Abstract
Many teach ethics in the hope of doing justice. Others do justice in the hope of teaching ethics. An idealistic few try to integrate the two: they seek to teach ethics and do justice. This Essay is about the idealistic few, both students and faculty who work daily to incorporate ethics and justice in law school-sponsored, community-based interdisciplinary clinics. The Center for Ethics & Public Service at the University of Miami School of Law stands among such clinics. 'During the past nine years, more than 200 graduate and undergraduate students and scores of faculty, administrators, and civic leaders have engaged in a joint venture partnership to develop innovative curricular and clinical models for teaching ethical judgment, professional values, and public service. They have conducted academic colloquia and professional training workshops, introduced new graduate and undergraduate courses, and designed cross-disciplinary community service projects supplying education, policy research, and legal representation to impoverished communities. In all, they have devoted more than 42,000 hours of public service and educated more than 9000 students and citizens. Their goal is to enhance public access to education and justice. Their patron saint is Deborah Rhode.