Principles of Judicial Administration Book

PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION The Brookings Institution Devoted to Public Service through Research and Training in the Humanistic Sciences was incorporated on December 8, 1927. Broadly stated, the Institution has two primary purposes The first is to aid constructively in the development of sound national policies and the second is to offer training of a super - graduate character to students of the social sciences. The Institution will maintain a series of cooperating institutes, equipped to carry out comprehensive and inter-related research projects. The responsibility for the final determination of the Institutions policies and for the administration of its endowment is vested in a self - perpetuating Board of Trustees. The Trustees have, however, defined their position with reference to the scientific work of the Institution in a by-law provision read ing as follows The primary function of the Trustees is not to express their views upon the scientific investigations conducted by any division of the Institution, but only to make it possible for such scientific work to be done under the most favorable auspices. Major responsibility for formu lating general policies and coordinating the activities of the various divi sions of the Institution is vested in the President. The by-laws provide also that there shall be an Advisory Council selected by the President from among the scientific staff of the Institution and representing the different divisions of the Institution. Board of Trustees Robert S. Brookings, Chairman Arthur T. Hadley Leo S. Rowe, Vice-Chairman Ernest M. Hopkins Edwin A. Alderman David F. Houston Whitefoord R. Cole Vernon Kellogg Frederic A. Delano Samuel Mather George Eastman John C. Merriam Raymond B. Fosdick Harold G. Moulton Frank J. Goodnow John Barton Payne Jerome D. Greene Bolton Smith Paul M. Warburg Officers Robert S. Brookings, Chairman Leo S. Rowe, Vice-Chairman Frederic A. Delano, Treasurer Harold G. Moulton, President Advisory Council 1928-29 Charles O. Hardy Edwin G. Nourse Robert R. Kuczynski Thomas Walker Page Lewis L. Lorwin Fred W. Powell Leverett S. Lyon William F. Willoughby Director of the Institute for Government Research William F. Willoughby Director of the Institute of Economics INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNMENT RESEARCH PRINCIPLES OF ADMINISTRATION PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION BY W. F. WILLOUGHBY DIRECTOR, INSTITUTE FOR. J tiVERNMENT RESEARCH THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION WASHINGTON 1929 COPYRIGHT, 1929, BY THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA c Sorb gafttmore pms BALTIMORE, MD., 0. 8. A. FOREWORD A good many thousands of books will be published this year. One who has read this book in manuscript may well assert that of all the thousands this is the one necessitous book in the entire field of productive writing. Writers apparently search for new subjects or for old ones to be rewritten. And yet for a score of years at least, while hundreds of experts on government have been combing their fields for writing material, this book has been needed. When one thinks of the magnitude and the vital im portance of judicial administration in a country in which the judiciary in many respects is the supreme arbiter of national trends, and thinks of the changes that have taken place in one lifetime, and the changes now imminent, he realizes the significance of the publication of the first book in this field. At least, he does if he belongs to the old-fashioned school, as opposed to the post war futilitarians, and clings to the idea that government is one of the elements of social environment that really counts. The author has done well to write the introduction to this book, which needed to present an orderly scheme in a seemly and com petent way...Read More