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Dedication: Dean John O. Mudd, Thomas L. Shaffer
Dedication: Dean John O. Mudd, Thomas L. Shaffer
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Professor Shaffer writes this dedication to honor our former Dean Mudd. He highlights Dean Mudd’s contribution to the legal profession and public interest, as well as his ability to look around at what was going on around him and create change.
Christian Theology For Roman Catholic Law Schools, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert E. Rodes Jr.
Christian Theology For Roman Catholic Law Schools, Thomas L. Shaffer, Robert E. Rodes Jr.
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Roman Catholic universities maintain law schools for theological purposes. This Article discusses the five steps to explaining the theological answer to why there are Catholic law schools—first, the presence of the law school is the presence of the church; second, the presence of the law school is the presence of service; third, the presence of the law school is a presence in the world; fourth, the presence of the law school in the world is enacted vicariously; and fifth, the presence of the law school in the world is a searching presence that reaches into the world to find out …
The Catholic Tradition, Thomas L. Shaffer
The Catholic Tradition, Thomas L. Shaffer
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If you stand in the road near one of the on-campus Roman Catholic university law schools in the United States, you can probably see a church spire. You can squint past whatever fire wall or battlement or gothic tower there is on the law building and see the campus church. You can do this at Notre Dame, St. Louis, Creighton, San Francisco, Boston College, and San Diego. If you go inside one of these law buildings, you may find crucifixes, chapels, holy-water fonts, or a statute of Thomas More. But none of these things will tell you what those law …