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22-27 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1956-1958)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec2127 and id is 1 raw text is: Law. Wecor Ten Years' Service to the Harvard Law School Community VOL. 22. NO. 1 Forum Meets In Discussion Of Socialism Norman Thomas, the foremost spokcs- man of American socialism, and John Dos Passos, an apostate from the revolution- ary socialism on which he once banked his whole career as a novelist, will debate The Future of American Socialism at a meeting of the Harvard Law School Forum in Sanders Theatre tomorrow night at 8 P.M. Tbe meeting of tomorrow is the first of the new term and first under the direc- tion of the Forum's new president, Joseph Fisch, 3L of New York City. It will matcs two men who were leaders in the upsurge of American left-wing strength during the inter-war period, but wlose idelogical paths have diverged sharply in recent years. Prominent Socialists Mr. Thomas, although no longer the leader and Presidental candidate of the Socialist Party, is still active in the affairs of that organization. He is president of the corporation which publishes the Call, tile party journal, and he is frequently a speaker for socialist causes. Mr. Dos Passos, an author of more than 30 books, including such novels as Alan. Norman Thomas hattan Transfer and the 42nd Parallel, was a writer whose social criticism was in the tradition of Tseodore Dreser and Upton Sinclair. In the words of Max Eastman, himself a one-time radical polemicist who (See FORUM on page three) Francis A. Allen Judges Wanted All second and third year students are eligible to judge arguments in the spring series of the Ames Competition. Volunteers should see the receptionist at the Board of Student Advisers office in Austin Hall by February 13. This spring's competition will fea- ture a reply brief system and single jur- isdiction causes from a particular state, rather than from Ames. Both teams will simultaneously file initial briefs. Each team will then be given the option to file a reply brief. Course To Be Offered In New York Practice The Practicing Law Institute will offer a five-weekend course at Harvard in New York practices, starting on March 9 and concluding April 7, it was announced last week by Dean Erwin N. Griswold. As in years past, the annual course will be open to third-year students at Harvard and at the three other law schools in the Bos- ton area-Boston College, Boston Univer- sity and Northeastern. Students Like It The course will be conducted by Samuel H. Silverman of the firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton, and Garrison. He has given the course in previous years, and Student reaction, according to Dean Griswold, has always been favorable. Each weekend's work will consist of two sessions-one on Friday evening from 7:30 to 9:30, and another on Saturday afternoon from 2:00 to 4:00. Kaufman Clears Calendar; Counsel Blamed for Delay Judge Irving R. Kaufman, United States District Court Judge in the Southern District of New York, has added recently to his reputation as an outstanding jurist by attacking one of the most difficult problems facing the federal courts in this country. Along with the other judges of the District Court, Judge Kaufman has instituted, developed, and administered with re- markable success a project which is designed to alleviate the problem of con- gestion of the trial calendar in the Southern District of New York. Judge Kaufman was born in New Yorkc in 1910 and was graduated from Fordham Committee, consisting of Judges Kaufman, University School of Law in 1931. He was Ryan, and Dawson, was appointed by connected with the United States At- Senior Judge William Bondy. Acting upon torneys office in the Southern District of tie recommendations of this committee, New York from 1935 to 1940. During the a new judge-controlled calendar system forties Judge Kaufman set up a permanent was instituted. The results were startling: lobbying unit for the Department of in just two months judge Kaufman Justice and served as its head from 1947 brought up so date a non-jury calendar to 1948. Since 1949 he has served with which has been 30 months behind, and distinction on tse bencs of the Federal similar success was experienced by Judge District Coturt. Sylvester J. Ryan on the jury calendar. This remarkable achievement has been ac- Prior to September, 1955, the calendar complislhed largely by placing greater con- of the District Court for the Southern trol over the trial calendar in tlse judges District of New York was clogged with of the court, and by dint of extremely hard a backlog of 10,735 cases. This backlog work on the part of Judges Kaufman often meant a delay of several years until and Ryan. trial. To remedy this situation, a Calendar (See KAUFMAN on page four) Y 2, 1956 PRICE TEN CENTS Professor Allen Resigns; Wechsler to Teach Here Professor Francis A. Allen has handed in his resignation and will leave the Law School at the end of June to accept a position at the University of Chi- cago, it was announced by Dean Erwin N. Griswold this week. E-'^ £tl . . . . . . L. - A . . .. . Herbert Wechsler Ouster of Segr Defeated at AA 0 5 nit sun gap crcateu sy tse departure. of Professor Allen and leaves of absence scheduled for other faculty members next year, Dean Griswold also announced the appointment of two visiting professors to serve at Harvard during the academic year 1956-57. The two men who will teach at Harvard next year are Professor John P. Dawson of the University of Michigan Law School and Professor Herbert Wechsler of the Law egated Schools LS Convention A resolution to expel from the Association of American Law Schools those institutions wlsich refuse to admit qualified Negro applicants was defeated at the Association's annual meeting in Chicago last December. The product of a committee under the chairmanship of Associate Dean David F. Cavers of Harvard, the resolution resulted in a sharp division of the 110 member law schools. Fifty-two schools voted in favor, forty-four against, asd eight abstained because of differences' Is opinion witsin their faculties. Six Bevins Announces schools were absent from the meeting. A two-thirds vote was required for adoption D onations to Fund of the proposal, since it was in the form of an amendment to the Articles of Associa- More than 3850 contributors have given tion. $292,734 to the Law School Fund, accord- The AALS has existed since 1900 and ing to the latest figures released by Assist- serves as an accrediting agency of Amer- ant Dean Wesley E. Bevins. A total of ican law schools, a similar role to the $121,544 out of this amount has been American Bar Association's Committee on donated for unrestricted use, and will pay Legal Education. for the alterations in Austin and Langdell Accrediting Bureau halls. Accreditation involves meeting suc Of the remainder, $68,000 will be used standards as size of the law library, numb for scholarships to be awarded next Sep- of professors, lighting and seating capacities tember, and $98,500 will be added to the of classrooms and libraries. Standard 11-4 present scholarship endowment. When declares that a faculty member should compared to the same period last year, have academic freedom . . . these figures represent a 10%o gain in Under this provision the University ot contributors and donors. Mississippi Law School was excluded from Last year, 6,016 contributors raised a membership in 1930 as being under the total of $355,300. It is hoped that this year political domination of the late Theodore the sixth since the beginning of the Fund, Bilbo. In his committee report, Dean the number of contributors will reach or Cavers cited this action a generation ago as exceed 7,000. Mr. Bevins is encouraged by precedent for the current proposal. the fact that four classes, '06, '34, '52, and Before Dean Cavers took the floor last '53, are already ahead of their final totals December as advocate of the measure, the for last year. matter of segregation in Law Schools had been before the Association in the formo Griswold W ar committee reports and resolutions dating back to 1950. In 1951 the Association amended its Articles, declaring one of its Between Law a objectives to be: Equality of opportunity in legal education without discrimination Dean Erwin N. Griswold has calle or segregation on the grounds of race or American Institute of Accounting ant color. Resolution Challenged frictions arising in areas where the Dean Cavers' resolution was promptly overlap. challenged on a point of order by Prof. Writing in the December issue of George K. Gardner of the Harvard Law sociation, Dean Griswold cautioned ag School on the ground that the resolution hibition to accountants a t tieC was not germanse to the purposes of the Association. Tbis was defeated. The issue was joined over use of the coercive sanction as an effective means to tbe accomplishment of the Association's ob- jective. At the time of the debate and vote there were fifteen law schools subject to the possible sanction. Five of these were state universities, al- ready under a constitutional duty to admit Negroes because of the Supreme Court de. cision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) and related cases. The remaining ten are not as yet subject to a constitutional duty, being pri- vate institutions. Three members of Cavers' committee of nine, who had dissented from the majority report took the floor to argue against the Cavers proposal. Dean F. D. G. Ribble of (See CAVERS on page three) Erwin N. Griswold School of Columbia University. Professor Dawson did his basic law work at the University of Michigan Law Scsool. He then studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and received the D.Phil. degree from that University in 1930. He has been a member of the Faculty of the University of Michigan Law School since 1927. During the war, Professor Dawson was Chief Counsel in the Rent Section of sthe OPA. Later, he was Chief of the Middle East Division for the Foreign Economic Ad- ministration, and held a similar position in the State Department. During the year 1947-48, he was Foreign Trade Adminis- trator for the Greek Government. Professor Dawson's fields are Compara- tive Law, Restitution, and Contracts. At -Harvard his principal teaching assignment swill be in the field of Comparative Law, where fie will take over some of the work of Professor Arthur von Mehren who will teach next year in Japan. Professor Herbert Wechsler received his LL.B. degree at Columbia Law School in 1931. During the year 1932-33, he was law clerk to Justice Harlan F. Stone. Since 1933, he has been a member of the faculty of Columbia Law School. He was on leave of absence from 1940-46, working in the Department of Justice. From 1944-46, he was Assistant Attorney General of the United States. Professor Wechsler is Reporter for the American Law Institute's Model Code of Criminal Law. His principal fields are Criminal Law, Federal Jurisdiction, and Constitu- tional Law, and he will teach courses in these areas at the Harvard Law School. Professor Allen will leave Harvard in June after three years on the Law School faculty. A graduate of the Law School at Northwestern, Mr. Allen served as clerk to the late Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson from 1946-48. From 1948 to 1952 he was on the Fac- ulty of the Northwestern Law School. At Harvard he has conducted courses in Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Real Transactions. He will continue with these fields at the University of Chicago. ns of Friction nd Accounting d for a closer association between the d the members of the bar to reduce functions of two professions tend to the Journal of the American Bar As- ainst misunderstanding the broad pro- of law. The Dean points out that the mere' application of a statute, or regulation, or court decision, can be capably handled by accountants; and in the tax field, many, if not most certified public accountants are better qualified to handle many tax ques- tions than a very considerable proportion of the members of the Bar. The certified public accountants are, as a group, the best qualified in the account- ing field, and the Dean warns that lawyers must be vigilant in the public interest to insure that completely unqualified persons are not given what amounts to a federal license to carry on substantial legal activi- ties in the federal tax area. As for tax planning, including such problems as corporate adjustments and reorganizations, family partnerships and trusts, and other aspects of estate planning, (See GRISWOLD on page four)

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