Education: Legal Center

Onto the campus of Southern Methodist University swarmed more than 4,000 members of the insurance section of the American Bar Association last week for their annual discussion of the latest techniques and trickeries of insurance legalistics. Their presence was one more reminder of how successful S.M.U.'s South western Legal Center has been in realizing the goal that Dean Robert Gerald Storey set for it five years ago: to become one of the foremost legal laboratories in the U.S. (TIME, April 30, 1951).

Designed to give U.S. law students access to the kind of training for which London's tradition-encrusted Inns of Court have...

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