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40 Harv. L. Rec. 1 (1965)

handle is hein.journals/hlrec40 and id is 1 raw text is: aLQA~ca4S 1Q &W School. W&Apuapa VOL. 40 NO. I CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. FEBRUARY 4, 1965 FIFTEEN CENTS lonference Outlines Legal Attack on Poverty By Joseph P. Meissner Do you really respect the poor? Do you want them to speak out for themselves? Or is your interest in law and poverty only a new white man's burden, a new form of imperi- alism? These words from an address by Dr.I INeig hbborhood Aid Planned Edgar Cahn of the' tfice of Economic Op- portunity set the theme for a three-day By Michael Lowenberg onference on Law and Indigency held last A group of Harvard law students will weekend at Georgetown University in Wash- participate this spring in a Neighborhood ington, D.C. More than 200 law students Law Office Internship Program under the from Bsome 20 schools were represented, in. supervision of the Boston Legal Aid Society. cluding Harvard students Elizabeth Holtz- The Program has been organized by a facul- man, 3L, Donald L. Baraf, 3L, Samuel A. ty committee consisting of Professors David Bleicher, 2L, Beatrice E. Koretsky, 2L, and F. Cavers, Vern Countryman, Alan M. Joseph P. Meissner, 2L, Dershowitz, Charles M. Haar, Livingston The conference was sponsored by the Law Hall, Frank I. Michelman, Albert M. Sacks, Students Civil Rights Research Council, a Frank E. A. Sander, and Detlev F. Vagts. student-organized group which last summer The students will work one evening a week (Continued on page 4) (Continved mn page 2) Dean Urges Canons Revision. By Murray S. Levin Dean Erwin N. Griswold appeared before NBC television cameras last week to tape his views on the problem of guaranteeing a fair trial to criminal defendants. The Dean's remarks will be aired on an NBC White Paper at 9:00 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 9. The Lee Harvey Oswald incidents of the fall of 1963 will provide a dramatic take- off for the program. Dean Griswold has said that by Nov. 24 Oswald could not have obtained a fair trial any place in the United States. The threat to the citizen's right to a fair trial comes in part from the activities of the (Continued on page 3) Dean Griswold