Belief and Legal Philosophy: A Conceptual Framework for Christian Scholarship in Undergraduate Legal Education

S. de Freitas

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Argues that legal education should engage students' deepest beliefs and that legal philosophy is the place to do it, with proposals for teaching from a Christian perspective.

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