Penn Law Journal Archive
1970-1979
1979 Fall |
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The Honorable Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., Superior Court of Pennsylvania, delivers this year’s message to the Philadelphia Chapter of The Order of the Coif. His address was entitled “Beyond Legal Reasoning;” a transcript of the talk is published in this issue.
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1979 Summer |
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Reprinted in this issue is an article titled “Beyond Mere Competence” by Professor A. Leo Levin, L’42. The article originally appeared in a special legal–education symposium issue of the Brigham Young University Law Review. It was one of six scholarly commentaries which followed G. Gordon Gee and Donald W. Jackson’s ambitious research into legal education and lawyer competency.
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1979 Spring |
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A chapter titled “The Challenge of Administrative Legitimacy,” from James O. Freeman’s book, Crisis and Legitimacy: The Administrative Process and American Government, is reprinted here.
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1978-1979 Winter |
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Dean Louis H. Pollak is appointed a Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Remarks given by Robert M. Landis, L’47, at Dean Pollak’s investiture as a United States District Judge, are reprinted.
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1978 Spring |
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In reprints of articles that appeared in Juris Doctor magazine, Professor Louis B. Schwartz and Assistant Professor Ralph R. Smith discuss the Bakke case, pending before the United States Supreme Court. The landmark case poses issues of utmost importance in constitutional law, education policy, and race relations.
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1977 Spring |
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Anthony Lester, Q.C., the 1976 Owen J. Roberts lecturer, spoke on the subject of fundamental rights in the United Kingdom, in which he explored some of the consequences of the absence in the United Kingdom of a coherent, written constitution, a bill of rights, and judicial review.
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1976 Fall |
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New Jersey Attorney General, William F. Hyland, L’49, discussed the Karen Ann Quinlan Case at the annual luncheon of the Order of the Coif. Hyland explored the case and its final decision, commenting also on his reasons for intervening in the trial-one that was to determine whether the termination of life by the “discontinuance of all extraordinary medical procedures sustaining her would constitute murder.”
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1976 Spring |
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Professor Paul Bender delivered a statement on abortion to the Civil and Constitutional Rights Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary, in Washington, D.C. His testimony is reprinted in its entirety, probes the question of whether there should be a constitutional amendment designed to overrule the Supreme Court’s 1973 abortion decision, Roe v. Wade.
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1975 Fall |
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Frank N. Jones, Vice-Dean of the Law School, gives speech on the legal services movement at the Law Alumni Day luncheon. Vice-Dean Jones argues that in the recent past, the movement’s existence was threatened, but that the movement is now well, and improving.
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1975 Winter |
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Bernard Wolfman, L’48, appointed Dean of the Law School in 1970, resigned as dean, effective June 30, 1975. Dean Wolfman had been a professor on the Law School faculty since 1962, continued teaching throughout his deanship, and resumed teaching full-time after his resignation as dean.
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1974 Fall |
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This issue brings us coverage of Law Alumni Day and the 1973-1974 annual giving report. This year’s giving campaign achieved $136,000, the second highest total for the Law School.
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1974 Spring |
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Hon. David N. Savitt, L’53, presents an argument for no-fault divorce, and Mary Alice Duffy, Esq. presents a case against no-fault divorce.
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1974 Winter |
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Herbert S. Dennenberg, Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner, presents a case for no-fault insurance, and David S. Shrager, L’60, presents a case against no-fault insurance.
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1973 Summer |
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Pennsylvania State Senator, Robert Rovner, presents an argument for the death penalty, and Fred Speaker, former Attorney General of Pennsylvania, presents an argument against the death penalty.
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1973 Winter |
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In this issue’s cover story, Marianne Durso writes about the history of graffiti. Her article contains excerpts from Robert Reisner’s book, Graffiti: Two Thousand Years of Wall Writing, and highlights some of Philadelphia’s graffiti artists.
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1972 Fall |
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1972 Spring |
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Harold Cramer, L’51, and Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor, discusses a proposal for a system of prepayment for legal services. The system would help provide funding for legal services for individuals who cannot afford legal services, but are not eligible for services for the indigent. The system proposed would work much like health insurance.
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1971 Fall |
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1971 Spring |
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Dean Bernard Wolfman discusses the coming changes is legal education, as a result of the law faculty’s curricular studies. Newer curricula will show more progression, rather than more of the same, from year to year. Students will critically examine international and domestic institutions, not just doctrine and judicial rationale alone.
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1970 Fall |
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1970 Summer |
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Faculty members pay tribute to departing Dean Fordham, and his eighteen year career at the Law School. On the occasion of his retirement as Dean, the university honored him with an L.H.D. and the Law Alumni presented him with its Distinguished Service Award. Dean Fordham’s many other scholastic and professional achievements are highlighted in the piece.
The Law Alumni Journal (Fall 1970)
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1970 Spring |
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Dean-designate, Professor Bernard Wolfman discusses coming changes to the Law School. These changes include revisions to the curriculum which would enable first-year students to take courses traditionally reserved for later years, and provide opportunity for clinical work and individual researc2h for third-year students. Another goal of Dean-designate Wolfman is to improve the student/faculty ratio.
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