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Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Sui Juris Law School Archive 12-1-1967 Sui Juris, volume 12, number 01 Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris Part of the Legal Education Commons, and the Legal History, Theory and Process Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School. Student Bar Association, "Sui Juris, volume 12, number 01" (1967). Sui Juris. Book 43. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/suijuris/43 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Archive at Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Sui Juris by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. comfortable and secure in the knowledge that Freud had said, Einstein discovered, and Plato written. In Volume 12 December 1967 law, he soon learns, there can be no hope of definitive Number 1 answer. The successful resolution of the problems Editorial presented by a given set of £aots suggests a quick re SUI J URIS turn of the same problems, perhaps accompanied by new ones, if these facts are altered to weaken the basis NEWS JOURNAL OF THE Law School, the student is repeatedly told, is a for the former decision. There can be no victory of STUDENT BAR ASSOCIATION three year exercise in analytical thinking and dia law, only victories. lectic; any resemblance to the real world of ~he lawyer Now, the very knowledge that problems always lurk BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL is purely coincidental. And indeed, a regimen of read within even the most obvious solutions, that facile ing cases turns out to be largely, as someone once answers carry little value, that rights convey correl contended of reading a Victorian novel, "like walking ative duties that must be respected - all are lessons EDITORS-IN-CHIEF into a hotel lobby and taking a mouthful of sand from taught well by the study of law - can be an invalu-" the nearest ashtray." Gone is the spirited activism of able asset to the student not only when he graduates On the cover and pictured above with Asso Philip R. Currier '68 the undergraduate life, gone are the eternal and noble and begins practice, but also during his years in the ciate Justice Moynihan of the Massachusetts Gregory Hren '68 ideas of the great minds; in their stead come an end classroom. For example, until recently the American Superior Court, United States Congresswoman less string of bungling trial courts, demurrers, and dis student saw himself primarily in contexts of obliga Heckler and Dean Drinan is the late Professor EDITORIAL BOARD senting opinions. Small wonder, then, that the student tion and dependency - to his parents, his teachers, William J. O'Keeke, who died suddenly on Richard C. Babineau '69 of law envisions himself the victim of a process some his government. Only in idle moments did he give August 11, 1967. Professor O'Keefe's associ Leo P. Carroll '69 what analogous to that of changing a grape to a reign to speculations upon his rights. Within the last ation with the Law School spanned thirty years. Corneilus Guiney '68 rasin; and small wonder that he, perhaps more than decade, however, the growing realization within the To more than two thousand Boston College John F. McFeely '68 any other graduate student, is on a continuous look student that he can assert, powerfully and effectively, Law School alumni, Professor O'Keefe was James J. Mullen '68 out for relevancy in his smdies - something he is his right to participate in decision-making processes friend, counselor and teacher. This issue of Ernst B. Murphy '70 learning that he can relate to the agonies of the world affecting his development - this realization has Sui Juris is dedicated to his memory. Albert W. Sullivan '68 Steven H. Whiteman '68 outside the library window. shifted emphasis of student thought from one of obli One can, however, draw meaningful inferences gation to one of independence, from the piety and ASSOCIATES from case study which may perhaps have been outside orthodoxy traditionally incumbent upon youthful ex his intellectual purview as a college student. Intense pression to the exhilarating challenge of intellectual Peter W. Brown '69 study of the subject matter of cases soon yields re and social emancipation. Donato A. D'Andrea '68 warding insights that adapt themselves to all sorts of In his progress from subservience to emancipation, Robert 1. Dolan '69 situations confronting the student as an actor in so however, the student has gained no little power, and Ruth W . Flaherty '68 ciety, as well as within his academic life. power has carried with it the correlative responsibility Paul W. Goodrich '68 One such inference with more than professional to exercise discretion in its application, to act always John J. Joyce '68 relevance drawn almost immediately from case study in consideration of its possible abuse. Unfortunately, J ahn 1. Mason ' 68 (said inference being so basic to an understanding of there have been incidents in which the discretionary Richard A. Soble '68 the evolution of law) is that the substance of law is element, the duty to proceed with respect for the a continuum of an infinite number of possible fact law, has been absent from student exercises of right. situations comprising an infinite number of ques On the other hand, however, the numberless examples IN FUTURE ISSUES: SUI JURIS is p-ublished four times during the tions of degree between the poles of RIGHT-TO of altruism and useful involvement by the American academic year by the Student Bar Association ACT and DUTY-NOT-TO-ACT. It is very easy to student in his exercise of power give ample justifica · .. An examination of scholarship policies of Boston College Law School, for the benefit impute the presence or absence of legal or moral li tion for its retention. Some methods are more con of the students, faculty, alumni, and friends of .. Report on building program ability near the extremities of these poles; it is not structive and considerate of the possible ramifications · the School, at 925 Washington Street, Norwood, so easy when the fact situations approach the middle. than others. Yet students often act as if they are ig Massachusetts. Advertising rates on request. · .. An examination of re-admission policy It is, in the final analysis, the quest for that magical norant of the ramifications of their decisions, and per Please address all communications to the edi point where the tap on the shoulder becomes action haps they are. · .. Law school west of the Pecos torial office at- able that is the life of the law and the bane of the What is needed now is certainly not an end to · .. Legal education in Africa student activism, but ra:ther a more conscientious BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL legal mind. analysis of the alternative methods available for giving · .. Life in London BRIGHTON, MASS. 02135 Immersion of the law student into this grey flux of imperfection, perplexity and frustration is a sobering expression to his convictions. This is where the value 332-3200, extension 300 or 405 experience not to be found in college, where he sat, (Continued on page 13) DECEMBER, 1967 3 Teacher • • • Administrator • • • Counselor The following memorial was written by Prof. Emil O'Keefe achieved the status of a Boston College alum Slizewski of Boston College Law School for the As nus when he received an honorary Doctor of Laws William O'Keefe sociation of American Law Schools and is printed degree. J. here with their permission. Professor O'Keefe was a natural teacher. He was never preoccupied with methods of pedagogy. In the Professor Emeritus of Law illiam J. O'Keefe, Professor of Law Emeritus at classroom he stressed logical order and strove to find W Boston College Law School died on August 11, an internal consistency in the law with an emphasis 1967 at the age of seventy-eight years. on clear and illustrative cases. He was not one to July 14, 1889 - August 11, 1967 After having graduated magna cum laude from Holy eschew advocacy for directions that he believed the Cross College in 1910, Professor O'Keefe studied at law should take nor was he reluctant to give his Columbia University and then became an accountant. opinion of the "better view." His intense compulsion He taught accounting at the Pace Institute and at for the best of competing solutions to problems left A eulogy, delivered by Dean Drinan at the Solemn taken for granted. And his remarkable kindness be Fordham University where he became head of the him constitutionally incapable of an attitude that one Requiem Mass on August 14, 1967 at the Church of came, and remained one of the bonds which linked accounting department. In 1925 Professor O'Keefe answer is as good as another. This is not to say that St. Ignatius, Chestnut Hill, is published here in grate every graduate of the law school not merely to Pro received his LL.B degree from Georgetown University he expected his students to accept his views for gospel. ful remembrance of Professor O'Keefe's dedication fessor O'Keefe but to the institution so uniquely and commenced his law teaching career that same His task was to encourage them to exert the same to the Law School, the student and the profession. identified with his labors and his life. year at Catholic University. He became a member of strong intellectual effort necessary to choose and de The person who wanted to be here to eulogize his the faculty of Boston College Law School when it fend the best available solution to a complex issue.

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