THE LAW
“Bryce’s Modern Democracies,” Chapter XLIII, is a recent survey of the American legal system; Raymond Fosdick, “American Police Systems,” Chapter I, states the operation of criminal law. For legal procedure, see Reginald Heber Smith, “Justice and the Poor,” published by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching and dealing with legal aid societies and other methods of securing more adequate legal relief; Charles W. Eliot and others, “Efficiency in the Administration of Justice,” published by the National Economic League; Moorfield Storey, “The Reform of Legal Procedure;” and many other books and articles; the reports of the American and New York Bar Associations are of especial value. John H. Wigmore, “Evidence,” vol. V (1915 edition) discusses recent progress; see his “Cases on Torts, Preface,” on substantive law. A very wide range of topics in American law, philosophical, historical, procedural, and substantive, is covered by the writings of Roscoe Pound, of which a list is given in “The Centennial History of the Harvard Law School.” The same book deals with many phases of legal education; see also “The Case Method in American Law Schools,” Josef Redlich, Carnegie Endowment. For the position of lawyers, the best book is, Charles Warren, “A History of the American Bar;” a recent discussion of their work is Simeon E. Baldwin, “The Young Man and the Law.” No one interested in this field should fail to read the “Collected Legal Papers of Justice Holmes;” see also John H. Wigmore, “Justice Holmes and the Law of Torts” and Felix Frankfurter, “The Constitutional Opinions of Justice Holmes,” both in the Harvard Law Review, April, 1916, and Roscoe Pound, “Judge Holmes’s Contributions to the Science of Law,” ibid., March, 1921. A valuable essay on Colonial legal history is Paul S. Reinsch, “English Common Law in the Early American Colonies.” A mass of material will be found in the law reviews, which are indexed through 1907 by Jones, “Index to Legal Periodicals,” 3 vols., and afterwards in the Law Library Journal, cumulative quarterly.
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