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sity College of Law, who referred particularly to the growth of law schools throughout the country and to the advance in educational standards. A paper was read by Professor Harold D. Hazeltine of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, England, on "Legal Education in England." Mr. Hazeltine de clared that several features in the present system of legal education in England are to be changed soon. Further elaboration of a system of electives, and more work in special and advanced subjects is expected to result. The discussion which followed was led by Dean James Barr Ames and Sir Frederick Pollock. Dean Ames declared that if Eng land had a better system of education it would have even better lawyers. Within the next twenty-five years, he said, the best treatises on English law would be written by Americans. At the second session, Dean John H. Wigmore of the Northwestern University Law School, and Harry Pratt Judson, President of the University of Chicago, read papers deal ing with the general question of education

preparatory to the study of the law. These papers were discussed at length by Henry Wade Rogers, dean of the Yale University Law School, and by Professor Henry M. Bates, of the University of Michigan. Dean Wigmore declared that out of one hundred law students who had had only high school preparation, only two attained high legal position, whereas of one hundred taking a four years' A. B. course ten became lawyers of note. He backed up his main proposition by the opinion of Charles W. Eliot of Harvard University. Dean Rogers of Yale was of the opinion that no more than two years of preparatory train ing in college should be required. "If we put the standard too low young men are admitted to the bar at an immature age. On the other hand, if we exact a higher standard than the situation warrants, we do them and the commonwealth an injustice. Today there are still law schools that admit any person who applies for admission. They are discriminated against by the profes sion."

Review of Periodicals Jlrticles on Topics of Legal Science and Related Subjects Administrative Law. "The Law of the Constitution." A review of the seventh edi tion of Prof. Dicey's work bearing that title. By Edmund M. Parker. American Political Science Review, v. 3, p. 362 (Aug.). "This tendency on the part of an adminis trative body to be transformed into a judicial tribunal we may see clearly in the United States. How often do we not see adminis trative boards or officials to whom are en trusted the decision of questions affecting rights of property required by the pressure of public opinion or even by law to adopt the procedure of a judicial body, and to take on all the paraphernalia of a regular court! . . . "Administrative law is chiefly case law; it has been made by those who administeri t; it is therefore more flexible than code law and may be more readily adapted to new condi tions. . . By whatever name one may call it, England undoubtedly possesses administrative law, in the sense of a special set of legal rules

governing the relations between the adminis tration and its officials and the private citizen; and the contrast between the rule of law as between private individuals and the rule o£ law as between the government and the indi vidual is one which may be drawn instruc tively in England, as indeed in any country. This is particularly true of the United States, for it must not be forgotten that the 'preroga tive of the administration' may exist and has actually existed in republics as in monarchies, as France during her great revolution found to her cost, and as we have often had occasion to learn in this country." Aliens. "International Law and the Aliens Act." By N. W. Sibley, LL.M. 34 Law Mag azine and Review 432 (Aug.). "From the point of view of modern authori tative international usage, it would be break ing a butterfly on a wheel to demonstrate the proposition that, with the possible exceptions of Great Britain and Russia, the modern state claims a right of expelling an alien who be comes dangerous to its public tranquil lity. . . . "Everything tends towards the conclusion that the alien should be deprived, if neces sary, by express enactment, of the benefit of