Books Received

San Diego Law Review

San Diego Law Review

Volume 5

Issue 1 1968 Article 22

1-1-1968

Books Received

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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT AND BRITISH POLITICS. James B. Christoph. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 1962. Pp. 202. $4.00. A political scientist examines the raging contro-versy surrounding England's abolition of capital punishment. Through a study of an admittedly atypical piece of legislation, with examination of the formal and informal pressures attendant to its implementation, Christoph focuses his attention on Parlia-mentary operation in a moment of great stress, giving insight into the entire British political process.

CHILDREN IN THE COURTS-THE QUESTION OF REPRE-SENTATION. George G. Newman, ed. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Institute of Continuing Legal Education. 1967. Pp. 571. $12.50. As the Preface aptly states: "Only a moment's reflection is re-quired to assure ourselves that we have made considerable prog-ress in the development of the rights of children .... ." However,

the reader is admonished that only the threshold of progress has been reached. In this practical work the lawyer is offered guide-lines in representing the child in divorce, delinquency and neglect

litigation.

CONGLOMERATE MERGERS AND MARKET COMPETI-TION. John C. Narver. Berkeley, California: University of Cali-fornia Press. 1967. Pp. 155. $5.00. In a concise but well docu-mented book, Mr. Narver first establishes an historical and definitional foundation for his later analysis of the competitive implications of conglomerate mergers. Utilizing two market structure variables--concentration and barrier to entry-the author demonstrates that a conglomerate merger, while generally lessening competition, may actually increase competition, the crucial factor being the acquired firm's market position rather than the acquiring company's size.

THE CONTROL OF POLICE DISCRETION: THE DANISH EXPERIENCE. Thomas J. Aaron. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas. 1966. Pp. 107. $5.75. The Control of Police

Discre-tion focuses upon one of the more pressing problems of modern

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misjudgments. The author provides an authoritative background

on the Scandinavian institution of Ombudsman, suggesting

con-sideration of the Danish scheme as a solution to the police

prob-lem in the United States.

EARL WARREN: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY. Leo Katcher.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1967. Pp. 502. $8.50. This

biography presents the personal and political background of the

Chief Justice. Earl Warren has been both the victim of spiteful

personal attacks and a surprise to many of his peers. He is a

man whose criterion for justice lies in the simple question: "Is

it fair?" As well as the man, Katcher considers the role of the

Chief Justice in establishing the minority philosophy of Justice

Black as the majority position of the Warren Court in the areas

of civil rights, reapportionment and protection for the criminal

defendant. Warren emerges from this work as a jurist whose

major concern is with the rights of the individual rather than

with legal concepts based on precedent.

THE JURY AND THE DEFENSE OF INSANITY. Rita James

Simon. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co. 1967. Pp.

246. $10.00. The jury and the Defense of Insanity, the product

of an experimental study of juries, represents a factual portrait

of jury deliberation. Through taped jury room recordings, the

book demonstrates how psychiatric testimony, legal rules on

in-sanity, and a juror's attitudes and social status all bear on the

jury's decision.

ON LAW AND JUSTICE. Paul A. Freund. Cambridge,

Massachu-setts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1968.

the recent Supreme Court decisions on civil liberties. Secondly,

Professor Freund analyzes the meaning and rationality of justice,

emphasizing the continuity of the legal process. The book

con-dudes with an interpretation of the judicial methods used by a

few renowned jurists.

THE LAWYERS. Martin Prager Mayer. New York: Harper and

Row, Publishers, Inc. 1967. Pp. 586. $8.95. A free-lance reporter

of wide experience (Madison Avenue U.S.A., The Schools), Mr.

Mayer has undertaken an extensive survey of the four-corners of

the legal profession. Bringing together, through quip and quote,

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the diversity of the lawyer's experience in modern society, the author presents a pungent cross-sectional view of life in the law.

PARTNERSHIP PROBLEMS AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LAW OFFICE EQUIPMENT. Standing Committee on Economics of Law Practice. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association. 1967. Pp. 328. No price given. Partnership Problems and New Developments in Law Office Equipment consists of

papers, workshop products and survey results from the Second National Conference on Law Office Economics and Management of April, 1967. The material covers the problems of the law firm partnership from personnel recruiting, training and management to the utilization of automatic office equipment and computers for increased personnel efficiency.

PRESIDENTIAL SEIZURE IN LABOR DISPUTES. John L. Blackman, Jr. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1967. Pp. 253. $10.00. Professor Blackman analyzes seventy-one presidential seizures of private companies in dead-locked labor disputes over the last one hundred years. The problem posed is the dilemma facing the President, who must act for the public welfare while avoiding unfairness to either of the disputants. The primary focus of the book is on presi-dential policy during government possession and the examination of other coercive measures used to force uninterrupted produc-tion.

PRIVACY AND FREEDOM. Alan F. Weston. New York: Athe-neum. 1967. Pp. 487. $10.00. This thorough study of the con-cept of privacy and the recent advances in surveillance tech-nology attempts to resolve a dilemma for the preservation of a free and independent society. The author explores the scientific development of public and private surveillance devices-hidden cameras, eavesdropping mechanisms, lie detectors, and computers for recording and disseminating personal data by electronic impulse. While acknowledging the necessity of maintaining maximum security for the state through less restrictive use of such devices, Mr. Weston concludes by examining the exigency of implementing protections against further erosion of the right to privacy.

PSYCHIATRY AND THE DILEMMAS OF CRIME. Seymour L. Halleck, M.D. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc.

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1967. Pp. 349. $10.95. In Psychiatry and the Dilemmas of

Crime, Dr. Halleck concisely and articulately guides the reader

through the labyrinth of crime and punishment as it presently exists in the United States. Special emphasis is placed on the biological, psychological and sociological causes for not only the commission of crime, but also for the deliberate punitiveness which assertedly permeates our antiquated system of criminal procedure. Dr. Halleck suggests a procedure consistent with his basic proposition that criminal rehabilitation rather than punish-ment should be society's goal.

THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. Carl Bakal. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1966. Pp. 392. $6.95. Every half hour a death occurs in the United States due to bullet wounds. Since 1900, more than 750,000 Americans have been killed by guns and bullets, a figure made doubly appalling by comparison with the total number of our military who have died in all our wars-530,000. Yet in this highly protective society of ours-where one can be fined for crossing the street against the light, where every puppy has a license-there are no laws to control the ownership of firearms. Why? Mr. Bakal discusses and attempts to answer this question.

STORM OVER THE STATES. Terry Sanford. New York: Mc-Graw-Hill Book Co. 1967. Pp. 212. $5.95. To most Americans their state government is an irritating puzzle-an expensive archaism that stands in the way of national progress. According to former North Carolina Governor Sanford, after a two-year research project, this prevalent opinion is wrong and actually complicates and prolongs problems that afflict our Nation. The book expresses Mr. Sanford's thoughts on how the states' governments might be fashioned by the people "to whom they belong" so that they might serve both the immediate desires of the people and their enduring principles of government.

THE SUSPECT AND SOCIETY: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CONVERGING CONSTITUTIONAL DOCTRINES. Walter V. Schaefer. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. 1967. Pp. 99. $3.50. In The Suspect and Society, Justice Schaefer isolates a single area of criminal procedure-the period from arrest to arraignment. He analyzes the arguments and historical antecedents advanced in support of the constitutional

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privilege against self-incrimination, and indicates that the logical

conclusion to the present trend lies in the prohibition of

ques-tioning suspects. The suggestion is proffered that a fair and

workable system of criminal procedure can be established by

interrogating the accused only in the presence of a magistrate,

with the proviso that unanswered questions may later be

com-mented on at trial.

AN UNHURRIED VIEW OF COPYRIGHT. Benjamin Kaplan.

New York: Columbia University Press. 1967. Pp. 142. $5.00.

This work contains the James S. Carpentier Lectures given in

1966 at Columbia University. The three lectures deal with the

development of attitudes toward ownership of literary, musical

and artistic work from the sixteenth century to the copyright

statute of 1909; current public policy toward copyright

protec-tion; and possible reforms of copyright law in light of modern

methods of communication. Professor Kaplan believes that

greater emphasis should be placed on easy public access to and

use of products of the mind than protection of individual

ownership in these products.

ABORTION. Lawrence Loder. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon

Press. 1966. Pp. 212. $1.95.

ABORTION IN AMERICA. Harold Rosen, M.D., Ph.D. Boston,

Massachusetts: Beacon Press. 1967. Pp. 368. $2.95.

THE A.F. OF L. Philip Taft. New York: Harper and Brothers

A NEW LOOK AT CONFESSIONS: ESCOBEDO-THE

SEC-OND ROUND. James B. George, Jr., ed. Ann Arbor, Michigan:

Institute of Continuing Legal Education. 1967. Pp. 304. $15.00.

ARRESTS, SEARCHES, CONFESSIONS. William E. Ringel.

Jamaica, New York: Gould Publications. 1966. Pp. 328. $6.00.

COLLEGES AND THE COURTS. M. M. Chambers. Danville,

Illinois: Interstate Printers and Publishers. 1967. Pp. 326. $6.50.

CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION. Donald G. Morgan.

Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1966. Pp. 490.

$8.95.

THE COST OF THE AMERICAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM. James

T. Brennan. West Haven, Connecticut: The Professional Library

Press. 1966. Pp. 150. $3.50.

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CRIME AND ITS CORRECTION. John Conrad. Berkeley, Cali-fornia: University of California Press. 1965. Pp. 312. $7.50.

CRIMINAL LAW. Richard C. Donnelly, Joseph Goldstein and Richard D. Schwartz. New York: The Free Press. 1962. Pp.

1169. $17.50.

DEFENSE OF DRUNK DRIVING CASES. Richard E. Erwin. Albany, New York: Matthew Bender and Co. 2d ed. 1966. Pp. 790. $30.50.

DETECTION OF CRIME. Lawrence P. Tiffany, Donald M. Mc-Intyre, Jr., and Daniel Rotenberg. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co. 1967. Pp. 286. $10.00.

THE ENSNARED SHAREHOLDER: DIRECTORS AND THE MODERN CORPORATION. Dr. Alexander Rubner. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1967. Pp. 210. $7.50.

EXPANDING LIBERTIES. Milton R. Konvitz. New York: The Viking Press. 1967. Pp. 429. $8.95.

THE EXPLOITATION AND CONSERVATION OF THE RE-SOURCES OF THE SEA. F. V. Garcia Amador. The Nether-lands: A. W. Sythoff-Leyden. 2d ed. 1963. Pp. 240. No price given.

1787 THE GRAND CONVENTION. Clinton Rossiter. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1966. Pp. 443. $7.95.

GROUP PROCESS AND GANG DELINQUENCY. James F. Short, Jr. and Fred L. Stradtbeck. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press. 1965. Pp. 294. $7.50.

HANDLING FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS. Lester S. Jayson. San Francisco, California: Matthew Bender and Co. 1964. Pp. 2033. No price given.

HUGO BLACK AND THE SUPREME COURT. Stephen Strick-land, ed. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. 1967. Pp. 365. $10.00.

JURY INSTRUCTIONS ON MEDICAL ISSUES. George J. Alex-ander. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Allen Smith Co. 1966. Pp. 519. No price given.

JUSTICE WITHOUT TRIAL. Jerome H. Skolnick. New York: John Wiley and Son, Inc. 1965. Pp. 279. $7.95.

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KOHLER ON STRIKE. Walter H. Uphoff. Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. 1966. Pp. 449. $7.50.

LABOR AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. William W. Wirtz. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc. 1964. Pp. 196. $3.95.

THE LAWYER IN MODERN SOCIETY. Vern Countryman and Ted Finman. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co.

1966. Pp. 911. $13.00.

LAWYERS AND THEIR WORK. Quintin Johnstone and Dan Hobson, Jr. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1967. Pp. 604. $10.00.

THE MANAGEMENT FUNCTION. Leonard A. Keller. Washing-ton, D.C.: B.N.A. Books. 1963. Pp. 289. $9.75.

THE MARIHUANNA PAPERS. David Solomon, ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1966. Pp. 448. $10.00

MODERN RULE AGAINST PERPETUITIES. Robert J. Lynn. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. 1966.

Pp.

THE NEW CONFESSIONS STANDARDS: MIRANDA V. ARIZONA. Nathan R. Sobel. Jamaica, New York: Gould Pub-lications. 1967. Pp. 153. $6.50.

OMBUDSMEN AND OTHERS. Walter Gellhorn. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1966. Pp. 448. $6.95.

ORGANIZING THE LAW. Stephen I. Schlossberg. Washington, D.C.: B.N.A. Books. 1967. Pp. 250. $8.50.

POLITICAL AND CIVIL RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES. Thomas I. Emerson, David Haber, and Norman Dorsen. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Co. 1967. Pp. 1754. (2 vols.)

$18.00.

THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH. Michael DiSalle. New York: Random House. 1965. Pp. 214. $4.95.

THE PRESS IN THE JURY BOX. Howard Felsher and Michael Rosen. New York: The Macmillan Co. 1966. Pp. 239. $5.95.

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the Association of the BAR of the City of New York. New York: Columbia University Press. 1967. Pp. 321. $3.75.

THE RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS' DEBATES. Alfred Avins, ed. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Commission on Con-stitutional Government. 1967. Pp. 764. $4.50.

RECOVERY FOR WRONGFUL DEATH. Stewart Speiser, ed. Rochester, New York: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Co. 1966. $28.50.

SEARCH & SEIZURE AND THE SUPREME COURT. Jacob W. Landynski. Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press. 1966. Pp. 384. $8.50.

SELECTED ESSAYS ON THE CONFLICTS OF LAW. Brainerd Currie. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 1963. Pp. 761. $15.00.

THE SILENT PARTNERS: INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS AND CORPORATE CONTROL. D. J. Baum and N. B. Stiles. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. 1967. Pp. 176.

$5.95.