This course is an introduction to the issues of justice and how we define, appropriate, and ensure justice today. The ethical principle of justice is the touchstone for American law, and a vision for our judiciary system. While dentists, as members of society, comply with laws in a way common to all other citiens, they also have additional legal responsibilities which derive from the unique relationship dentist and dentists have with society generally and patient specifically. This course will explore the relationship of dentistry to society and attempt to explicate further the nature of professional responsibility. In so doing, the major question will be, "How do society and dentistry interact for the good of the public and the profession?"