Living "Top-Down" in a "Bottom-Up" World: Musings on the Relationship between Jewish Ethics and Legal Ethics

Authors

Nancy B. Rapoport, William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLVFollow

Abstract

This essay examines the intersection of Jewish ethics and legal ethics, comparing the rules of behavior given to a society by its leader (the governing authority) with the multisourced, consensus-reaching way legal rules of ethics are developed in the United States and exploring the issues, affiliations, conflicts, and reconciliation.

Recommended Citation

Nancy B. Rapoport, Living "Top-Down" in a "Bottom-Up" World: Musings on the Relationship between Jewish Ethics and Legal Ethics, 78 Neb. L. Rev. (1999)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol78/iss1/3