Father Robert Drinan, S.J. died on Sunday. Father Drinan was a founder of modern (post-Watergate) legal ethics and a colorful, important character in American political history, having been a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment proceedings and an outspoken critic of American activities in Vietnam and Cambodia while he was in Congress. Father Drinan was also a professor at Boston College (actually the Dean) and then at Georgetown. While getting my JD at Georgetown, I was blessed to spend a considerable amount of time with Fr. Drinan as an Editor on the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, created by Fr. Drinan and still the only ethics journal in the country, and when I took several of his classes, including his Advanced Legal Ethics Seminar. Fr. Drinan loved teaching and he had an endless supply of experience from which to teach. Continue Reading Father Drinan: Losing A Legend