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