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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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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.