Law: Filmed Professors

Onto the desks of the nation's law schools and bar associations dropped a novel legal announcement last week. Distinguished, aging Harvard Law School Professors Joseph Henry Beale (Conflict of Laws) and Samuel Williston (Contracts) had recorded significant law lectures before the sound camera. In each film as introducer of the subject and lecturer appears Harvard Law School's newsworthy Professor Felix Frankfurter (Administrative Law), Vienna-born intimate of President Roosevelt, sponsor of such New Deal legalights as SEChairman James McCauley Landis, 37, who returns to Cambridge as Harvard's law dean in September. Professor Beale's...

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