I do solemnly swear : the moral obligations of legal officials /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheppard, Steve, 1963-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Temas:
Legal ethics > United States.
Law > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Law and ethics.
Administrative responsibility > United States.
Droit et morale.
Responsabilité administrative > États-Unis.
Administrative responsibility
Law and ethics
Law > Moral and ethical aspects
Legal ethics
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : moral officials, retail justice, and three caveats
  • Introduction : seven questions about what is fit for an official to do
  • 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
  • Epilogue : what the official ought to do : law and justice
  • Appendix : taxonomy of headings : the lawes and libertyes of Massachusetts (discussed in chapter one).

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