KU dean of law attends judicial conference
Dean Lawrence E. Blades and Professor Paul E. Wilson of the University of Kansas School of Law were among the participants in the Tenth Circuit Judicial Conference at Jackson Lake, Wyoming, on June 30 to July 3.
The conference, which was sponsored by the American Bar Association, was attended by more than 500 federal and state judges, lawyers, teachers and bar officials.
The entire 3-day program was focused upon the recommendations of the American Bar Association Special Committee on Minimum Standards for Criminal Justice, which has recently proposed far-reaching changes in
the administration of criminal justice in the United States.
The Committee is headed by Chief Justice Warren E. Burger.
Carter Justice Warren E. Burger. Wilson, who is Kane professor in the School of Law, was one of twenty experts on criminal law who appeared on panels on the conference program.
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Among the other panelists were Chief Justice Burger, retired Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark, Richard G. Kleindienst, Deputy Attorney General of the United States, U.S. Senator Roman L. Hruska of Nebraska and Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Professor Wilson commented upon Sentencing Alternatives, Criminal Appeals, and Post-Conviction Procedures.
Law Section of the American Bar Association to acquaint the nation's judges and bar leaders with the nature and purpose of the proposed new standards.
The conference was the first of a projected series of circuit conferences planned by the Criminal
More than eighty of the country's leading judges, lawyers and public officials have participated in the minimum standards study, which has extended over a period of four years. It is the first project in the history of the American judiciary to establish and recommend uniform procedures for the expeditious and fair handling of criminal cases from investigation and arrest, through trial, sentence and post-conviction remedies.
Wilson was on the staff of the project during its pilot phase and, as a member of the Council of the ABA Section of Criminal Law, has worked with the project throughout the entire period of
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Both Blades and Wilson are members of a group designated by Louis Nichols, Chairman of the
ABA Section of Criminal Law, to consider ways and means of implementation of the standards in Kansas.
Educ. prof appointed to committee
Prof. Robert W. Ridgway, associate dean of the University of Kansas School of Education, has been appointed to the new national planning committee of the Council on International Educational Exchange.
The committee, which is concerned with teacher education programs, will review reports of several survey teams and make recommendations on potential educational sites in France, Germany, Spain, Columbia, and Japan.
group visiting Bogota and Medellin in Colombia later this month
Ridgway will be in a survey
in the Columbia later this month. The Council, which is supported by several foundations, already has established educational program sites in Italy, Japan, East Africa and Sweden. The Italian center is for prospective teachers of art. In Sweden, the area is elementary education.
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