Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics : reimagining the profession / / edited by Francesca Bartlett, Reid Mortensen and Kieran Tranter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460052303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-93741-2; 1-282-78136-7; 9786612781360; 0-203-84688-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics
• Altri autori (Persone): BartlettFrancesca; MortensenReid; TranterKieran
• Disciplina: 340/.1
• Soggetti: Legal ethics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Global continental shifts to a new governance paradigm in lawyer regulation and consumer protection : riding the wave / Judith L. Maute -- Our common future : the imperative for contextual ethics in a connected world / Vivien Holmes and Simon Rice -- The emperor's new clothes : from Atticus Finch to Denny Crane / Paula Baron -- Doing good by stealth : professional ethics and moral choices in the verdict and regarding Henry / Rachel Spencer -- Solicitors as imagined masculine, family mediators as fictive feminine and the hybridization of divorce solicitors / Lisa Webley -- Stein's ethic of care : an alternative perspective to reflections on women lawyering / Elizabeth Gachenga -- Gender, ethics and the discretion not to prosecute in the "interests of justice" under the Rome statute for the International Criminal Court / Tina Dolgopol -- Exploring the potential of contextual ethics in mediation / Rachael Field -- Nefarious conduct and the "fit and proper person" test / Duncan Webb -- Legal ethics and regulatory legitimacy : regulating lawyers for personal misconduct / Alice Woolley -- The ; problem of mental ill-health in the profession and a suggested solution / Michelle Sharp.
• Sommario/riassunto: The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise, this collection seeks to disrupt this homogenising impulse and to present alternative voices by bringing together a range of international scholars writing about legal ethics and the legal profession. The book features significant and timely contributions which take contemporary and non-ma