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Report Of The Dean 1957–1958, Joseph O'Meara

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Dean Joseph O'Meara summarizes and comments upon the 1957–1958 academic year at Notre Dame Law School. Topics include: the student body, student accomplishments—including bar examination results—program of instruction, faculty, special events, law library, law building, the Natural Law Institute, and faculty publications.

The Supreme Court In The American Constitutional System: Foreword, Joseph O'Meara

Journal Articles

Our Symposium’s purpose is to examine the function of the Supreme Court and the conditions under which it necessarily operates, and in this way, we hope, to illuminate some of the far-reaching questions which are involved.

113th University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

113th University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

Congressional Committee Reports: Their Role And History, Thomas F. Broden

Journal Articles

Most lawyers have an extremely limited understanding of the function of a congressional committee report. In general, lawyers think of such reports as aids to the interpretation of statutes on the books and much has been written about this role of the committee report. This role is considered by many as the committee report's primary, if not its only, function. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is the purpose of this article to explain its other, more important roles, those in the legislative process and to examine the historical development of the use of written committee reports in …

Bulletin Of The University Of Notre Dame The Law School 1958–59, Volume 55, Number 3, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

The College of Law, an outgrowth of a course in law established at the University in 1869, is the oldest Catholic law school in the United States. In the reorganization of the University in 1905 the department of law was given the status of a college, and since then it has enjoyed a steady growth. The College is a member of the 'Association of American Law Schools, an organization of ninety-eight law schools, including the leading university schools of the country, and is rated as approved by the Council on Legal Education of the American Bar Association.

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Fire Insurance For Freedom, Clarence Emmett Manion

Journal Articles

Mr. President Betts, Mr. President-Elect, gentlemen of the International Association of Insurance Counsel and your lovely ladies: I am particularly grateful and edified to a very great extent by the intelligent interest of the advocates of the advocates—may I say that of your lovely wives—for their sustained interest in these legalisms that you have heard here this morning. It is very impressive, and it encourages me to say primarily to the ladies present that what I am ostensibly addressing to the gentlemen, I am really addressing to you. I know, of course, that you are defense lawyers primarily, and I …

The Legal Status Of Joint Venture Corporations, Thomas F. Broden, Alfred L. Scanlan

Journal Articles

American industry employs many forms of business organizations. The sole proprietorship, the partnership, general and limited, the joint venture, the joint stock company, the corporation, public issue and close, and many others are all familiar and well established in their use. This article deals with the use by American industry of the close corporation to carry on a joint venture. With due deference to purists in legal terminology we have elected to refer to this particular type of corporate entity as the joint venture corporation. In this article we not only look at the use made of the joint venture …