David Dudley Field : centenary essays celebrating one hundred years of legal reform / edited by Alison Reppy, with an introd. by Russell D. Niles.

New York, 1949.

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Field, David Dudley, -- 1805-1894.

Law -- United States.

Law.

Codification and reform of procedural law: David Dudley Field, an appraisal, by R. Pound. The Field codification concept, by A. Reppy. Code pleading and practice today, by C. E. Clark. The Federal rules of civil procedure, by W. D. Mitchell. Modern procedural devices, by E. R. Sunderland. Procedural reform in England, by Lord Chorley. Civil procedure reform in civil law countries, by R. W. Millar. The problem of trial, by S. P. Simpson. Codification of evidence, by E. M. Morgan. Codification of probate law, by T. E Atkinson. Administrative law and codification statutes, by C. McFarland. The human element in judicial and in administrative procedure, by B. L. Shientag. Criminal justice and rule making, by A. Holtzoff.--Codification of substantive law: Restatement and codification, by H. F. Goodrich. The jurisprudence of codification, by H. E. Yntema.

--Codification of international law: The United Nations and the development and codification of international law by Yuen-Li-Lian. International control of atomic energy, by A. S. Fisher. International organization for peace and law, by C. Eagleton.--Centenary dinner: Our Anglo-American common law heritage, by Lord Chorley. The Nuremburg trial, an example of procedural machinery for development of international substantive law, by R. H. Jackson.--Selective bibliography on David Dudley Field (p. 282-400)

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