A Modern Legal Ethics : : Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age / / Daniel Markovits.

A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally. Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. Unlike ordinary loyalty, fidelity requires lawyers to repress their...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2008
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Adversary Advocacy
  • Chapter 1. The Wellsprings of Legal Ethics
  • Chapter 2. The Lawyerly Vices
  • Chapter 3. The Seeds of a Lawyerly Virtue
  • Part II. Integrity
  • Chapter 4. Introducing Integrity
  • Chapter 5. An Impartialist Rejoinder?
  • Chapter 6. Integrity and the First Person
  • Part III. Comedy or Tragedy?
  • Chapter 7. Integration through Role
  • Chapter 8. Lawyerly Fidelity and Political Legitimacy
  • Chapter 9. Tragic Villains
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index of Cases Cited
  • Index of Model Rules and Other Authorities
  • Index of Subjects