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Ford Foundation Annual Report 1971







GRANTS-NATIONAL AFFAIRS Grants Approved (Reductions) Payments (Refunds)
Studies and demonstration programs in the administration of justice
American Bar Foundation [$680,000-1965] 152,526
American Law Institute [$180,000-1970] 54,000
California, University of (Davis) [$1,000,000-1967] 116,300
Chicago, University of 120,000 19,500
Greater Cleveland Associated Foundation [$157,185-1970] 157,185
Greater Hartford Community Council [$66,000-1970] 33,000
Institute of Judicial Administration 225,000 56,250
International Legal Center 84,847 8,500
National Center for State Courts 25,000 25,000
National Council on Crime and Delinquency [$260,000-1970] 137,500
United Nations Social Defense Research Institute 165,000 85,000
Vera Institute of Justice [$1,500,000-1970] 195,025
Vanderbilt University
Publication of race relations law survey [$122,700-1969] 40,513
LEGAL EDUCATION
Council on Legal Education for Professional Responsibility
Field training of law school students [$3,400,000-1970] 1,671,250
Criminal law training for law students
New York University [$600,000-1968] 113,946
Northwestern University [$600,000-1967] 130,322
Texas, University of [$380,000-1967] 65,127
National Bar Foundation
Research, education, and conferences on professional development of black lawyers and judges 64,300 171,200
New York University
Conference on medical law 2,000 2,000
Summer training of law professors in urban legal problems [$443,500-1969] 120,000
Stanford University
Study of legal education [$18,000-1970] 18,000
RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENT
Advanced training and research in ecology and resource management
Arizona, University of [$371,850-1970] 37,030
British Columbia, University of [$483,200-1968] 127,740
California, University of (Davis) [$15,300-1970] 15,300
California, University of (Santa Barbara) [$278,500-1968] 63,999
Chicago, University of [$1,036,000-1967] 190,824
Imperial College of Science and Technology (England) [$174,000-1969] 19,470
Johns Hopkins University [$858,000-1968] 306,442
Manitoba, University of [$250,000-1968] 49,750
Michigan, University of 100,000
Missouri Botanical Garden [$420,000-1968] (100,000) 118,692
New York, State University of (Stony Brook) [$368,000-1970] 160,248
Pennsylvania, University of [$300,000-1970] 100,000
Princeton University [$372,000-1967] 78,000
Stanford University [$470,000-1968] 109,178
Washington, University of [$662,695-1968, 1969] 147,989
Yale University [$909,655-1968] 164,893
Citizen environmental education
Colorado Open Space Foundation [$75,000-1968] 18,824
Concern, Inc. 15,000 15,000
Conservation Foundation [$500,000-1967] 5,000 130,000
Educational Broadcasting Corporation 35,000 35,000
Massachusetts Audubon Society [$150,000-1969] 56,674
New Hampshire Charitable Fund [$84,650-1969] 42,325
North Jersey Conservation Foundation [$82,270-1970] 24,920
Scientists' Institute for Public Information 50,000 25,000
World Wildlife Fund [$285,000-1970] 50,000
Environmental law training and research
American Law Institute 4,922 4,922
California, University of (Berkeley) [$10,000-1970] 10,000
Colorado, University of [$112,000-1969] 49,666
Environmental Law Institute [$152,000-1970] 12,125 76,765
George Washington University [$251,000-1970] 58,100
Michigan, University of 2,832 2,832
Wisconsin, University of [$120,000-1966] (94,955)


rights struggles. Howard has since 1967 been tape-recording interviews with important civil rights figures and collecting related, unpublished documentation. The Martin Luther King center secures and indexes papers, films, and books on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, from which it distills material for school curricula.

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE

The Foundation's concern with effective functioning of the third branch of government ranges from the rights of individuals to the role of law in advancing American society as a whole.

Assisted this year were programs on prisons and crime control, the legal rights of minorities, court reform, police administration, and representation of the public interest.

Public Interest Law.

After a month's suspension late in 1970 of tax-exemption for public interest law centers, the Internal Revenue Service issued guidelines within which these law centers can litigate in such fields as environmental and consumer protection, health care, and communications policy.

Broadly defined, public interest law represents people and groups who, though neither indigent nor handicapped in the ordinary sense, have substantial collective or class interests which otherwise would go unrepresented. Public interest law centers bring cases before courts and administrative bodies; often the desired relief comes about without litigation, simply as the result of calling attention to the governing laws and regulations.

Of the public interest law centers assisted by the Foundation in 1971, three specialize in environmental issues (see page 27). Others are Public Advocates, Inc., of California, an experiment with public interest law in a statewide jurisdiction, and the League of Women Voters Education Fund, which is using its grant for a program focused on the electoral process, discrimination in registration and voting, and legislative reapportionment.

A grant to Georgetown University helped