Broader Set of Studies Vital to School, States Landis Report

Emphasizing the position of the Law School as a "feeder for the public service," Dean Landis in his annual report yesterday revealed plans under consideration by the faculty to integrate the study of Law with other branches of knowledge.

Also under consideration is the question of whether the School should reduce its number to an enrollment of a thousand students.

The Curriculum Committee will study the problem of correlating the work of the Law School with the University as a whole, in such fields as economics, psychology, medicine, and government.

"The lawyer of today must bring to bear the techniques of other sciences," said Dean Landis, "but the problem of integrating law with other branches of knowledge must occur in the teaching of law itself rather than be hoped for as a resultant of an intermittent contact with such subject matters."

The relationship of the law to public service, and the commanding role graduates of the Law School have played in every phase of government has placed the effective disposition of this problem to the forefront.

"The obligations of our universities further to professionalize the public service are such that emphasis upon the public aspects of law must continue," he said.

"But for the school adequately to continue to perform this function, broadening of its approach to legal issues and of the content of its curriculum is essential."