Showing papers in "California Law Review in 1948"

The Theory of Social and Economic Organization

Abstract: A synthetic polyisoprene rubber latex produced by emulsifying a solution of polyisoprene rubber in an organic solvent with water and removing the solvent from the resulting oil-in-water emulsion is significantly improved with respect to mechanical stability, wet gel strength and dry film strength by utilizing, as a polyisoprene rubber, a modified polyisoprene rubber prepared by introducing from about 0.03 to 20 carboxyl groups per 100 recurring units of isoprene monomer present in the synthetic cis-1,4-polyisoprene rubber.

The Administrative State: A Study of the Political Theory of American Public Administration

Abstract: This classic text, originally published in 1948, is a study of the public administration movement from the viewpoint of political theory and the history of ideas. It seeks to review and analyze the theoretical element in administrative writings and to present the development of the public administration movement as a chapter in the history of American political thought. The objectives of \"The Administrative State\" are to assist students of administration to view their subject in historical perspective and to appraise the theoretical content of their literature. It is also hoped that this book may assist students of American culture by illuminating an important development of the first half of the twentieth century. It thus should serve political scientists whose interests lie in the field of public administration or in the study of bureaucracy as a political issue; the public administrator interested in the philosophic background of his service; and the historian who seeks an understanding of major governmental developments. This study, now with a new introduction by public policy and administration scholar Hugh Miller, is based upon the various books, articles, pamphlets, reports, and records that make up the literature of public administration, and documents the political response to the modern world that Graham Wallas named the Great Society. It will be of lasting interest to students of political science, government, and American history. Dwight Waldo (1913-2000) taught at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Syracuse. He was the author or editor of several books, including \"Ideas and Issues in Public Administration\" and \"The Study of Public Administration\", and for eleven years served as editor-in chief of Public Administration Review.

Mr. Justice Holmes: The Community vs. The Individual

Abstract: MORE THAN any lawyer of the twentieth century Holmes captures the imagination He is, in a praiseworthy sense, all things to all people To the iconoclast, he is the great dissenter; to the liberal, he is the hero of the rebellion against judicial arrogance; to the conservative, a New England Yankee skeptical of economic nostrums; to the soldier, an apostle of war; to the philosopher, a gifted amateur honoring ideas above worldly accomplishment; to the jurist, an inexhaustible source of wisdom and quotation; to the professor, a tireless student of legal history and legal purposes The resolution of this complexity is the work of biography and history The lawyer has a different task He must understand Holmes law For in all the paradoxes of Holmes, the final paradox is that the Justice, now fifteen years resigned from the bench, has today greater influence than he ever exercised as the senior side judge In many areas the present Court can differ with Holmes only by an obvious effort of will Nor is this unnatural Many of the Court members participated personally in the struggle against the judges who for two decades denied the will of the people Holmes was the hero of that struggle To make his philosophy the law of the land was its prime purpose Small wonder then that disagreement with Holmes now seems faintly akin to treason Whoever reads Holmes rapidly learns that it is easier to tabulate his ideas than to discover the source of his principles He reached the Court at sixty-one with full maturity and after more than two decades on the Massachusetts bench He was completely sophisticated in the judicial technique Almost immediately he announced the constitutional doctrine which he was to expound for thirty years' His statement, furthermore, was fully developed The early opinions show little hesitation or uncertainty Holmes, like Marshall, knew what he thought from the very beginning

A Decade of Admiralty in the Supreme Court of the United States

Abstract: THROUGH a liberal and extremely fortunate interpretation of Article III, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States,' it has become well established that our governing law in maritime matters in this country is a part of the national law safely insulated from the diverse or parochial tendencies of the local laws of the several states. As the commercial interests of the country have come to embrace a world-wide intercourse, indeed, our maritime law has come increasingly to be regarded as a segment of the general law of major national importance. The trend has been fortified of late by the success of our war-time effort on the sea and by a reinforced peace-time determination to assure the continued vitality and growth of our merchant marine. In all that this implies, the Supreme Court of the United States is of course the ultimate judicial arbiter. In endeavoring to keep abreast of the output of the Supreme Court in these matters, the authors of this paper have been impressed by several circumstances which appear to warrant a review of the decisions of the past decade. For one such circumstance, the only modern textbook on Admiralty Law in the United States was published just a little less than ten years ago.2 As the later reports of the Supreme Court disclose, this treatise now requires some supplementing and at least a little correction. For another, beginning a little more than ten years ago, the personnel of the Supreme Court has changed corn-