PROSPECTUS AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COLLEGE OF LAW …

NOTRE DAME LAW REPORTER

PROSPECTUS AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF THECOLLEGE OF LAW FOR 1920-1921.

With the year 1919-1920, the Col-

lege of Law of the University of No-

tre Dame began a new era. This

year, for the first time in the history

of the old school, the law men are

afforded a distinctive law building all

their own, and a law atmosphere

separate and apart from the otherschools and colleges. These features,together with the splendid new andmodern equipment and facilities forconducting the law course, lend dig-nity to the School, offer singular ad-vantages to the law students andstimulate in them a zest for studying,understanding and learning the law.Nowhere in the country are theseconditions better.

The pictorial review of the school,which appears in this issue of the Re-porter, presents an external view ofthe Hoynes College of Law, namedin honor of William Hoynds, Dean.Emeritus, whose lifelong labors laidthe splendid foundation for thepresent School of Law. A glimpse isalso given of each of the four largerooms of the building, the library,court room and class rooms.

LAW LIBRARY.

The law library, quite extensiveand adequate for the needs of ourlarge and growing law school, is con-tinually augumented by the arrivalof new books. There are the U. S,Supreme Court Reports, complete;Federal Cases; Federal Reporter;United States Statutes and Digests;Meyers' Federal Decisions; The Na-tional Reporter System, completeWith Digests; Lawyers' Reports An-notated, both old and new series;

American Reporter system, Ameri-can Decisions, American Reports,American State Reports; EnglishRuling Cases; British Ruling Cases;American and English AnnotatedCases; American Annotated Cases;Moak's English Reports; Peters-dorf's Abridgment; American & Eng-lish Corporation Cases; Moore's In-ternational Law Digest; American &English Encyc. of Law; Cyc., RulingCase Law, Words & Phrases; Encyc,of Pleading & Practise; Encyc. ofEvidence; Standard Encyc. of Plead-ing & Practise; hundreds of textbooks, of the old and modern writers.There are the Indiana Supreme andAppellate Court Reports, complete;New York Common-law Reports;New York Court of Appeals Reports,Vermont Reports.

There are now coming the statereports of the individual states ofOhio, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wis-consin, Minnesota, PennsylvaniaMassachusetts, Missouri, Californiaand Connecticut. Arrangements havebeen made for acquiring the state re-ports of all the states to the pointwhere the Reporter System begins topublish them, and the Codes andStatutes have also been applied for,so that the law of every state will bemade available to every law student.

The library has a capacity oftwenty thousand volumes, is admir-ably equipped with stacks, tables andchairs, has high ceiling, is perfectlylighted, day and night, and like thecourt room and class rooms, is so ar-ranged -and cared for as to afford themost commodious, convenient andcheerful accomodations for efficientuse.


COURT ROOM.

The court room, which is a marvel,of beauty and perfection, is con-veniently located on the ground floor,-opposite the law library. The court,room, in its equipment, arrangement-and faithful compliance with the re-quisites of the actual court, is in factsuperior to many real court cham-bers. Here are held the various ses-sions of the University courts in thestrictest observance of the procedur-al law,-pleading, practise and evi-dence,-trial and appellate. We haveonly to refer to the present issue ofthe Notre Dame Law Reporter,which, as an exhibit, speaks for it-self, to confirm our statements.

A glimpse of the Notre Dame Cir-cuit Court in session may be seen inthe accompanying pictorial review.A pretentious bench for the judge,perfect accomodations for the jury,ample room at the bar for litigantsand their attorneys, witness box,stenographer's table, and offices forthe clerk, sheriff and bailiff of thecourt. The bar is raised and separ-ated from the lobby, which has aseating capacity of one hundred.

CLASS ROOMS.

The class rooms, like the courtroom, are equipped with the beauti-ful and substantial American, steelpedestal, tablet arm chairs, the latestword in modern lecture room ac-comodation. One hundred and fiftyof these mahogany finished chairs arcarranged in semi-circula r form infront of the instructor's rostrum,constituting such an efficient and at-tractive spectacle as almost to speaklaw for themselves. There are twe

such large rooms which together withthe court room, afford ample ac-comodation for the large studentbody and the entire faculty of theSchool of Law.

ORGANIZATION AND SYSTEM.

The law faculty comprises sixresident instructors, all of whom aregraduates of the leading law schoolsof the country, most of them ex-perienced in the practice of law, andthree of whom have been regularjudges of city, and circuit courts.Four of the faculty devote their en-tire time and service to the School ofLaw while the other members of thefaculty also engage in the law .prac-tice.

The classes of the course are ar-ranged in groups according to theirrelationship and the logical order oftheir study and with due regard tothe time to be devoted to each classsubject. These classes are assignedto the various instructors with a viewto ,the instructor's special qualifica-tion and experience to teach them.The course is conducted under thecareful supervision of the dean of thedepartment to the end that the bestmethods may be applied and thehighest degree of efficiency attainedin the teaching department, thereb-assuring the students the greatestpossible measure of success in thecourse.

A special advantage to the law stu-dent at Notre Dame is his daily as-sociation with the instructors and thepersonal assistance rendered him andthe special interest taken in him bythe law faculty as well as by the ad.ministrative officers of the Univer-sity.

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METHODS OF INSTRUCTION.

Experience at Notre Dame hasconfirmed the opinions of eminentlaw teachers that the case methodalone is not adequate to teach athorough and comprehensive know-ledge of the law. Excellent as thecase method is for imparting a know-ledge of the particular principles ofthe law applicable in the cases ana-lyzed, a general idea of the law as awhole, its main features and its uni-versal concepts can not be learnedwithout the aid of the text-book.Therefore the law is taught here bytext-book assignments as well ascases, both explained and illustratedby the class-room talks of the in-structors. In addition to these dailyassignments, frequent written testsand the quarterly examinations arcgiven, and class records are kept ofthe students' work.

INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDYOF LAW.

As an introduction to the study oflaw the students are given a courseof preliminary lectures to acquaintthem in a general way with the sys-tem of law as a whole, its variousclassifications and those concepts andprinciples underlying the whole lawso necessary to an intelligent andsuccessful study of the variousbranches of the law prescribed in thecourse for study. These lecturesmay be briefly outlined as follows:the nature of law; law as it effectsthe individual, organized society and,nations; the system of Americanjurisprudence; the common-law andequity systems, their origin, develop-ment and relation; our constitutionaland statutory law systems and theirrelation to the common law; the

sources of the law, custom, judicialdecisions and legislation; judicialsystems and the processes of thecourts; higher court decisions asprecedents and the reporter system;the law divided into two greatbranches, the substantive law and thelaw of procedure-rights and reme-dies-and these branches again di-vided respectively into the law ofcontracts, wrongs and property andpractice, pleading and evidence ,thesein turn divided into the specialbranches of the prescribed course;where to find the law; how to studythe law.

THE LAW AND HOW TO PRAC-TICE IT.

The lawyer's profession is a prac-tical one and most law students in-tend to practice the law. It is fre-quently said of the law schools of thecountry that their courses are notpractical, that they teach the sub-stantive law to the exclusion of themore practical branch of the law, thelaw of procedure.

The substantive law operates pro-prio vigore to establish the rights andobligations of parties. When suchright is violated the substantive lawcreates a secondary right which isdenominated a right of action. Thenit is that the law of procedure ap-plies, and it is the knowledge of thislaw that enables the practitioner toinvoke the jurisdiction of the courtsand the strong arm of the state tosecure his client's rights and re-dress his wrongs. A law course.therefore, to be practical should teachnot only the substantive law but alscthe law of procedure.

To meet this condition the lawcourse as now prescribed at Notre

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Dame is intended not only to teachthe law but how to practice it as well,Provision has been made for a sys-tematic course in civil procedure ahda thorough and practical court sys-tem to operate throughout the entirethree years of study.

COURSE OF PROCEDURE.

In addition to criminal procedurewhich is taught in the first yearthere is also a preliminary course incivil procedure consisting of thestudy of common-law and equitycourts, the original writs and pro-cesses, the common-law forms of ac-tion and remedies and relief inequity. Not only does this serve asa beginning of the course in practicalprocedure but it enables the law stu-dent from the outset to better under-stand the substantive law taughtthrough the application of the cornmon-law actions and remedies. Thiscourse is followed in the second yeaiby a complete course of pleadings andpractice at common-law, the makingof issues in the various common-lawactions, equity pleading in generaland as applied in the federal courts,and pleading and practice under thecode. The third year is devoted tcthe making of issues in the principalcivil actions under the code, trialpractice and appellate procedure.The course in federal procedure is al-so given in this year.

THE UNIVERSITY COURTS.

These consist of the Criminal Prac-tise Court, -the University MootCourt, the Notre Dame CircuitCourt and the Supreme Court ofNotre Dame. These courts constitutea thorough and practical system And

are kept in operation throughout thethree years of the law course. TheCriminal Practise Court is open tothe first year law students for crimi-nal pleading and practice immediate-ly after the course in criminal lawand procedure. Hypothetical casesare submitted to regularly chosengrand juries and prosecuting attor-neys-and indictments are voted andreturned. Warrants are issued, ar-rests made and attorneys appointedfor the defendants. Motions toquash are argued, pleas entered andarguments made before the court andjury on the question of conviction oracquittal. Many hypothetical casesare submitted to the students for thepreparation of affidavits and indict-ments thereon and for argument inthe court. Thus all the students aregiven a start in court practice in theirfirst year. The University MootCourt is kept busy throughout thejunior year in the preparation andargument of cases on the law ap-plicable to hypothetical statements offact, principally in civil cases. Whenthe law of evidence is taught incourse of the second year the NotreDame Circuit Court opens, and herethe students apply all the law pro-cedure, pleading, practice and evi-dence. Throughout the senior yearpractice is had with a view of teach-ing the students how to make trialrecords, save exceptions and availthemselves of alleged error on ap-peal to the Supreme Court. Eachcandidate for a degree is required toprepare at least one record andtranscript together with an assign-ment of error and brief thereon inthe Supreme Court of Notre Dame.

These courts are all fully organiz-ed, have their regular officers andofficial records. Four students are

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assigned to each case and all are thusmade to engage in the active prac-tice. It is thought that this systemof procedure and practice will soqualify the graduate that he maywith confidence in himself begin theactive practice of his profession.

COURSES OF STUDY.The prescribed course of study in

the Law School itself covers a periodof three years and leads to the De-gree of Bachelor of Laws. An addi-tional year of resident, graduatework in the school merits the Degreeof Master of Laws. The require-ments for the Degree of Doctor ofLaws or Doctor of Civil Laws areprescribed by the University and theCollege of Law upon proper applica-tion therefor.

A six-year course has also beenarranged by which two degrees maybe acquired,--the degree from theCollege of Arts or Science or Com-merce and the degree from the Col-lege of Law.

RESUIREMENTS FORADMISSION.

Students who have a bachelor's de-gree or who have completed at leastone year of college work, the equiva-lent of thd courses prescribed in theUniversity, are eligible to enter thethree year course of law as candi-dates for the degrees.

Graduates of a four year highschool or preparatory school of recog-nized standing, evidenced by diplomaor certificate from such school, willbe admitted to he four-year course,the first year of which consists of cer-tain college subjects, some prescribedand some elective and including theelements of law.

Those who have not high schoolgraduation or certified credits equalto those required for entrance intothe other colleges of the University,may obtain such credits by examina-tion in the subjects required, and mayacquire additional credits by takingthe courses outlined for the regularschool year and the summer school ofthe University.

A few men of advanced age andpractical business or office experi-ence, who are otherwise speciallyqualified for the study of the law,may apply to the University for ad-mission as special students.

Students of other law schools willbe given such advanced rating in theSchool of Law as warranted by thecharacter of the school from which,they come and the certificate ofcredits attained there. Only schoolsof known repute and standing ascompare favorably with the Collegeof Law of the University of NotreDame will be recognized, whetherthey be in or out of any association.


SCHEDULE OF CLASSES.

FIRST YEAR

First Semester.Weeks Periods

Introductory Lectures andStudy of Cases 18 1

Principles of Liabilityand Damages 18 2

Common-law Actions 18 2Contracts 18 5Criminal Law & Procedure 18 2Selected Reading 18 1Public Speaking 18 1

AgencyPartnershipReal PropertyFinding & Briefing LawWills & Decedents EstatesEvidenceCivil PleadingJunior Moot CourtPublic Speaking

Quasi ContractsPrivate CorporationsSuretyshipBankruptcyConstitutional LawGeneral Practical Plead.Notre Dame Circuit Court

Suprme Court of N. D.

Second SemesterWeeks Periods

Persons and DomesticRelations 18 2

Common-law Pleading,Forms 18 2

Torts 18 5Sales (8) Bailments (5) 13 5Personal Property 5 5Criminal Practice Court 18 1Public Speaking 18 1

JUNIOR YEAR.

8 5 Equity and Trusts10 5 Real Property, Mortgages,18 5 Liens, Conveyancing2 5 Bills & Notes16 5 Insurance18 3 Evidence18 2 Code, Equity Pleading

Notre Dame Circuit Court18 1 Public Speaking

SENIOR

4 514 510 5

8 518 318 2

YEAR.Public UtilitiesMunicipal CorporationsConflict of LawsFederal ProcedureLegal EthicsConstitutional LawTrial and Appellate Pract.Notre Dame Circuit Court

Supreme Court of N. D.

18 5

18 512 5

6 518 a18 2

18 1

4 59 55 5

12 56 5

18 3.18 2

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