Bigelow, Melville Madison, and others. Centralization and the law; scientific legal education, an illustration, with an introd. by Melville M. Bigelow. **$1.50. Little.
Eight lectures delivered before the Boston university law school “on various recent occasions ... as part of the plan of legal extension now on foot there.” “The main lines of thought centre around the ideas (1) of Equality which according to the author, was formerly the dominant legal force in American life; (2) of Inequality, which is characteristic of present conditions; and (3) of Administration, which is the supreme end of legal, and, in fact, of all education intended to fit men for the practical affairs of life. Specifically, the more important subjects discussed are the extension of legal education, the nature of law, monopoly, the scientific aspects of law, and government regulation of railway rates.” (Dial.)
Dial. 40: 333. My. 16, ’06. 130w.
“The economic philosophy underlying these essays is of a somewhat conventional, if not dangerously superficial order.”
+ – J. Pol. Econ. 14: 329. My. ’06. 1080w.
“The book is one that can be recommended to the general reader as well as to the lawyer and the law student. The historical presentation is excellent, and the citation of modern cases gives to the conclusions an immediate interest which either presentation by itself would not possess.” Worthington C. Ford.
+ + N. Y. Times. 11: 48. Ja. 27, ’06. 1880w.
“As an exposition of law regarded as a progressive science, ‘Centralization and law’ is a valuable contribution to real progress, and in a department where that contribution is greatly needed.”
+ + Outlook. 83: 478. Je. 23, ’06. 600w.