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Law Alumni Journal: Hsieh-Chai, the Statue of the Goat Located in The et al.: Law Alumni Journal: Hsieh-Chai, the statue of the goat located in Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 1 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 2, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 LAW ALUMNI DAY APRIL 27 Claw Alumni Journal Volume II Number 2 Winter 1967 Acting Editor: James D. Evans, Jr. TABLE OF CONTENTS Design Consultant: Louis DeV. Day, Jr. GOWEN YANK AT OXFORD by Robert P. Lawry, '66 1 Alumni Advisory Committee: Seminar Room to be Named Robert V. Massey, '31 in Memory of Walter Alessandroni 3 J. Barton Harrison, '56 Dean Fordham Honored by The Law Alumni Journal is published Joint Law Alumni Boards 4 three times a year by the Law Alumni Conference in Mutual Funds Society of the University of Pennsylvania Sponsored by Law School 6 for the information of its members. Arlin Adams Becomes Please address all communications and Philadelphia Bar Chancellor 7 manuscripts to: Edwin H . Burgess Gets Alumni Award 7 The Editor Law Alumni Journal Arts Council Formed by University of Pennsylvania Law Students and Law Wives 8 Law School Robert M. Bernstein Heads Thirty-fourth and Chestnut Streets Capital Needs C?mmittee 8 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 Law School Wives Add to Record Collection 9 The Colloquium Program 10 Alumni Hold Reception 10 CovER: Hsieh-Chai, the statue of the goat located in the foyer of the new law FACULTY 11, 12 building. See page 17 for more informa­ Bender to Make tion. Philadelphia Crime Study Law School Professors Address Judicial Conference Professor Schwartz Conducts Seminar on Computers and the Law PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS American Association of University Peter Dechert cover Professors Holds Forum at Pennsylvania Robert P. Lawry, '66 page 1, 2 Center for Research in Criminology Frank Ross page 3, 4, and Criminal Law Begun at the School 10,13, 17 Wolfman Appointed as Advisor Walter Holt page 6, 7 Renovation to Begin this Spring James D. Evans, Jr. page 8 Cortland V. D. Professor Lesnick Conducts Hubbard page 8 OEO Program at the Law School ALUMNI NOTES Printed in the University of Pennsylvania 14-16 Printing Office. Cover Story 17 https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/plj/vol2/iss2/1 2 et al.: Law Alumni Journal: Hsieh-Chai, the statue of the goat located in Gowen- Yank at Oxford by Robert P. Lawry, '66 University College buildings along High Street, Oxford. Michaelmas term is over. The city of Oxford, a to Oxford as a don in philosophy. He is a senior fellow restless network of activity during the previous nine at University College, and has held his chair since 1954. weeks, lies bare and almost silent. Continuity, however, My academic end is a Diploma in Law, a research degree is stronger than the apparent change. Century-old towers conferred on the basis of a thesis and an oral defense. rise indomitably amid countless tiny shops; the sky, a My subject, a direct outgrowth of a larger interest in shade darker than yesterday, remains a bleak grey; out­ the twin concepts of legal and moral obligation, is civil side, another shower begins and ends and begins again; disobedience. Towards this end, I meet with Professor while inside, the sweatered students still cling close to Hart in his room at "Univ" once a fortnight, and we talk small electric heaters, still dine on dreadful steak and and argue about the reading I have done during the kidney pies and the staples, chips and green peas. previous period. These sessions are similar to the tutorials There is a somewhat more noticeable change in that undergraduates engage in, though there is a marked the academic atmosphere. Countless libraries stand idle difference in flexibility and in the fact that I have enor­ as don and student alike seek the sun of Southern Spain, mous leeway in directing the flow of my own work. Hart the massive ski slopes of Switzerland or the serge and himself shows a personal concern for those working swirl of Paris. I push off for Chambley, France, in a under him; and his interest in others couples with im­ few days, there to spend my "holiday" with Captain and mense scholarship, a penetrating mind and a charming Mrs. David J. Lawry. The American Air Base at humility in manner which endears him to don and student Chambley is one of the last to close in Gaullist France, alike. and my brother will help to close it in late January. It This past term I worked in three courses aside will be an excellent chance to visit Paris, perhaps even from my research and discussion time with Professor to venture to Brussels, the Hague or Geneva. Like all Hart. The first was a series of lectures delivered by Hart the others I will take my camera; yet here, too, continuity on "Rights and Duties"; the second, a joint seminar con­ will be maintained; my luggage is stuffed with books. · ducted partly by Hart on "Sociological Evidence for I came to Oxford less than three months ago as Political and Legal Theories"; the third, a seminar on a Gowen fellow, intent upon a year's study in the abstruse the "Common Market" given by a team of scholars world of legal philosophy. I am attached to University headed by Professor of Comparative Law Otto Kahn­ College, one of the nearly fifty independent colleges Freund. This latter course and the ones I shall be taking loosely grouped together as Oxford University. The core in International Law next term are so much icing on the of my studies centers around H. L. A. Hart, Professor of cake for me. Basically I came for jurisprudence, and for Jurisprudence at Oxford. This brilliant, kindly, energetic Hart. gentleman with his great sweep of salt and pepper hair, I am not a professional philosopher; nor do I was a barrister in London for ten years before returning aspire to be one. After my year at Oxford, I shall return Winter 1967 1 Published by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository, 2014 3 Penn Law Journal, Vol. 2, Iss. 2 [2014], Art. 1 University College, showing the entrance and dormitory rooms. "Univ" claims to be the oldest college in Oxford, dating back to the second half of the thirteenth century. The author hard at work in his flat at "Univ." to my native Pittsburgh and to private practice with the practical applications of philosophy. Slowly a process of firm of Eckert, Seamans & Cherin. Still, I consider my assimilation goes on. I call it continuity; I hope its real year here integral to my professional career. Why? If I name is growth. may curtail that necessarily detailed answer by resorting II to a Holmesian dictum: "Theory is the most important There are fascinating differences too. The part of the dogma of the law, as the architect is the most English world is one where tradition plays an important important man who takes part in the building of a if eccentric social role. This accounts for the persistence house." And, if I might borrow a phrase so often utilized of class distinctions incomprehensible to this American. by Professor Louis Schwartz, lawyers in America are the Oxford itself is a maze of traditions, some stretching "architects of society." If Holmes' words have bite at back in an unbroken line to the Middle Ages and beyond. all, the connection between my ultimate concerns and BJack robes are worn to lectures, in tutorial sessions and this immersion in jurisprudence should be clear. in dining hall. Before "second hall" in "Univ" prayers But I began by stressing continuity. Let me re­ in medieval Latin are still solemnly entoned. Pubs, turn to that. where one learns easily to enjoy the warmer English It is impossible to describe in an article of this beer or to indulge in a sweeter Shandy (lemonade and/ length the set of mixed feelings I am attempting to un­ or ginger beer added to a beer base), close at 10:30 p.m., ravel concerning the methodology of philosophy. The a reminder that this was once a strictly undergraduate Oxford philosophers stress linguistic analysis; they con­ domain, and that the college gates locked tight at 11:00 ceive their roles largely as unscramblers of confused con­ forbidding later entry. Time has somewhat loosened the cepts brought about by the inaccurate use of words. R. reason for the rule (most colleges shut up at midnight, M. Hare, Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford, con­ but wall-scaling is a common and condoned pastime for ceives Ethics, for example, as "the logical study of the the tardy) ; but once locked in by tradition rules tend to language of morals." On the other hand, the philosophy remain long after their origins have been lost in the dim I did as an undergraduate at Fordham College, was de­ past. cidedly metaphysical in nature; and the metaphysician, Culturally the city is alive. The Sadler Wells interested in being as such, feels akin to the poet who Opera Company and the Royal Ballet tumbled one upon says: the other in a particularly rich November. I heard Bee­ thoven's "Fidelio" for a paltry seven shillings (about 98 " ... one has only learnt to get the better of words cents); and wanting to watch the wonderful Doreen For the thing one no longer has to say ..." Wells dance the "Swan Lake" at somewhat closer range, There was a buffer between these two worlds; the buffer I paid a hardly exorbitant ten shillings each for excellent was the Pennsylvania Law School. It was there that the seats in the first balcony at Oxford's New Theatre.
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