Calendar: 1961-1962 Page 414

ANNUAL ΚΕΡΟΚΤ XXX111 Higher Degrees IjL by examination Hollingworth Mellows Miss Hanora Murphy Palmer Ph Miss Gillian White Post-war measures of confiscation and nationalization affecting aliens Departmental Notes Two new developments took place during the session In the first place system of regular law moots was introduced in which every undergraduate in the Faculty is required to participate actively at least once in each session as part of his normal curricular activities Until suitable accommodation in the form of court room can be provided for this important activity the moots will continue to take place in the Laws Library The second long-sought innovation is the opening of the Laws Library in the evening facility of particular value to the many evening under- graduates in the Faculty Some internal structural alterations improved the working conditions in the Faculty's premises particularly by the welcome reduction of noise It was not possible however to ease the cramped conditions in which the normal work of the Faculty continues to be done for both day and evening students undergraduate and postgraduate within the inter- collegiate teaching scheme of the University The annual celebrity lecture was given by Dean Ε Rostow of Yale Law School on The enforcement of morals Extra-curricular activities of members of the staff have included the following Professor Graveson initiated project of comparative studies within common-law systems called Commonwealth-American Legal Studies By the end of the session over forty universities and other institutions in every continent throughout the common-law world were co-operating in the project including the University of London Mr Jones was appointed Secretary of the project Professor Graveson presided at meeting in Helsinki of the Directing Committee of the International Association of Legal Sciences UNESCO and was elected President of the Association He paid informal visits to the Law Faculties of the Universities of Moscow and Leningrad He submitted memorandum on the reform of the law of domicile to the Lord Chancellor's Private International Law Committee and was member of its sub-committee on the Formal Validity of Wills drafting the Fourth Report of the Committee Cmnd 491 As one of the Jubilee lecturers at Sheffield University he spoke on The modern law of domicile he delivered short course of lectures at the Hague Academy of International Law on The comparative evolution of the conflict of laws in England and the and gave course