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Washington University Law Review Volume 15 Issue 1 January 1929 Review of “Principles of Judicial Administration,” by W. F. Willoughby William G. Hale Washington University School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview  Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation William G. Hale, Review of “Principles of Judicial Administration,” by W. F. Willoughby, 15 ST. LOUIS L. REV. 107 (1929). Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol15/iss1/20 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School at Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Washington University Law Review by an authorized administrator of Washington University Open Scholarship. For more information, please contact digital@wumail.wustl.edu. BOOKS RECEIVEDBook ReviewsPRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION, by W. F. Willoughby. Washing-ton: The Brookings Institution, 1929. Pp. xxii, 662.It is doubtful if any greater service can be rendered today than to directthe attention both of lawyers, including law students, and of the lay pub-lic to the problems of the administration of the law and to effective waysof solving them. Dr. Willoughby's book is directed definitely to these endsand constitutes an excellent working tool for colleges, law schools and barassociations. It can also well find a place in the editorial offices of news-papers and periodicals where the need is great for a better understandingof what is already being done by the legal profession to meet its publicresponsibilities and for a more intelligent cooperation between the pressand various agencies for the improvement of judicial administration.It is only fair to say that the pioneer work back of this publication isthat of the American Judicature Society which for twelve years throughits Journal has been industriously and intelligently moving the legal pro-fession and the public in the path of legal administrative betterment. Dr.Willoughby's book brings together in condensed and convenient form theresults of the notable work of the American Judicature Society, and of in-dividual and public studies. In a useful bibliography in the appendixreference is made to the more important sources of this author's study.Incidentally, the need of a complete bibliography of the subject is noted.The book is comprehensive. It deals first with the prevention of liti-gation and crime, the former through developments in administrative ad-judication, conciliation, arbitration, declaratory judgments and advisoryopinions; second with the machinery for law enforcement; third withjudicial organization, including a study of the movements for the unifica-tion and efficient business administration of the courts, the judicial councildevelopment and such specialized courts as small claims and juvenile anddomestic relations courts; fourth with the need and methods of securing abetter personnel in the bench and bar; fifth with various aspects of pro-cedure, especially the determination of rules of procedures by the courtsinstead of legislatures; and sixth with legal aid.By way of detailed criticism we find occasion only to refer to the shortsection which deals with hearsay evidence and to call attention to the factthat it carries the misleading implication that all hearsay evidence is ex-cluded. This implication is of course not true and doubtless was not in-tended. So many exceptions to the hearsay rule have become establishedthat they have almost become the rule and the rule in turn the exception.Moreover attention might well be called to the further rational extensionof the exceptions by statute in Massachusetts. Gen. Laws Mass. (1921) c.233, sec. 65; originally Acts 1898, c. 535.Washington University School of Law. WLIAm G. HALE.Washington University Open Scholarship

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