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

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Dean Foschio taught half of the class of 1975 its first year Criminal Law and Procedure. He won his degrees, cum laude, from the State University of New York tthen known as the University of Buffaloi. Being Assistant Dean wasnit a very goodjob, but he did well there. He is a hard worker and a like- able guy. The HOYNES REPORTER wishes him good luck! uReason is the life of the law, my the com- mon law itself is nothing else but reason . . . . the law, which is perfection of reason.n Thls page sponsored by -Coke, Commentaries upon Littleton, 138. St. Joseph Bank and Trust Company South Bend, Indiana uWe are beginning to find something unique by way of educational focus, something hopeful. It is a kind of humanistic legal education in Thomas Moreis understanding of humanism . . . . We are beginning to find at Notre Dame Law School the possibility of a people-centered professional school. tThomas L. Shaffer, Dean of ND Law Schooli-Scholastic, Nov. 19, 1971. 21

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W W W mwwm Wme , 20 sociology course about American life, 1 would put The United States Master Tax Guide at the top of the list. That marvelous book will show you that Congress values things; the people may be born, get married and die, but the things live on. For a thing to be of superior worth in the eyes of the Master Tax Guide, it must be a thug. If you write a poem, whatever you sell it for will always be income, taxed at the highest earned rate. That is because you created the poem. The tax law very specifically tand anti-intellectuallyl says that creations, par- ticularly copyrightable ones, are always in- come. If you sell me your poem for $10, it then becomes a property, a thing; when I resell it for $1000, I pay a capital-gains rate, because exchanges of things are more socially desirable than the creation of them . . . llAdam Smithn Ifl were making up a list of readings for a This page sponsored by St. Joseph Bank and Trust Company South Bend, Indiana Dave Link was a Brennan Scholar when he was a student here. He was Editor of the Lawyer. While with the Internal Revenue Service, he won a Federal Bar award for computerizing tax law. He became a partner with a prominent Chicago law firm in record time. Tax is hard to teach. Everyone but the accounting majors are scared stiff. Dean Link puts you at ease-he some- how makes the I.R.C. seem decipher- able, even logical.

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Professor Charles E. Rice tA.B., Col- lege of the Holy Cross, LL.B., Boston College Law School, LL.M. and J.S.D., New York Universityi taught at Ford- ham for 10 years before coming to Notre Dame. Most everyone here at N.D. remembers Charlie as part of the first year intimidation process, as the chief adversary we faced in the first year experience. Torts as trial by class- room ordeal. Cross-examination 0n trespass. Professor Riceis true specialities are Constitutional Law and the Right to Life. He has published The Vanish- ing Right to Live, The Supreme Court and Prayer, Freedom Of Association, and Authoritx and Rebellion. He is constantly appearing before legisla- tures and study groups, speaking against abortion. tHe followed Angela Davis when he argued against confirma- tion of Nelson Rockefeller as Vice- President before a Senate Committee. The appearance of their photographs side by side on the front page of the New York Times was met by student gleeD He is co-editor-in-chief ofthe American Journal of Legislation. He and Professor Murphy teach religion at Marian High School in Mishawaka. He and his wife have nine children. He is a major in the Marine Corps Re- serve and chairman of the United Con- servatives of Indiana. He is adviser to the Legislative Research Service and Notre Dame Journal of Legislation, which explains a few things. This page sponsored by American National Bank South Bend, Indiana