Year.

Name.

Subject.

1908 JOSEPH H. CHOATE...

Progress at the Second Hague Conference.

1909 FRANCIS LYNDE STETSON..... The Lawyer's Livelihood.

NOTE.

Bar Association Ideals.

Reform of Procedure.

Judicial Decisions and Public Feel

ing.

Pending Questions.

The Tribunes of the People.
Address.

Menaces to the Administration of
Justice.

Current Events.

New Phases of National Develop-
ment.

The Republic After the War..
Some Responsibilities of the Ameri-
can Lawyer.

Pressing Problems of Government.
The Public Service of the American
Bar.

Judicial Power by Administrative

Boards and the Creation of Ad-
ministrative Courts.

The Home Rule Amendment to the
Constitution.

The subject of the annual addresses has been, where not otherwise stated, a review of the objects attained during each year, and suggestions for the future.

IDGE, Lord Chief Justice of
England..

1884 JOHN G. MILBURN.

1887 HENRY HITCHCOCK..

1888 DANIEL DOUGHERTY..

1889 THOMAS M. COOLEY..

1890 ROBERT G. INGERSOLL. 1891 JOHN S. WISE..

1892 MELVILLE BIGELOW..

1893 ALTON B. PARKER.. 1893 DAVID J. BREWER. 1894 ADLAI E. STEVENSON 1894 JOSEPH N. DOLPH..

Subject.
Legislation in This Country as it
Affects the Administration of
Justice in the Courts; What it
has Been; What it Ought to Be.
Retrospective Legislation.

The Function of the Legal Profes-
sion in the Progress of Civiliza-
tion.

American Lawyers and American
Law.

What is This Age and Time Ac-
complishing in the Domain of
Law?

Recent Changes in American State
Constitutions.

The Integrity and Independence of
the Bar.

Comparative Merits of
of Written
and Prescriptive Constitutions.
Crimes Against Criminals.
New Litigation on Highways Re-
sulting from the Use of Elec-
tricity.

Respect for the Law and Responsi

bility of the Profession.

A Phase of Law Reform.
The Nation's Safeguard.
The Lawyer.

Law Reform.

By resolution of the Association, owing to the death of President Garfield, which took place on the day of the meeting of the Association, the annual address and all papers, instead of being read, were submitted in silence.

A special meeting was called October 11, 1883, to receive Lord Coleridge.

Year.

Name.

Subject.

1895 JOHN F. DILLON..

Property Its Rights and Duties in Our Legal and Social Systems.

1896 CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW........ Patriotism and Jingoism— The Law

yer's Duty.

1897 WILLIAM L. WILSON......... Some Points in the Working of our

1898 WILLIAM C. DEWITT. . . . . . . .
1899 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.....
1900 HENRY B. BROWN...
1901 WU TING-FANG
1902 JULES CAMBON

...

1902 JAMES M. BECK.... 1903 ROKUICHIRO MASUJIMA 1904 JOHN WATSON FOSTER.

1905 WILLIAM LINDSAY

1906 CHARLES E. LITTLEfield.

1907 JACOB M. DICKINSON.. 1908 JAMES BRYCE

1909 JOHN C. SPOONER..

1910 JOSEPH W. BAILEY.......

Constitutional System.

Charter of Greater New York.
Law in Science and Science in Law.
The Liberty of the Press.
Chinese Jurisprudence.

The Relations of Diplomacy to the
Development of International Law,
Public and Private.

The Suppression of Anarchy.
... The Present Position of Japanese
Law and Jurisprudence.

What the United States Has Done
for International Arbitration.
The Relations of the General Gov-
ernment with the States Compos-
ing the Federal Union.

The Three Departments of Govern-
ment and their Relation to Each
Other.

... Centralization by Construction and
Interpretation of the Constitution.
The Methods and Conditions of
Legislation.

Year.

Name.

1915 WILLIAM H. TAFT.... 1916 CHARLES E. HUGHES..

Subject.

State Constitutions.

Some Aspects of the Development

of American Law.

1917 LINDLEY M. GARRISON........ The Lawyer on Public Affairs.

1918 SIR FREDERICK EDWIN SMITH.

1919 DAVID JAYNE HILL......

Law, War and the Future.

The Authority of International Law.

1920 CHARLES S. THOMAS... ... Federal Encroachments.

1921 GEORGE SUTHERLAND.

1922 JOHN W. Davis.....

Principle or Expedient?

International Justice.

1923 GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER..... Phases of our International Relations.

1924 ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE..

The Supremacy of the Supreme

Court.