University of Miami - Ibis Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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court room with the condition that it would h available to any organization of the Uni versify such a« the Senate or the Honor Court which might he hencfitted hy its use. The court room, however, may he used only for those purposes for which it was designed. The court room, which seats comfortably about ninety persons, is provided with a jury panel, witness stand, judge's bench, tables for the defendant and the plaintiff, debating table, and all accessories which make up a legitimate court room. The method of instruction at the School of Law is the ’Vase” method. Real cases are used, not fictional ones. The first case of the year was a collision ease in which one University student sued another. The University of Miami Law School is approved hy the American Bar Association. Stricter requirements in dress and habit than in the University proper are in effect at the School of Law. Men students are required to wear a coat and tie to class. No smoking is allowed except in the offices or in the law library. Class procedure is also more formal ized. In recitation, the student is required to stand. All these requirements are made to enable the prospective lawyer better to conform to those situations and problems which will confront him in actual practice. The law library, housing more than 15,000 volumes, is the second largest in Florida, the largest being in Tallahassee. Included in the library are 30,000 housing briefs with a history of each ease from the Supreme Court of Florida. The largest of these briefs is the Adams v. Saunders 1.000 printed pages. 'I’lie library contains the fourth best collection of session laws in Florida, dating hack to 1838. Other volumes available in the library are the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury. the largest collection of law reviews in the South, the only set of the English Law (Quarterly Review in Florida, all the English statutes at large from the Magna Charta down through the year 1910. Grouped behind Mr . Charles Mitchell are other Law school faculty member Robert McKenna. Walter Dunntgan. Dean Ra co. William J. Heitor. Earl Curry, and Lauffer T. Haye .

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SCHOOL OF LAW ■ Anticipating tin effect® of the lrafl on student enrollment in the School of Law last summer. Dean Russell A. Rasco instituted a summer program of nine weeks work which was divided into three-week sessions. During this college year, the School of Law has cooperated with the draft hoard and has been aide to obtain deferments for those law student. to he graduated within a short period of time. This summer the School of Law will offer a twelve-week summer program, consisting of two six-weeks sessions, in accordance with the summer session program being initiated by the other Schools of the Lniversity. Co-operating in every way with the law student to help him meet the standard requirements for admission to the bar, the law-faculty is not going to sacrifice the high standards of tin school by speeding up the curriculum even slightly. It has been too hard a struggle and has taken too long to achieve recognition and prestige for the School, according to Dean Rasco. to sacrifice its stand- Doan oi tho School o( Law I RumoII A. Ra co. arils even in a time of national emergency. Anxious to graduate students of w hom it feels proud by maintaining its traditional standards in training able lawyers, the School believes it is rendering service to the country. New at the School of Law this year is llic recently constructed court room in the law-building. The Senate voted $300 for the 22

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