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



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Titolo: Reaffirming legal ethics : taking stock and new ideas / / edited by Kieran Tranter. [et al.] Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 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.: 9910459544503321
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Serie: Routledge Research in Legal Ethics