Word: reforming
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...studies of the annual practical workings of the Supreme Court, the essay analyzes the number of cases which come before the Supreme Court and how they are decided. It is an attempt to provide a regular systematic statistical analysis of the work of the Court, which can be reformed only by such methods as will provide concrete suggestions for this reform...
...Another reform which is being tried at the Medical School this fall is the reorganizing of third year teaching. One of the greatest faults heretofore has been the continual moving about of the third year instructors. To improve the situation, it has been arranged to have longer assignments for each man to one hospital, in order that the work of the third year may be coordinated...
...grant of supreme executive power to President Emilio Portes Gil in revising the criminal code may surely appear to most as a drastic reform. Considering the national peculiarities of the country, however, any discussion of the particular measures should prove of interest and even of value. The substitution of expert alienists in place of a jury system has at least the ultramodern touch; the alleviation of fines to suit the individual income of the prisoner though departing from the stern unswerving rigors of the usual courts of justice, seems in line with proper social ethics; whereas the last important item...
...absence from the University, is the most conspicuous example, but law schools all over the country, notably at Yale and Johns Hopkins, are carrying on allied investigations. The Institute of Criminal Law inaugurated at Harvard earlier in the year is also working along the same general lines towards a reform in the criminal code. To these analyses of conditions as they exist in the United States, the Institute of Comparative Law, by extending the scope of investigations to other countries, will be able to add a broadened perspective and objective viewpoint that will prove to be of immense value...
Important as it is to society, the program of law reform is both large and difficult and its completion will be a matter of decades rather than years. Harvard may well be proud of being represented among the leaders in the movement and the new Institute has opportunity to make a valuable contribution. It is especially fortunate to have at its head Professor Redlich, whose experience as Austrian Minister of Finance and as Professor of Public Law at the University of Vienna quality him from both the administrative and the academic point of view and make him an admirable leader...