Harvard Law School - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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of meeting one of the School's obligations which has not been met directly, except occasionally for many years. The School has an obligation to its community. It has made some contributions to its city and state, but not in any consistent way. In the l930's, Dean Landis was instrumental in getting the Plan E form of government adopted in Cambridge. And Professor Amory's current service on the Cambridge School Committee is welcomed by the Law School. But it has been a long time since the School has clone much for the state. For many years, faculty members have been engaged from time to time in impor- tant services for the Federal Government. It is hoped that it will be possible for this to continue. But the School should, too, be a greater factor in its own community than it has been. It is hoped that there will be developments, through the Division of Research and otherwise, which will make this possible. 6. A School of World Law. There is an- other area in which the School has an op- portunity and an obligation. We have here magnificent facilities. Due to the thought and care of our predecessors, we have a library of law of the world which cannot be matched elsewhere. We are already a center for students from many countries, and our graduates may be found all over the world. But we are essentially a common-law law school. As far as our regular under- graduate work is concerned, that is, of course, as it should be, and as it will no doubt remain. But we could do much more with foreign students, and with our own students who have special interests in for- eign law and foreign affairs. Given the means fand we have already much to con- tribute ourselves Q, we could develop in Cambridge a School of World Law which might come to have great significance. It might have a student body of about two hundred, equally divided between graduates of American law schools, and foreign stu- dents with equivalent training in their own countries. This group could engage in gen- eral study of the world's legal systems, and in intensive work on special problems of interest to particular students, including the problems of world commerce and trade, as well as the structure of world organi- zations, and the development of machinery for the maintenance of world peace. Such a project would require a consider- able sum of money from one point of view, though a very small sum compared to what is spent now for past wars and current de- fense, and a very small sum in comparison to its potential usefulness. Such a develop- ment cannot now be outlined in detail nor can it be said when it will begin. But a de- velopment along these lines in association with the Harvard Law School, seems inev- itable if the School is to meet in the future the great standards set in the past. Such is a sketch of developments at the Harvard Law School. The future looks good to me. At least there is a lot to do, and we have many of the facilities for do- ing it. The developments outlined are squarely in the tradition of the Harvard Law School, which has long been a pioneer in legal education and in the development of the law. In the years to come many mem- bers of the faculty may have to revise their lectures. It will not be the first time that has happened.

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