The Sense of an Ending: Shifting Paradigms in Search of Our Common Future

Authors

Irma S. Russell, University of Missouri - Kansas City, School of LawFollow

Publication Date

Spring 2022

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article focuses on the important role law school deans play as protectors of innovation and faculty scholarship. Like all lawyers, deans have a duty as public citizens for justice and for legal reform when such reform is necessary for the public good. In this time of challenges, including the climate crisis and political upheaval, all lawyers must be sustainability lawyers and all must question the components of legal rules that potentially undermine our safety and democracy. Moving from a discussion of the duty of deans to the duty of lawyers generally, the article calls on lawyer leaders to address today’s unprecedented challenges.

Publication Title

University of Toledo Law Review

Volume

53

Issue

2

Recommended Citation

Irma S. Russell, The Sense of an Ending: Shifting Paradigms in Search of Our Common Future, 53 University of Toledo Law Review 301 (2022).
Available at: https://irlaw.umkc.edu/faculty_works/547