Excerpt from "North Carolina Lawyers - Learning from a long-dead Russian" . . .
The North Carolina lawyers who gathered last week faced the challenges to their profession and the value of their own lives by studying the classics, the wisdom of sages from Socrates to Aquinas, to Tocqueville, to Tolstoy, to Martin Luther King—and by talking with each other about the relevance of these “great ideas” to themselves and the legal profession.
This gathering was the first in a series of programs for lawyers to be sponsored by the newly formed Center for Law and Humanities. Its organizers believe that “society needs humane lawyers to help lead it and promote a more just legal system. Lawyers need the humanities to be informed and inspired in their unique calling.”
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