American Lawyers and Their Communities – Ethics in the Legal Profession

Thomas L. Shaffer is Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and member of the Indiana Bar. He has taught law since 1963, at Notre Dame, Washington and Lee, the University of Maine, Boston College, U.C.L.A., and the University of Virginia. His seventeen books include five recent studies of American legal ethics with an emphasis on religious legal ethics. He and the late Professor Yoder served together at Notre Dame for most of both of their careers in teaching. Professor Shaffer is a member of the Society of Christian Ethics, the Jewish Law Association, the National Lawyers Association, the Indiana State Bar Association, and the St. Joseph County (Indiana) Bar Association.