LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1434, 10 September 1881, Page 4

LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES.

LtfAAL'ttlucafcibtf 'tfods'tidi; 11 ' appear to be on a very satisfactory footing in the iHJluiedo'iSf At&/.f uTfisi«/»tfe*r. day the gradtiati'.i/of<oM<£ ? 6fcthe New York school* of l.iw were admitted to the Bar by the .Supreme CdirVfr oh the' strength ''of, their diplomas, 1 while thosti'oF the 1 Columbia College, ■ with ' 'which the celebrated tcaohdr, Pi f ofoBs6r Duyht. is 'connected, wLu-o' rejected. ■ IThe diploma' 'does riot* appear to testify to anytlnng'beyond the , Hbten.dfince' iof the ' student at ,5 lectures, pud the -rejected graduate, as it hapr ptjiiedj hodwictitally attended more lectures tlmu theiri successful rivals. The decision pf the Court, however, is stated to be strictly in< accordance with the complex statute law bearing on the case.. Admis.sio/i t(> ( legal practice is a matter of State regulation, and there is accoidingly th' 1 usual diversity of rule. There is a good deal to be said - for the simple plan of allpwiug. f evfejry^ciszen to be a lawyer ; but if that Wneparted from, the examination system, appears to be as unpopular ,in ,Am.erica ',as it ( is this country is >] rr l ea^ly only sound|altjernatne. There is undeniable force in the lemark madc|| byf President Davis in giving the decision* of the Bench, that if i^sk jthe Cqurt for-a cevtificate of fitnqss for , prqfessionalj work they ouglit it to submit to the -only ordeal by whh, however imperfectly such fitness can be' testedf. -^Pall Mall Gazette.