- Father Drinan teaches courses at the Georgetown Law Center and pursues careers as a priest, lawyer, politician, and activist. During the ten years between his deanship at Boston College Law School and joining the Law Center faculty in 1981, he served in the United States Congress as a Representative from Massachusetts. He is a regular contributor to several law reviews and journals of policy and opinion, as well as the author of a number of books. Father Drinan serves on numerous committees devoted to the furtherance of human rights such as the International League for Human Rights, the Lawyer's Committee for International Human Rights, the Council for a Livable World Educational Fund, Americans for Democratic Action, and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He is one of the founders of the Lawyer's Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control and the National Inter-religious Task Force on Soviet Jewry.