Robert Drinan
Robert Frederick Drinan (* November 15, 1920 in Boston, Massachusetts, † January 28, 2007 in Washington DC ) was an American politician, Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and law professor.
Life
Drinan grew up in Boston. In 1942 he completed his master's degree from Boston College and joined the Jesuit order. In 1950 he finished his Master of Laws from Georgetown University. In 1954 he received a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1955 he became a professor of family law at Boston College Law School ( at Boston College ). In 1956 he was elected there to the dean and remained so until 1969. 1969 to 1970 he was chancellor at Boston College.
1970 ended Drinan his work at Boston College Law School and won for the Democratic Party, as part of the Vietnam War refusal platform in Massachusetts in the election for the United States Congress a parliamentary mandate. The election win against an experienced rival candidate was there at the time, a big surprise.
He was re-elected four times and was a deputy until 1980. Drinan was next to Robert John Cornell one of only two Roman Catholic priests in Congress. In July 1973, he was the first deputy who brought a resolution for impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon in Congress. He was also one of the few politicians who in 1975 spoke out against the military operation in the Mayaguez incident. Drinan criticized abortion, but supported the legal right to abortion, both during his parliamentary activity and journalistically after ( Pro- Choice ), which is why religious conservatives spoke out for the prevention of its members activity. 1980, the renunciation of political office was by John Paul II in a papal decree for priests demanded, whereupon Drinan remarked dissatisfied, but the demand gave way and did not stand for re-election.
From 1981 to 2007 he was a law professor at Georgetown University, Main topics Legal Ethics ( Legal ethics ) and international human rights, and founded the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
Memberships
Drinan was a member of the American Bar Association and served as board member, among others, in the human rights organizations Human Rights First and International League for Human Rights with. In addition, he supported as a Board member of the democracy -promoting organization Americans for Democratic Action and the International Labor Rights Forum.