Reflections on a More "Catholic" Catholic Legal Education

(Excerpt) I am grateful to Professors Breen and Strang for their thoughtful book about Catholic legal education in the United States. It is an important topic, and their work promises to be a significant contribution to the conversation about the mission of Catholic law schools. My reflections here will focus on Chapter Five. All of us participating in this symposium are engaged in the collective enterprise of thinking through and implementing what it means to be a Catholic law school.

As a historian, personally I am well aware of the value of studying where we have been as part of the conversation about where we should be going, so I welcome this enterprise.