The Future of America and The Role of Law

On August 22, 1970, Dean Ray Forrester of the Cornell Law School presented this paper to the Southeastern Conference of the Association of American Law Schools and the American Association of Law Libraries meeting in Nashville, Tennessee. Because the question of negativism in the academic community seldom has been raised by a highly respected legal educator, the Vanderbilt Law Review felt that these remarks were particularly significant. To test the reaction of other prominent legal educators to Dean Forrester\u27s position, the Vanderbilt Law Review solicited the comments of the deans of various law schools. This paper and the comments that follow afford insight into the-perspective from which these educators view the dissidence of American youth

The Four American Constitutions: A New Perspective

The United States Constitution is treated as a singular document in the study of law. In this Essay, Professor Forrester posits that there are actually four Constitutions, each sufficiently distinct to warrant treatment as an individual source of constitutional law. The Essay presents a paradigm of four Constitutions: The First Constitution is the original, adopted in 1787; the Second Constitution is the Bill of Rights; the Third Constitution consists of the Civil War Amendments; and the Fourth Constitution is the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court. Professor Forrester believes that the significance of this Fourth Constitution can be appreciated only if treated as such by academia

Truth in Judging: Supreme Court Opinions As Legislative Drafting

The first thesis this Article postulates is that the history of food and drug regulation during the past twenty centuries has been the history of the development of analytical chemistry, not the history of the development of law and regulation. Statutory law during this period has remained relatively static, while general understanding of analytical chemistry has leapt ahead with unparalleled achievement. Increased scientific enlightenment, largely achieved through analytical chemistry, has produced every important advance in food and drug regulation. Indeed, the overwhelming success of the field of analytical chemistry has created entire scientific disciplines as well as improvement in government regulation of food and drugs. The second thesis this Article presents is that the very nature of food and drug regulation requires that analytical chemistry will retain its central regulatory significance for the foreseeable future. The task that must be accomplished by analytical chemistry, in short, is far from completed, and stretches into the indefinite future. Before pursuing these two theses, it is necessary to dispose of one subsidiary matter. The past few years has witnessed intense debate concerning the scope of the term analytical chemistry. AOAC has, for example, discussed changing its name because of concern that the present title is not sufficiently broad to reflect the comprehensive purposes of the scientific field it represents. The plain meaning of the words themselves, however, quite adequately describes the scope of scientific inquiry represented by this field. Chemistry is defined as [t]he science of the composition, structure, properties, and reactions of matter. Analysis, as it relates to chemistry, is defined as [s]eparation of a substance into constituents or the determination of its composition. \u27 This Article approaches the subject of analytical chemistry in this comprehensive context