Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2002
Abstract
I want to start today with an account of the way lawyers think and speak, and then ask whether it might be useful for the theologically minded to take these practices and procedures seriously as a ground of comparison from which to look at their own. In doing this I shall look at the practice of law with an emphasis not on its social effects or ethical difficulties but on the nature of the activity itself, viewed from the inside, asking in particular what kind of knowledge it requires and creates in its practitioner. What does the lawyer learn from the activity in which he engages? What does he have to know to do it at all, or to do it well? Can that knowledge be of value to others?
Recommended Citation
White, James Boyd. "How Theology Might Learn from Law." Mercer L. Rev. 53, no. 3 (2002): 1009-18.