Steve Sheppard

St. Mary's University, School of Law, Faculty Member

Saint Mary's University, San Antonio, Law, Dean, Professor

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A Law Professor at St. Mary's Law School in San Antonio, Steve Sheppard teaches and writes about justice and law. He loves the practice of law, and seeks to improve the rules of law and to enhance the knowledge and values of its practitioners. He is the Dean Emeritus and Cantu Professor Emeritus.
(OK, so the photo isn't actually me. It is Head Dog (Ret.) Byron, standing in for me. If you want to see me, go to https://law.stmarytx.edu/academics/faculty/stephen-sheppard/ )

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State Interest in the Good Citizen: Constitutional Balance between the Citizen and the Perfectionist State, The

Hastings LJ, 1993

* Assistant Professor, Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and Advanced Student, Uni-versity College, Ox... more

Teach Justice

Harv. CR-CLL Rev., 2008

Law schools must improve their preparation of students to practice law ethically. Current law sch... more Law schools must improve their preparation of students to practice law ethically. Current law school curricula focus on preparing students to analyze legal issues but not ethical issues. A curriculum that encourages students to distance themselves from their ethical instincts is dangerous. A value-neutral approach to the law eventually leads to distortions of the law. Lawyers will be left without a proper way to sense the purpose behind the law, and they will instead focus solely on what the law requires or allows. While law schools could choose from limitless lists of moral values to include in their curricula, this article suggests four: (1) the law should ensure fair treatment among all; (2) the law must be told the truth; (3) the law must be just in its procedure; and (4) every lawyer should promote justice. The current casebook curriculum already addresses these ethical issues, as they are involved in many legal disputes; all that is left is to give them more attention. Law sch...

Paul Dudley: Heritage, Observation, and Conscience

and he strongly promoted a plan to found a college there, one indeed that Paul Dudley would later... more and he strongly promoted a plan to found a college there, one indeed that Paul Dudley would later attend. Thomas decided, however, to relocate to Roxbury, where he established a family seat. 2 Thomas Dudley had converted to Puritanism shortly after his marriage in England, and he carried out his colonial offices with the convert's zeal, giving rise to recurrent battles with Governor Winthrop over the role of the government in punishing heresy. 3 Dudley's views represented the chief civil reflection of the harsh aspects of Puritan Massachusetts Bay, views that led not only to the 1636 banishment of Roger Williams, who fled to Narragansett Bay, founding the town of Providence and the colony of Rhode Island, but also, later, to infamous trials for heresy and witchcraft. Thomas Dudley died in 1653 at the age of 77, leaving his political mantle to be taken up by his son, Joseph Dudley. Joseph had been born in Roxbury in 1647, studied theology at Harvard, and became both a magistrate and member of the General Court, or colonial house of representatives, in 1673.6 While still in his twenties, Joseph both fought the Narragansett Indians in a colonial war and served as a commissioner negotiating a peace treaty with them. He went to England as the colonial agent to negotiate the terms of a renewed charter and returned in 1685 as James II's appointed President of New England, which included Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth Colony, New Hampshire, the territory of Maine, and the King's Province of Narragansett. 6 2. See CHARLES M. ELLIS, THE HISTORY OF ROXBURY TOWN (Boston, S.G. Drake, 1848); FRANCIS S. DRAKE, THE TOWN OF ROXBURY 236-237 (Roxbury, published by the author, 1878) (hereinafter, DRAKE, ROXBURY). 3. See Stephen Foster, New England and the Challenge of Heresy, 1630 to 1660: The Puritan Crisis in Transatlantic Perspective, 38 WM. & MARY Q. 624 (3rd. Ser., 1981). For the development of the law and the evolving nature of the legal effects of Puritanism during this period see DAVID THOMAS KONic, LAW AND SOCIETY IN PURITAN MASSACHUSETTS, ESSEX CouNTY, 1629-1692 (1979). For the relationship between arguments of political nature and God, which are easily confused in this period but affected the law differently, see generally HOWARD SCHWEBER, NEw ENGLAND'S GLORY AND DESIGN: POLITICAL AND NATURAL

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