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

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The expansion and renovation of the University of Notre Dameis Law School Building will be celebrated and the Kresge Law Library dedicated in campus ceremo- nies Friday. A concelebrated mass will be said at 4 pm. in the Kresge Law Library, followed with the blessing of the building by Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Notre Dame president. After the blessing, an open house will be held and tours of the building will be conducted. A reception will follow at 7 pm. in the Law School student lounge and a dinner at 8 p.m.in the Kresge Law Library. Among those on the dinner program are Law School Dean Thomas L. Shaffer and Stanley S. Kresge, chairman of the board of the Kresge Foundation, Troy, Mich. The'$1.6 million renovation, which in- cluded modernization of the existing struc- ture and construction of an addition, has doubled the original buildingis usable space. The project was supported by a $750,000 gift from the Kresge Foundation, grants in excess of $200,000 from the federal govern- ment, and contributions from Notre Dame Law alumni. Special features of the remodeled build- ing includez-The Kresge Law Library. The expanded law library provides new stack areas allowing the school to enlarge its col- lection from 80,000 volumes, to 150,000, a task aided by an endowment from the John P. Murphy Foundation of Cleveland Ohio. The new library also provides additional work and office space for staff, group study rooms, facilities for microfilming, computer terminals and additional study space and casual reading areas. -The Civil Rights Reading Room. The room will house Father Hesburghis personal papers and records from his 15-year term on the United States Civil Rights Commission. Supplemented by the library,s existing col- lection on the topics, these resources repre- sent the core of the new Notre Dame Center on Civil Rights, a university program di- rected by Howard Glickstein. -A mock law office. This office provides students with a realistic setting in which to practice interviewing and counseling clients. Remote controlled closed circuit television cameras can be used to record or broadcast proceedings to any classroom in the school. -The student lounge. Designed by a Notre Dame architecture class, the lounge features a self-service vending area and a 0conversation pit? a central sunken lounge section. The current renovation is the fourth ex- pansion of facilities in the schools history. The Notre Dame Law School, which is the oldest Catholic law school in the United This page sponsored by: South Bend Agency MQNY MUTUAL OF NEW YORK States, held its first classes in 1869 in the Sorin Hall. During the recent construction, Administration Building. Prior to moving to it was housed temporarily in the Wenninger- the present building in 1930, the school had Kirsch Building. been located in Hoynes Hall and earlier in -S.B. Tribune

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In mitior sensu-The words, tiSir Thomas Holt struck his cook on the head with a cleaver, and cleaved his head, one part lying on the one shoulder and another part on the other? were held not to charge the crime of homicide, a defamation, because there was no allegation that the cook died. -Holt v. Astgrigg, 79 Eng. Rep. 161 UGOD. Visitors to the Law School, 1973- 74 included Professor Louis M. Brown from U.S.C.; J ohn Martzell, Esq. of New Orleans; Vernon J ordon, Urban League director; Senators Birch Bayh and George McGovern; Sargent Shriver and Arthur Goldberg; most of our past black graduates; Professor Victor Rosenblum of Northwestern; and J ustice William Rehnquist of the US. Supreme Court. This Page Sponsored by Edward E. Reith Frank Sullivan Associates, South Bend ttljfe insurance is our business 47

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Ghange of 132nm: Ennhuu, 1973-74 London-one of the great cities of the world. And you know the lan- guage, or so you would think. Probab- ly, there is not a group in the Class of 1975 closer than the London group. A full year as a unique community of legal scholars. Many classmates attended summer school in England. Always time for a bit of travel and sightseeing, too. A giant step for international law studies. News Item- A record number of law school graduates -30,879-were admitted to the practice of law last year. But only 16,500 legal jobs will be avail- able each year until 1980, according to a re- port issued by the US. Dept. of Labor. Despite this situation, law schools are now jammed with 106,000 students, and the number of law school applicants next fall is expected to be about 10 percent high- er than this school year. Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Assn., predicts the number of lawyers in America will double in 1985. The record number of graduates admit- ted to practice last year surpassed the previ- ous record year, 1972, by 23 percent. -Chicago Sun-Times 91f he only knew a little of the law, he would know a little of everything. Emerson, Of Lord Brougham This page sponsored by ELECTRICITY. . . MBE what you NEEO what you UD$E INDIANA 8: MICHIGAN ELECTRIC CUMPAIV Y 49