The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law CUA Law Scholarship Repository Scholarly Articles and Other Contributions Faculty Scholarship 1976 Student Participation in University and Law School Governance George P. Smith II The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.edu/scholar Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Education Law Commons, and the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation George P. Smith II, Student Participation in University and Law School Governance, 1976 WASH. U. L. Q. 37 (1976). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Scholarship at CUA Law Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scholarly Articles and Other Contributions by an authorized administrator of CUA Law Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN UNIVERSITY AND LAW SCHOOL GOVERNANCE GEORGE P. SMITH, H* I. INTRODUCTION From the German and Austrian Revolutions of 1848 and the "Profes- sors' Parliament,"1 through the revolution that toppled Czarist Russia2 and the overthrow of the Manchu (Ch'ing) Dynasty in 1911,1 university 4 students have shaped and altered political philosophies and movements. The student movement in America, however, was not radical or politi- cized until the 1960's.5 Even then, the two largest political groups on American campuses were the Young Republicans and the Young Demo- crats.' The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in 1967 only numbered seven thousand members.7 The Young Democrats and Repub- licans worked to correct and strengthen democratic processes; the SDS, * Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Law School; B.S., J.D., Indiana University; LL.M., Columbia University.