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Law Library Newsletter, Volume 3, Issue 6 - March/April 2012, Kresge Law Library

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Aquinas And Capital Punishment: The Plausibility Of The Traditional Argument, Christian Brugger

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Catholic Teaching And The Call To Discipleship, Robert John Araujo

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Rights Of Entitlement: A Roman Catholic Perspective, Kenneth R. Himes

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Civil Amity And Civil Protest: Catholic Theological Reflections On Civil Disobedience, Drew Christiansen

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Morality Of Homosexual Conduct: A Response To John Finnis, Michael J. Perry

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

A Propos Of Professor Perry: A Plea For Philosophy In Sexual Ethics, Paul J. Weithman

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Foreword, Jay Tidmarch

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Law, Morality, And Sexual Orientation, John M. Finnis

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Towards Reconciliation And Consensus: Catholic Social Thought And Entitlements, Michael J. Nader

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Popes And The Economy, Francis Canavan

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Modern State As An Occasion Of Sin: A Public Choice Analysis Of The Welfare State, Jennifer Roback Morse

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Thomas Shaffer: He Believes What He Teaches And Lives What He Believes, John H. Pearson

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Virtures And Limits Of Codes In Legal Ethics, Vincent R. Johnson

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Duties Of A Catholic Politician With Respect To Bio-Lawmaking, Anthony Fisher

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Foreword, Elizabeth R. Kirk

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

John Paul Ii And Employee Participation In Corporate Governance, Michael Lower

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Smith V. Board Of School Commissioners: The Religion Of Secular Humanism In Public Education, Steven M. Lee

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Foreword, John H. Yoder

Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

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A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy In A Democratic Age, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

Professor Markovits has given us in A Modern Legal Ethics a profound, provocative, and closely argued philosophical treatment of his subject. He begins by asserting "that adversary advocates commonly do, and indeed are often required to do, things in their professional capacities, which, if done by ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, would be straightforwardly immoral" (1). Noting that lawyers commonly take issue with such a claim, he sets out to prove it in a chapter called "The Lawyerly Vices," divided into two sections: "Lawyers Lie," and "Lawyers Cheat." Against these, he sets the "lawyerly virtues" of "professional detachment" and "fidelity."

On Lawyers And Moral Discernment, Robert E. Rodes

Journal Articles

Drawing on Jacques Maritain's doctrine of Knowledge through Connaturality, and on other authors including David Hume and Edmond Cahn, this article argues that judgments of right and wrong are arrived at primarily through immediate discernment, and only secondarily through the application of general principles. It is possible, therefore, for lawyers and clients to arrive at agreement on how to handle their cases, even though they do not agree on the general principles that apply.

Erastian And High Church Approaches To The Law: The Jurisprudential Categories Of Robert E. Rodes, Jr., M. Cathleen Kaveny

Journal Articles

It is a great honor for me to have been asked to contribute to this issue of the Journal of Law and Religion focusing on the work of my colleague and friend, Robert E. Rodes, Jr. In June 2006, Professor Rodes celebrated his fiftieth anniversary as a member of the faculty of Notre Dame Law School. His long career has marked him as a founding father of interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of faith, law, and morality—the very sort of scholarship which this journal is dedicated to fostering and preserving.

The topics that Professor Rodes has considered over the years …

The Democratic Virtues, Our Common Life And The Common School: Trust In Democracy: Anabaptists, Italian Americans, And Solidarity, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Consider two phrases in Professor Marie Failinger's charge to those of us discussing Jeffrey Stout's Democracy and Tradition, October 28, 2005, at Hamline University: (i) "How would we construct a real democratic sociality holding each other responsible for ethical life that would warrant trust in democracy? . . . and, (ii) How do the religious traditions help us reflect on this issue?"

My reflection, probably sectarian, refers more to where we come from than to what we choose. The reference here is to three communities, none of which is primarily concerned with "real democratic sociality." But none of them is …

Prophecy And Casuistry: Abortion, Torture And Moral Discourse, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Journal Articles

In turn of the 21st century United States there are serious moral disputes over issues such as abortion and torture among persons who see themselves as belonging to the same moral tradition. These disputes have not given rise to fruitful discussion about differences, but instead led to a breakdown of conversation and even of community. A part of these clashes and breakdowns are not the result of mutually inconsistent moral premises, but are driven by tensions between two styles of moral discourse, the prophetic and casuistical. The former invokes the absolute and fiery rhetorical style of biblical prophets while the …

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American Conversations With(In) Catholicism, Richard W. Garnett

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CATHOLICISM AND AMERICAN FREEDOM: A HISTORY. By John T. McGreevy. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003. Pp. 431. $26.95.

John T. McGreevy's Catholicism and American Freedom tells the story of how America or, more particularly, American liberalism has reacted and responded to Catholic claims about the nature and purpose of freedom. It also addresses how these claims were, in turn, shaped by Catholicism's own interactions with, internal conversations about, and adjustment to American liberalism. As McGreevy shows, for many people and for many years, the Roman Catholic Church served as a foil for American values and …

The Globalization Of Human Rights: Consciousness, Law And Reality, Douglass Cassel

Journal Articles

Human rights have suffered sharp setbacks in the four years since the paper that follows was delivered in London in the summer of 2000. The terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, and the Bush Administration’s ensuing “war on terrorism,” have led not only to a demotion of human rights on the list of American foreign policy priorities, but also to gross violations of human rights by Washington. Among other recent assaults on the rule of law are the prolonged detentions of hundreds of prisoners without trial or due process of law at the United States Naval …

Helping Enact Unjust Laws Without Complicity In Injustice, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

The form of enactments must be distinguished from their legal meaning (their "juridical effect"), that is, from the propositions of law which those enactments, properly interpreted, make legally valid. This distinction makes it possible, and rationally necessary, to conclude that, in certain contexts, a certain statute which declares or textually implies that some abortions are legally permitted (but others prohibited) is not apermissive law within the meaning of the principle, assumed in this article to be true, that permissive abortion laws are intrinsically unjust and may never be voted for. A permissive statute, in that sense, is one which has …