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The Forms Behind the Laws

Patrick McKinley Brennan

Ministers of the Law by Jean Porter Eerdmans, 368 pages, $30 n Some years ago, the acclaimed legal theorist Ronald Dworkin volunteered that “no one wants to be called...

Bologna Revisited

Patrick McKinley Brennan

What is the mission of a Catholic law school, and how do we achieve it? Fr. Michael Buckley’s book The Catholic University as Promise and Project sets outโ€very artfully,...

To Beginning Law Students

Patrick McKinley Brennan

Regardless of what each of you has come to law school to do, allow me to suggest a complementary or perhaps an alternative aspiration: take these three years to...