The addresses contained in this book were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series before the Law School of Yale University. LUCILIUS A. EMERY was a Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Court and contributed to The Yale Law Journal a thought-provoking article on the tendency, observable in enough of our States to justify calling it general, to change the working of our jury system by transferring to the jurymen a part of the power entrusted under the English common law to the Judge.