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Catholic Judges In Capital Cases, Amy Coney Barrett, John H. Garvey
Catholic Judges In Capital Cases, Amy Coney Barrett, John H. Garvey
Journal Articles
The Catholic Church's opposition to the death penalty places Catholic judges in a moral and legal bind. While these judges are obliged by oath, professional commitment, and the demands of citizenship to enforce the death penalty, they are also obliged to adhere to their church's teaching on moral matters. Although the legal system has a solution for this dilemma by allowing the recusal of judges whose convictions keep them from doing their job, Catholic judges will want to sit whenever possible without acting immorally. However, litigants and the general public are entitled to impartial justice, which may be something a …
Notre Dame Lawyer - Fall/Winter 1998, Notre Dame Law School
On Teaching Legal Ethics With Stories About Clients, Thomas L. Shaffer
On Teaching Legal Ethics With Stories About Clients, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
The comparison I have in mind is between what goes on at Notre Dame and what goes on in one of Professor James Boyd White's law and literature classes at the University of Michigan. Both classes use provocation. White provokes his students with an array of assigned readings, all of them about people, not all of them about law, ranging from Homer and Plato to Fowler on the split infinitive and the autobiography of Dick Gregory. We provoke our students with a parade of accounts from our members, accounts of people they think they can help.
White's enterprise is, I …