Lawyers and Fidelity to Law /
Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as a...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2010]
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Edición: | Course Book |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- One. The Standard Conception, For and Against
- Two. From Partisanship to Legal Entitlements Putting the Law Back into Lawyering
- Three. From Neutrality to Public Reason Moral Conflict and the Law
- Four. Legal Entitlements and Public Reason in Practice
- Five. From Nonaccountability to Tragedy The Remaining Claims of Morality
- Six. Legal Ethics as Craft
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index