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Salt Equalizer, Vol. 1991, Issue 2, Society Of American Law Teachers

SALT Equalizer

Contents of this issue:

Dean Hill Rivkin, The University of Maryland School of Law: Progressive Ideals in Action, at 1.

Howard A. Glickstein, Presiden'ts Column: How SALT Makes a Difference, at 4.

Matt Nicely, The Pro Bono Requirement: Needed Curricular Reform, at 5.

Council on Legal Education Opportunity, at 11.

Joyce Saltalamachia, SALT Board Meeting: How Should We Spend Our Money?, at 12.

News Flash, at 14.

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Inaugural Howard Lichtenstein Lecture In Legal Ethics: Lawyer Professionalism As A Moral Argument, Thomas L. Shaffer

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The recurrent movement to call or recall lawyers to professionalism is a moral argument. It is an argument made to individual lawyers, a claim among lawyers, that professionalism has to do with being a good person.

I see two aspects to the claim that professionalism is a moral value: one aspect says to a person "be professional." It is an admonition to virtue. The other aspect says to a person, "be in the profession—be of it," with an appeal that seems familiar from other admonitions we have heard to align ourselves with groups that are supposed to make us better …

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Of Love And Liberation: A Book Review Of Breaking Bread, Adrienne D. Davis

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The label "Black intellectual" may be either oxymoronic or redundant, depending on the content one ascribes to the term and the historic context in which it is situated.

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