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<b>Professional Development University: </b>Concepts Of Justice In Literature
'Equal justice under law' ' these words, written in stone on the face of the Supreme Court building in Washington, DC, express the goal of our judicial system. But what exactly is justice, and when was the last time you and your partners and associates thought about justice as it relates to your practice?
When I was in my third year at Catholic University Law School, one of my favorite college professors, Joseph Cropsey, came to campus to give a lecture on Natural Law. I had taken two of Mr. Cropsey's courses at the University of Chicago ' Ancient Political Philosophy and Modern Political Philosophy. Those courses changed my life. Most memorable was studying Plato's Republic, in which Socrates, employing his famous method, engages his fellow Athenians in a dialogue about the nature of justice. Maybe it was because the Republic was the first work of political philosophy I had ever read, or maybe it was something about the nature of justice itself that drew me in. In any case, I experienced the power of ideas for the first time in Mr. Cropsey's course ' and it was huge.
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