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3 Cornell Law Forum (Student ed.) 1 (1950-1951)

handle is hein.journals/corlawfose3 and id is 1 raw text is: The Cornell Law Forum Volume 3, No. 1 The Cornell Law School, Ithaca, New York, October 7, 1950 P2 1 Woodruff Elected Officer Of ALSA at Annual Meeting Fredric R. Woodruff, Jr., a third year student, was elected to the Board of Governors of the American Law Student Association and Circuit Vice President from the Second Federal Judicial Circuit at their second annual National Con- vention held in Washington, D. C., September 17-20. This is the sec- ond n2%onal office Cornell has had. Last year Robert Simpson '50, was Sergeant-at-Arms as well as chair- man of the Constitutional Revision Committee. The A. L. S. A. is entering its second year of existence, having been founded in St. Louis in Sep- tember, 1949. At this convention Cornell was represented by John Osborn and Robert Simpson, and was among the 46 member schools. At present the national organiza- tion is composed of over 70 ac- credited law schools representing a trt -n,,olIM-,t of npprovimatly 30,000 law students. This organiza- tion was founded through the ef- forts of, and is sponsored by, the American Bar Association and the Junior Bar Conference. The purposes of this association are to provide a machine for dis- cussion of problems facing students while in law school, to introduce the students to the professional problems they will face later, to help them with problems of place- ment after graduation, and to ac- quaint law students with the ac- tivities of the American, State, and local Bar Associations, and the Junior Bar Conference. A. L. S. A. is governed by a House of Delegates, one voting rep- resentative from each member law school, and a Board of Governors composed of the eleven circuit vice- presidents and the five national of- ficers. The House of Delegates meets once a year for the purpose of electing new officers, amending the constitution, setting up new committees, and passing legislation; while the Board of Governors is constantly active transacting busi- nesgbet7Jeen annual conventions. There aFe also numerous national committees such as placement, membership, public relations, con- ference, panels, etc. The eleven circuits, correspond- ing geographically to the Federal Judicial Circuits, have their own committees and activities, the prin- cipal one being a conference in the spring when all the member schools send delegates to participate in panel discussions, engage in com- mittee work, and elect a circuit vice president who takes office at the national co-.vention the next Sep- tember. This spring Cornell will be host to the member schools in the first and second circuits. The first cir- cuit is being invited because at present it has only two members, Harvard and Northeastern. Among the first of the law students to be called to active duty with the Reserves was John E. Nichols, News Editor of the Forum. The staff wishes him, as well as all others in the service, a safe and speedy return. New Quarterly CompetsNamed In a recent rele,.se the faculty made public the names of the fol- lowing students who have been in- vited to compete for membership on the Board of Editors of the Cor- nell Law Quarterly: Miss Lorene Joergensen, Miss Eve Weinschen- ker, Donald E. Claudy, Manfred R. Buxbaum, Richard M. Hays, Her- bert M. Diamond, Jack G. Clarke, Thomas E. Clark, William J. Van- der Heuvel, Daniel D. Daly, Peter S. Rotolo, James V. Heffernan, Stuart M. Hirschberg and Nathan- iel S. Thayer. All of the above named students were chosen from the first year class with the excep- tion of Mr. Hirsclberg and Mr. Thayer who were cosen from the second year class. With the advent of the fall term plans have already been made for various social eveits under the guidance of Messrs. Nalter C. Wal- lace and Alexande! M. Lankier, who have been appinted co-chair- men of the social co.nmittee. Of special note ii the Fall issue of the Cornell Law Quarterly will uc as 41LUciC Uy A uicssor IIthIuL Nussbaum of the Columbia Law School. Professor Nussbaum dis- cusses the only case of record in which the Soviet Union was party to an arbitration agreement. Several of the members of the current Board of Editors spent their summers doing research in various fields of law. Halsey Taft Tichenor, III worked with the New York State Law Revision Commission on a current problem in future inter- ests and is continuing his work dur- ing the present school year. Felix G. Liebmann and Walter C. Wal- lace were with the noted tax special- ist, Jacob Mertens, Jr. doing re- search for Mr. Merten's new volume on Federal Estate Taxation. Placement Committee Success Proclaimed FOUR GRADUATES ACCEPT FELLOWSHIPS; THREE BACK IN SERVICE To those who are soon to gradu- Committee. Others like John Bon- accepted for federal government ate from this law school and to omi, Henry Beard, and Philip Coul- work. To those who are interested those who are just entering, it is ter, who went to Europe just didn't in such work it is advisable to con. significant to note that the Place- want a job this summer. tact an active Cornell placement ment Committee reports excellent Four men of the class of '50 have committee in Washington, D. C., results in the placing of last year's fellowships at four different law captained by Samuel Groner '39, graduates. schools. Israel Margolis is at Chi- who is with the Department of Jus- A bulletin published by the Har- cago Law School, Martin Schnorr tice. yard Law School states as its aims is at Stanford, Edward Kramer is After one year's experience at the in placement that one quarter of its at New York University, and Jo- post, Professor Warren has some graduating class be placed by gra- seph Pileckas is at the University advice for job seekers. He suggests duation time, that by the end of of California Law School. that the graduating group start as the following September one half Three men are known to have early as practicable to make con- be established, and that the rest returned to the armed services. tacts but not necessarily to actu- be absorbed by Christmas time. They are Stewart Hancock, John ally seek positions. It has been his At Cornell last year twenty-eight Fitzpatrick, and Jacob Hess. Two experience, he states, that most per cent of the class was placed by other men, John Nolan and George firms are reluctant to commit them- Easter time and the percentage B. Harris, Jr. have hung out their selves early in the year and prefer reached fifty-one by graduation own shingles. to talk to men already graduated. date. Although government service From this he concludes that it is Professor Earnest Warren, fac- usually claims a good number of fruitless to fret if a job has not ulty head of Placement, reports our graduates, such is not the case been secured by the graduating that as of September twentieth 75 this year. One exception is Law- date because in all likelihood the per cent of the recent graduates rence Carnick, who is with the Fed- jobs are just beginning to open up were known to be placed, that only eral Security Adminstration in at that time. 12 per cent were known not to be Washington. The answer to the As final counsel, to those not es- working, and that no word had been dearth of government job hunters tablished, Professor Warren urges received from the remaining 13 per probably can be found in the fact the new lawyers to keep in touch cent. Of this last group Mr. War- that at present a law school gradu- with his office because oftentimes ren believes most are placed but ate must have been admitted to the he has job opportunities open with have not reported that fact to the bar of his state before he can be no one to fill them. Record Registration But Vets' Percentage Declines The September registration, including one hundred and seventy freshmen, has increased the law school student body to four hundred and fifty-seven, a new all time high. The first year class itself set a new record, one more than the entering class of a year ago. Irvine Lecture Set. for Oct. 31 The Honorable Arthur T. Van- derbilt, Chief Justice of the Su- preme Court of New Jersey, will deliver the Frank Irvine Lecture on October 31 at 8:30 in the Moot Court Room. Justice Vanderbilt will speak on the topic Minimum Standards of Judicial Administration in New York State. The Frank Irvine Lectureship was established in 1913 by Conkling Inn oi the Jehi Delta Ph legal Ira- ternity in honor of Judge Irvine, former Dean of the law school, and provides for one or more lectures on legal topics each year by men of national reputation. In recent years the lecture has been held during the second semes- ter but has this year been advanced to the first semester. Last year's lec- ture was delivered by United States Senator Leverett P. Saltonstall of Massachusetts. Justice Vanderbilt has long been a prominent figure in the legal pro- fession. Prior to becoming Chief Justice he was a member of the fac- ulty of the New York University School of Law for over thirty years and served as Dean from 1943 to 1948. In 1947 he directed a survey of the legal profession for the Am- erican Bar Association. He aided in the drafting of the Rules of Crim- inal Procedure for the Federal Courts and during the war served as chairman of the advisory com- mittee of the War Department on Military Justice. Anabel Taylor Hall, Construction Begun On August 7, 1950 ground was broken for the erection of Anabel Taylor Hall, made possible by Myron Taylor's gift of $1,500,000. This notable contribution to the campus will be known as the World War II Memorial and Interfaith Center, and is to be connected to Myron Taylor Hall. The building is to consist of a war memorial, a memorial lounge to Anabel Taylor, a Room for all Nations and an Interfaith Center To be designed in the same magni- ficent Gothic style as the Law school, it is hoped that the Center will be completed by 1952. A survey of the incoming class discloses a notable decline in the number of veterans and older stu- dents so prevalent in the recent post-war years. Only eighty-eight of the first year class are veterans. This is in contrast to the one hundred and twenty-one veterans who registered two years ago, this year's senior class. Too, only twenty of the new students are married, a much lower ratio than in other recent enter- ing classes. Four of the freshmen are women. As is generally the case the ma- jority of the new entrants comes from Eastern schools, although the South and West are fairly well Iepresenteu. Iwen.y-osc am u ioeni registered Cornell undergraduates. Ranking second in representation is Syracuse University with thirteen, followed by New York University with eight. One special student from Germany is among the enter- ing class. The scheduling of courses fol- lows closely that of former years but with some changes. With Pro- fessor Arthur Keeffe on Sabbatical leave, the course in Public Control of Business will be offered the sec- ond semester and the course in Business Regulation I is being of- fered this semester. The course in Conflict of Laws has also been moved from the second semester to the first. Courses in Admiralty and Federal Practice have been omit- ted from the program for this year. Yearbook Increases Budget Howard Fernow, editor-in-chief of the Cornell Barrister, has an- nounced that bids from publishers for publication of the yearbook are now being accepted. Bids have been submitted from the William J. Keller, Inc. firm and from the Wilcox Press of Ithaca, and others will be received until October 19. The Yearbook Committee has de- cided to operate on a budget of $1800-2000 for the current publica- tion. This will be compared to the $1400 spent for last year's issue. However, it is expected that Photo- offset, similar to the type used in the Cornellian, will be employed and it is expected that this process will greatly enhance the appearance of the Barrister. Assisting Editor Fernow are Ac- tivities Editors John Adams and David Diefendorf; and Advertising Manager Georgianna Koenig. To those who have had experience in publications of this nature the Board of Editors issues an urgent call for contributions.

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