Evening star., 1923-02-14
BENCH AND BAR
TO SIMPLIFY LAW
Distinguished Assemblage Is
Called to Meet in Capital
February %.
LAW INSTITUTE PLANNED
Elihu Root Heads Committee and
George w. Wickersham Is Vice
Chairman.
LAW INSTITUTE PLANNED
ny FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

what promises to be the most dis
tinguished assemblage of American
lawyers and jurists in tn history Of the
United States bar will come together in
washington on February 23. 1t has
been summoned by the Committee on
the establishment of u permanent or
Sanization for the improvement of the
law Elihu Root Is chairman Of the
committee. George w. Wickersham,
Vice chairman; George Wildwood Muir
ray, treasurer. and William Draper
Lewis. secretary. Other well known
members of the committee are Frederic
H. Coudert. William d. Guthrie Julian
w. Mack. Henry w. Taft, John G. Mil
burn. Learned Hand, Roscoe Pound
Benjamin n. Cardozo and Joseph H.
Beale
The purpose of the Washington
meeting is TO devise ways and means
OF eradicating the many uncertain
Ties and unnecessary complexities"
which fill American law 1t is hoped
TO arrive at practical methods for
,restating the law analytically, crit
lcaiiy and constructively" To that
ehd IT Is planned at Washington to
lay the foundations OF an American.
Send Out Letter.
To specially selected list Of law
yerS throughout the country Messrs
Root and Wickersham have addressed
a personally autographed letter, read
ing. in part:
The committee has been at work
Tor several months and has formu-
iated report. This report is ad-
dressed to representative gathering
OF the American bar. which will meet
III washington on February 23 We
ASK your careful study of It's con-
tents. The committee Is taking
great pains to secure representa-
tive attendance at the Washington
meeting, so that it may consist of
distinguished Judges, lawyers and
law teachers. This is highly i'm
portant. not only because the wisest
an enterprise of the magnitude and
Importance suggested in our report
can be carried out only with the
active interest of those who are truly
representative OF the best in our pro-
fession and by their united action"
With view to insuring the high
est grade of attendance at the con-
terence the committee has extended
invitations to the following:
Among Those Invited.
The Chief Justice of the United
States. the associate justices of the
United States Supreme Court. the
senior Judge of each federal circuit
court OF appeals, the Attorney Cen
eral OF the United States, the solicitor
general of the United States. the chief
justice of the highest court of each
state, the president and EXPIRE esidents
of the American Bar Association and
the members Of its executive commit
tee. the members of the general coun-
ell of the American Bar Association,
the dean of each school belonging to
the Association Of American Law
Schools, the president of the Ameri-
can Institute of Criminal Law and
Criminology, the president of the
American branch of the International
Law Association, the president of the
American Judicature Society, the
president Of the National Conference
Laws and the chairmen or senior
member OF the commissioners Of each
state, about 100 other leaders Of tho
legal profession In the United States,
to be selected by the executive COM
mittee.
After the Washington conference
there will be a dinner at which Chief
duce as speakers former Ambassador
John w. Davis, president of the Amer
lean Bar Association, and former Gov.
Herbert 8. Hadley of Missouri. Col.
George T. Weitzel, former American
minister to Nicaragua and negotiator
of the American -Nicaraguan canal
treaty during the Taft administration,
is chairman Of the local Washington
committee in charge OF admissions to
the meeting to be OF epochal i'm
portance in the annals Of American
Jurisprudence.
Copyright, 1923