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16 Cornell Law Forum (Student ed.) 1 (1963-1964)

handle is hein.journals/corlawfose16 and id is 1 raw text is: Trur CLNr 0LAWr VOLUME 16 THE CORNELL LAW FORUM, ITHACA, NEW YORK,FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1963 NO. I Legal Aid Clinic Increases By Cornell Low Quarterly Selects Competitors; Fourteen to Begin Fifth Year Eleven 2nd Year Students Chosen by Board Ten Second Year and Four Third Year Students are Accepted for Clinic Duty by I. C. Argetsinger Ten Second Year and four Third Year students have joined the Legal Aid Clinic for the first time this Fall. ,The Second Year stu- dents, chosen from among the top twenty per cent of their class, are: Michael D. Ditzian, Amherst '62, from Freeport, New York; William L. Dorr, Colgate '62, from Auburn, New York; Thomas P. Gilhooley, St. Francis '62, from Brooklyn, New York; Gilbert S. Glotzer, C.C.- N.Y. '62, Spring Valley, New York; William G. Imig, Cornell '62, of Omaha, Neb.; Edward A. Kwalwasser, C.C.N.Y. '62, Brooklyn, New York; Joseph M. Levin, Vermont '62, of Burlington, Vt.; Sheldon S. Lustigman, N.Y.U. '62, from Brooklyn, New York; Victor J. Rubino, Cornell '62, from Portchester, New York; and Bradley W. Schwartz, Michigan '62, of Auburn, New York. The four Third Year students joining the Clinic for the first time are: Joel M. Finkelstein, Tulane '61, from Savannah, Ga.; James W. Kambas, Central Conn. St., from Forestville, Conn.; Richard K. Lub- lin, Duke '61, of West Hartford, Conn.; and Frederick P. Rothman, Cornell '61, from Baltimore, Md. The opportunity to experience the work and pressures of an actual law practice is afforded to members of the Cornell Law School's Legal Aid Clinic, said President Gerald Paley in a recent interview explaining the purpose of the organization. The clinic, with a staff of 25 sec- ond and third year law students, deals with about 75 cases a year. The ma- jority of the cases concern domestic relations, small claims, and landlord and tenant questions. The clinic also deals with criminal questions, is in- volved in a number of coram nobis cases at present and recently de- fended a juvenile in a deportation case. Paley said that particular care is taken that the clinic does not compete with practicing attorneys. The clinic accepts only indigent cases and does not charge a contingent fee. The screening of requests for legal help, an important part of the work, is car- ried on by the clinic members. Clients are frequently referred to the clinic by the Tompkins County Welfare De- partment. Often requests for informa- tion come from the five large state prisons located in upstate New York. Students participating in the clinic man the interview desk, determine client eligibility, do the legal re- search, write the briefs and memos and then present the facts to Mrs. Betty Friedlander, clinic directing at- torney and advisor, who counsels the client and carries out the actual legal procedures. Second year law students, with a ranking of eleventh to twentieth in their class, are invited in the first semester of the year to compete in the law school's clinic. If those accepting show enthusiasm and purpose, -they are voted upon by the third year law students who make up the clinic. The comradeship of the group ex- tends to an exchange of ideas at luncheons and coffee hours. Often, speakers are invited who help in the interpretation of the clinic's work. The clinic's annual banquet in March features outstanding legal personali- ties. Serving with Mr. Paley on the ex- ecutive board are Vincent Zichello as vice president and Donald A. Ham- burg as criminal director. Officers are elected by student members of the clinic. The clinic is open from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Fri- day. The widespread recognition of the Cornell Law School's Legal Aid Clinic is reflected in the constantly growing demands for counsel. Now in its fifth year of existence as a dramatic workshop for the law student, the clinic has come to mean help for the hundreds of needy cli- ents who have been advised and assisted. Second Year Legal Aid, Seated (I. to r.) Imig, Glotzer, Dorr, Schwartz. Standing, Gilhoolsy, Kwalwasser, Levin, Rubino, Lustigman and Ditzian. by Ellen H. Ginnane Eleven members of the second year class were invited to compete for Quarterly positions last summer. They are: Frank Aloi (A.B. Rochester '61; M.P.A. Syracuse '62), Grant Anderson( Allegheny '62), Ralph Ardiff (B.A. Amherst '62), John S. Brown (B.S. Villa- nova '57), Jim Edgar (B.S. Syracuse '62), Jon Gumpert (B.S. Cor- nell '62), Evalyn Gutman (A.B.) Bryn Mawr '62), Bob McFarlan (A.B. Lafayette '62), Joel Schiff (Arts-Law Cornell), Barry Shalov (B.A. Brooklyn College '62), and David Wright (B.A. Tufts '58). Philip M. Eisenberg (N.Y.U. '61) was chosen to compete on the basis of his rank after three years. Competitors are chosen after the first year of work, and following each semester of the second year, from among the top ten members of the class or those students with a merit point ratio of at least 2.0. The Editorial Board is selected from this group of competitors after a year of work under the supervision of the present Board of Editors. Each candidate for the Quarterly is required to write three notes during the year, as well as to cite check ar- ticles written by others and to check the advance sheets of recent decisions for note-worthy cases. The Fall issue of the Cornell Late Quarterly will be published on De- cember 20. One of the oldest national law re- views, it has been published continu- ously since 1915. It publishes four is- sues per year-fall, winter, spring and summer. The Quarterl'- ontsais critical and analytical articles written by practic- ing lawyers, scholars, judges and pub- lic officials. Discussions of develop- ments in the law in the form of com- ments and notes on recent cases and legislation are provided by second and third year students under the supervision of the editors and the fac- ulty. Reviews of significant books are also published. This year's Editor-in-Chief is Roger J. Weiss, a 1961 graduate of Cornell. Assisting him are Associate Editor James T. Ryan (Univeristy of Con- necticut '61) and Managing Editor Arnold S. Jacobs (Cornell '61). Other editors are Note Editors Jerome D. Elbaum (Cornell '61) and Arthur Paone (Georgetown '61), and Re- search Editor Duncan J. Stewart (Cornell '61). Other members of the Editorial Board are William J. Kupinse (Dartmouth '61), Richard A. Lang (Cornell '60), and William W. Weber (Trinity '61). The Class of 1966 Largest Ever Here by Robert G. Saliba A paraphrase of an old saying- every year things are getting better and better in every little way- would perhaps sufficiently sum up any description of the new class of 1966. According to Frank T. O'Brien, As- sistant Dean in charge of Admissions and Placement, the students of the new class are brighter and stronger than their predecessors as far as sta. tistics go. For example, the average scores on the Law School Admission Test are approximately 25 points higher than last year's. And there are more students. In contrast to last year, inquiries rose by 25%, 30.c more people applied, and ten more were accepted. No less than 145 students were present when ori- entation began in September. In the letters mailed last summer inviting students to Quarterly compe- tition, Dean Forrester summed up what membership on the Quarterly means. He said, Quaiterly member- ship is the highest honor which may be attained by a student in the Cor- nell Law School and affords those who have the good fortune to achieve it an opportunity to receive training and experience of unusual depth and value. The legal profession generally recognizes that such experience rep- resents the highest level of academic preparation for the profession. Fur- thermore, the personal associations with other law students and with fac- ulty members implicit in Quarterly membership are among the excep- tional pleasures of a full law school career. Quarterly Competitors: Foreground (I. to r.) Ardiff and Edgar. Rear, Eisenberg, MacFsrlan, Brown, Gumport, Anderson and Gutman. DEMOCRACY'S MORAL CRISIS by Frank A. Cashman (Ed. Note: This is the fourth in a series of discussions on personalities, deci- sions and issues which have helped to shape our modern legal philosophy). Historians reflecting upon the year 1963 may well determine that this was the year of moral dilemma of American democracy. Although racial strife in Mississippi and Alabama, and in all the rest of the South and North, is currently of concern because of the legal and ethical issues involved, the moral issue is apt to have the most lasting significance both in this country and throughout the world. Churchmen have long been discussing the declining moral climate in America, but their concern has been more directed toward reawakening a religious atmosphere than toward improving the moral content of democracy. Racial inequalities and democracy are essenti- ally incompatible. Due process and fundamental fairness are terms of art used in legal pronouncements, but in effectuating the ends of a democratic society, the terms are at the foundation of moral- ity. It is incontestable that a democracy cannot flourish in an immoral society, and politics or laws which tend to erode the moral climate of a nation threaten also to destroy the democracy which exists in that nation. Three events of the year 1963 may well have added tremend- ously to the disintegration of morality in American democracy. Throughout the year which is now drawing to a close, American negroes, both Northern and Southern, have begun to join in retaliating against a society which has denied them total equality on the basis of their race. Birmingham and Oxford will be remembered not as cita- dels of a culture which were invaded, but as the locales of confronta- tion of an immoral ideology by the armed might of an indignant gov- ernment. Although the use of power was legitimized through affirma- tions of moral right, the use of power was itself an admission that the moral component of democracy needs enforcing and is not an inhe- rent characteristic of the system. But when moral behavior needs en- (CONTINUED ON PAGE 5)

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