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1977–79 Bulletin Of Information, University Of Notre Dame, Law School, Volume 73, Number 9, University Of Notre Dame

Bulletins of Information

Notre Dame Law School

4 Notre Dame Law School

5 Foreign Law Study

7 Joint Degree Programs

8 Requirements for Admission

10 Fees and Expenses

11 Financial Aid Proram

The Law Program

16 Student Activities

17 Curriculum

18 Course Descriptions

Appendix

26 Officers of Administration

26 The Law School Faculty

27 London Faculty

27 Practice Court Judges

27 Faculty Profiles

31 The Thomas and Alberta White Chair in Law

31 The Center for Civil Rights

31 The Law Advisory Council

32 Notre Dame Law Association

33 American Journal of Jurisprudence

34 Campus Map

36 Honor Code

36 The Law School …

132nd University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

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132nd University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

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Report Of The Dean 1976–1977, David T. Link

1975–1999: David T. Link

Dean David Link provides a comprehensive and detailed description of the state of Notre Dame Law School as it closes the 1976–1977 academic year. The eight elements covered in his report include: goals, students, faculty, administration, curriculum, physical facility, alumni support, and resources.

132nd University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

Commencement Programs

132nd University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

Taxation Of Distributions From Accumulation Trusts: The Impact Of The Tax Reform Act Of 1976, David T. Link, Michael J. Wahoske

Journal Articles

The complex rules governing the taxation of income from trusts and estates have at times been described as incomprehensible. Perhaps the most confusing of these are the accumulation distribution throwback rules. In an effort to alleviate some of this confusion, Congress included accumulation trusts within the purview of the Tax Reform Act of 1976. Though Congress claimed that the rules are now "considerably simplified," it is not without some effort that one is able to translate the statutory language into a form useful to the practitioner.

Given the complexity of the rules, it is necessary to begin with a caveat. …

Postsecondary Athletics And The Law: A Selected Bibliography, Edmund P. Edmonds

Journal Articles

Although sports have for many years been an integral part of American higher education, it was not until recent years that athletics in colleges and universities became enmeshed in legal problems. The heightened interest in the legal aspects of sports is apparent to even the most casual reader of the daily sports pages, and it is increasingly becoming a major concern of administrators in American colleges. Because of this interest one finds a number of articles appearing in law reviews in recent times, when in the past they were almost non-existent. In fact, the existence of this symposium issue is …

Abortion And Constitution: United States And West Germany, Donald P. Kommers

Journal Articles

The US Supreme Court’s 1973 and the German Federal Constitutional Court’s 1975 decisions on abortion provide us with an uncommon opportunity to compare the constitutional law of different nations on the issue. The two courts took opposing stances in their decisions. The US Supreme Court substantially curtailed the power of American states to limit abortion while the German court ruled that an existing statute that permitted abortion within the first three months of pregnancy violated the rights of unborn children. These opinions can be explained by the different political contexts of the two nations and different perceptions on judicial intervention …

Studies Of Legal Education: A Review Of Recent Reports, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert S. Redmount

Journal Articles

Early in 1972, the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education published its report on legal education. It is the most prominent study of legal education in the last decade, and typical of discourse in and about law schools—urbane, speculative, unempirical, conceptual, rarely student-centered. The authors of the Carnegie report were articulate law teachers. They wrote with their feet up and their pipes lit, without attention to facts which did not come from their considerable experience. The value of such reports is the thoughtfulness of the people who write them, and their predictive accuracy is due to the fact that people who …