CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PAGE V II. SOME RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE AMERICAN LAWYER. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS, DELIVERED BEFORE THE NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, AT ITS ANNUAL MEET- ING, HELD IN NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 16-17, 1920 23 III. THE BAR IN THE WAR-ITS WAR COMMITTEES AND ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE SELEC- TIVE SERVICE LAW AND RECULATIONS. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION HELD IN NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 11-12, 1918, BY MR. TAFT, CHAIRMAN OF THE WAR COMMITTEE OF THE BAR OF THE CITY OF IV. REPORT OF THE WAR COMMITTEE. REPORT PRESENTED BY MR. TAFT, AS CHAIRMAN OF THE WAR COMMITTEE OF THE ASSOCIATION, AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF VII. SOVEREIGNTY, CONSTITUTIONALITY AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE. LETTERS OF MR. HENRY W. TAFT. RE- PRINTED FROM "THE COVENANTER, AN AMERICAN EXPOSITION OF THE COVENANT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS," BEING A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN BY WILLIAM H. TAFT, GEORGE W. WICKERSHAM, A. LAWRENCE LOWELL AND HENRY W. TAFT AFTER THE 165 X. RECALL OF DECISIONS, A MODERN PHASE OF IMPATIENCE OF CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS. PAPER READ AT XI. STATE CONTROL OF NAVIGABLE WATERS. REPRINTED FROM COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW FOR MAY, 1915 . 253 XV. ADDRESS AT THE DINNER TO JUDGE O'BRIEN. REMARKS OF MR. TAFT, TOASTMASTER, AT THE ANNUAL BAR DINNER OF THE NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS' ASSO- I ADDRESS TO THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL STUDENTS 1 GENTLEMEN OF THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: BEFORE passing to the main subject of my address, I wish to make a few observations upon the work of this school and, from the standpoint of a practitioner trained under another system, to point out the good which it and others like it are doing for the profession. In the United States, almost to the middle of the nineteenth century, methods for the study of law were crude and unscientific. A knowledge of the law was supposed to be picked up in lawyers' offices, with little systematic instruction. The modern American law school has been a development from this haphazard method. The earliest law lectures in this country were delivered by James Wilson at Philadelphia, and the first of the series was listened to by President Washington and all of his cabinet; but they would be found by students of to-day too general to be of practical benefit. The earliest law school of the modern type was the one at Litchfield, Connecticut, which became famous in the early part of the nineteenth century. The Harvard Law School was founded, I believe, in 1817. It did not, however, become a serious institution until 1829, when Story became the Dane professor at law. Other law schools followed, but it was not until thirty years ago that the idea was generally accepted that a thorough, systematic training in a law school was essential to a proper legal education. There are now in existence in this country more than 1 Delivered in 1908. |