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5 Law Student 1 (1927-1928)

handle is hein.journals/lwstud5 and id is 1 raw text is: THE LW, I,, LAW STUDENT VOL Copyright, 1927fi Co. VOL. V, No. 1I h meia Law hook C. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 24 Pages SEPTEMBER 15, 1927 KANSAS AND OHIO RESEARCH EXAMINATIONS Bar Applicants Again Tested in Use of Law Books Kansas The first test in legal re- search or the use of law books in connection with a bar ex- amination in Kansas was given June 21st in the legislative chamber of the State House, Topeka. Forty-eight applicants pre- sented themselves. At the conclusion of their memory test they were subjected to a three-hour examination in the use of the following books: Pacific Reporter Digest Ruling Case Law L. R. A. Digest A. L. R. Digest Corpus Juris-Cyc Kansas Statutes Kansas Reports The comparatively limited number of applicants made it unnecessary to give them the research test in hourly groups. Instead three sets of each work to be searched were placed along the wall at the rear of the legislative cham- ber, which number of books proved amply sufficient for the use of the forty-eight men. The movement of applicants from their desks to the book stacks caused no confusion, the work being undertaken by all in a commendable spirit of seriousness, after President Keene of the examining board had stated that the test was regarded by the board as of importance and that good work thereon would count heavily in favor of the par- ticular applicant. Each applicant was given a separate question whereon to prepare a skeleton brief, that is, a statement of the principle of law controlling his question, supported by a citation for authorities to each of the works listed above, as well as citation of Kansas cases in point. The briefs submitted by the applicants on this examination as a whole were of commend- able quality, undoubtedly due to the fact that all law schools in Kansas give courses in legal research as part of their cur- ricula. The examination was wit- nessed with interest by sev- eral judges of the supreme court of the state, also by the deans of the law schools and others concerned. This test in legal research I be continued hereafter in Kansas as an integral part of the examination for admission to the bar. Ohio The second examination in legal research or the use of law books in connection with the bar examination in Ohio was given at Memorial Hall, Columbus, June 28th and 29th. Six hundred and twenty- eight applicants took this test. The large number necessitated the employment of the same plan of examination used in Ohio at the first research ex- amination in December of 1926, namely, the plan of di- viding the entire body of ap- plicants into groups and giv- ing each group one hour of re- search work in the library sup- pfied for their use. The applicants were re- quired to search the following works: Northeastern Reporter Digest Ruling Case Law L. R. A. Digest A. L. R. Digest Corpus Juris-Cyc Page's Ohio Digest Ohio Statutes The entire body of 628 ap- plicants were divided into six sections of 110 men each, the sixth or last section being somewhat smaller than this number inasmuch as the total number of applicants was less than 660. Ten sets of each of the works to be searched were placed in the lobby of Memo- rial Hall. Ten tables were also placed there, accommo- dating eleven men each. At nine o'clock in the morning of the first day of the examina- tion the first 110 of the appli- cants were sent into this lobby and undertook one hour of re- search work. Each man at a table received a different ques- tion whereon to prepare a brief. The entire body of ap- plicants did the work on the following schedule: 1st Section of 110 men Research 9-10 first day Normal 10-1, 2-6 first day; 9-12, 1-5 second day 2nd Section Research 12-1 first day Normal 9-12, 2-6 first day; 9-12, 1-5 second day 3rd Section Research 5-6 first day Normal 9-12, 1-5 first day; 9-12, 1-5 second day (Continued page 14, col. 1) SIMEON EBEN BALDWIN (1840-1927) See article on page 15 THE NATION NEEDS GOOD LAWYERS By Albert H. Miller of the Toledo Bar September 17th is the birth- nental Congress, but neither day of our Republic. Sep- Congress nor Washington tember 24th is the birthday of was supreme in command. If John Marshall. The Consti- a state desired, it would march tution came into being on our its troops on to the field of nation's birthday. John Mar- battle. And it could and did shall was its great expounder. just as easily march them off. Had it not been for John But with the French fleet Marshall, it is doubtful if we to the sea and Washington's would have the great unified army to the land, Cornwallis country that now constitutes found himself bottled up at our nation. And John Mar- Yorktown and surrendered. shall was a lawyer. Then we had anarchy. Our Government did not An officer of the Revolu- spring into being with the sur- tinary War by the name of render of Cornwallis at York- Shays, led a rebellion in town. The successful ending Massachusetts, burned court- of the War of the Revolution houses and terrified communi- did not ipso facto give birth ties. to the great nation of the A mob stormed the Conti- Western Hemisphere. nental Congress at Philadel- During the Revolution we phia and Congress fled to had confusion, There was no Princeton, New Jersey. There centralized Government. Each was no Government to pro- state was a sovereign, su- tect them. preme, a nation in itself. Washington was Commander- in-Chief of the Continental cents to nothing on the dollar. Army, and we had a Conti- (Continued page 22, col. 1) NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS Stanford University Law School Stanford University, Cal. The Stanford University Law School has recently an- nounced extensive k hanges in and rearrangement of the law curriculum. Several months of study on the part of the faculty have been devoted to the problem of reorganization of courses with a view to the elimination of unnecessary du- plication and the better co- ordination of topics. As a re- sult the student will be en- abled to cover a somewhat broader field without any in- crease in the period of resi- dence required. A few exam- ples will serve to illustrate the manner in which this object has been attained. The sub- ject of quasi-contracts will be discontinued as a separate course and will be combined with contracts. The former courses dealing with mort- gages and suretyship will be combined and to these will be added 'conditional sales, trust receipts, pledges, mechanics' liens, etc., the whole to be known as security. The present course in trade regu- lation will he dropped and the subject matter covered in part in constitutional law and in part in torts. Bailments and carriers will be combined with public utilities. Four courses in property will be combined into two with an entirely new arrangement of subject mat- ter. The time devoted to cer- tain courses will be slightly reduced. As a result there will be a net reduction of some fifteen or sixteen quarter units, while at the same time it is thought that the effec- tiveness of the courses will be increased. A further change will be made in the matter of exami- nations. Hereafter a single final examination will be given at the end of each course rather than at the end of each quarter, as at present. Thus, in a few instances the exami- nation will cover three quar- ters work, and in numerous instances two quarters. There will remain, however, a suffi- cient number of one quarter courses to enable students to graduate at the end of any quarter, as has been the case hitherto. In addition to the changes mentioned above, provision has been made for work in (Continued page 6, col. 1)

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