Review of Periodicals flrlicles on Topic: of Legal Science and Relaled Subject: Administration of Criminal Law. "The Fail me of Remedial Justice." By Prof. William L. Burdick of the University of Kansas. 19 Yale Law journal 409 (Apr.). “Bein somewhat familiar with this coun try, an havin witnessed arrests in such cities as New
ork, Chicago, St. Louis and
San Francisco, and comparing the treatment accorded to the rougher class of petty wrong doers in America with the methods of the police in London (White Chapel District), aris, Berlin, and even Constantinople (during the revolution of 1908), I believe there is no doubt that the American policeman leads the world in his unnecessary and brutal use of the club. . . . l . "Brushing aside these minor matters, what about the treatment of prisoners arrested for felonies, from whom the police desire to obtain evidence? The mere arrest may be quietl made, but then comes, in many cases, that erican iniquity known as ‘the sweat box,’ ‘the third degree.’ . A Chinaman is arrested for a heinous crime. He is placed in a cell; continually questioned by a relay of detectives and other officials; forcefully ke t without sleep for two or three days, in t e expectation that the mental torture and the physical exhaustion will become so acute that he will be glad to ‘confess’ in order to obtain relief. A woman is arrested for mur der; at midnight the corpse of the victim is brought to her cell, that the dramatic horror of the scene may compel her to ‘confess.’ Another prisoner is denied food; another
"A plan for carryin into execution this great work, lon desire; by the bar, has now been so far de nitely formed as to receive a full exposition and a hearty indorsement from the Green Bag, a leading conservative law 'ournal. . . . "he Outlook agrees with the Green Bag that ‘the undertaking could not be in safer hands.’ Demanded alike by the interests of the profession and of business men, indorsed without dissent by the ablest lawyers and jurists, with law scholars of distm ished ability to undertake it, the work needs1 only some man of financial ability to provide the necessary funds. Such an undertaking car ried to completion would be at once a great service and a great honor to the country." "Wanted-An American Justinian." Ameri can Review of Reviews, v. 41, p. 474 (Apr.).
(Apr. 9). "It [the pro sed statement of the American Corpus jun's is as legitimate a subject for endowment as a library, a hospital, or a uni versity.
“The need of such a work has been felt through more than a century of our his tory. . . . This matter is 'ust as vital to the public as to the lawyers; or so long as the latter admit their inabi ‘ty to determine what the law reallyis, litigation is bound to be need lessly expensive and delays unavoidable." Carriers. See Rate Regulation. Conflict of Laws. “The Renvoi Theory and the Application of Foreign Law, II." By Ernest G. Lorenzen. 10 Columbia Law Re view 327 (Apr.). Continued from the March number (re viewed 22 Green Bag 288). Having there discussed the subject in its general bearin, the author here takes up "Renvoi in Particu r Classes of Cases," and "As a Part of English and American Law." "The courts of the United States," he says, “have never been called u n to deal with the question of renvm'." he doctrine was not involved, he declares, in Harral v. Hanal (1884, 39 N. J. Eq. 279), where French rules of ‘private international law were discussed evi ently for the purpose of showing that they agreed with American law. The intro duction of the renvoi doctrine into our law, he concludes, “would be most unfortunate on account of the uncertainty and confusion to which it would give rise in the administra tion of justice and its demoralizing efl'ect u L1; the future development of the Conflict o ws." "The Individual Liability of Stockholders and the Conflict of Laws." By Wesley New comb Hohfeld. 10 Columbia Law Review 283 (Apr.). The second portion of an article not yet
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same Review the writer considered “Prin ci les and Authorities Relating Directly to Obligations Other than Those of Stock
brutall
beaten, ‘sluggged' is the word, until
he is orced to spea . Other atrocities are practised, such as highl salting the food, and denying water to t e victims; lacing them in sohtary confinement; or in itterly cold cells, when the weather aids; or in fri ht fully su rheated rooms at other times. ed pe per as been blown into their cells, and ot er indi ities, too numerous to mention, EZIpetrate in order that a ‘confession’ may tortured from a helpless wretch." See Procedure.
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