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George Washington University Law School Scholarly Commons Amicus Curiae, 1962 Amicus Curiae, 1960s 9-1962 Amicus Curiae, September 1962 Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/amicus_curiae_1962 Recommended Citation George Washington University Law School, 12 Amicus Curiae 1 (1962) This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Amicus Curiae, 1960s at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Amicus Curiae, 1962 by an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ORIENTATION ISSUE Published by the Student Bar Association VOL. 12 NO.1 THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL SEPTEMBER 1962 Dean's Welcome -- by Robert Kramer To each new student, old and new, law school presents a direct and immediate challenge: how to make the best use of your time here. These years can be the most exciting ones of your lives or the most miserable. The result primarily depends upon you: Will you take advantage of all the opportunities offered you? Above all, do you have the maturity and judgment to recognize that studies always must come first? Your future professional career and success, until you receive your diploma, will be determined more by the time and effort you put into your studies and such closely associated activities as Law Review than any other factor. For many of you and for your wives, children, and parents, this may mean painful sacrifices and hard choices. The law is a "jealous mistress" -- there is no escaping this hard fact. There are no easy short cuts. The faculty and I want to help you all we can. You are an indispensable part of the Law School -- without you there would be no s choo l ," Therefore, the entire Law School focuses on you and your needs. We are deeply and personally interested in each of you and your individual and collective problems. We welcome your questions and will do our best to answer them promptly and pointedly. We are. delighted to talk leisurely and at length with you whennecessary,and thereby we hope to assist you to learn how toface up tofacts,to make your own decisions, and to solve problems, personal and professional. We shall treat you as responsible, adult citizens at all times. We cannot urge you too strongly to seek our counsel as soon as possible wheneveryouforesee trouble or rough going; Remember that your difficulties may not be nearly as unique as you think. We will not attempt to force ourselves upon you. We simply offer you the opportunity to associate as closely as you wish with us. This is a very large law school, and, we believe, a friendly one. Much THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY of the learning process involves rub- bing elbows and exchanging views, 12 September 1962 not only with the faculty, but, of equal importance, with your fellow students from all over the world so that you Dear Fellow Student: can share their rich variety of back- grounds and experience. If you fail At the outset of the new academic year, I wish to to develop such as sociations with greet those of you who are new at the University and fellow students, you deny to your- those of you who are returning for further studies. self as rewarding an educational ex- We are very proud of our Law School and are confident perience as you will ever encounter. that this year will prove to be an outstanding year of In the last analysis, no doubt law is achievement for you as a part of it. and must be self taught under the guidance of skilled teachers, but the The challenges facing us today in both the public and task is certainly a more exciting one private sectors are such that the demands made upon a if you share your difficulties and .Law School curriculum become ever greater and more doubts with your fellow students. diverse. To meet these demands the University is de- Before the end of the year, I hope veloping a special competence in the field of public law, to have the pleasure of greeting each as well as continuously studying its basic law program to of you personally. I am delighted ensure its vitality and effectiveness. you are a student at George Washing- ton University Law School. I know It is a truly exciting time for you to be associated you have the ability to do well the with the University. We have every confidence that you work we require. Whether or not will make your maximum possible contribution both as a you succeed in doing so is now up to student now and as an alumnus in the future. you. Welcome, and good luck. With every good wish, Dean Robert Kramer announces that the first Dean's Faithfully yours, Reception will be held in Lower Lisner Lounge on Wednesday, October 3,1962, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m, As has been the practice in the past, ample refresh- Thomas H. Carroll ments will be provided. All law students are invited. President Page 2 Amicus Curiae Editorial S.B.A. BRIEFCASE: -By Hal Hovey THE NEW AMICUS CURIAE Students entering the law school Most GW students do not ordi- this fall will find that the unique ad- narily get practical legal experience The staff of Amicus Curiae for vantages of a Washington Law School in summers and most do not work 1962 -6 3 extend our welcome to both are amply described in the catalogue, in law offices during the school new and old students, and wish you including accessibility to large li- year. While Student Bar Associa- all a succes sful academic year. braries and a variety of courts, as tion sponsored activities can not And, with a new school year be- well as Congress and FederalAgen- wholly compensate for this they can ginning, Amicus Curiae wishes to cies. The same students will prob- help the individual law student to announce a few changes that its ably also find that they spend much broaden his base for understanding readers may expect. less time utilizing these advantages law in action. than they presently expect. Instead The Legal Aid program, spon- There will be a change in publi- they will find most of their time oc- sored in cooperation with the Dis- cation from a quarterly to a monthly cupied by the law school itself. For trict of Columbia Junior Bar As- publication. We hope to broaden the this reason this article will describe sociation, offers opportunities to substantive scope of Amicus Curiae the law school activities available assist lawyers in the District tode- with more articles devoted to law for new GW students: fend indigent clients. A Student and the legal profession than has Clerkship program, new this year, been the practice in the past. There Study First will provide opportunities for GW are top-flight publications published students to spend time in the local by law schools over the country that Elsewhere in this issue the new courts. The students will be assigned embrace such materials. The student will find welcomes from uni- to a particular court or branch and Amicus Curiae has not been one in versityofficials. For the purposes will be able to observe law in action the past. It is our intention to make of this article it is sufficient to in- for periods from two days to one it one in the future. One example of troduce two postulates on getting week. They will follow clerks in this new outlook will be a section along in Law School. First, the pur- the se courts and learn from them devoted each month to some con- pose of going to law school is to about their work and the work of troversial case or issue, with lead- learn law and the best way to learn their co u r t , Unfortunately, both ing professors, judges, and laymen law is to study it. Second, by the these programs are geared pri- taking pro and con positions,. with standards of the best law schools marily to day students. For night room for student comments in the (and law firms) in the country, a students to take advantage of them, form of letter s to the editor. Another legal education is not complete if it they must take leave from their example of our new face will be a stops with the course offerings of jobs. In addition to these activities "Current Decisions" section, going the University. the SBA will post throughout the year beyond the customary public law the court calendar s of various courts outlook of the Univer sity. Embrac- Practice Practicing Law Second sitting in the District so that stu- ing all areas of the law, one can ex- dents may discover for themselves pect to see the latest and leading At GW several activities are cases they would particularly like cases digested in all fields. sponsored by the Student Bar As- to hear. sociation w hie h at many other The above examples are illustra- schools are run by the faculty and Extra Curricular Third tive only, and are not to be construed administration as a neces sary part of as limiting the scope of your paper. the legal education offered by the The Student Bar Association is As you can see, such a program will particular school. similar to undergraduate student require a great deal of work, and the associations in that it is the voice The most important of these ac- staff at this time extends its invita- of the students vis a vis the uni- tivities is the Van Vleck Case Club.