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Augustine, Lawyers & The Lost Virtue Of Humility, Bruce P. Frohnen
Augustine, Lawyers & The Lost Virtue Of Humility, Bruce P. Frohnen
Catholic University Law Review
The leading edge of legal scholarship and practice in recent decades has evinced a commitment to progressive politics at the expense of constitutional governance, the rule of law, and justice understood as vindication of the reasonable expectations of both the public and the parties to any given case or controversy. This article argues that renewed understanding of the virtue of humility, rooted in a genuine concern to do good according to one’s abilities, rights, and duties, is essential to the maintenance of decency in the legal profession and society as a whole. Such virtue is allowed, if not required, by …