EDITORIAL NOTES
| Date | 01 June 1937 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1937.tb00003.x |
| Published date | 01 June 1937 |
THE
MODERN
LAW
REVIEW
Vol.
I
JUNE,
1937
No.
I
CONTENTS
PACE
PAGE
The Problems
of
a Functional Mod'ern Trends in the Law
of
Torts
39
Jurisprudence
.
.
.
5
Statutes
.
.
. 64
.
73
A
Scale
of
Values in
the
Common Notes
of
Cases
.
Law
.
.
27
Reviews
.
.
84
EDITORIAL
NOTES
N
this first number of
THE
MODERN
LAW
REVIEW
some apologia
is perhaps needed for the appearance of yet another journal
devoted to the discussion
of
legal topics. The Editorial
Committee feel that they cannot put their point
of
view better
than
it
appears in the following quotation from the circular which
they addressed to the profession and to others who might be
interested.
I
English legal periodicals have hitherto dealt almost exclusively with
the technical aspects of the law treated from such varying points of view
as the historical, analytical, or descriptive. Although this approach is, and
must always remain, indispensable,
a
group of lawyers, including members
both of
the
teaching and the practising branches of the profession, have
for some time been thinking that it isolates the law too much from those
contemporary social conditions in which it must always operate, qnd
cannot therefore be safely used
as
an exclusive method of legal thinking.
They have decided accordingly to start a new periodical to be called
THE
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