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4 Conn. B.J. 1 (1930)

handle is hein.barjournals/conebaj0004 and id is 1 raw text is: Connecticut Bar Journal Vol. IV. JANUARY, 1930. No. I EQUITY RECEIVERSHIPS IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR CONNECTICUT: 1920-1929. By WILLIAM 0. DOUGLAS AND JOHN H. WEIR* The need and utility of fact research in the study of law ad- ministration was graphically presented in these pages some months ago by Dean Charles E. Clark.' In that article Dean Clark in presenting a preliminary report of a study of a large number of court records, made the following statement: These records are capable of use for at least two im- portant purposes. They may be used to illustrate and to test-the efficacy of our rules of procedure and our general methods of administering justice. And they may be used, second, as starting points for the further detailed investi- gation of social problems of many and varied kinds.2 This study falls within the second group mentioned by Dean Clark. It is part of an extensive study of business failures un- dertaken at the Yale Law School last spring, having a three-fold *Mr. Douglas is an Associate Professor of Law and Mr. Weir is a Research Assistant in Law, Yale University. I Clark, Fact Research in Law Administration, 2 -Conn. Bar. Journ. 211 (1928). 2 Ibid., p. 212.