Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-03
LAW MEN TO STUDY
FEDERAL MATTERS
Georgetown Has Graduate
Course Specializing in
Legal Factors Here.

Its staff augmented by the addition Of
several professors, the graduate de-
partment of the Georgetown University
School of Law has undergone a gen.
eral reorganization, it was announced
plans having been perfected to design
it as course primarily for specializing
in Federal legislation and the decisions
Of the United States courts.
Justice Jesse c. Adkins Of the Dis
trict Supreme Court, Frederick P. Lee
legislative counsel to the United States
Senate, and Lewis c. Cassidy, formerly
Of Philadelphia. a specialist in Roman
law, are the newly appointed professors
In the graduate department. Their
addition will give the department staff
Of 10 law professors.
Justice Adkins, a graduats of the
Georgetown Law School and a teacher
at the school for more than rs years,
has continued on the faculty since his
recent appointment to the District
iudgeship. With the reorganization OF
the graduate department, Justice Ad-
kins was placed in charge of the semi
mar in criminal procedure.
Authority on Statutes.
Prof Lee, who will assume charge of
the course in legislation and statutory
Interpretation, is a leading authority on
these subjects. He is a specialist in
yers who review legislation in the SEN
ate to determine its constitutionality
and correctness of form before being in
troduced He specialized in this work
at Columbia University.
Prof Cassidy, a graduate of the
Georgetown Law School and Harvard
Law School. will devote his entire time
to teaching at Georgetown. He has
taught Roman law at Creighton and
Fordham Universities. Prof. Cassidy
practiced law five years in Philadelphia,
and last year completed graduate work
at Harvard. receiving the degree Of doc
tor of. juridical science.
GEORGETOWN authorities have long felt
The need Of devoting the work OF the
graduate department to a study Of Fed
eral legislation. which school at the
seat of the Federal Government is adj
nirably fitted to conduct.
Doctors Degree.
The courses In the graduate depart
ment, it was announced. will lead to the
degree of iuris doctor for those candi-
dates who are especially recommended
for the degree and are graduates of an
approved college. The degree OF mas
ter of laws will be conferred upon all
the course satisfactorily.
Admission to the graduate course Is
granted to persons who have completed
at least two years of college work and
who are graduates of an approved law
school. The faculty also must be sat
isfied that the applicant is quallfied TO
do graduate work.
While specializing in study OF the
general legal machinery Of the various
Federal departments and Independent
establishments of the Government, ana
in INTERPRETATION of Federal court de-
cisions, the graduate course has mucn
wider scope. Other subjects, it was said,
will deal with interstate commerce law,
tnternatio law, legal history, Roman
law and Jurisprudence.
Graduate students also will have an
opportunity. as part of their course, 10
work on the Georgetown Law Journal,
monthly publication which VII ao oe-
vote special attention. during the COM
ing wears, to Federal legislation and the
opinions of United States courts.
Members of STAFF.
In addition to three new appoint
Snents to the graduate course, the re-
rnairder of the PROFESSIONAL stan VIII
comprise the following: George =.
Hamilton, dean of the Law School, VINO
VIII Jeacn HSdl cttnCo, w 1AAt xl. -
Hurhes of the Department of Justice,
professor of Federal procedure; Robert
A. Maurer, professor of administrative
law and interstate commerce law; Fred
e Nielsen. member Of the American
Mexican Arbitration Tribunal, professor
of international law; ]. Frank Staley OF
the Department of Justice, professor Of
admiralty law. and DR.. William G.
woodward, professor of medical juris-
prudence. Charles A. Keigwin. author
cf works on pleading and a recognized
authority, viii conduct a seminar In
civil procedure.