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C. Eastman, President New Hampshire Bar Association, Proceedings for 1906, p. 249; report of Committee of Alabama State Bar Association, William H. Thomas, Chairman, June 28, 1907. Address of Prof. Ernest W. Huffcut, Report New York State Bar Association, Vol. 30, pp. 180-189. The Criminal Law as a Means to Enforce the People'sWill; address by AttorneyGeneral Bonaparte, National Municipal League, November 18, 1908. Criminal Law and Its Administration in New York, Robert Earl, Columbia Law Review, March, 1902. Crime and Judicial Procedure, Prof. Joseph W. Garner, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 29, p. 161. Quest for Error, Symposium, Outlook, September 29, 1906, George Whitney Moore,

Everett P. Wheeler, George W. Alger, Charles A. Todd, and anonymous. Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice, Roscoe Pound, American Bar Association Proceedings, voL 29, p. 395 (August, 1906). Inherent and Ac quired Difficulties in the Administration of Punitive Justice, Roscoe Pound, Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1907, p. 222. American Discontent with Common Law, George W. Alger, Outlook, June 15, 1907; Putnam Monthly, June, 1907, Frederick Trevor Hill; Jurisprudence of Lawlessness, Thomas J. Kernan, American Bar Association Proceedings, vol. 29, p. 450 (August, 1906). Reform in Legal Procedure, Andrew J. Hirschl, Chicago Legal News, Sept., 1907, p. 89.

New York, N. Y.

The Meeting of the New York State Bar Association THE thirty-second annual meeting of the New York State Bar Association, held at Buffalo January 28 and 29, was marked by the live interest shown in the subject of criminal procedure and by the actual steps taken in the direction of legal reform. The paper of Mr. Everett P. Wheeler, of the New York bar, discussing the American Bar Assotion's recommendations as to reforms in civil and criminal procedure and that presented by Judge A. T. Clearwater of Kingston, N. Y., on behalf of the committee appointed to con sider the question of medical expert testi mony, perhaps furnished the keynote of the deliberations. Papers by Dr. R. B. Lamb, superintendent of the Matteawan State Hospital, and State Commissioner in Lunacy Sheldon T. Viele of Buffalo, on "The Commitment and Discharge of the Criminal Insane," likewise created a profound impression. The reports of the Committee on Legal Ethics and of the Committee on Law Re form both gave rise to some discussion. In addition, able addresses were given by former Senator John C. Spooner of New York on "The Power of Congress under the Commerce

Clause over State Corporations Engaged in Interstate or Foreign Commerce," and of Hon. Wallace Nesbitt, K. C, of Toronto, who described "The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council." Mr. Charles A. Collin, of New York, was unable to be present to read his paper on the topic, "From the Revised Statutes of 1829 to the Proposed Consolidated Laws of 1909," and it was presented by proxy. ACTION ON LEGAL ETHICS The Code of Legal Ethics approved by the American Bar Association at Seattle last August was adopted with only a slight change. After much discussion, and only on an appeal from the retiring President, Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson, who reconciled the opposing factions by his suggestion that if the canon in question should prove insuffi cient different action could be taken a year later, canon 13, which governs contingent fees, was adopted: — Contingent fees, where sanctioned by law, should be under the supervision of the court in order that clients may be protected from unjust charges. The provision which an earnest effort had been made to substitute, to no avail, was