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Notre Dame Law School NDLScholarship Notre Dame Lawyer Law School Publications 10-1-1999 Notre Dame Lawyer - Fall/Winter 1999 Notre Dame Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/nd_lawyer Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Notre Dame Law School, "Notre Dame Lawyer - Fall/Winter 1999" (1999). Notre Dame Lawyer. Book 13. http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/nd_lawyer/13 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Law School Publications at NDLScholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in Notre Dame Lawyer by an authorized administrator of NDLScholarship. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Dear Notre Dame Lawyer, PLEASE INDULGE ME IN A MOMENTOF PERSONAL REFLECTION. I admit to a certain fondness for men of the generation we're profiling in this issue of Notre Dame Lawyer. My dad and his three brothers are contemporaries of the Notre Dame lawyers of the Class of 1949. Like these men, they grew up during the Great Depression and served their country honorably in World War II - Dad, Uncle Mitch '48 and Uncle Val '42 Ph.D. in the United States Navy, and Uncle Cass at home, helping my 2000 SPRING CALENDAR OF EVENTS grandparents run the family business that is now in its 85th year. After the war, my dad and his brothers settled into a life of completing their college January 17,2000 March 28-31,2000 educations, working in the family business and raising their own families. Classes resume for spring semester Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution My family worked hard and sacrificed - although at the time I Workshop* didn't know how much - so that my brother, sister and I could live in a co-sponsored by NDLS and nice home in the suburbs, drive decent cars, go on interesting vacations, January 18-20,2000 attend our parish schools, and graduate from Notre Dame. They taught Alternative Dispute Resolution The Trillium Group us that we could be anything we wanted ro be if we worked hard enough. Workshop* Phoenix, Arizona I thought we were a pretty typical family. But until I met these men co-sponsored by NDLS and of the Class of 1949 and read Tom Brokaw's recent book, THE GREATEST The Trillium Group April 11-14, 2000 GENERATION,I had no idea what "typical" actually meant with regard to the Cleveland, Ohio Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution men and women of this era. My father and my uncles, like the men in our Workshop* own "Greatest Generation" story, will never admit that their lives were January 25-28, 2000 co-sponsored by NDLS and anything special.They believe, quite simply, that they did what they had Alternative Dispute Resolution The Trillium Group to do to serve their country, and they did what they had to do to make sure Workshop* Chicago, Illinois their children (and, in my case, also their nieces and nephews) had oppor- co-sponsored by NDLS and tunities for success. But these men were and are special - if only because of their lifelong selflessness and their individual and collective commit- The Trillium Group April 21-24, 2000 ments to honor and duty. Phoenix, Arizona Easter Break (University and Law School I hope that this issue of Notre Dame Lawyer, highlighting the men offices closed) of the Class of 1949, serves as a small "thank you" to these Notre Dame February 1-4,2000 lawyers, to others of their generation, and most especially to my family. Alternative Dispute Resolution April 27-28, 2000 I hope, toO, that these articles will prompt you to thank the men and Workshop* Notre Dame Law Association women in your lives who also did what they knew they should do, just to co-sponsored by NDLS and Spring Meeting make YOUtlife better than it otherwise might have been. The Trillium Group Notre Dame Alumni Association Chicago, Illinois Alumni Senate Yours in Notre Dame, February 15,2000 April 29, 2000 Deadline for submissions for Blue-Gold Game Notre Dame Lawyer, spring 2000 issue May 19-21,2000 March 11-19,2000 Commencement Weekend Cathy Pieronek, Editor Spring Break phone: (219) 631-6891 June 8-11,2000 fax: (219) 631-4499 (new) March 21-24,2000 University Reunion 2000 e-rnail: [email protected] Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution Workshop* co-sponsored by NDLS and The Trillium Group Cleveland, Ohio For more information on Law School or University events, please contact Cathy Pieronek at the Law School Relations Office. *For information on the ADR workshops, please contact The Trillium Group directly: phone: (416) 307-0018 (877) 444-4740 (toll free) fax: (416) 307-0011 On the cover:The Clarke Memorial Fountain, on the site of the old Fieldhouse, honors Notre e-rnail; [email protected] Dame alumni who served in World War II, mail: The Trillium Group Korea and Vietnam. The inscription on the 112 Adelaide Street, East fountain captures the essence of Notre Dame's Toronto, Ontario own "greatest generation" - pro patria et pace, MSC IK9 meaning"for country and peace." CANADA N o li R IE ID A M\ IE IL A w y IE R Fall/Winter 1999 LAW SCHOO FOCUS Our Own Greatest Generation - NDLS Class of 1949 4 On Modest Prayers Honorable John C.Mowbray '49 J.D. Reverend Robert Griffin, CSc. - Another of Notre Dome's Greatest Remembered William Bentley Boll '48 J.D. - Unsung Hero Professor Tom Broden '49 J.D. -A Sel~ess Educator c o N T E N T s Editor: Cathy Pieronek 3 FROM THE DEAN 34 LAW SCHOOL BRIEFS 14 FACULTY NOTES - NDLS Hosts Distinguished Speakers Contributing authors: John 18 ALUMNI NOTES 35 - The Craft of Judging Anderton, Richard D. Catenacci, 19 In Memoriam - Here's Lucy! ... at NDLS! Joseph K. Cooney, Heather 23 New Additions - FeministJurisprudence Moriconi, Patricia A. O'Hara, Lucy 26 LAW ALUMNI REUNIONS - Administrative and Staff News Salsbury Payne, Cathy Pieronek, - Reunions in the Works 36 News from the Admission Office Warren Rees, Thomas L. Shaffer 27 - Class of'69 Mini-Reunion 37 News from the Career Services Office 28 Notre Dame Law Association News 38 News from the Center for Civil and Principal photographer: Matt Cashore - A Letter from the NDLA President Human Rights 29 - NDLA Election 2000 - CCHR Welcomes New and Notre Dame Lawyer is published 30 - Alumni Support Student Service Returning Students for the alumni and friends of the 31 - Get Involved 40 News from Law School Relations University of Notre Dame Law - Honoring Notre Dame's Finest Lawyers 40 News from Law School Development School, Notre Dame, Indiana. 32 STUDENT NOTES 41 News from the Legal Aid Clinic - Class of 2002 Student Leaders Elected 42 News from the Kresge Law Library Address correspondence to: - Student Organization Leaders - New Endowed Kresge Law Library Notre Dame Lawyer - Chinese Law Srudent Fearured Collections Dedicated 102 Law School IRISH LAW SPORTS REPORT Web Entrepreneurs Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 32 44 Telephone (219) 631·6891 - We Never Thought We'd See It 46 www.law.nd.edu Fax (219) 631·4499 - We Have a Winner 47 Law School Alumni Relations and - Injury News Development Page Fall/Winter 1999 33 - Bookstore Basketball Memories 48 Legal Research on the Internet IF R o M li H E ID E A N y the time you read this letter, I will have completed the first semester of my service as dean. It has been one of the most exhilarating periods of my life. I began my tenure knowing that Dean David T. Link, who mentored me as a student and as a young faculty member, established the Law School as a leadership in- stitution within the American legal community. Equally important, through his efforts and the efforts of all who worked with him, the Law School stands poised at the outset of a new millennium to move to the next level of excellence - excellence in teaching, excellence in scholarship, excellence in service. At orre Dame, we strive for excellence not simply for its own sake, but because we believe in the value of our particular perspective on the law. We offer legal education within a community of faith - a commu- nity that shares a belief in the existence of God as the source of all truth and as the ultimate law-giver; a community that sees itself as called to harness our gifts to the service of others. Excellence is the platform from which we can most effectively offer our faith-based perspective on the law. The complex problems of the new millennium will require the analysis of people trained in many differ- ent disciplines within the modern university. The actual solutions to these problems, however, will be crafted by people steeped in the law. We want members of the Notre Dame legal community to be part of this pro- cess.We believe that we offer the profession faculty and graduates who are fully conversant with the prevail- ing schools of legal thought, but who also bring to the table a competing tradition with a depth and richness all its own - a tradition grounded in Judeo-Christian principles with an emphasis on moral values and social justice. Our challenge is dual - to be Catholic, with a wide spectrum of philosophical viewpoints that eschews a narrow parochialism, and to be great. This challenge is not for the faint of heart.We need additional re- sources - more physical space, more funds for student financial aid and loan forgiveness, additional faculty and continued expansion of Out library collection, as well as for certain infrastructure needs. I am confident, however, that if we remain faithful to our mission, we will continue to find the resources necessary to achieve our goals.