John Marshall Law School - Vox Juris Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Q :H X 'Qi X f 2' DEDICATION On this, the twenty-fifth anniversary of John Marshall Law School, we, the senior class of 1958, because of the deep feeling of respect and admiration which we have for the founders of our school, dedicate this yearbook to .......... S. BENJAMIN FENSTER MAX BERLEY

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UIQ Bepurimm1i uf lain Stain nf Cgcurgizr C-Ailuztin It is one of those strange, incom- prehensible ironies of fate that Georgia was a state for some seventy years be- fore it had a Supreme Court - a fact at- tributable to the then prevalent hostility of its citizens to all courts with the inevitable nlaw's delayn which almost always follows their creation. However, this early distrust was soon displaced by an almost equally fervent respect for reviewing courts, for in l8S8, the Legislature declared that a full bench decision would have the force and effect of a statute - a principle of jurisprudence apparently unknown to any other jurisdiction, but which is even now occasionally mentioned in the decisions. Creation of the Georgia Supreme Court injected into our judicial system a uniformity and stability which has enabled it to progress and grow continu- ously throught the life of our state in an orderly and harmonious manner. We need hardly pause here to recount the many advances in our public law, substantive law, and judicial procedures which have taken place since found- ing ofbour Supreme Court in l9h5, and establishment of the Court of Appeals in 190 . Suffice it to say that, as in the past, the continued progress of the law must depend almost in its entirety upon and enlightened bar. Should we fail to meet the challenges of the times, the law and the institutions which it supports will, like Prospero's Island, ndissolve, and like this insub- stantial pageant faded, leave not a rack behind . . .N For the accomplishment of this end, there must be entrusted to the law schools of our state the larger part of the responsibility, for there, as once stated by Mr. Justice Cardozo, is the learning of law imbued with the nvestments of refineryu and all the other virtues which render justifiably supreme the nrule of lawn under which the liberty of free men is forever preserved. The record of achievement of the John Marshall Law School during the past twenty-five years leaves no doubt but that this great trust is reposed in safe hands. Si cerely yours, The ttorney General