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Report Of The Dean 1967–1968, Joseph O'Meara

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Dean Joseph O'Meara summarizes and comments upon the 1967–1968 academic year at Notre Dame Law School. Topics include: the student body, student activities—including bar examination results—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.

123rd University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

123rd University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

A Proposed Electronic Surveillance Control Act, G. Robert Blakey, James A. Hancock

Journal Articles

The purpose of this article is not to enter into the still active debate on the propriety of electronic surveillance, nor is it to reexamine the policy arguments for and against court order electronic surveillance legislation. Debate needs to be brought down to specifics. Mr. Justice Holmes had a favorite admonition, "[T]hink things instead of words." It is our purpose, therefore, to give to that debate a concrete proposal." Our proposal is a statute that is intended to serve as a starting point for meaningful dialogue; it is not meant to be the final word in the debate.

Judges, Repulsive Evidence And The Ability To Respond, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

This is a sequel to Bullets, Bad Florins and Old Boots, which reported the attitudes of Indiana trial judges toward the trial lawyer's "arsenal of gadgetry." The opportunity presented in 1963 was the Indiana Trial Judges Seminar and a series of sessions within it on demonstrative evidence. The opportunity this year was a series of sessions on "The Court's Control Over Demonstrative Evidence" at the 1967 Indiana Judicial Conference. There were four of these sessions, all of them conducted by Judge Creighton R. Coleman of the 37th Judicial District of Michigan (Calhoun County). Each session was attended by a group …

Bulletin Of The University Of Notre Dame The Law School 1968–69, Volume 65, Number 3, 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 …

Introduction To The Symposium: Riots, Joseph O'Meara

Journal Articles

This is the tenth in our series of annual symposia, each dealing with a highly controversial problem of urgent national concern. Of these ten symposia, this is the third having to do with crime. The extent of our concern with this cancerous problem is demonstrated by that fact. My own belief is that the rising incidence of crime is our country's number one domestic problem.

Separation Of Powers In The Australian Constitution, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

Even those who regret it accept that the founders of the Australian Constitution "beyond question" intended the separation of powers now required by the Boilermakers' Case . This article seeks first to show that the arguments advanced to prove the alleged intention are no more probative -than the draftsman's literary arrangement which has prompted the accepted view of constitutional history; and second, to discuss the proper strategy of approach to the historical record on these matters.