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

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IIBad laws are the worst sort of tyranny? E. Burke This page sponsored by James B. Bleyer, Law Class of 1954 mua :Hx' I 74-! i I V

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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

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Note Taking: hThe horror of that moment? the King went on, Hl shall never, never forget itV' uYou will, though? the Queen said, hhif you donht make a memorandum of itW Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, ch I. This page sponsored by Joseph V. Wilcox, Law Class of 1949