Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...creative activity analogous to the two classical creative eras in our local history the 17th century, which made the feudal land law of mediaeval England into a system which could go around the world in the 19th, and the time just after the Revolution when English Institutions and English legal doctrines were made over to conform to an ideal of American society by a criterion of applicability to American conditions...
...ideas of what the law should be . . . It is not an accident that comparative law, after decades of quiescence, is taking on new life in this country. If we are to proceed wisely in creative juristic activity in the complex society of today, we must study scientifically the legal materials of the whole world...
...that scientific study of the legal materials of the Civil law of Europe and South America which the Institute intends to carry on. The Library of Continental and South-American Law at the School is remarkably complete: these facilities exceed the opportunities offered at any other school...
...ability of the Harvard Law School to more than hold its own in the rapid progress that has been made in the study of law during recent years. The first of its kind in the United States, the new Institute offers the opportunity of inspecting the results attained under legal methods quite unlike those in use in this country and yet possibly containing features of value for the American social system...
...inadequacy of the present legal code of the United States has been explained so often as to have become a common-place. In the midst of the tremendous progress made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...