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A Tribute To Frederic L. Kirgis, Thomas L. Shaffer

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Now, hearing of Rick's retirement, I find it hard to imagine Sydney Lewis Hall without him standing guard over the Law Center, or in the dean's office, or from some other nearby vantage point. If Washington and Lee is lucky, Rick will continue to play a role in the welcoming committee, making a welcoming place even warmer. Knowing Rick's commitment to the law school there, I have no doubt he would embrace the role.

While those of us that consider Rick a friend and colleague greet news of his retirement with a reluctant happiness, there is one group that cannot …

One Of A Kind - Professor Emeritus Charles E. Rice, Robert E. Rodes

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In the spring of 1959, when I was faculty advisor of the law review (then called the Notre Dame Lawyer), and my future colleague Bob Blakey was the student associate editor, we worked together on an article called A.I.D.—An Heir of Controversy. The subject, artificial insemination from a donor, was interesting, the treatment was at once lively, rueful, and orthodox, and the conclusion was an engaging shrug of the shoulders: "Upon that note . . . your writer respectfully throws in the towel.'' The author, a graduate of Boston College Law School taking an advanced degree at New York University, …

A Tribute To Andrew W. Mcthenia, Jr., Thomas L. Shaffer

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Uncas picked up a five-letter name when he was a boarding school student in Orange, Virginia. By now, it is the way his friends and colleagues, his students and his clients, his wife and his children and his neighbors, identify him. It works throughout the United States and in Canada. I would not be surprised to see it work in, say, the offices of the European Union in Salzburg or in the former Soviet Union. (It occurs to me that this universal name for Andrew W. McThenia, Jr., a name his boarding-school classmates borrowed from James Fenimore Cooper, shares brevity …

Edward J. Murphy: A Professor For All Seasons, David T. Link

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Ed Murphy taught more Notre Dame law students than any other professor in the history of the University. To his students, he was more than a teacher; he was mentor and even legend. A mainstay at the Law School, Professor Murphy died in July of last year at the age of sixty-eight.

I was privileged to be his student, his colleague and his friend. I miss him very much. We all do. But, of course, his example lives on. He continues to be a part of the great Notre Dame spirit. Our recently appointed contracts professor tells me that every …

Edward J. Murphy, Catholic Scholar, Charles E. Rice

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Permit me to explain, with some background, why Edward J. Murphy was an admirable Catholic man and why I and many others are in his debt for his friendship and example.

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.

Dedication In Memory Of William Dewey Rollison, Thomas L. Shaffer, G. Robert Blakey, Charles M. Boynton, Robert E. Sullivan

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William Dewey Rollison, Professor of Law Emeritus: University of Notre Dame 1897-1971