Griswold Scores English 'Bar's Practicality

Speaking in Oxford, England, Saturday, Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School told British lawyers that a lawyer's work is "by no means as exclusively practical as British practitioners have been in the habit of believing it to be."

Rather, he said, he hoped that Oxford could work out "that synthesis of theory and learning for learning's sake on the one hand and of professional activity and responsibility on the other, which seems to have eluded the grasp of thoughtful people in this country (Britain)."

Dean Griswold added that law teachers and libraries should expand their approach, so as to include an understanding of legal systems and problems of the entire world.

The Dean was speaking at a ceremony in which he was awarded an honorary degree, and in which he opened a new Oxford University law library. The new library of buff brick, is of modernistic design, in contrast to the traditional stone of Oxford's other buildings.