Legal Ethics after Babel

Authors

Thomas L. Shaffer, Notre Dame Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1990

Publication Information

19 Cap. U. L. Rev. 989 (1990)

Abstract

Legal ethics owes as much to Richard M. Nixon as it does to philosophy. The rebirth of legal ethics in the last decade is one of many consequences, although possibly the most obscure, of the burglary at the Watergate Hotel in 1972. The criminal politics that destroyed Mr. Nixon's presidency summoned American lawyers to a serious, systematic examination of the morals of their craft.

Comments

Reprinted with permission of the Capital University Law Review.

Recommended Citation

Thomas L. Shaffer, Legal Ethics after Babel, 19 Cap. U. L. Rev. 989 (1990).
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