American Library Association Speech Transcript
Monroe H. Freedman · bepress Legal Repository · 1979
Monroe Freedman speech a t Comridttee on P ro fe ssio n a l E th ic s ' program, Tuesday, June 26, 1979 sin ce ■■■t's a g re a t p le asu re to be here w ith you so much of my p ro fe s s io n a l and perso n al l i f e revolves around books.To be ab le to speak to a group of people whose p ro fe s s io n a l liv e s r e la te to the care and n u rtu re of books and book users -I fe e l very much a t home h ere.Also as one who academ ically and in p riv a te p r a c tic e i s involved w ith c o n s titu tio n a l law, c o n tra c t t o r t s and lawyers e th ic s , I was r a th e r fa sc in a te d by the q u estio n s, c l u s t e r o f q u e stio n s, p resen te d to me.And w ith your indulgence I'm going to go a l i t t l e b i t beyond simply p o te n tia l l i a b i l i t y fo r g iv in g advice.Let me say f i r s t , though, the reason (I was going to pass up th i s s to r y ) .The reason I asked Barbara not to in tro d u ce me as a doctor is th a t I long s in c e le arn ed th a t i t can be hazardous, \ihen I was teach in g a t George Washington Law School I sen t a young woman to th e le g a l d ir e c to r o f the American C iv il L ib e r tie s Union in Washington -she had a c i v i l l i b e r t i e s problem th a t she had asked me about -and she went to see Ralph Temple