Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1974
Publication Information
50 Notre Dame Law. 168 (1974).
Abstract
My assessments of the Law School have tended more to describe developments than to state aspirations. I continue to assess things in that vein; my preference for leadership in the Dean's Office is to build on the goals which are implicit in the work of the tireless, dedicated people who teach and learn law at Notre Dame. My hope in approaching our enterprise in this way is to discover myself, and to help my colleagues discover, the power with which they serve God, the University, the community, our embattled profession, and one another. "This power in us," St. Paul said, "is the power he used when he raised Christ from death and seated him at his right side in the heavenly world."
The Law School's objective is to identify and inform the qualities in men and women which will cause them to be honorable, autonomous, private lawyers. We are interested in their being knowledgeable, skillful professionals whose principal concern is the well-being of their clients. This involves a concern with the private practice, which is the destination of about 85 percent of our graduates, with professional autonomy, and with ethical standards which are consequent on a sense of professional responsibility (i.e., the ability to respond to one's clients) and on the implications of the Gospel in a lawyer's life.
Recommended Citation
Thomas L. Shaffer,
Report of the Dean 1973-1974,
50 Notre Dame Law. 168 (1974)..
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Comments
Reprinted with permission of Notre Dame Law Review (previously Notre Dame Lawyer).