Show I ILA A LA LAW LAV VI NOT KEEPING UP TO TIMES I IL L- L V Cy Dr DEAN DEAI DEA G OUI D B SMITH lInI Law S School S bool hool UE liD law liw and anti legal pro profession in m this tIus country suffer too much from fromn T inbreeding and lac lack the proper and dyn touch with life he h e and society By y intellectual inbreeding I mean the isolation of the h v hor or rather its lack lad of proper contact with Bith other spheres of and study and its failure allure to keep abreast with SOCIal and economic changes c The many and important changes hanges which luch v are re taking place in the economic and social structure with Mith Ith the concomitant shifting in m philo phIlo- philosophic philosophic sophic thought are creating new problems of In law Their solution calls calIs for foran foran foran an understanding and technique which contemporary legal education does not afford Legal concepts born o of a passing order ne me losing theIr utility and devices for law making and law a administration designed to function in m a simpler society are arc breaking down under the complexities of mo modern life hIe and this is 15 s so EO evidenced e by the tho popular demand for remedial legIslatIon the increasing nonobservance or disregard of law and the growing tendency to invoke agencies in m the regulation of busi busi- busi business business ness and the adjustment of disputes I 1 1 he habit of lawyers in m looking to reported opinions for the answer to legal questions has tended to deprive the la law la of the benefit of new ideas Idels in m testing the validity of rules of the law Even when courts are inclined to formulate new policies their decisions too often rest on little littlemore littlemore more than the limited experience of the tho particular judges who make male the pronouncements Seldom do the courts utilize the knowledge of the econ econ- economist economist the historian the p psychologist or the philosopher in m determining social policy The profession has developed do no technique by which such knowledge is made available As a result legal standards are arc often incon incon- inconsistent inconsistent WI with th actual e experience |