Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1920 [PAGE 19]

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Professor Hale has contributed a valuable article on "The AccountBooks of a Party to the Action as Evidence in His Own Favor," and has done invaluable and patient work as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Bulletin. During the past year Professor Hale has been president of the Illinois Society of Criminal Law and Criminology, and made an address as president of the society, which will become the basis of definite proposals of legislation to be laid before the next session of our legislature. He is preparing a book on "Evidence and Trial Practise", which should prove of great value to the lawyers of the State. Professor Green contributed an article on "The Child Labor Law and the Constitution", which forecast correctly the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court on this law, (April, 1917). He has also published in the past year an article called "The Stockholm Conference and Joint Indemnity" in Forward; and an original article in the form of a review of Mr. Frankfurter's brief in the Oregon Minimum Wage Cases, in the Illinois Law Review. He wrote Chapter III and appendix of the last report of the Illinois Pension Commission, which chapter relates to pension legislation in Illinois. He is now preparing for the next report of the Pension Commission a chapter which will treat of judicial decision and legal questions connected with State pensions. He is also getting up a collection of authorities on the development and present status in Illinois of the law of domestic relations. Professor Carpenter has contributed articles to the Columbia Law Review (Nov. 1917) on "Court Decisions and the Common Law," and to the Harvard Law Review (May, 1918) on "Jurisdiction over debts for purpose of administration, garnishment and taxation." Professor Decker has contributed an article in two installments, entitled "The Case of the Sealed Instrument in Illinois", to the Illinois Law Bulletin. This article formulates and discusses for the first time the law of sealed instruments in this State from the critical and legislative point of view, which may lead to putting this antiquated branch of law on a rational basis. Judge Harker has been busily engaged in completing his annotated edition of the Illinois Revised Statutes, which he hopes to complete by this fall, and which will be more useful than any other one law book to the legal profession of the State. Professor Pomeroy has contributed an article to the Bulletin on "The Specific Performance of Contracts in Illinois". He is at present on leave of absence, finishing up the new seven volume edition of his father's monumental work on Equity Jurisprudence, to which he is himself contributing over 1,000 pages. This work is regarded as perhaps the greatest legal treatise produced by an American legal writer. The writer of this report has contributed three articles to the Bulletin, one on the "Need of Pleading Reform in Illinois;" another entitled, "A Chart of Illinois Defensive Pleading;" and another on "Technicalities in Criminal Procedure." He has also written an article for the California Law Review on "Constitutional Limitations on the War Power," and has contributed an article to the Harvard Law Review on "Title by Adverse Pos-