Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1997
Abstract
Lawyers help ameliorate a particular instance of what the author calls the problem of interest--the partiality problem. For he believes that it falls to law professors to imbue in their students an understanding of the important role that lawyers play in society, if for no other reason than they will need some emotional armament from the slings and arrows of incessant lawyer jokes and worse. In explaining how the existence of lawyers helps address the problem of partiality, the author also explains how adherence to property rights, freedom of contract, and the rule of law--concepts long disparaged by law professors--help solve the same problem.
Publication Citation
3 Roger Willliams U. L. Rev. 1-18 (1997)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Barnett, Randy E., "Coping With Partiality: Justice, the Rule of Law, and the Role of Lawyers" (1997). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 1237.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/1237