Monday, Nov. 23, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Law Professor Knows 'Leave' Means Work
By Suzy Tichacek
Packing his suitcases, after only a three day visit, Paul Wilson, professor of law, returned to New York yesterday.
Traveling back and forth from New York to Kansas is not unusual for Prof. Wilson. He does it about once a month.
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Prof. Wilson is on leave this year from KU but he finds himself almost busier than when 'he was teaching.
WHEN A PROFESSOR goes on leave, it's not a vacation. This year while he is away from KU, Prof. Wilson is acting as associate director of the Institute of Judicial Administration at the New York University School of Law.
Prof. Wilson said the institute is one of the activities at New York University law center which is concerned with a research program and publishing results of studies to improve the administration of justice in America.
Along with his work in New York, Prof. Wilson travels back to Kansas about once a month working on another project. For more than a year he has been acting as a reporter for an advisory committee for the Kansas Judicial Council which is drafting a proposal for a new criminal code.
"It is a group of lawyers and judges," Prof. Wilson said, "who
are preparing drafts of new criminal statutes and then will present them at the monthly meeting."
THE COMMITTEE was started in September of 1963 and Prof. Wilson hopes the recommendations will be submitted to the 1967 session of the legislature.
He went on to explain this committee is making an effort to simplify and up-date the criminal laws of Kansas.
"The criminal statutes are basically those that were passed by the territorial legislature in 1855." Prof. Wilson said. "The texts for those laws were taken from the laws of Missouri in 1820. The old laws may not be bad but there is a need for modernization."
Another project Prof. Wilson is currently working on concerns the Minimum Standards for the Administration of Criminal Justice. He said the study was being undertaken by the institute for the American Bar Association.
"There has been a great deal of interest in criminal law and standards of fairness in our courts," Prof. Wilson said. Concern has been expressed by lawyers and other people as well as Supreme Court decisions about the practices which prevailed in some of the lower courts' administration of justice, he said.
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"IN THIS STUDY leading judges and lawyers will discuss and formulate standards of fairness that ought to apply to the courts." Prof. Wilson said. "Although the study will go on for three years, I will be there only one year."
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sponsibility of publishing the "American Criminal Law Quarterly," one of two national criminal law publications.
Prof. Wilson is also working on a study which will result in a publication on educational programs for the judiciary in the United States. These programs are for orientation and the training of judges, he said.
Prof. Wilson said there are sections of the American Bar Association according to individual interests. About 2,500 lawyers, teachers and judges are interested in criminal law and this publication communicates information and opinions among the members and officers of the section.
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In addition to these various studies, Prof. Wilson shares the re-
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"The institute each year also conducts a calendar study of courts throughout the country," Prof. Wilson said. "We gather statistics to show how long it takes a case to get through a court in a particular area—it could be as long as five years. We examine court calendars, especially in larger cities, determine the delay and what can be done to speed up the cases," he said.
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