University of Notre Dame Law School - Reporter Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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Notre Dame Law School offers a sound, well taught basic course in law. In light ofits small size, it offers a par- ticularly diverse array of advanced courses. Many law schools are weakest in their business courses; Notre Dame may be at its strongest there. It offers special strength in tax, civil rights, liti- gation and appellate advocacy, law and the handicapped, estate planning and jurisprudence. The faculty is pre- pared to experiment. The environment- al law-and-engineering program is a good example of that. The list exam- ple was the Law Office Practice course: it involved problem analysis, legal counseling, legal drafting and the psychology of law. The audio-visual equipment was fully and well used. Deans Shaffer and Link supervised; Professor Louis Brown flew in from U.S.C. w times for a few days of lectures each trip. No other law school in America of- fers a program in international law as strong as Notre Dames The year-long London Program course is unique. Its program is complemented by the Notre Dame Lawyer, the American Journal of JurisErudence and the Notre Dame J ournal of Legislation. This page sponsored by Joseph B. Stio, Law Class of 1948 Mr. Justice Darling, British High Court judge, summed up with aplomb, TTThe law, like the Ritz Hotel, is open to all?

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His publications include 147 scholarly articles covering some three thousand pages, 30 book reviews, and five books, with two in double volumes. His education includes doctorates in law, philosophy, and history from the German Universities of Erlangen, Munich, and Wurtzburg. He first came to the United States as a re- search fellow at Harvard, and has since been associated with the Yale Law School, Oxford, Cambridge, Kings College, and the University of Paris. Forty years after he received his first law degree at 21, Anton-Hermann Chroust maintains the same drive and energy that got him a position on the Olympic gold-medal-win- ning German water polo team in 1928. Chroust is amazing. He claims he can write research articles faster than his three student assistants can proofread them. He claims that he knows more ttthan any three men about the life of Aristotle. And he maintains that his 1967 Porsche 9118 Targa can outperform any car on campus except his old Mercedes Benz 3OOSL. He has written on ancient, medi- eval, and modern legal history; ancient history and philosophy; and jurisprudence in general. Currently, Chroust is putting out a two- volume work on the life of Aristotle and the lost works. He maintains that many of the ttAristotelian works were not written by him, since there exists irrefutable evidence that his early writings were transported to Asia Minor with the writ- ings of the early Peripatetics, and dis- appeared for over 200 years. When all the works were recovered, due to confusion, deterioration, and destruction, it was im- possible to identify the authors of the materials. Chroustis interest in the history of phi- losophers led him to write Socrates: Man and Myth in Which he explores the in- consistencies between the Socrates of lit- erary tradition and the Socrates of his- torical fact. Chrmist notes that this book is ttrequired reading at the leading uni- versities. His two-volume Rise of the Legal Profession. in America brought him to the forefront of American legal history and he is now considered the foremost expert in United States law of the colonial ' d. perm -tkc DOME W ttFor biologists, Orkin shareholders and experts in the application of whitewash in infest joists, the ter- mite cases make fascinating read- ingfi -Murphy and Speidel, Studies in Contract Law, 465 Our Library is approaching 100,000 volumes, which is good in light of our small enrollment, but deficient for our aspirations. Notre Dame offers no full course in legal writing, legislation or admiralty. Faculty members have left for appointments at California tBerkeleyi, Texas, Tulane, Nova, and Cornell. There is not enough scholar- ship money. Still, Notre Dame is one of the ten best law schools in the United States. It is probably the least pressureiidden and probably has the closest social system. Because of these factors, for the right persons, it is simply the best place in the country to study law. This page sponsored by Louis B. Tracy, Law Class of 1951