03364nam 2200721Ia 450 991082074270332120200520144314.01-107-19000-21-282-39079-197866123907910-511-64636-40-511-62667-30-511-65045-00-511-53277-60-511-53186-90-511-53368-3(CKB)1000000000754399(EBL)433072(OCoLC)609834702(SSID)ssj0000361414(PQKBManifestationID)11242736(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000361414(PQKBWorkID)10348617(PQKB)10126718(UkCbUP)CR9780511626678(MiAaPQ)EBC433072(Au-PeEL)EBL433072(CaPaEBR)ebr10303103(CaONFJC)MIL239079(EXLCZ)99100000000075439920081017d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierI do solemnly swear the moral obligations of legal officials /Stephen Michael Sheppard1st ed.Cambridge ;New York Cambridge University Press20091 online resource (xxviii, 276 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-73508-4 0-521-51368-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Law and office -- The stakes : the interests of others in official actions -- Officials' obligations arise from more than the law alone -- The moral obligations of legal officials -- Patterns of relationship between legal and moral obligations -- Breaching obligations -- Tools for the trade : maxims and fallacies.What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official - the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator - that guided Cicero and Washington and that we seem to have forgotten. Based on stories and law cases from America's founding to the present, this book examines what is good and right in law and why officials must care. This overview of official duties, from oaths to the law itself, explains how morals and law work together to create freedom and justice, and it provides useful maxims to argue for the right answer in hard cases. Important for scholars but useful for lawyers and readable by anybody, this book explains how American law ought to work.Legal ethicsUnited StatesLawMoral and ethical aspectsUnited StatesLaw and ethicsAdministrative responsibilityUnited StatesLegal ethicsLawMoral and ethical aspectsLaw and ethics.Administrative responsibility174/.30973Sheppard Steve1963-1657805MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820742703321I do solemnly swear4011432UNINA