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Report Of The Dean 1966–1967, Joseph O'Meara

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Dean Joseph O'Meara summarizes and comments upon the 1966–1967 academic year at Notre Dame Law School. Topics include: the student body, financial aid, student activities—including bar examination results—housing, program of instruction, faculty, special events, law library, law building, the Natural Law Institute, the Notre Dame Law Association, the Advisory Council, and faculty publications.

122nd University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

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122nd University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

Bulletin Of The University Of Notre Dame The Law School 1967–68, Volume 64, Number 3, University Of Notre Dame

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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 …

Dedication: Dean Joseph O'Meara, William J. Brennan

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, William J. Brennan, congratulates and honors Joseph O'Meara on his retirement as dean of Notre Dame Law School.

Dedication: Dean Joseph O'Meara, Theodore M. Hesburgh Csc

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President of the University of Notre Dame, congratulates and thanks law school dean, Joseph O'Meara for his leadership over the past fifteen years.

Dedication: Dean Joseph O'Meara, Charles Fahy

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Charles Fahy, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, writes in admiration of the service and leadership that Dean Joseph O'Meara has provided to the law school, lawyers, and the nation.

Dedication: Dean Joseph O'Meara, The Law Faculty Of The University Of Notre Dame

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

The law faculty come together to offer praise and gratitude for the arduous work of Dean Joseph O'Meara as he retires from leadership but not from teaching.

Direct Restraint On The Press, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

If I were to suggest that the public force be used to silence and hide sources of information about government as Mr. Cooper's committee, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the United States Attorney General, and United States Senator Morse have suggested, I could begin with impressive authority. If I were to suggest nothing at all, as the organized press has done, I could begin with swelling rhetoric on the nature of man. But for my suggestion, direct restraint on the press, the only thing at hand is a fable, the story of a crisis that nearly prevented the marriage …

Abortion, The Law And Human Life, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The issue in abortion "reform" is whether existing criminal sanctions against doctors and pregnant women should be abolished or liberalized. From one point of view this is the question presented in any discussion of the criminal law—whether people should be put in jail for doing something. From another viewpoint, it is the question presented in any discussion of existing law—whether the reformers, who presumably have the burden of proof, have made a case. The controversy will be especially interesting to Indiana lawyers, who last winter saw an abortion-reform proposal pass both houses of the General Assembly and then die (abort?) …

Reason And Passion: The Constitutional Dialectic Of Free Speech And Obscenity, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

In recent obscenity cases, the Supreme Court has been attempting to define the constitutional meaning of "speech." This is not as banal a statement as it may seem, for there are critics, both on and off the Court, who think that the Court's task is to define "freedom."

Some advocate boundless freedom in this area. For them, obscenity raises no special problems of definition, and is simply an exercise of speech or press presenting dangers which are remote and disputable, rather than clear and present. From this point of view, the only relevant distinction is that between "speech" and "conduct." …

Justice Black, The Demonstrators, And A Constitutional Rule Of Law, Charles E. Rice

Journal Articles

In evaluating here briefly a jurist whose career as a shaper of the fundamental law has spanned the past three decades, one treads warily for fear of oversimplification. It would be an easy thing to categorize such a man as Justice Black, to pigeonhole him and his philosophy in the compartment marked "liberal" or "activist" and to let it go at that, serene in the thought that the classification had exhausted the subject. But such a categorization would be illusory and perilous were it not hedged about by those qualifications required in an evaluation of a productive mind.

Note, Medical And Dental X-Rays--A Time For Re-Evaluation And State Action, James H. Seckinger

Journal Articles

In 1956, the National Academy of Sciences in a report on "The Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation" warned the public of the serious consequences that may flow from any type of radiation exposure. The report set forth the relationship between low-level exposure, that type of exposure which is present in the medical and dental use of X-rays, and long-range biological effects. Because of the possibility of such long-range effects, the Academy recommended that the medical authorities take prompt action to eliminate all unnecessary radiation in the use of X-rays.

Despite the strong language used by the Academy, and the lapse …