Boston College Law School Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School Boston College Law School Magazine 4-1-2007 BC Law Magazine Spring/Summer 2007 Boston College Law School Follow this and additional works at: http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm Part of the Legal Education Commons Recommended Citation Boston College Law School, "BC Law Magazine Spring/Summer 2007" (2007). Boston College Law School Magazine. Book 30. http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclsm/30 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. It has been accepted for inclusion in Boston College Law School Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Boston College Law School. For more information, please contact [email protected]. GENERATIONS PORTRAIT | CLASS NOTES | REUNION GIVING REPORT BOSTON COLLEGE LAW SCHOOL MAGAZINE | SPRING | SUMMER 2007 Farewell Boston College says goodbye to a favorite son. SPRING / SUMMER 2007 VOLUME 15 | NUMBER 2 Contents A TRIBUTE TO ROBERT F. DRINAN, SJ SPRING/SUMMER 2007 VOLUME 15 NUMBER 2 4 An Authentic Lesson By Edward R. Leahy ’71 Dean 6 Drinan as Dean John H. Garvey By Hon. Francis J. Larkin Editor in Chief 8 Stirring the Human Rights Revolution Vicki Sanders By Harold Hongju Koh 10 Catholic Thought on the Moral Problem of War Art Director By Professor Kenneth Himes Susan Callaghan 11 The Injustice of War Contributing Editors By Senator John Kerry ’76 Tracey Palmer 12 Drinan as Thinker, Pragmatist Deborah J. Wakefield By Jimmy Carter Tiffany Wilding-White 13 Engaging the Disenfranchised Contributing Writers Interview with Madeleine K. Albright Cynthia Atoji 15 Ensuring Fairness in Family Law Kathryn Beaumont ’08 By Darald and Juliet Libby Professor Sanford N. Katz Marlissa Briggett ’91 16 Bridging the Partisan Divide Jessica Curtin ’07 Interview with Senator Warren Rudman ’60 Chad Konecky 17 Elected Judges and the Conservative Dilemma Natalie Langlois ’07 David Reich By Robert F. Drinan, SJ, Professor George D. Brown Jane Whitehead 18 Abolition’s Abbot Jeri Zeder By Professor Phyllis Goldfarb 20 Waging a Private Civil War for Civil Rights Photographers Suzi Camarata By Charles E. Walker Jr. ’78 Charles Gauthier 22 Morality’s Place in Politics Justin Allardyce Knight Interview with Congressman Barney Frank Liz Linder 24 Defining the Catholic, Jesuit Mission Michael Manning By Professor Frank R. Herrmann, SJ, ’77 Judy Sanders 26 Reclaiming the Sacredness of the Legal Profession Design & Printing By Professor David Hall Imperial Company 28 Obedience: Is It Virtue or Vice? Boston College Law School of By William McInnes, SJ Newton, Massachusetts 02459-1163, publishes BC Law Magazine two times a 30 The First Freedom year: in December and June. BC Law By Dean John Garvey Magazine is printed by Imperial Company in West Lebanon, NH. We welcome 31 Drinan as Moral Leader readers’ comments. Contact us by phone at 617-552-2873; by mail at Boston By House Speaker Nancy Pelosi College Law School, Barat House, 885 Centre Street, Newton, MA 02459-1163; or by email at [email protected]. Copy- DEPARTMENTS right © 2007, Boston College Law School. All publication rights reserved. Opinions expressed in BC Law Magazine 36 Class Notes do not necessarily reflect the views of Boston College Law School or Boston 39 Faculty Academic Vitae College. 44 Reunion Giving Report On the front and back covers: Photographs by Suzi Camarata JOHN TLUMACKI – BOSTON GLOBE SPRING / SUMMER 2007 | BC LAW MAGAZINE 1 Contributors MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT SANFORD N. KATZ was the first woman United States Secretary of is the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor State, serving under President Clinton. She is of Law. He succeeded Father Drinan as now a principal in The Albright Group. editor-in-chief of the Family Law Quarterly. PORTRAIT BY TIMOTHY GREENFIELD-SANDERS GEORGE BROWN JOHN KERRY ’76 is the inaugural holder of the Robert F. Drinan, The junior senator from Massachusetts was SJ, Chair at BC Law School. He is a the Democratic candidate for United States specialist in the field of federal-state President in 2004. relations and government ethics. JIMMY CARTER HAROLD HONGJU KOH was the 39th President of the United is dean of Yale Law School. He served as States. In 2002 he was awarded the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Nobel Peace Prize. Human Rights, and Labor from 1998 – 2001. BARNEY FRANK HONORABLE FRANCIS J. LARKIN has held the Massachusetts Fourth was associate dean of BC Law School Congressional District seat since from 1963 to 1972. He is the chancellor Robert F. Drinan stepped down in 1981. and dean emeritus of the Southern New England School of Law. DEAN JOHN GARVEY EDWARD R. LEAHY ’71 has been dean since 1999 and teaches is managing partner of AEG Capital, LLC, first-year constitutional law. He is the in Washington, DC. president elect of the Association of American Law Schools. PHYLLIS GOLDFARB WILLIAM MCINNES, SJ has taught criminal procedure and gender is the chaplain to the Alumni Association and legal theory at BC Law since 1986, of Boston College and has served as and has directed the Criminal Process president of two Jesuit universities. clinical program. DAVID HALL NANCY PELOSI is a professor of contracts and professional The Speaker of the United States House ethics at Northeastern Law School, where of Representatives represents California’s he served as dean from 1993 – 1998. Eighth District. FRANK HERRMANN, SJ, ’77 WARREN B. RUDMAN ’60 spent more than 10 years as a criminal is the former attorney general and defense lawyer before joining the faculty Republican Senator from New Hampshire. of BC Law in 1991. KENNETH HIMES, OFM CHARLES WALKER ’78 is the chair of Boston College’s Theology is former executive director of the Lawyers Department and a member of the Order Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of Friars Minor (Franciscans). of the Boston Bar Association. 2 BC LAW MAGAZINE | SPRING / SUMMER 2007 MORAL ARCHITECT GEOFF WHY Robert F. Drinan was a giant of a man. To honor a life so well lived, we are dedicating this issue of Boston College Law School Magazine to him. The tribute edition contains articles by and interviews with politicians, former students, col- leagues, activists, and friends who were touched by the long arm of Father Drinan. People were happy to contribute—eager even—to be heard on issues that compelled him, matters such as human and civil rights, social justice, excellence in education, and leadership. Though these pages contain some reminiscences, the true mission of the tribute is to capture what fraction we can of the issues and tasks that inspired Father Drinan. We honor his legacy. SPRING / SUMMER 2007 | BC LAW MAGAZINE 3 THE ACADEMIC & BY EDWARD R. LEAHY ‘71 PROFESSIONAL YEARS AN AUTHENTIC LESSON November 15, 1920 | born in Boston, to James John Drinan and Ann Mary (Flanagan) Drinan KNEW FATHER DRINAN NEARLY FORTY YEARS. WE MET AT THE UNIVERSITY of Scranton in October 1967. It was the fall of my senior year in college and 1938 | graduated from Hyde Father Drinan was visiting the university to speak on some of the legal issues Park High School of the day. 1942 | received BA from Boston At a reception following his remarks, he asked what plans I had after grad- College; entered the Society of Jesus I uation. When I told him that I intended to go to law school, he fixed those penetrating eyes on me and got right to the point: What were my grades and to which 1947 | received MA from schools had I applied? After I listed six schools (not yet including Boston College), he Boston College said, “When you hear from those schools, He went on about the extraordinary 1949 | received LL.B. from write to me and tell me what they said. faculty that served the Law School. (I Maybe you should come to Boston always enjoyed it when Father Drinan Georgetown Law Center College.” talked about faculty “serving” the law Just after Thanksgiving, I wrote to tell school. Its roots go back centuries to the 1950 | received LL.M. from him that I had been admitted to all six ecclesiastical colleges of England.) First, Georgetown Law Center; admitted to schools and that each of them had offered there were the “old masters” such as Emil the District of Columbia Bar me a full scholarship. On December 14, Slizewski in Trusts and Estates, Richard he responded that he still thought that I Sullivan in Equity, and John O’Reilly in 1953 | ordained a Jesuit priest; should come to Boston College and he Constitutional Law. Then he praised other offered me a full-tuition Presidential faculty members such as Richard Huber in received doctorate in theology from Scholarship. Property and Land Use, Peter Donovan in Gregorian University in Rome I remember being absolutely thrilled by Corporations and Antitrust, Father Francis his letter. His remarks at Scranton had J. Nicholson in International Law, Jim 1955 | admitted to the US been so impressive and thoughtful, and he Smith in Torts, and Bill Willier in Commer- Supreme Court Bar; became an was so driven yet warm during our conver- cial Law. He talked about an unnamed associate dean and professor at sation afterward. I phoned his office and group of young professors he was recruit- BC Law School arranged to visit the Law School and possi- ing to the Law School, people who turned bly sit in on one or two classes. When I out to be Sanford Katz, John Flackett, arrived about a month later, Father Drinan Mary Ann Glendon, Hugh Ault, and 1956-1969 | became the personally deposited me in a Torts class David Carroll. youngest dean to serve the BC Law taught by Professor Jim Smith and a Con- Although the names themselves did not School; brought it to national stitutional Law class taught by Professor mean anything to me at the time, Father prominence; recruited a diverse John O’Reilly.