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The Legal Issue Fall And Winter 1966, The Catholic University Of America, Columbus School Of Law

The Legal Issue

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The Legal Issue Spring 1966, The Catholic University Of America, Columbus School Of Law

The Legal Issue

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Law School History, School Of Law

Miscellaneous Historical Documents

Excerpted from the dedication brochure for the opening of Leahy Hall in 1966, the new home of the Law School.

Some Reminiscences On The University's Columbus School Of Law, William J. Mcdonald

Miscellaneous Historical Documents

A short article in the Catholic University of America Bulletin by the Rector of the University on the history and importance of the School of Law.

The Legal Status Of The Educational Accrediting Agency, William A. Kaplin, J. Philip Hunter

Scholarly Articles

The educational accrediting agency is a powerful instrumentality in the United States-able, with minimal governmental interference, to set policies and standards in an area of vital concern to the public. As education becomes more complex, and as our society increasingly relies upon educational training and upon the standards by which that training is evaluated, the impact which the accrediting agency will have upon educational institutions and students enrolled in them will correspondingly increase. For all its influence, however, the accrediting agency occupies an ambiguous legal position. Therefore, in order to lay the framework for a more thorough understanding of the …

The Conscientious Objector Exemption As An Establishment And An Accommodation Of Religion, Raymond B. Marcin

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Much Ado About Nothing: The J.D. Movement, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

In a recent article appearing in The Student Lawyer Journal, Dean John G. Hervey of the Oklahoma City University School of Law presented what, on first reading, appeared to be a very well documented argument in support of the uniform awarding of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) as the first degree in law. There can be little quarrel with Dean Hervey's statistical abstracts which he uses to build the central thesis of his article. The importance of this information to support his sweeping generalities is to be severely questioned. The position of the American Bar Association is also eminently clear. However, …

Dr. Bonham’S Case And The Modern Significance Of Lord Coke’S Influence, George P. Smith Ii

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Dr. Bonham’s Case, decided by Edward Coke as Chief Justice of the British Court of Common Pleas in 1610, remains, to this day, the case acknowledging the supremacy of the fundamental (or natural) law interpreted and enforced as such by the judiciary and not a legislative body - here, Parliament. Coke’s idea of a law of nature superior to man-made law was not new. What was original, and even radical for the times, was the notion that the courts of law should be given the power and the right to interpret and enforce that law. This theory of judicial review …

The Right To Bear Arms: A Phenomenon Of Constitutional History, Ralph J. Rohner

Scholarly Articles

Most discussions of the right to bear arms-however superficial-begin by noting the specific language of the second amendment to the United States Constitution, which provides:

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

And in various similar provisions, the constitutions of thirty-five states guarantee expressly the right to bear arms. Though it is submitted below that there may be significant distinctions between the protection afforded by the federal and state constitutions, for our purposes here we are concerned primarily with the …