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Ethics As Self-Transcendence: Legal Education, Faith, And An Ethos Of Justice, Patrick Brown
Ethics As Self-Transcendence: Legal Education, Faith, And An Ethos Of Justice, Patrick Brown
Seattle University Law Review
Ethics is fundamentally about ethos, attitude, one's grounded stance or existential orientation, not the extrinsicism of concepts or the formalism of rules. Ethics concerns not just any orientation, but that intimate and demanding form of personal development manifested in the experience and practice of self-transcendence. Conversely, the neglect of ethics as self-transcendence introduces deep distortions into the way we socialize students into notions of ethics and professionalism. It introduces subsequent distortions into the conditions of legal practice. It encourages a superficial and extrinsic minimalism. It encourages, in effect, the disastrous conception of legal ethics as ethical legalism. I begin by …
Asking Jurors To Do The Impossible: A Response To Peter Tiersma, Janet Ainsworth
Asking Jurors To Do The Impossible: A Response To Peter Tiersma, Janet Ainsworth
Faculty Articles
Comments from Janet Ainsworth at the Summers-Wyatt Symposium - Asking Jurors to Do the Impossible - Friday March 27, 2009 Transcript.
The Practice Of Law As Response To God's Call, Susan J. Stabile
The Practice Of Law As Response To God's Call, Susan J. Stabile
Seattle University Law Review
Legal practice, like all human work, is a religious calling, a vocation. Section I of this Article will focus on work as a calling. Although I refer in my title to the practice of law as a response to God's call, I suggest that even those who are uncomfortable with the use of religious language can share a notion of law as a calling. Section II will address the need to discern one's place in the legal profession. Implicit in the notion of a calling is that our professional decisions are not merely internally driven, but are in response to …