o ecu VCut VOL. 4, No. 2 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL. WASHINGTON. I). ('. JANUARY 1952 STUDENTS ELECTED TO KRONSTEIN HONORED BY HOUSE OF DELEGATES UNIV. OF FRANKFURT Georgetown Reaches Final Round SBA Organization Doctor Heinrich Kronstein has been Now Completed honored with the distinction of an In National M oot Court Competion Swinging into action shortly after Honorarprofessor appointment to the the election of class representatives Faculty of Law of the University of and the nomination of delegates from Frankfurt. The fields included under D. C. Cup Retained By School the law clubs, the House of Delegates his appointment are Trade Regula­ of the Student Bar Association con­ tion and Comparative Law. By virtue As Result of District Victory vened and set into motion several com­ of his position as an honorary pro­ mittees which will function through­ fessor, he may teach these subjects, if bj/ Richard J. Zanurd% A. \ . 52 out the year to provide activities of he so chooses, at the famous German an intellectual, social, and recreational university. He also enjoys all the rights of a full professor of the uni­ On Friday night, December 14, Georgetown's Moot Court team entered nature for students here at George­ the final round of the Second Annual National Competition. The adversaries town Law School. versity, such as participation in faculty meetings and decisions. represented the University of Arizona. 1 he bench consisted oi the following: As provided for by the SBA Con­ Doctor Curt Staff, President of the Mr. Justice Harold H. Burton, Supreme Court of the United States; Judge stitution, ratified early in the school John J. Parker, U. S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit; Judge Herbert F. vear by the student bodv, the House Court of Appeals (Criminal Division) of Delegates is the legislative body of for Hesse, received a similar appoint­ Goodrich, U. S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; Judge Edmund H. the organization and is composed of ment at the same time as Doctor Lewis, New York Court of Appeals; and Hon. Whitney N. Seymour, Presi­ the Board of Governors, that is, the Kronstein. dent of the Bar of the City of New York. Georgetown’s advocates, Rev. officers of the SBA and the Governor- As a result of Doctor Kronstein’s Joseph M. Snee, S.J., I). C. ’52, and George J. Meiburger, Mo. ’52, presented at-Large; the class delegates; dele­ appointment, all the doctorate theses the argument for the petitioner. The court rendered a divided decision in gates from the law clubs; the chair­ on Comparative Law submitted to the favor of the resnondent. the University of Arizona. man of each standing committee and University of Frankfurt will be sent section of the SBA ; and the delegates- to him for examination and criticism. The appointment also makes it pos­ Timely Problem at-large. sible for students at Georgetown Uni­ Elected by the students to be class versity School pf Law to have ready Organized by the Junior Bar Committee of the New A ork City Bar Asso­ representatives are the following: access, with the assistance of Doctor ciation, the annual National Moot Court Competition is rapidly moving Peter Franco, N. Y. ’54, and Walter Kronstein, to German resources for toward the center stage of law school activities. The finalists are chosen as {Continued on page 3) the study of Comparative Law. a result of nation-wide eliminations from more than sixty schools. The interest in the Competition was greatly enhanced this year by the timeliness of the problem presented. The facts of the case, in brief, are as follows: John Doe, FR. LUCEY GIVEN HONORARY DEGREE State’s Attorney from Movieland County was duly subpoenaed to testify and produce papers before the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Com­ BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT merce which was authorized to conduct an investigation into the existence and The Reverend Francis E. Lucey, S.J., became on November 20, 1951, the extent of criminal, immoral, subversive and corrupting elements and influences first Jesuit in modern times to receive an honorary degree from a German upon the motion picture industry. university. The Faculty of Law of the University of Frankfurt conferred ----------- While on the witness stand before the degree, honoris causa, of Doctor of Civil and Canon Law upon Father the committee, Doe was subjected to Lucey for his oustanding work in legal philosophy, particularly in the field USED BOOK EXCHANGE Kleig lights, microphones, constant of natural law. snapping of flashbulbs by press The degree particularly praised Father Lucey for the excellence of his TO BE OPENED BY SBA photographers, and an overcrowded knowledge and research in social philosophy, for his fusion of the truths of committee room. He refused to classical philosophy with the principles of our own time, for his brilliant con­ The S.B.A. has undertaken to testify on the ground that such sub­ tributions to modern jurisprudence, for his unceasing mindfulness of the satisfy a long-desired need of the jection was a violation of his Consti­ student body by setting up a Student tutional rights, erffo he could not he (Continued on page 4) Book Exchange. The Exchange is de­ convicted under the contempt statute. signed to enable the student to remain He was indicted and sentenced to pocket-book happy while* purchasing five years imprisonment hy a District used case books and text books. The Court under R.S. 102. The Circuit creation of such a facility also obviates Court of Appeals affirmed without the time-consuming practice of search­ opinion. Retit ion for certiorari was ing the bulletin boards. granted and the case was argued be­ The plan tentatively adopted is this: fore the Moot Court in the same man­ any student wishing to sell his books ner as if it had been before the Su­ will deposit them in the office of the preme Court of the United States. Book Exchange and stipulate the price desired for the same. After the hooks Finals and I). C. ( up have been stamped with the seller’s In the opening round of the finals, price, they will be ottered for sale hy Georgetown bested the advocates from the Exchange Office, and upon sale' of the* University of Miami (Fla.). The the same the money will be promptly next victory was at the expense of the* turned over to the owner of such team from Cornell University. In the books. semi-finals, Georgetown’s representa­ Under such a plan each student will tives won out over the University of have a “bargain-basement” oppor­ North Carolina. All three decisions tunity to browse, examine, and select were rendered in Georgetown’s favor the book or books which suit his purse by a unanimous bench. and taste. Prior to their appearance in New The Exchange Office has set a fee of York, our team had succeeded in re­ ten cents for each book sold through taining the 1). C. Cup —symbol of the its office. This fee will be used to winner in the D. C. Circuit of the Na­ defray operating costs, and any tional Moot Court Competition. Co­ profit from this organization will lumbus Law School and Catholic Uni­ be used to purchase subscriptions to versity School of Law provided the magazines and newspapers which will actual opposition in the District. be placed in the social room of the George Washington University Law Pictured with Fr. Lucey are the two other recipients of honorary degrees at school. If, after this, any profits still School, Howard University Law the November 20, 1951, ceremony at the University of Frankfurt in Germany. remain, they will be deposited in the School, National Law School, and Immediately right of FT. Lucey is Dr. Lorenzo Mossa, Professor of Law at S.B.A. fund. Samuel R. DeSimone, Washington College of Law (Ameri- the University of Pisa, Italy; and on the right, Dr. Hermann Meinert, Chief Mass. ’53, will supervise the Ex­ Archivist for the City of Frankfurt. change. (Continued on page 3) I’age 2 rf: s ip s a l o q u it u r January 1952 MOOT COURT With the curtain down on the 1951 (Continued from page 1) Competition, Georgetown can look u forward with pride and confidence to RES IPSA LOQUITUR” can University) were eliminated in 1952. It owes and gives sincere thanks GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL earlier competitions and did not meet to its team. During the last two years, Georgetown Law School in actual com­ Georgetown is the only school to get WASHINGTON 1, D. C. petition. A Georgetown victory next past the quarter finals twice. Further­ year will retire the D. C. Cup, while more, prior to the final round in New Editor the Samuel Seabury Cup—emblematic York, our teams had been successful of the national victory—can be on various levels of the competition Richard P. Brouillard, .V. II., ’53 similarly retired, because of George­ for twelve consecutive times. Our town’s victory last year. record is the finest. It represents the A ssocia t c Editor Associa t a Editor able work of our students and of Pro­ Richard J. Zanard, .V. Y., ’52 Donald M. Walsh, .V. ’52 Participants fessor Paul R. Dean '46, faculty Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, EDITORIAL BOARD moderator to these successful teams Rev. Joseph M. Snee, S.J., received his during the last two years. \ew8 Editor Walter E. Webster, Jr., Wash. ’53 A.B. from Gonzaga University in Anniston! XeEditor Donald C. Machado, Hawaii ’53 Spokane in 1941. In 1942 the Gregorian Copy Editor Rev.