You must have considerable satisfaction, Dean, that this magnificent project has been completed with the help of so many of the school s friends and benefactors and so many members of San Diego s greater civic community. The law deals in abstractions, concepts, and ideas, and when we have the opportunity to see the elements of law and its purpose and its mission rendered into a visible, tangible, physical form, it is always a cause for celebration. The law is like architecture in that it seeks a form, a language, a shape to express itself.
Law is always in search of ways for expression.
Law must always find a way to express the hopes and the aspirations of each particular generation, and so the two professions have that similarity, and I congratulate the architects and the school for what is a very splendid building. The building has archways. The bottom archway supports a passage between two places. The law has an entrance to the past and an entrance to the present and an entrance to the future, and I think the archways, which I take it were designed to replicate the beautiful arches in the school's Classroom Building, are a marvelous rendering. The building has a warm exterior, and that is important because it indicates the civic commitment of the people who work inside the building who want to give to the community.