Thomas L Shaffer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5922756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas L Shaffer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas L |
| FAMILY NAME | Shaffer |
| SIGNATURE | SHAFFER T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Use of Reflective Journals to Stimulate Critical Thinking in the Academic Internship
Reflective journals have been widely accepted throughout various educational disciplines for many years as a means of enhancing experiential learning practices. Reflective journals allow for students to gain a better understanding of a given experience and explore the levels of critical thinking as they work through the understanding and learning processes. Critical thinking involves the logical progression from mere knowledge and understanding t…
Roman Catholic Lawyers in the United States of America
My agenda here is Roman Catholics in the American legal profession, from George Higgins's Jerry Kennedy to Judge Samuel Alito's joining the four other Catholics to make a majority on the federal Supreme Court. (I thought, as I said this in Washington, just before the Senate confirmation hearings in January 2006, that some in attendance may not have thought about this, and may have wanted to leap to their feet and phone their senators.) Begin with…
The Democratic Virtues, our Common Life and the Common School
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American Legal Ethics
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 separated, so that regulation 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 spread over insignificant consensus statements by bar…
American Lawyers and Their Communities
For the Nations
Should a Christian Lawyer Sign up for Simon's Practice of Justice
In The Practice of Justice, Professor William H. Simon describes justice in a way that differs from the way the Bible describes justice. The big difference is not so much what justice requires (although there is some difference there) as (i) how people decide what justice requires, and (ii) who the "people" are who decide what justice requires. Some of us Christians claim to understand "justice" as the Bible understands it. It may make a differen…
How I Changed My Mind
My own changes of mind are not unique. I am one of a small group of law teachers who have, over the last thirty years, become clearer in formulating an Hebraic legal ethic. We are a minority who have become bolder. We owe such courage as we have located for that to modern pioneers, most notably Harold Berman, and, more lately, Emily Hartigan. What has changed most for us has been the clarity of our public witness; the substance all along has been…
Erastian and Sectarian Arguments in Religiously Affiliated American Law Schools
The legal education establishment in the United States some time ago gave up discouraging religiously affiliated law schools. Its support for them now, however, is conditioned on their approaching religious affiliation in a manner that is seen as consistent with the dominant American attitude toward religion—that religion is a private affair and that public moral issues, including issues of jurisprudence and professional ethics, are secular issue…
Slippered Feet aboard "The African Queen"
Milner Ball, a professor, has characterized property ownership as “the apparatus of bulwark law.” This Article argues that that characterization was premature. The Author suggests that the bulwark-like difficulties in property law are less the essence of ownership than a perversion of ownership
On Being a Christian and a Lawyer
The Lawyer as Will Maker
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First Amendment
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First Amendment
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The Lawyer as Will Maker
No abstract available for this article
On Being a Christian and a Lawyer
Slippered Feet aboard "The African Queen"
Milner Ball, a professor, has characterized property ownership as “the apparatus of bulwark law.” This Article argues that that characterization was premature. The Author suggests that the bulwark-like difficulties in property law are less the essence of ownership than a perversion of ownership
How I Changed My Mind
My own changes of mind are not unique. I am one of a small group of law teachers who have, over the last thirty years, become clearer in formulating an Hebraic legal ethic. We are a minority who have become bolder. We owe such courage as we have located for that to modern pioneers, most notably Harold Berman, and, more lately, Emily Hartigan. What has changed most for us has been the clarity of our public witness; the substance all along has been…
Erastian and Sectarian Arguments in Religiously Affiliated American Law Schools
The legal education establishment in the United States some time ago gave up discouraging religiously affiliated law schools. Its support for them now, however, is conditioned on their approaching religious affiliation in a manner that is seen as consistent with the dominant American attitude toward religion—that religion is a private affair and that public moral issues, including issues of jurisprudence and professional ethics, are secular issue…
Should a Christian Lawyer Sign up for Simon's Practice of Justice
In The Practice of Justice, Professor William H. Simon describes justice in a way that differs from the way the Bible describes justice. The big difference is not so much what justice requires (although there is some difference there) as (i) how people decide what justice requires, and (ii) who the "people" are who decide what justice requires. Some of us Christians claim to understand "justice" as the Bible understands it. It may make a differen…
American Lawyers and Their Communities
For the Nations
American Legal Ethics
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 separated, so that regulation 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 spread over insignificant consensus statements by bar…
Roman Catholic Lawyers in the United States of America
My agenda here is Roman Catholics in the American legal profession, from George Higgins's Jerry Kennedy to Judge Samuel Alito's joining the four other Catholics to make a majority on the federal Supreme Court. (I thought, as I said this in Washington, just before the Senate confirmation hearings in January 2006, that some in attendance may not have thought about this, and may have wanted to leap to their feet and phone their senators.) Begin with…
The Democratic Virtues, our Common Life and the Common School
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Use of Reflective Journals to Stimulate Critical Thinking in the Academic Internship
Reflective journals have been widely accepted throughout various educational disciplines for many years as a means of enhancing experiential learning practices. Reflective journals allow for students to gain a better understanding of a given experience and explore the levels of critical thinking as they work through the understanding and learning processes. Critical thinking involves the logical progression from mere knowledge and understanding t…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Legal Education and Practice Innovations (3 works) · History (2 works)