Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1995
Publication Information
40 Am. J. Juris. 1 (1995)
Abstract
My interest here is ethics—whether observation, intuition, the ability to make appeals to human nature, and insight into the workings of the human heart are useful as guides for legal judgments in relationships between lawyers and clients. A modern American lawyer and her client use power as certainly as Solomon used power and, I suppose, are as manifestly subject to indirection in deciding how to use power as the kings of Israel were. In both cases the enterprise is undertaken, as W.H. Auden put it, on "a moral planet tamed by terror."
Recommended Citation
Thomas L. Shaffer,
Human Nature and Moral Responsibility in Lawyer-Client Relationships,
40 Am. J. Juris. 1 (1995).
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https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/856
Comments
Reprinted with permission of American Journal of Jurisprudence.