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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wendel, W. Bradley, 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The standard conception, for and against
  • From partisanship to legal entitlements : putting the law back into lawyering
  • From neutrality to public reason : moral conflict and the law
  • Legal entitlements and public reason in practice
  • From nonaccountability to tragedy : the remaining claims of morality
  • Legal ethics as craft.