Professor Curtiss has been with the Dean. The position was created this Cornell Law faculty since 1947. No year to relieve Dean Gray Thoron of newcomer to the problems of law some of the increased burdens of ad- school administration, he served as ministration. These increased duties Secretary of the Law School from are but another result of the school's 1947 to 1952. He is also presently Sec- effort to provide personalized instruc- retary-Treasurer of the Alumni Asso- tion for .its students and to maintain ciation and Executive Secretary of the close touch with Cornell alumni and N.Y.S. Law Revision Commission, Bloustein, Frankenheim, Radler Will Compete in Ninth Annual Moot Court

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