Book Reviews : The Political Institutions of the German Revolution, 1918-1919. Edited by CHARLES B. BURDICK and RALPH H. LUTZ. (New York: Published for The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, Stanford, California, by Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1966. Pp. vii, 305. $7.50.)

• Published date: 01 December 1966
• Date: 01 December 1966
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296601900418
• Subject Matter: Articles

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In view of the recent emphasis by the Supreme Court on the protection of
individual rights at all levels of the judicial process, and the increased interest of
government in providing legal assistance to the disadvantaged, the need for highly
qualified lawyers, willing to act in accordance with their professional ethics, is
obvious. But professional codes of ethics may, themselves, be unsuitable for modern
legal practice. In an age of specialization is it realistic to maintain a code that
emphasizes the fictional norm that attorneys should be able and willing to take
any type of case? Can the poor avail themselves of legal services if they are un-
aware of their existence because of professional sanctions against advertising?
Carlin’s study implicitly poses these questions.
For the development of a better understanding of the judicial process, Carlin’s
study makes an important contribution to our understanding of the role of profes-
sional ethics in structuring the behavior of a major actor in this system.
GEORGE F. COLE
Allegheny College
The Political Institutions of the German Revolution, 1918-1919. Edited by
CHARLES B. BURDICK and RALPH H. LUTZ. (New York: Published for The
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University,
Stanford, California, by Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1966. Pp. vii, 305.
$7.50.)
This work takes its place alongside several other Hoover Institution document
collections to illustrate the history of the first world war, the peace conferences
and treaties, and the revolutionary upheavals that accompanied the war. The
name of Ralph H. Lutz, professor emeritus at Stanford, is associated with most
of them. His son-in-law, Charles B. Burdick, a professor of history at San Jose
State College, has collaborated with him this time in the task of weeding the
thousands of documents on the German Revolution to illustrate its course and the
crosscurrents within it. The book is smaller and more limited in scope than Lutz...