Yale University Law School - Yale Law Reporter Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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The Israeli consular ofhcial discussing his country's position in near Eastern politics. THE FORUM ' Under the leadership of jesse Margolin, the Yale Law Forum has explored new vistas in lectures. Lloyd Paul Stryker, a noted defense attorney, delivered a series of 13 lectures on various aspects of trial and appellate advocacy, drawing on his wide experience and that of other dilligent Demosthenians. The non-legal portion of the Forums fulminations were devoted to the theme of Positive Approaches to World Peace. The Middle East and its relation to world tensions was the topic of a talk by a representative of the Israeli govern- ment. Rom Landau, author of several works on Morocco, spoke of the repressive French colonial regime and of the nationalistic aims of the Moroccan native population. In February Ambassador Gaganvihari Metha of India explained his country's attitude toward the Cold War and other international problems. The well known author and banker, james P. Warburg, lectured on developments in United States foreign policy under the Eisenhower administration. yn Lloyd Paul Stryker pauses to make a point while ex- plaining court room tactics. Directors frrrt mu S Freeman j Margoli Second mu P Shilkoff E Wright D Bernstei I. Perlmutter

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-M12 H, THE L W JOUR AL ff r r iifkfn fl? 31 'IV 5 T To some, perhaps to many, the Yale Law Journal is a grey bound magazine with blue type across the front. Something you can see and touch. It is perhaps the collection of more or less legal writings that comes out more or less eight times a year, duly mailed to a more or less unfelt, more or less reading audience: a collection of footnotes to read, or if one is in the habit of reading slowly or out loud, the narrow block of printing above the footnotes. But to those who put it out, the Journal is not a magazine. The magazine is more the result of the journal than the journal itself. The journal is a process. It is the process of tending a large and inconsiderate animal. The outstanding feature of the animal is its appetite. The beast is sustained by a bottomless quantity of words, each carefully trimmed and Htted together to make a fatless, if often spiceless meal. Remarkably, the beast has a certain charm, for all the exasperation which the constant foraging and preparation of sustenance causes the caretakers. It has shape and personality, the journal, and these the caretakers come to know, and with the knowing grows a certain loyalty, a certain devotion to the beast. Admittedly, its friendliness and gratitude and somewhat concealed under the tyranical domination it exercizes over those who would meet its dietary demands. It is the purposes of the beast's existence which gives it its attraction. Partly, of course, its purposes is solely continued, healthy existence so that those who pause to examine it may remark on the sleekness of its coat, the fme precision of its gait. Partly too, the reflection of its glory upon its caretakers justifies the life of the beast. But the real purpose of the beast's existence, is to force, by the very excess of its demands, a kind of work from those who would feed it which will nourish the feeders as well as the fed. I Editors W. R. Murphy, J. Simon, E. Rubenstein and S. Iaw contemplating food for the beast, Fin! row: C. Fraser, A. Frommer, T. Caudle, W. Bradner, G. Berlstein, A. Heineman, M. Nessen. Second row: A. Hartzell, W. Delano, P. Craig, K. Dohnanyi, R. Kelton, J. Frommer, D. Bazelon, C. Bergoffen, J. Fassett. Third row: R. Uviller, A. Lerman, W. R. Murphy, E. Ruben- stein, J. Simon, S. Law.

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'-- -- - wr THE YALE MOOT COURT Four views of this tradition encrusted institution: The catalogue: Training in appellate practice under the direction of a group of upper-term students with collaboration of the faculty and members of the bench and bar. E l Second semester student: How can they expect me to work so hard when Th' L I've just flnished exams and when, for all I know, I may've flunked out? Advisor: If I order a steak at Mory's, how many cocktails can I have? Director Cto Advisorjz In order to make the program run smoothly we must follow each last instruction and fill in completely each form. Alright, so why didn't you put the eraser back in the box marked eraser ? Fortunately everyone gets a free, cold brew or two to climax his labors: everyone, that is, but the catalogue. Foster Bam, Ed Benton and jim Got don busily preparing an evening per formance. Your tirst argument - and Your harden- Directors for the year were: R. Osborne, H. Barron, I.. Gordon, A. Benton, C. Harkrader.