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Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Business Lawyers And Value Creation For Clients, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Faculty Scholarship
This Symposium marks an important milestone in legal scholarship and education: The spotlight falls on business lawyers for a change. Ten years ago, when one of us first wrote about what business lawyers really do, no one had devoted much attention to this part of the profession. In his broadside against lawyers, Derek Bok, then President of Harvard University and formerly dean of its law school, reserved his invective for litigators and the litigation process. Business lawyers captured the attention of very few critics; even on the unusual occasion when we were noticed, the criticism was at least funny. If …
Idaho's Law School Plans For The Approaching Millennium, John A. Miller
Idaho's Law School Plans For The Approaching Millennium, John A. Miller
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Why Does The Church Have Law Schools?, Thomas L. Shaffer
Why Does The Church Have Law Schools?, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
Why does the church have law schools?
The title I was given for this talk during the Marquette Conference of March, 1994, was "the mission of the religiously affiliated law school." The title raises the possibility that the church has a law school in order to carry out a mission. The church does not get its mission from the state or the civil community. The only workable meaning of the title I was given is that each of our law schools has a mission from God.
If the assignment of mission comes from the civil community or the state, the …