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Religious values, legal ethics, and poverty law: a response to Thomas Shaffer.(response to article by Thomas Shaffer in this issue, p. 85)(Religious Values and Poverty Law: Clients, Lawyers and Communities)

From: Fordham Urban Law Journal  |  Date: 11/1/2003  |  Author: Wizner, Stephen

INTRODUCTION

As a lawyer, law teacher, and legal scholar, Thomas Shaffer is inspired and guided by religious values. Being a lawyer for Thomas Shaffer is a vocation, a calling to pursue social justice. (1) He is, to use his term, a "role model" of a lawyer who believes that his religious values require that he pursue justice. Shaffer is clearly right in asserting that there is much in the prophetic literature, and, indeed, in the entire Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, that ...

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