Reaffirming legal ethics : taking stock and new ideas / / edited by Kieran Tranter. [et al.]

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (239 p.)
• Disciplina: 174/.3
• Soggetto topico: Legal ethics - United States; Law - Study and teaching - United States
• Altri autori: TranterKieran
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 The philosophical foundations of legal ethics: a roundtable; 3 Personal integrity and professional ethics; 4 Legal advising and the rule of law; 5 Tales of terror: lessons for lawyers from the 'war on terrorism'; 6 Legal ethics in a post-Westphalian world: building the international rule of law and other tasks; 7 An opportunity for the ethical maturation of the law firm: the ethical implications of incorporated and listed law firms; 8 Carnegie's missing step: prescribing lawyer retraining ; 9 Professionalism and Pro Bono publico10 The psychology of good character: the past, present and future of good character regulation in Canada; 11 The 'self-regulation' misnomer; 12 Why good intentions are often not enough: the potential for ethical blindness in legal decision-making; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of study and a discrete field of law. In that time thinking about the ethical dimension of legal practice has taken several turns: from justifications of zealous advocacy, to questions of process and connections to specifically legal values, to more recently consideration of legal conduct as part of a wider field of virtue. Parallel to this dynamism of thought, there has also been significant changes in how legal professions, especially within those that possess a common law heritage, have been
• Titolo autorizzato: Reaffirming legal ethics
• ISBN: 1-136-95476-7; 1-136-95477-5; 1-282-65965-0; 9786612659652; 0-203-84935-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817023103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics