Cultivating Humanity in Legal Education

Abstract

t Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, The University of Chicago, appointed in the Law School, Philosophy Department, and Divinity School; Associate in the Classics Department, Affiliate of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, member of the Board of the Human Rights Program, Coordinator of the Center for Comparative Constitutionalism. I am grateful to Eric Posner, Richard Posner, and Cass Sunstein for helpful comments on a previous draft, and to Jose Alvarez, Jeffrey Lehman, Anne-Marie Slaughter, and Mark Tushnet for helpful advice and information. 1 Hans Reiss, ed, Kant: Political Writings 107-08 (Cambridge 2d ed 1991) (H.B. Nisbet, trans). I alter Nisbet's translation of "Recht" from "right" to "law". Here as elsewhere, Kant uses "Recht" to translate Latin ius, frequently including the Latin in parentheses after the German. Often he alludes to classical ideas of natural law, ius naturae. Kant's continuity with Cicero, Seneca, and other Roman authors can best be appreciated if we bear these facts in mind. 2 United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report 2000 9 (Oxford 2000). 3 All translations from Seneca's Latin are my own. The best edition of the Latin text of De Ira (On Anger) is in Seneca, Dialogorum Libri Duodecim 39-128 (Oxford 1977) (L.D. Reynolds, ed). An English-language version may be found at Seneca, On Anger, in Seneca, Moral and Political Essays 17,116 (Cambridge 1995) (John M. Cooper and J.F. Procope, eds). 265