Roosevelt Calls Frankfurter Heir to Cardozo in Current Law Year Book

In a letter to the new Law School Year Book, President Roosevelt hailed Felix Frankfurter, to whom the book was dedicated, as "the rightful successor of Justice Cardozo."

The President's tribute to the former Law School professor and present Supreme Court Justice was one of the many features of the album. It declared, "Felix Frankfurter has for years devoted his wide sympathies, his great energies, and his deep learning to the development and training of an enlightened and public spirited bar."

As another feature of the book, Harold J. Laski, author and professor of Economics at London University, wrote a biographical sketch also lauding the prominent judge.

In discussing Frankfurter's policies, Laski stated, "By the general public, Mr. Justice Frankfurter is regarded as likely to be a radical influence on the Supreme Court. It is perhaps permissible to suggest that this is a wrong approach to his philosophy of the judicial function. His effort has always been to persuade the Supreme Court to the realization that it is the road to creativeness as well as an obstacle to particular types of experiment. He has sought, like the two great predecessors in whose place he now sits, to warn the Court against becoming the third, and final chamber of the legislatures."