Task of Sisyphus

Discussion at the assembly of the American Law Institute, at Washington, was chiefly related to two re- ports : One on classification of the law by Roscoe Pound, Harvard Law Dean; another on defects in criminal justice by Herbert S. Hadley (Chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis, and onetime Governer of Missouri), John G. Milburn, of New York, and William E. Mikell, University of Pennsylvania Law Dean.

Charles E. Hughes made a speech. Extracts:

"We have in this country the greatest law factory the world has ever known....

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