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EUROPEAN AGENTS

ENGLAND: P. S. King & Son, Ltd., 2 Great Smith Street, Westminster, London, S. W. FRANCE: L. Larose, Rue Soufflot, 22, Paris.

GERMANY: Mayer & Müller, 2 Prinz Louis Ferdinandstrasse, Berlin, N. W.

ITALY: Giornale Degli Economisti, via Monte Savello, Palazzo Orsini, Rome.
SPAIN: E. Dossat, 9 Plaza de Santa Ana, Madrid.

Clyde L. King, Editor.

THE SIMPLIFICATION OF THE MACHINERY OF JUSTICE WITH

A VIEW TO ITS GREATER EFFICIENCY.......

Report to the Phi Delta Phi Club of New York City by its Committee

of Nine. Henry W. Jessup, J.D., Chairman.

PART ONE-A JUDICIARY ARTICLE FOR THE STATE CONSTITUTION

THE NEED FOR IDEALISM. SOME FUNDAMENTALS. THE NEED FOR Effi-

CIENCY. SOME OBSTACLES TO BE MET. RESPONSIBILITY OF MEMBERS OF

THE BAR. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE AMERICAN JUDICATURE SOCIETY.

GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF REFORM. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PUBLIC OPINION.

CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGES.

PART TWO-SUGGESTIONS FOR A SHORT PRACTICE ACT

PART THREE-RULES OF COURT

PART FOUR-CONCLUSION

CIVIL PRACTICE ACT.

A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PROCEDURAL REFORM, INCLUDING ORGANIZATION OF

SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE

OF THE PHI DELTA PHI WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE

TYPICAL JUDICIARY ARTICLE FOR A CONSTITUTION...... 104

Charles A. Boston, Chairman of the Committee of Professional Ethics

of the New York County Lawyers' Association, New York City.

WHAT IS WRONG WITH LAW AND LAWYERS? ANACHRONISMS IN LAW. PRO-

CEDURAL REFORM. CONCILIATION. DEFECTIVE LAWS OF EVIDENCE AND THE

CIVIL JURY. THE PROPOSED JUDICIARY ARTICLE. THE ABOLITION OF EXIST

ING COURTS. APPEALS. JUDICIAL DEPARTMENTS. THE APPOINTING

POWER. MASTERS. JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION. JUDICIAL STATISTICS.

UNCONTESTED PROBATE MATTERS.

THE LAYMAN'S DEMAND FOR IMPROVED JUDICIAL MA-

William L. Ransom, Former Justice of the City Court of the City of

New York; Chief Counsel of the New York State Public Service

Commission for the First District.

THE DEMAND FOR IMPROVED JUDICIAL MACHINERY. SHALL PROCEDURE

KEEP PACE WITH DOCTRINE? HAPHAZARD TECHNICALITIES WHICH MAKE

JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION ABSURD. HOW RELIEF CAN BE SECured.

THE WORKING OF THE NEW JERSEY SHORT PRACTICE ACT... 170

Martin Conboy, New York City.

PROGRESS OF THE PROPOSAL TO SUBSTITUTE RULES OF

COURT FOR COMMON LAW PRACTICE....

Thomas W. Shelton, Chairman, Committee on Uniform Judicial Pro-

cedure of the American Bar Association, Norfolk, Va.

AN EFFICIENT COUNTY COURT SYSTEM

Herbert Harley, Secretary, American Judicature Society, Chicago,

A JUSTICE FACTORY...

Frederick D. Wells, Justice, New York Municipal Court; Author of

The Man in Court.

ADMINISTRATION OF BUSINESS AND DISCIPLINE BY THE

Julius Henry Cohen, Chairman, Committee on Unlawful Practice of

the Law, New York County Lawyers' Association; Author of The

Law-Business or Profession? and member of the Group for the

Study of Professional Problems.

THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COURTS.

George W. Alger, New York City.

LOOKING FORWARD IN THE LAW

Arthur Younger Wood, Managing Editor, The Recorder, San Fran-

BOOK DEPARTMENT...

BOOK DEPARTMENT

THE BUSINESS MAN'S LIBRARY

BABSON-Business Barometers used in the Accumulation of Money (R. Riegel) 231

BOWMAN-The Andes of Southern Peru (G. B. Roorbach).

ELLIOTT-Brazil Today and Tomorrow (G. B. Roorbach).

JACKMAN-Transportation in Modern England (E. R. Johnson).

FRENCH-How to Advertise (H. W. Hess).

HARDY-Fraternal Insurance Law (R. Riegel)

KOEBEL-Paraguay (G. B. Roorbach).

LARSON-Milk Production Cost Accounts (C. L. King).

MAHIN-Advertising: Selling the Consumer (H. W. Hess) .

WAGNER-Coal and Coke (S. W. Tator). ...

WILLIAMS-The Design of Railway Location (T. W. Van Metre).

WOODS-Unified Accounting Methods for Industrials (R. B. Kester).

WYMOND Government Partnership in Railroads (T. W. Van Metre).

CHAPMAN-Forest Valuation (C. L. King)...

FILLEBROWN-The Principles of Natural Taxation (F. T. Stockton)

MUKERJEE The Foundations of Indian Economics (G. B. Roorbach).

OGG-Economic Development of Modern Europe (E. L. Bogart)..

POLITICAL SCIENCE

DOMINIAN-The Frontiers of Language and Nationality in Europe (C. L.

EVANS-Leading Cases on International Law (L. S. Rowe)

ROSENBAUM-The Rule-Making Authority in the English Supreme Court

Science of Legal Method( C. L. King).

SATOW A Guide to Diplomatic Practice (J. W. Garner).

SHAMBAUGH (Ed.)-Statute Law-Making in Iowa (F. W. Breimeier)...

STOWELL AND MUNRO-International Cases, Vol. II, War and Neutrality

WILLOUGHBY, et al.-The Financial Administration of Great Britain (J. A.

HEALY-Mental Conflicts and Misconduct (J. P. Lichtenberger).

MCCORD The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent

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