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OFFICERS OF

ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS

1909-1910.

JOHN C. TOWNES, President,
Austin, Texas.

WILLIAM R. VANCE, Secretary-Treasurer,
George Washington University, Washington, D. C.

FORMER OFFICERS.

1900-01-JAMES BRADLEY THAYER, President.

*ERNEST W. HUFFCUT, Secretary-Treasurer.

1901-02-EMLIN MCCLAIN, President.

*ERNEST W. HUFFCUT, Secretary-Treasurer.

1902-03-SIMEON E. BALDWIN, President.

*ERNEST W. HUFFCUT, Secretary-Treasurer. 1903-04-*ERNEST W. HUFFCUT, President.

WILLIAM P. ROGERS, Secretary-Treasurer. 1904-05-NATHAN ABBOTT, President.

WILLIAM P. ROGERS, Secretary-Treasurer. 1905-06-HENRY WADE ROGERS, President.

WILLIAM P. ROGERS, Secretary-Treasurer. 1906-07-WILLIAM P. ROGERS, President.

WILLIAM R. VANCE, Secretary-Treasurer.

1907-08-GEORGE W. KIRCHWEY, President.

WILLIAM R. VANCE, Secretary-Treasurer.

1908-09-CHARLES NOBLE GREGORY, President.

WILLIAM R. VANCE, Secretary-Treasurer.

OFFICERS OF THE

CONFERENCE OF STATE BOARDS OF LAW EXAMINERS † 1904-1905.

* Deceased.

L. J. NASH, Temporary Chairman,

Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

*LUCIUS H. PERKINS, Temporary Secretary.

Lawrence, Kansas.

† No session held in 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908 or 1909.

OFFICERS OF

CONFERENCE OF COMMISSIONERS ON UNIFORM

STATE LAWS

1909-1910.

WALTER GEORGE SMITH, President,
Philadelphia, Pa.

PETER W. MELDRIM, Vice-President,
Savannah, Georgia.

CHARLES THADDEUS TERRY, Secretary,
100 Broadway, New York, New York.
FRANCIS A. HOOVER, Assistant Secretary,
1004 Mercantile Library Building, Cincinnati, Ohio.
TALCOTT H. RUSSELL, Treasurer,

42 Church Street, New Haven, Connecticut.

FORMER OFFICERS.

The first Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws was held at Saratoga Springs, New York, in August, 1892; the second at New York, New York, in November, 1892. Since then the Conference has been held annually at the place of and immediately preceding the meeting of the American Bar Association.

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1898-1906-ALBERT E. HENSCHEL. New York, New York.
1906- -CHARLES THADDEUS TERRY. New York, New York.

Assistant Secretaries.

1896-1898-ALBERT E. HENSCHEL..

.New York, New York.

1898-1905-J. Moss IVES....

. Danbury, Connecticut.

. Cincinnati, Ohio.

1905-1906-GLENDENNING B. GROESBECK, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1906-1907-BUCHANAN PERIN

1907- -FRANCIS A. HOOVER. ..... Cincinnati, Ohio.

*Deceased.

Prior to 1896 the Conference was presided over by a Chairman.

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

SECTION OF LEGAL EDUCATION

The Section of Legal Education met in the County Building, Detroit, Michigan, on Tuesday, August 24, 1909, at 3 P. M., and was called to order by the Chairman, Harry S. Richards, Dean of the College of Law, University of Wisconsin.

The Chairman delivered the annual address as Chairman of the Section.

(The Address follows these Minutes, page 777.)

The Chairman:

The next order of business is the report of the Committee on Standard Rules for Admission to the Bar.

The report was read by Lucien Hugh Alexander, of Pennsylvania, Chairman.

(The Report follows these Minutes, page 768.)

The Chairman:

We will now hear a paper by Judge Franklin M. Danaher, Secretary of the New York State Board of Law Examiners, upon "Some Suggestions for Standard Rules for Admission to the Bar."

Franklin M. Danaher, of New York, then read his paper.

(The Paper follows these Minutes, page 784.)

The Chairman:

As a Committee on Nominations for the ensuing year, I will appoint Hollis R. Bailey, of Massachusetts; Horace L. Wilgus, of Michigan, and Edward W. Hinton, of Missouri.

We will now listen to an address by James Parker Hall, Dean of the University of Chicago Law School, upon "The Study of Law by Correspondence."

James Parker Hall, of Illinois, then read his paper.

(The Paper follows these Minutes, page 798.) Franklin M. Danaher, of New York:

I move the adoption of the following resolution:

That the Committee on the Standard Rules for Admission to the Bar be continued, and directed to send a copy of its report to all members of State Boards of Bar Examiners, with a request for suggestions and criticisms; and that prior to May 1, 1910, the committee submit a copy of its preliminary draft of the rules to each member of the American Bar Association, to the Chief Justice of each state appellate court, to each State Board of Bar Examiners, and to the dean of each law school in the Association of American Law Schools, with a request for criticisms and suggestions; that the committee prepare and present its final report at the meeting of this Section in 1910, in the light of the replies received.

The resolution was seconded.

Henry H. Ingersoll, of Tennessee:

I move to amend the resolution by providing that a copy of the draft be sent to the deans of all law schools, whether they are members of the Association of American Law Schools or not. Franklin M. Danaher, of New York:

I accept the amendment.

The resolution was then adopted.

Lucien Hugh Alexander, of Pennsylvania:

The committee would be very glad to have expressions of opinion from the members present upon the various propositions submitted in the report of the committee. Therefore, in order to bring the matter regularly before the Section, I move that Proposition 1 be tentatively approved.

If this course is adopted, I will make the same motion with reference to each of the propositions. By tentative approval the committee does not mean to suggest that the Section should bind the committee so that in its subsequent report it may not, in the light of suggestions received, vary from the action taken today, but that the tentative approval will represent the present

impression of those present at this meeting upon the propositions.

With this explanation, and if this procedure meets the pleasure. of the Section, I move that Proposition 1 be approved, to wit: The candidate on admission shall be a citizen of the United States.

The motion was seconded.

Hollis R. Bailey, of Massachusetts:

In Massachusetts, for many years, we have not had that requirement. I think that as far back as 1854 a statute was passed allowing aliens who had filed their first papers to become members of the Bar, and we have worked under that statute ever since, and have admitted a good many men who had filed their first papers, but had not become naturalized citizens. We have now an application from a candidate who filed his first papers some fifteen years ago. He is eligible to be admitted under our statute. But, for a uniform law, I was glad in committee to vote in favor of the rule that a candidate must be a citizen of the United States on admission. I think that such a requirement is not too severe, and that on the whole the experience of our board in Massachusetts would lead its members to approve it.

John H. Wigmore, of Illinois:

An extremely harsh case of this particular kind has come to my notice lately, and I have had occasion to reflect upon it. I think that in the case of cities including from fifty to one hundred thousand Poles, Italians, Germans, and other foreign nationalities, we all realize that there are great abuses under our law. For instance, in every Italian district the people do not go to our courts. They have padrones who do their entire law business. There is a king of Little Italy in Chicago who keeps them all out of the courts. One reason for this is that when you do not permit an adult alien to become a member of the Bar, you make those people obtain their legal advice from shysters who cannot get admitted, and who deprive them of the advice of good men who have not yet become citizens because

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