The St. Thomas Law Review: its ratio essendi.

• Date: 22 June 2013
• Author: Wiessner, Siegfried

At its twenty-fifth birthday, the St. Thomas Law Review deserves a hearty round of applause for its abundant contributions to knowledge and to a public order of human dignity. Over all these years, it has stood for a vision of legal education and legal practice that emphasized not only excellence in the profession, but a commitment to the common good. It has provided the antithesis to the caricature of lawyers as attack dogs for hire or sharks out only for money, committed to winning at all cost. In contrast, St. Thomas lawyers are to be seen as true professionals, deeply intellectual, and able to fashion innovative solutions to the problems of their clients and society.

Indeed, St. Thomas University School of Law was created in this vein --within a Catholic university dedicated to the ideals of social justice, human dignity, and the preference for the poor. From Day One, our law school would live to embrace, unleash, and foster the intellectual potential of the members of our community, both faculty and students. In particular, we cherished the papers our students wrote and felt it was necessary to share their most profound analyses and solutions to society's problems with the world.

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