Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2002
Publication Information
59 Theology Today 369 (2002).
Abstract
The ethics of American lawyers come from the English gentleman-lawyer of the nineteenth century, with the steady addition of an elitist Jeffersonian gloss. But they have, within the last century, been seperated, so that reulation claims to operate without conscience. The result is that the law of lawyers is now the principal, if not only, feature of the official codes, and ethics as ethics is is spread oer insignificant consensus statements by bar associations and promising scholarship from academic lawyers, some small part of which deserves to be called ethics and even, from small beginnings to be called religious ethics.
Recommended Citation
Thomas L. Shaffer,
American Legal Ethics,
59 Theology Today 369 (2002)..
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