Gerard V. Bradley, Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, has submitted his resignation from Ave Maria School of Law's Board of Governors. Sources report that Bradley offered that resignation earlier this summer; yet, as of today, the Law School's website still lists him as a Governor. Bradley was the only Board member who voted against the February 17, 2007 decision to close the institution's Ann Arbor campus and move to Chairman Tom Monaghan's for-profit south Florida real estate development, "Ave Maria Town".

AveWatch attempted to contact Bradley earlier this month concerning the help provided by the School to a local priest investigated for child pornography. AW asked Bradley and other Board members if they approved of the handling of the matter by Dean Bernard Dobranski and Chairman Tom Monaghan. All Board members declined comment.

This begs several questions - Who is really on AMSL's Board of Governors as of today? Why does the Law School website still list Bradley? Who does the AMSL community contact for answers on accountability concerning the administration's many recent self-inflicted crises:

• failure to report to the police that AMSL offered and provided help to a child pornography suspect
• failure to discipline or sanction Chaplain Orsi for offering the aforementioned help to a person not employed by AMSL
• failure to discipline or sanction Chaplain Orsi for comments embarrassing to the institution [1,2,3]
• failure to respectfully treat AMSL co-founder and tenured professor Stephen Safranek, leading to further institutional embarrassment with legal colleagues and students/alumni
• failure of Dean Dobranski to garner confidence in his leadership among faculty and alumni
• possible failure to follow accreditation standards, resulting in an ongoing ABA investigation

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