Landowners\u27 Rights in the Air Age: The Airport Dilemma

If Lord Tennyson had been a student of the common law, he might well have qualified his poetic foresight of the heavens fill[ed] with commerce by some cautious reference to the complaints of landowners below against the pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales. The result doubtless would have been poorer poetry but a far more accurate forecast of the problems to confront mid-20th century lawyers. Although the phenomenal growth of civil aviation since the first World War has opened up a host of difficulties, the only ones of concern in this article are those presenting the conflict of interest between the operators of aircraft and the owners of land over which they fly. I should also emphasize from the outset that I do not offer a definitive study. My aim is far more modest-to put in perspective a battery of acute problems which await solution

Considering the Possible Future of American Higher Education

As with all other social institutions, the pace and complexity of change make it challenging to predict what the future holds for the American higher education enterprise. While the broad mosaic of colleges and universities that comprise this enterprise has collectively been described as the best such conglomeration of its kind in the world (Bowen, Kurzwell &Tobin, 2005; Harvey, 1998) several concerns are now surfacing that must be acknowledged and considered. Literally spread across the broad American landscape is a constellation of two and four-year institutions --public and private; secular and religious; urban, suburban, and rural; large, medium and small colleges and universities -which have generally been regarded as providing access and opportunities for students of all races, ethnicities, ages, and social classes

Hobart Coffey: Memorial Address

An address by William B. Harvey, Dean of the Indiana University School of Law, at a memorial service held for Professor Hobart Coffey at the First Unitarian Church in Ann Arbor, on Friday, September 19, 1969. Hobart Coffey had been a member of the U-M Law Faculty from 1922-66

International Commission of Jurists: The Rule of Law in a Free Society: a Report on the International Congress of Jurists

A Review of The Rule of Law in a Free Society: a Report on the International Congress of Jurists. Geneva, Switzerland: International Commission of Jurists, 1960

FEDERAL COURTS-RULE 20 OF FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE-CONSTITUTIONALITY

One of the few real innovations in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is incorporated in Rule 20 which provides that a defendant who is arrested in a district other than that in which the indictment has been returned may declare in writing his desire to plead guilty and waive trial in the district of the crime. In this event, with the approval of the United States Attornies for both districts, the clerk of the court to which the indictment was returned is authorized to forward the papers to the clerk of the court for the district in which the accused is held for disposition of the case. The purpose was to provide the defendant a means of avoiding the hardship often involved in returning to the district of the crime for trial. In a recent case an indictment for forgery was returned into the district court for the district of South Dakota. The accused, having been arrested in Oregon, and having followed the procedure authorized by Rule 20, entered a plea of guilty in the district court for the district of Oregon. The court refused to accept the plea on the ground that it was without jurisdiction