University of Michigan Law School - Quad Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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m ICh lgan law Editor-in-Chief: . REV. 6W Theodore J . St. Anmme Associate Editors: David W. Belin Paul B. Campbell Samuel I. Shuman Marvin 0. Young Assistant Editors: George 13- Berridge John H. Lcddy J. David Voss Howard A. C016 Stephan J. Martin Richard S. M'einstein David D. DOWd, Jr. William E. Parmenter, Jr. Judson M, Mferbelow John C. Hall Chester F. Relyea Donald M. Wilkinson, Jr. Alan Reeve Hunt John E. Riecker Arthur M. VVisehart Constantine D. Kasson Raymond R. Trombadore Richard W. Young fr 3' FRONT ROW 06ft to righO: Belin, D.; Shuman, 5.; Wisehart, A.; Berridge, 6.; Hum, A.; Hall, J. St. Antoine, T-; Young, M.; Campbell, P.; Prof. THIRD ROW: Weinstein, R.; Werbelow, J.; Dowd, D ; Cooperrider. Wilkinson, D.; Kasson, C.; Cole, H. SECOND ROW: Riecker, 1.; Young, R.; Relyea, C.: twenty

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ORGANIZATIONS

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Fii' iziw I 7 ' 4 ilileHlGAN X L A' W R E V 1 EW 1 AZOUEWNOJ? Vi if U i , t .i Left: Miss Ruth Gray. iMannging Editor Miss Eleonora Eckert, Business Manager i i Aloft on the fourth Hoor of Hutchins Hall are the offices of one of the schoolis most representative activities, the Michigan Law Review. Now in its 53md year, the Review serves a variety of functions. For the practitioner, its eight issues a year provide a scholarly survey of legal developments, giving pattern to the laws continual flux and assessing judicial and legislative pronouncements of sound public policy. For the judiciary, the Review represents a higher court of y appeal. For our own faculty, and for distinguished professors and practitioners i across the nation, it affords a respected medium for communicating the products of their study and thought. And for the students involved in its publication the Review adds another dimension to the legal apprenticeship of its student writers and editors. The normal curriculum requires, pretty largely, an exercise of logic and imagination upon materials gathered and put in orderly sequence within the covers of a casebook. Writing for the Review teaches the student the techniques of digging for his own materials, of sorting and analzy- ing them, and of creating a pattern if none ex15ts. Our examinations give opportunity for no more than a hurried reaction to a legal situ- t ation; the writing of notes and comments presents the challenge and responsibility of a reflective and documented statement of what the law is and what it should be in areas of current interest. One thing more may be said. It is an extremely valuable experience to achieve a t considerable knowledge of some area, no i matter how narrow that area may be. So i much of our formal education is, perforce, directed toward breadth that one is apt to miss the lessons learned from digging deep- the necessity of gathering all, or nearly all, the facts, the difficulties of digestion when the facts are gathered, and the inconvenience of knowing a great deal when one is at- tempting a complete and valid statement. All these functions add up to the estimate that the Review occupies an integral posi- , . F tion in the study and practice of law. THEODORE J- ST' ANTOINE, EDI FOR-IN'CHIE twenty-one