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AUGUSTINE'S CONFESSIONS AS READ BY A MODERN LAW TEACHER

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2014

James Boyd White
James Boyd White*
Affiliation:
Hart Wright Professor of Law, Emeritus, Professor of English, Emeritus, The University of Michigan
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Today I want to talk about Augustine's Confessions, a book that may seem a far cry indeed from the life of the modern lawyer—especially the lawyer for whom what we call “religion” seems a very distant matter. But I think Augustine has much to say to us about the nature of a good education, including a good legal education, and I hope this is so whether or not one shares his religious commitments.

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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 330 - 335
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2014 

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1 “Et ecce intus eras et ego foris, et ibi te quaerabam” (Behold, you were within and I outside, where I was searching for you). “Mecum eras, et tecum non eram” (You were with me but I was not with you). Book X, chap. 27.