1907 Frank E. Gove ... Subject. "Section 34, Insurance Laws of 1907, as to Removal of Causes to Federal Courts." 1907 Charles J. Hughes, Jr.. "An Independent and Fearless Ju diciary an Integral Part of, and Necessary to, the Preservation of the American Constitution." 1908 Albert A. Reed......."The Doctrine of the Turn-Table Cases." 1908 Fred A. Sabin ....... "The Chicago System of Municipal Courts as a Substitute for Inferior Courts.' 1908 C. C. Hamlin 1909 Charles C. Butler ..... "Modern Tendencies and the Su preme Court." ..."Lynching." 1909 Harry Eugene Kelly..."Third Degree Outrages.' 1909 Henry C. Hall "The Autonomy of Cities Under the Colorado Constitution." 1910 James R. Killian ....."Thomas Jefferson, the Lawyer 1910 Francis E. Bouck ..... 1910 Arthur Ponsford 1910 A. L. Abrahams 1911 N. C. Miller 1911 ... John A. Gordon and Citizen." "Side Issues of the Lawyer." "Good Citizenship vs. So-Called "The Growth of Federal Power." "Nationalizing the Railroads." 1912 Thomas Ward, Jr.....“Criminal Procedure." 1913 Jesse G. Northcutt. . . . ."The Recall." Year. Name. Subject. 1913 Thomas H. Hood ....."Colorado's New Practice, and 1914 W. N. Searcy.. 1914 William V. Hodges ... 1914 .... John D. Fleming 1914 L. Ward Bannister.. 1914 Fred D. Stanley 1915 Frank J. Annis... Procedure Act." "The Fourth Department of State Government." "Proceeds of Mining Operations— Capital or Income." ."Common Law and Code." "The Question of the Federal Disposition of State Waters in Priority States." "Potential Colorado." "Limitations and Qualifications of Statutory and Equitable Water Right Decrees." 1915 Erwin L. Regennitter. . ."The Court Rules Act of 1913 and the Supreme Court Rules of 1914." "The Law of Contraband." "Compulsory Investigation of Labor Disputes." "Judicial Discretion." 1916 Wayne C. Williams...."The Theory and Practice of Workmen's Compensation in Colorado." "The Practical Operation of the "Conditional Water Decrees." "Democracy's Crisis and Oppor tunity as measured by International Law." .... "Some Phases of Americanism." “Uniformity of Legislation.” 1918 Dr. Charles N. Meader. "Social Hygiene." REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ADMISSIONS Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 12, 1918. To the Colorado Bar Association: Your Committee on Admissions reports that it has considered all applications for membership which have been referred to it, and deems the following named eleven persons suitable for membership in this Association: J. J. Laton and Omer E. Garwood of Denver, Alfred Todd of Lamar, Delph E. Carpenter, E. H. Houtchens, Henry E. Churchill and John W. Henderson of Greeley, Leonard E. Anderson of Brush, Sam Parlapiano and E. F. Chambers of Pueblo, and C. C. Rickel of Fort Morgan. Respectfully submitted, SAMUEL H. KINSLEY, Chairman. REPORT OF THE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE Denver, Colorado, July 12, 1918. To the Colorado Bar Association: The Committee on Grievances submits the following report: During the years 1917-18, three meetings of the Committee were held at each of which a quorum was present. Ten complaints for disbarment filed during the year were considered and disposed of as follows: Prosecutions for disbarment refused Prosecutions for disbarment recommended. Held under advisement Retained for additional information 1 1 3 There are no proceedings for disbarment pending in the Su preme Court. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM L. DAYTON, Chairman. REPORT. OF COMMITTEE ON LEGAL EDUCATION Boulder, Colorado, July 10, 1918. To the Colorado Bar Association: On behalf of the Committee on Legal Education, I present the following report: Interest in legal education is perhaps not diminishing in our State, but a decided falling off in the number of students engaged in legal study, whether in private offices or in the law schools, is perceptible during the past year. Thus not more than a third of the number of candidates for license to practice law took the June examinations before the State Board of Bar Examiners as compared with the previous year, while the preceding December examinations showed a decrease from former years in still greater ratio. The June examinations, however, are deemed the best index of the growth in number of those seeking admission to the bar in our State, and that the number is declining, at least for the present, is shown also by the diminishing attendance at the law schools. The number of entering students in the Law School of the University of Colorado for the school year just closed was 28 per cent lower than the previous year, while 25 per cent of these left before the expiration of the year. Practically the same condition, I am informed, prevailed at the Denver Law School. That this situation with respect to the law schools is due to war conditions is obvious, and that it will continue for the duration of the war is also perhaps evident. The age of those engaged in legal studies in the law schools render them peculiarly amenable to enlistment and to the selective draft. As from the law schools the young lawyers are for the most |