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Law, Lawyering and Legal Education: Building an Ethical Profession in a Globalizing World

Law, Lawyering and Legal Education: Building an Ethical Profession in a Globalizing World

Author: Charles Sampford; Hugh Breakey
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138793347

Published In: September 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781138597778

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Once a highly cosmopolitan profession, law was largely domesticated by the demands of the Westphalian state. But as the walls between sovereign states are lowered, law is globalizing in a way that is likely to change law, lawyering and legal education as much over the next 30 years - when the students entering law schools today reach the peak of their profession - as it has over the last 300. This book provides a sustained investigation of the theoretical and practical aspects of legal practice and education, synthesizing and developing nearly thirty years of Professor Sampford's critical thought, analysis and academic leadership. The book features two major areas of investigation.

First, it explains the significance of the 'critical', 'theoretical' and 'ethical' dimensions of legal education and legal practice in making more effective practitioners - placing ethics and values at the heart of the profession. Second, it explores the old/new challenges and opportunities for ethical lawyers. Challenges include those for lawyers working in large organisations dealing with issues from international tax minimisation to advising governments bent on war. Opportunities range from the capacity to give client's ethical advice to playing a key role in the emergence of an international rule of law as they had to the 'domestic' rule of law.

The book should stimulate great interest and occasional passion for legal practitioners, students, teachers and researchers of law, lawyering, legal practice and legal institutions. Its inter-disciplinary approaches should be of interest to those with interests in education theory, international relations, political science and government, professional ethics, sociology, public policy and governance studies.

1. Dancing Around the Vortex: A Personal Introduction

(Charles Sampford)

Part I: Legal Education, Theory and Ethics

2. Law, Ethics and Institutional Reform: Finding Philosophy, Displacing Ideology

(Charles Sampford)

3. "Theoretical Dimensions" of Legal Education

(Charles Sampford (with David Wood))

4. Reflection: Philosophy in legal education: Promises and perils

(Hugh Breakey and Charles Sampford)

Part II: Australian Law Schools after Pearce – a case study in educating critical, theoretical and ethical lawyers?

5. Revisiting Pearce

(Charles Sampford)