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Class of 1955 Fifteen Year Report Dean\u27s Letter
This letter was sent to alumni with the report
The Legalization of American Society
Law, delivered the introduction to the symposium . He described law libraries as symbols of the importance of the word in legal education and law practice, since it is in libraries that students learn to draw on, and to shape, the written word . Dedication of the library addition, he said , provides an opportunity to express our commitment to the humanistic ideal, an expression all the more significant when the place of the word in law training appears to be under concentrated attack.
The faculty committee\u27s choice of a topic for the conference, The Legalization of American Society, clearly serves that end. Its breadth encourages the exploration of a range of legal subject matters. The topic reflects a popular perception that a significant expansion of law has occurred in recent years; that areas earlier free of governmental and legal intervention have become fields for legal regulation; and that in areas earlier subjected to legal controls, new and more intrusive forms of regulation are being applied. The symposium should examine the validity of these popular perceptions of the growth of legal regulation and , if they proved accurate, examine the possible causes and consequences
Can One Retain Head & Heart & Be a Lawyer?
The following speech was delivered at the University of Detroit Law School Graduation on May 20, 197
Of Literature, Politics, and Crime
A Review of Seductions of Crime: Moral and Sensual Attractions in Doing Evi
Nineteen Eighty-Four and the Eclipse of Private Worlds
Editor\u27s note: This article is excerpted from a paper Professor Allen presented last year a a University of Michigan symposium on The Future of 1984 . It appears in toto, along with the other papers presented, in the collection of essays The Future of Nineteen Eighty-Four, published by the University of Michigan Press and edited by U-M Professor of English Ejner J. Jensen.
To answer fully why a novel for over a generation has remained embedded in the consciousness of persons in widely differing situaitons and of varied backgrounds and convictions, would be, perhaps, to say more about the society than the work of art. George Orwell\u27s Nineteen Eighty-Four, whatever its limitations, has amply demonstrated its power to strip bare many of the half-realized fears of persons inhabiting the Western world in our time, and of giving the terrors tangible shape. The book has transcended a merely literary influence. Just as many persons ignorant of Don Quixote speak of tilting at windmills, so too Big Brother is regularly denounced from public platforms and in newspaper columns by persons unable to account for the origin of the term
Law and Order\u27 on What Terms?
Statement by Dean Francis A. Allen before the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, October 30, 1968, in Washington, D. C.
To the founders of the American republic, domestic tranquility is not only one of the fruits of constitutional government, but is essential for the preservation of constitutional government. The founders recognized that violence is the enemy of liberty, but also that liberty may be overcome by the efforts of state officials to suppress private violence. Because the founders were concerned both with liberty and order, they devoted great attention to the regulation and control of governmental power in criminal law enforcement. Thus four of the Amendments in the original Bill of Rights expressly regulate the administration of criminal justice and several others have relevance to the criminal process
The Morality of Means: Some Problems in Criminal Sanctions
This article is based on the Louis Caplan Lecture delivered by Prof. Allen on April 10, 1981, at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The full text of the lecture, and accompanying footnotes, will be published in the Pittsburgh Law Review.
In moments of exasperation , one may be tempted to misapply Mark Twain \u27s comment about the weather and complain that everyone talks about criminal justice, _but no one does anything about it. Sober second thought qmckly reveals, however, that the statement is not literally or even substantially true . Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment much has been done, for good or ill, about the criminal law and penal justice . Capital punishment was notably curtailed in the western world, and a regime of prisons, reformatories, and other so-called secondary punishments was instituted. Hopes for rehabilitation of offenders soared in the nineteenth century, and the rehabilitative ideal dominated thought in our own era. Such products of penal rehabilitationism as the juvenile court, systems of probation and parole, and the indeterminate sentence recommended themselves to American legislators and, indeed, to lawmakers throughout western civilization. Then in the 1970s American allegiance tu the rehabilitative ideal precipitously declined , and we find ourselves today searching for a new intellectual blue print or paradigm to guide thought and policy for the remainder of the century. The substantive criminal law itself has expanded enormously, and today expresses an extraordinary range of purposes including not only that of minimizing violent behavior threatening to lives and property, but also the regulation of economic enterprise ; protection of the environment; correction of relations among races and genders ; alteration in habits of consumption of liquor, drugs, and sex; and even compliance with legislative dictates concerning times at which clocks are to be set. Many years ago I wrote that the system of criminal justice ma be viewed as a weary Atlas upon whose shoulders we have heaped a crushing burden of responsibilities relating to public policy in its various aspects. This we have done thoughtlessly without inquiring whether the burden can be effectively borne . The statement is a little flamboyant, as perhaps befits youth; but stripped of metaphor it seems accurate enough
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