FOREWORD
I am deeply honoured to have been asked to pen this foreword to the inaugural issue of the
Student Law Review at the Faculty of Law St Augustine.
Many years ago John F Kennedy asked 'What good is a University unless it is serving a great
national purpose?'
This faculty in this University must do more than to give its graduates an economic advantage in
life. It must allow our students to meet their debt to the public and to discharge their
responsibility to the public good.
A law review allows for precisely that. It allows the most sacred of freedoms guarded by a
University the freedom to speak to nourish as Kennedy said 'the roots of our culture'.
I welcome this altruistic endeavour as being consistent with the most noble principles of service,
sacrifice and responsibility upon which this Faculty was built.
I encourage your contributors to continually speak truth to power and I congratulate each and
every one involved in this publication as being standard bearers on the walls of academic
freedom.
John S Jeremie S.C.
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