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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785149503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93740-4

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

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