University of Virginia Law School - Barrister Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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STUDENT LEGAL RESEARCH GROUP Firrz 1-ow: Harrison, Diamonstein, Clarkson, Salomon, Sinclair. Second row: Glover, Cooper, L. G., Phipps, Cromwell, Walton, Christopher, Pettus, Crounse. Third row: Burr, Elliott, Archer, F. M. Ford, I., Willard, S.C., Willard, C. L., Freeman, G. L. Fourth row: Norton, Chichester, Moore, A. C., Martin, Cox, P. E., Yerger, Grim, McWhorter, Hermansdorfer. The Student Legal Research Group exists for those second and third year students who are qualified and who wish not only to serve the legal community but also to obtain a valuable glimpse of what they may very well be doing upon first entering that community. The Group is a non-profit organization which charges for its services only typing costs and such additional administrative costs as the individual projects may require. The services of the group are restricted to the preparation of legal memoranda for licensed attorneys. The present policy discourages requests for general surveys of law limiting the efforts of the Group primarily to the research of specific questions of law actually arising in the requesting attorney's practice. Although the Group prepares memoranda for a large num- ber of Virginia attorneys its services are in no way restricted to the local scene. Requests have been accepted from attorneys practicing in substantially all the states and territories as well as some foreign countries. The Group even has on file a request for the construc- tion of an Algerian death by wrongful act statute. Since its inception in early 1947 the Group has grown from two members, who pre- pared nine memoranda during the first year, to over thirty members who during the year, 1957, produced approximately 130 memoranda.

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UNIVERSITY STUDENT COUNCIL AND JUDICIARY REAMS, LEISURE BERNEY, EDWARDS Under the new constitution the Student Council functions to regulate student activities and organizations, to act in an advisory capacity to the President of the Universityg and to investigate cases of student misconduct and to refer them to the judiciary Committee. STUDENT CURRICULUM COMMITTEE This year, as it has each year since 1947, the Student Curri- culum Committee operated as liaison between the student body and the Faculty Curriculum Committee in matters involving new courses, seminars, size of classes, and class and examination schedules. Among the specific recommendations made by the group over the past semester were that: Agency and Partnership be made an elective courseg the number of hours given over to the basic tax course be increasedg the Law School seriously consider the adoption of the Quarter Systemg a general course in investments and securities, dealing with the subject in its nonregulatory as- pects, be offeredg and a course in the Law of Natural Resources be added to the present curriculum. Sealed: Delloache, Mearns, Bradley. Slazzdizzgf Otis, Neville Slayton, Hugus, Snyder.

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Thomas Otis ,.............. ,..,....... ...............,...........,...... P r widen! john E. Clarkson fFall '57J ............ Adminiymzzfive Director William C. Preston fSpring '58D ..., Adminirzmzive Director Roderick D. Sinclair ..............,...............,....,,...,,.. Director Ferdinand S. Salomon ...... ....,.. .... D i realm' john L. Glover .............. .,.,. D irerzor William K. Harrison Howard D. Hermansdorfer joseph Hilton Hobart A. McWhorter, jr. Harwood Martin, Jr. Charles E. Mosher Albert C. Moore William V. Neville, Ir. Stephan Nolan Lewis F. Norton Thomas W. Pettus, Jr. Ben K. Phipps, jr. Williazn C. Preston Charles Robinson John W. Sause, Jr. Morgan L. Walton, III Charles L. Willard Stephen C. Willard W. Swan Yerger MEMBERS Frank M. Archer Benham Black John M. Bullock John S. Burr Randolph B. Chichester Stanley P. Christopher III james Colt James J. Cromwell Edward T. Durant Lenox G. Cooper Phillip E. Cox Donald C. Crounse Alan A. Diamonstein Philip H. Elliott, jr. James H. Ford George P. Freeman john L. Glover Frederick Goldstein I. Lawrence Grim, jr.