The contents of the February issue of the Harvard Law Review, which will appear shortly, were announced yesterday by H. T. Austern 3L, president of the board of the Law School journal. The leading article is by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, of the Law School. It is entitled "The Rationale of Vicarious Admissions" and is concerned with hearsay, the use of evidence, and a critique of evidential rules in criminal and conspiracy cases.
An editorial note is on the subject of "Reversals in Illinois Criminal Cases." It shows that the higher courts of Cook County, in which Chicago is situated, reversed 11 out of 15 decisions appealed to them from the lower courts. The article states that there is "one law for the innocent and another for the guilty" in the work of the Chicago courts and gives considerable evidence on the unusual procedure of these legal bodies.
Another note concerns the civil liability of members of unincorporated labor unions, and takes up the question as to whether a firm can sue individual strikers for damages committed in an unorganized strike. Several recent Massachusetts cases are cited in the note.
There is also an article on "The Narrative Record in Federal Equity Appeals," written by E. N. Griswold, who was president of the Law Review during 1927-28. H. E. Foley's work entitled "Incorporation, Multiple Incorporation, and the Conflict of Laws," with the addition of several reviews of recent legal texts, completes the contents of the forthcoming volume.
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