VOL. 5, No. 3 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL. WASHINGTON, 1). C. JUNE, 1953 WHELAN SELECTED AS BEST ADVOCATE IN FINAL ARGUMENT Chancellor Adenauer Receives Mr. Charles Marion Whelan S.J., I). C. '54, was adjudged the “best advocate of the school year” in the final Law Club Argument held on April 28. Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree The question under discussion involved the applicability of the double jeopardy provision in the Fifth Amendment to a case in which the defendant German Leader Accompanied by Secretary of State Hallstein was convicted of a federal offense on the third trial. At the first trial, the judge discharged the jury before verdict over the objection of the defendant, because the defense counsel exceeded the limits of cross-examination set by the Court. During the second t r i a l , ------------------------------------------------------ for which two alternate jurors had been sworn, the Court again dis­ LAW SCHOOL MEN CHAIR­ charged the jury before verdict over MEN OF DEMOCRATIC AND the objection of the defendant, be­ cause the Court discovered that a war­ REPUBLICAN NATIONAL rant had been issued for juror num­ ber six. COMMITTEES The well attended debate was heard The Chairmen of the Democratic before a Court consisting of Chief and Republican National Committees Judge Bolitha J. Laws T3, Judge are Georgetown Law School men. Walter M. Bastian T3 and Judge Ed­ They are Stephen A. Mitchell ’28 of ward M. Curran of the U. S. District the Democratic Committee and Leon­ Court for the District of Columbia. ard Wood Hall ’20 of the Republican The winning team representing the Committee. appellant was composed of Mr. Mitchell is a prominent Chicago Whelan and Rex Alan Jemison lawyer who has had experienceNev. both ’54. Jemison was selected as second in government and politics. He served best advocate. the government in important posts during World War II. In 1942 Mitchell The team representing the appellee became chief of the French division consisted of Bernard J. Hasson Jr. of the Lend-Lease Administration and Md. ’53 and Tillman H. Neuner Va. held that post until 1944 when he was ’53. named chief adviser for French eco­ nomic affairs to the State Depart­ BOURBON ELECTED S.B.A. ment. He was also an adviser in the HEAD FOR FALL U. S. Embassy in Paris. A native of Rock Valley, Iowa, SEMESTER Mitchell attended Creighton Univer­ The election of officers for the Stu­ sity in Omaha, Nebraska, prior to en­ dent Bar Association was held on tering Georgetown Law School. Fol­ lowing his graduation he worked with April 28 and Robert S. Bourbon I). C. Left to right: Chancellor Adenauer, Most Rev. Patrick A. O’Boyle, Archbishop of ’54 and Stephen K. Carr, N. Y. ’54 GMAC in New York until 1932 when were elected to the presidency and he began the practice of law in Chi­ Washington, Rev. Edward B. Bunn, S.J., President of Georgetown University. vice-presidency by a wide majority. cago. In recent years he has been a close friend and adviser of Samuel Dr. Konrad Adenauer, seventy- versity, was the next exchange Pro­ Francis X. Doyle Mass '54 was named seven year old Catholic Chancellor of fessor. lie is now a member of the to the Treasurer’s post and Peter Cardinal Stritch, Archbishop of Chi­ cago. Mitchell is a director of the the Federal German Republic, visited German Supreme Court for Oonsti- Arban, D. C. ’55 was elected Secretary. Washington during the month of April (utional ('uses. Professor Wolfgang Bourbon, a Marine veteran, is a Catholic Charities of Chicago, a trustee of DePaul University, and to confer with President Eisenhower Preiser, Professor of Law in the Uni­ graduate of Loyola College in Balti­ and top administ rat ive assistants. versity of Frankfurt also taught sev­ more, Maryland, where he obtained vice president of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Another purpose of his visit was to eral courses in the Graduate School his PH.B. in 1951, and served as receive an honorary degree from last year and Dr. Helmut Going, Sports Editor of the Loyola “Grey­ Hall received his bachelor’s degree as well as his law degree from George­ Georgetown lTDiversity, which insti­ forme)* Dean of the Law Faculty of hound.” At Georgetown he partici­ tution, especially the Law Depart­ the University of Frankfurt taught in pated in the first and third Public town. Following his graduation he joined the New York City law firm ment, has had a most cordial relation­ the second semester of this academic Law Arguments as the representative ship with educational institutions in year. of the Morris Law Club, of which he of Wise, Whitney and Parker. He West Germany since* the time Chan- • is Chief Justice, and was named “sec­ was elected to the New York As­ Dr. Heinrich Kronstein and Dr. cellor Adenauer took office. Waitei* 11. E. Jaeger of the George­ ond best advocate” on both occasions. sembly in 1927 and later became a Dr. Adenauer became the first Ger­ Carr received his A.B. degree legislative leader in the Newr York town Law School faculty have taught man Chancellor to receive an honorary at the University of Frankfurt under from St. Michael’s College, University State lower house. Hall was elected degree at an American university or of Toronto, Canada, in 1951, and is to Congress in 1938 and in every suc­ the exchange agreement. Dr. Kron­ college. He was awarded an Honor­ stein, who has taught there for two also an active member of the Morris ceeding Congressional election until ary Doctor of Laws degree at an Law Club. 1952, when he announced for Surro­ academic convocation held in Gaston summers will be on the faculty of that Tentative plans of the new adminis­ gate Judge in Nassau County. For Hall on April seventh. The ceremonies university during Hu* summer months tration include an extensive program several years he was ranking Republi­ were witnessed by a gathering of more again this year. Last summer Dr. of guest speakers and an integrated can member of the Select Committee than 700 invitation-only-guests, in Jaeger conducted classes in Interna­ social season. on Small Business, and other major eluding members of the Washington tional and Labor Law. activities included legislation affect­ diplomatic set, officials of the present In recognition of the work done in GOLF TOURNAMENT ing civil aeronautics, regulation of administration and members of the fostering this program, and for his interstate and foreign transportation, Georgetown fac u 1 ty. outstanding work in legal philosophy, The first annual Georgetown Law communications, and related fields. Accompanying tin* Chancellor was particularly in the field of natural School Invitational Golf Tournament Hall’s ability and service to the Dr. Walter Hallstein, Secretary of law, the authorities of Frankfurt Uni­ was held on May 3, at Georgetown Republican Party was recognized na- State for Foreign Affairs in the Office versity conferred upon Reverend Preparatory School. The participants tionallv in 1944 when he became di- of the Chancellery of the Republic of Francis E. Lucey, S.J., Regent of in the tournament, faculty members rector of the Speakers’ Bureau of the Germany. Dr. Hallstein first visited Georgetown Law School, the degree, and students, numbered thirty-six. Republican National Committee dur­ the United States as an exchange pro­ honoris causa, of Doctor of Civil and Professor Chase of the Law School ing the first Dewey Presidential cam­ fessor with the Law School. He Canon Law. Father Lucey was wop the tournament with a low net paign. In 1947 he was elected chair­ lectured at the Law School in 1948 awarded the degree on November 20, of 72. The runner-up, John G. Flynn, man of the National Republican Con­ and was followed by Herman Mosler 1951, in ceremonies at the University ’54, had a score of 75. Ken Dawes, gressional Committee, a post he held of the University of Frankfurt, now of Frankfurt and became the first ’55, took the prize for low gross with until after the election of the Republi­ on leave of absence and serving as Jesuit in modern times to receive an a score of 77, and Eugene Houpbert, can Eighty-third Congress. Chief of the Legal Division of the honorary degree from a German Uni­ ’55, won the Blind Bogey with a net He is a native of Oyster Bay, New Foreign Office. Konrad Zweigert, versity. score of 78. York. Professor of Law at Tuebinger Uni­ (Continued on page 2) Page 2 RES IPSA LOQUITUR June, 1953 MONSIGNOR P. M. HANNAN DONATIONS TO LIBRARY <<RES IPSA LOQUITUR” ADDRESSES SODALITY IN The following Law School graduates FINAL MEETING donated books to the library during GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL the past year: Robert A. Maurer ’06, The duties of a Catholic lawyer Professor Emeritus; George A. Finch WASHINGTON 1, D. C. with regard to separation and divorce ’07, former Secretary of the Carnegie Editor was the subject of Very Rev. P. M. Endowment for International Peace, Hannan, Chancellor of the Archdio­ Paul B. Cromelin T2, Washington at- Timothy J. Curtin ’55 cese of Washington as he addressed attorney; Bernard F. Garvey T6, Associate Editor Associate Editor the final meeting for the academic Washington Patent Attorney and Pro­ John I’. Ford, Mohs. '55 Richard J. Briskey, ’54 year of the Law School Sodality in fessor of Patent Law; and Victor S. Gaston Hall at the College. The lecture Merseh ’23, Clerk of the Court, The EDITORIAL BOARD was preceded by Mass and breakfast. Tax Court of the United States, and former Professor of Wills and Admin­ Secretary James F.