Professor Laski Appointed Visiting Professor of Government and Law at Yale University

Professor Harold J. Laski, Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics, London University, has been appointed to the Faculty of Yale University as Visiting Professor of Government and Law for the second term of the academic year.

Among students of political science, both in the United States and in Europe, Professor Laski, who is in his 38th. year, is regarded as the foremost authority in the English-speaking world on the newer developments in political theory and governmental structure. At Yale he will work with graduate and undergraduate students in political science and with students in the law school.

Professor Laski was recalled from America by the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald in 1929, in order to become a member of the Committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor (the Donoughmore Committee) after consultation with the Premier to investigate the safeguards necessary to secure the constitutional principles of the sovereignty of Parliament and the supremacy of the law. The enquiry was set up in response to growing demands against what is complained to be the dangerous and growing practice of government by departmental orders.