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Dooley's Dictum, Vol. 1, No. 02, Notre Dame Law School Student Bar Association

Dooley's Dictum

Dooley's Dictum: A Newspaper of, by and for the Fighting Irish Lawyers of Notre Dame

A publication of the Student Bar Association

Dooley's Dictum, Vol. 1, No. 01, Notre Dame Law School Student Bar Association

Dooley's Dictum

Dooley' Dictum: A Newspaper of, by and for the Fighting Irish Lawyers of Notre Dame

A publication of the Student Bar Association

Law School, 1971/72, Bulletin Of Information, University Of Notre Dame, Volume 67, Number 3, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

5 General Information

16 Admission and Degree Requirements

20 Student Activities

25 Housing and Health

27 Fees and Expenses

29 Financial Aid Program

36 Schedule of Courses

39 The Program of Instruction

40 Course and Seminar Descriptions

47 University of London Program

48 Notre Dame Law Association

50 Natural Law Institute

51 Faculty of the Law School

52 Faculty Profiles

58 Calendar

59 Honor Code

60 Officers of University Administration

62 Campus Map

65 Application for Admission

67 Financial Information Form

125th University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

125th University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

Bulletin Of The University Of Notre Dame The Law School 1970–71, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

The Notre Dame Law School, established in 1869, is the oldest Catholic law school in the United States. In keeping with its character as a national law school, the program of instruction is designed to equip a student to practice law in any jurisdiction; and the School numbers among its graduates members of the bar in every state of the Union. It is approved by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools.

PURPOSE

Drawing inspiration, as it does, from the Christian tradition, The Law School, while aiming first of all at technical …

Abortion And Legal Rationality, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

This article concerns the legitimacy of various legal schemes for dealing with abortion. Legitimacy in one sense is secured simply by complying with the formal criteria for valid law-making: enactment within power and in due form. But jurists have learned (or re-learned) that more can be said about legitimacy, without betraying the purity of their discipline by moralizing and advocacy. From this development in jurisprudential thought emerges the range of questions and criteria deployed in the present study.

The Machinery Of Criminal Justice In England And The United States, William Burns Lawless

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This article will lay side by side the major structures of the English and American criminal law procedures and will attempt to draw some conclusions helpful to strengthening American technique. Such a comparison is relevant at this time because of the mounting concern of the American people with the problem of crime and the particular feeling that, in some mysterious way, our courts or the men who man them have not properly responded to the cruel waves of lawlessness which engulf us. In other quarters, there is a feeling that the police are either inept or inadequate to the challenge …

Comparative Judicial Behavior (Book Review), Donald P. Kommers

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This book consists of several cross-cultural and exploratory studies of judicial decision-making, and is one of the first to appear in the developing field of comparative judicial politics. A product of many months of collaboration between American and Asian scholars at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, it deals chiefly with decision-making processes in the high courts of Japan, Hawaii, India, Canada, Australia, and the Philippines. The Asian contributors are mainly law teachers with a strong interest in the sociology of law; the American scholars are mainly teachers of political science whose special interest is the study of judicial behavior. …

Foreword, Charles E. Rice, Robert E. Rodes

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During the past several years the NATURAL LAW FORUM has achieved a distinctive and honored place among legal and philosophical journals. This has primarily been due to the diligent efforts of the board of editors under the leadership first of Professor Anton-Hermann Chroust and more recently Professor John Noonan as editors and of Professor Andrew T. Smithberger as managing editor. This degree of excellence was continued with the first issue of the FORUM under its new name of THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF JURISPRUDENCE.

With the resignation of Professor Noonan the Board of Editors has appointed us co-editors of THE AMERICAN …

Experience-Based Teaching Methods In Legal Counseling, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert T. Grismer

Journal Articles

Lawyers spend more time in their offices, in person-to-person encounters counseling troubled individuals, than in any other single area. The alternative to this is litigation, an expensive, inefficient, dis-functional process. Lawyers are counselors, in the most Sartrean sense of the word; whether they intend to be or not.

The presence of the counseling element in most of what lawyers do is subtle, which is probably why we have tended to overlook it. "The more we transform our ways of walking and talking, the better professional people we're going to be," one of our students said, ". . . better able …

The Organized Crime Act (S. 30) Or Its Critics: Which Threatens Civil Liberties, John L. Mcclellan, G. Robert Blakey

Journal Articles

On January 23, 1970, the Senate passed by the overwhelming vote of 73 to 1, S. 30, the Organized Crime Control Act of 1969. During the debate in the Senate, S. 30 was subjected to indiscriminate charges that it would, in the words of the American Civil Liberties Union, "make drastic incursions on civil liberties" and that it ran "counter to the letter and spirit of the Constitution."

Certain newspaper commentators and a prominent mayor have echoed those charges, and recently a report critical of several key titles of S. 30 was published by the Committee on Federal Legislation of …

Undue Influence, Confidential Relationship, And The Psychology Of Transferenc, Thomas L. Shaffer

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This article attempts to describe a common human relationship as it has been developed in two traditions which are today largely separated from one another. The relationship is referred to as "confidential" in the law and as "transference" in psychoanalytical psychology. Legal insight on the phenomenon is found mainly in the appellate literature on gratuitous transfers obtained by undue influence; psychological insight occurs in the practice and speculation of therapists who have discovered the phenomenon in psychotherapy. Both traditions are useful in understanding the confidential or transference factor in human interaction. The interaction itself has impact beyond the appellate cases …

The Psychological Autopsy In Judicial Opinions Under Section 2035, Thomas L. Shaffer

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It is surprising how many cases have been litigated under Section 2035 of the Internal Revenue Code, which imposes an estate tax on inter vivos gifts in contemplation of death. It is also surprising that those hundreds of judicial opinions embody rigid perceptions of human life, and of attitudes toward death-perceptions which range from incisive to naive. They disclose a judicial system of death psychology which is detailed, systematic and (sometimes) accurate. This is an inquiry into those opinions as psychological autopsies.

The traditional judicial view of a gift in a contemplation of death case implies that the dead man …