Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
It is not too much to say that the profession of the law is more or less on trial. It is certain that there is a crisis in the life of our courts, and that a great political issue is being forced upon the people, for they must decide whether the courts are to continue to exerc...
I have been introduced at a great many places by the exuberant chairman of a committee who referred to the fact that he was about to introduce a gentleman who exercised the grea...
5. Chapter 5The present movement for a purer and more direct democracy--the initiative, referendum and recall--is clearly an ineffective method of securing wise legislation, good official a...
4. Chapter 4We are living at a time when political and social conditions are a bit chaotic, and it is a little difficult to distinguish between the symptoms that are ephemeral and those whi...
2. Chapter 2I have heard the utility of legal ethics denied. It is said that the rules in legal ethics are the same as the moral rules that govern men in every branch of society and in ever...
1. Chapter 1It is not too much to say that the profession of the law is more or less on trial. It is certain that there is a crisis in the life of our courts, and that a great political iss...