Griswold Visions World Law School at Harvard

Harvard as a center of world as well as national law is the vision of Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School.

He told the Harvard Law Association of New York Tuesday that the University has the opportunity to create in Cambridge a World School of Law where young men from all nations would study.

Calling the idea "a great challenge to Harvard," Dean Griswold said, "We envisage in Cambridge a law school which would attrat young men from all countries of the world, just as in the past we have attracted men to study the Anglo Saxon law."

Belongs In Cambridge

The Law School here would be the logical place for such an institution, Dean Griswold pointed out, because of its prestige, both international and national. Its library he cited as unparalleled anywhere in the world. "What we need are the funds and the facilities to go ahead."

The proposed world school of law would attract young men from all countries in the world to study legal systems other than their own, interchanging information and ideas, which Dean Griswold predicted, would by-pass international difficulties growing from ignorance or misunderstanding.

Students Will be Influential

"Such a world shool of law," he stated, "In the course of twenty years or so, might build up a large group of former students scattered throughout most of the countries of the world. Just as our graduates have in this country, these men in time would come to positions of influence and power in many places.

"There is here a vision, which, if it could be brought to fruition might be of great help to a troubled world."

As proposed by Dean Griswold, the world school of law and the present law school would be related enterprises, not identical. It would not be a large institution, and without more than 200 students, both foreign and American. "This increase in the exchange of legal knowledge, he believes, would contribute to world understanding.