Lawyers and Fidelity to Law / / W. Bradley Wendel.
Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. The Standard Conception, For and Against
- Two. From Partisanship to Legal Entitlements Putting the Law Back into Lawyering
- Three. From Neutrality to Public Reason Moral Conflict and the Law
- Four. Legal Entitlements and Public Reason in Practice
- Five. From Nonaccountability to Tragedy The Remaining Claims of Morality
- Six. Legal Ethics as Craft
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index