Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2002
ISSN
0015-704X
Publisher
Fordham University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
The moral schizophrenia of the lawyer-person wrought by the American adversarial system's differentiation of professional morality from personal morality is at once alienating and anesthetizing. Alienating in that it separates a person from her/his actions taken in performing a professional role by attributing responsibility for these actions and their consequences to the role itself rather than to the individual. Anesthetizing in that it permits if not requires a professional to constrict the moral universe inhabited on the job, extruding moral sentiments that she/he otherwise might feel, numbing the moral sense of ordinary personal responsibility.
Recommended Citation
James E. Fleming,
The Lawyer as Citizen
,
in
70
Fordham Law Review
1699
(2002).
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