Published in 1948, this book is concerned with how the law school may be more effective in educating the many law-trained students who will eventually go on to work as legislators, judges, and policy-making members in government, or who, as lawyers outside the government, will nevertheless exert large influence over it. One of the most important questions is whether government lawyers are inadvertent policy-makers, and if so, how they make policy.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Lawyers and the Promotion of Justice, published in 1938, is part of a series dealing with the status of certain established or emerging professions in the United States. It focuses on the evolution of professional education and problems incident to it in regards to the field of law.

ESTHER LUCILE BROWN was director of the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

A pioneering exploration of housing legislation published in 1914, this book examined the little housing laws in the country at the time, tenement house laws in New York City. It proposed a model housing law which later influenced a number of state and city legislators throughout the country to adapt the proposal into their own laws. An updated and expanded edition was published in 1920.

LAWRENCE VEILLER was secretary of the New York State Tenement House Commission, and First Deputy Tenement Commissioner of the Tenement Department of New York City.

A paper read before the American Prison Association at Baltimore in 1912.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this report details the treatment of persons awaiting court action and misdemeanant prisoners. It argues that these prisoners are the most likely to reform because they include those who are imprisoned for the first time, and it presents a particular way of treatment towards them in the prison system.

HASTINGS H. HART was director of the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Address delivered before the Seventh Annual Convention of the American Industrial Lenders' Association in Chicago 1921.

ARTHUR H. HAM was director of the remedial loans division of the Russell Sage Foundation.

Broken Homes attempts to analyze the causal factors that lead husbands and fathers to desert their families. It asks why men desert their wives and children and what steps can be taken for both preventative and corrective treatment. Published in 1919, this book is a careful examination of relationships and the motives behind marriage, detailing the history of desertion laws and providing additional strategies for social workers in assisting deserted families.

JOANNA C. COLCORD was superintendent of the Charity Organization Society of the City of New York.

A summary of reports issued by the British Ministry of Munitions published in 1917, including work on labor regulations, the employment of women and youth, and a comparison of the munitions industries of England and France.

HENRIETTE R. WALTER, Investigator, Division of Industrial Studies, Russell Sage Foundation

Presented at the fifty-first congress of the American Prison Association in 1921, this paper defines and examines what was referred to as the Vermont Prison Labor Law, which allowed a person sentenced to jail to work for a salary. It details the conditions surrounding this law, and argues that most prisoners need care and guidance more than punishment. Printed with Employment for Jail Prisoners in Wisconsin by Hornell Hart.

FRANK H. TRACY, sheriff, Montpellier Vermont

A manual prepared in 1918 for the strengthening and standardization of the practice of placing orphaned or foster children in homes.

WILLIAM H. SLINGERLAND was a special agent in the Department of Child-Helping of the Russell Sage Foundation.