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Why Does The Church Have Law Schools?, Thomas L. Shaffer
Why Does The Church Have Law Schools?, Thomas L. Shaffer
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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 …