MAY THE BAR SET ITS OWN HOUSE IN ORDER?

California is a particularly appropriate jurisdiction to be used as the basis for a study such as the present. Its State Bar Act of 1927 was one of the early, detailed, legislative attempts to confer self-governing powers upon the bar, its decisions have become leading cases on the questions of constitutionality and construction thus presented, and its reported disciplinary cases far outnumber those of any other state-baract jurisdiction. Consideration of the relative merits of different methods of bar integration is outside the scope of this paper. But no inference should be drawn from anything herein that a statutory bar of the California type is intrinsically disadvantageous.