The Legal Ethics of Radical Individualism

Authors

Thomas Shaffer, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1987

Publication Information

65 Tex. L. Rev. 963

Abstract

Most of what American lawyers and law professors call legal ethics is not ethics. Legal ethics has come to be rules that appeal to sanction, and not the lawyer’s conscience. This Article analyzes the ethical quandary arising from modern ethics, and presents an assessment of the ethics of radical individualism in terms of the religious tradition’s influence on legal ethics.

Recommended Citation

Thomas Shaffer, The Legal Ethics of Radical Individualism, 65 Tex. L. Rev. 963.
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