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Report Of The Dean 1958–1959, Joseph O'Meara

1952–1968: Joseph O'Meara

Dean Joseph O'Meara summarizes and comments upon the 1958–1959 academic year at Notre Dame Law School. Topics include: the student body, program of instruction, faculty, student activities, bar examination results, special events, the Natural Law Institute, law library, law building, Notre Dame Law Association, the Law Advisory Council, and faculty publications.

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114th University Of Notre Dame Commencement And Mass Program, University Of Notre Dame

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114th University of Notre Dame Commencement and Mass Program

Bulletin Of The University Of Notre Dame The Law School 1959–60, Volume 56, 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 …

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 …

A.I.D.- An Heir Of Controversy, Charles E. Rice

Journal Articles

What is this thing called artificial insemination? Is it a menace to society? Or is it a fantasy of little moment beyond the precincts of 1984 and the "Brave New World"? Or does the fact lie somewhere in between? Whatever your view, you can readily bolster your position by citing respectable authority. For example, a respected advocate declaims that, "Nothing in modem times has so seriously challenged the basic concept of our society founded as it is on the biological tripod of father, mother and child which we call the family unit." Oppositely, a competent man of medicine notes that, …

The Straw Man Of Legal Positivism, Thomas F. Broden

Journal Articles

The typical view of many lawyers, philosophers, theologians and other thoughtful persons toward a so-called school of jurisprudence generally known as legal positivism is one of condemnation. According to this typical view legal positivism is a well developed philosophy of law the main tenets of which are that might makes right and that law and state sovereignty are absolute and not subject to independent moral evaluation. Needless to say this assumed jurisprudential view is roundly indicted, deplored and declaimed against with vigor and venom. We are warned that legal positivists are insidious termites threatening the very foundation of our law, …

Recent Decision Note, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Petitioner was arrested without a warrant by a federal narcotics agent. Sole justification for the arrest, pursuant to the Narcotics Control Act of 1956, was information from a paid informer of the Narcotics Bureau who had proved reliable during six months of association with arresting officers. The informer's description of the petitioner, including dress, baggage, and manner of walking, and his prediction of the petitioner's time of arrival at the point of arrest, were detailed and accurate. The arresting officers searched petitioner immediately after the arrest and seized narcotics and implements used in narcotics addiction. At trial petitioner moved to …

Recent Decision Note, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

The Supreme Court of Colorado heard on appeal a tax dispute between the State Board of Equalization and Arapahoe County and, in announcing a decision in favor of the board, delayed publication of its formal written opinion for one week. At the time the decision was announced the opinion had been written, but had not been prepared for publication. Four days later respondent published an editorial in his newspaper attacking the decision, suggesting that it was inspired by political rather than legal considerations, and intimating that popular disapproval might result in a written opinion mitigating some of the decision's rigor. …