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Leading Works in Legal Ethics

Leading Works in Legal Ethics

Author: Julian Webb
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032539553

Published In: January 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780367857882

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This volume reviews and takes stock of legal ethics, at a time when the legal profession globally is experiencing considerable change and challenges, through a re-evaluation of writings that are in some way foundational to the field.

Legal ethics, understood here as the study of the ethics and professional regulation of lawyers, has emerged as a novel and important field of study over the last 50 years. It is also one that displays considerable diversity in its scholarship, with distinctive philosophical and interdisciplinary approaches emerging over the years to underpin and supplement the doctrinal ‘law on lawyering’. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars from the United States, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, this collection offers not just critical insights into the authors’ chosen texts, but a thought-provoking commentary on the current state of legal ethics scholarship and its future directions.

In addition to being an essential resource for scholars and students of legal ethics theory, it will also be of interest to academics and researchers in legal theory, the philosophy of law, and applied ethics.

Introduction: Surfing the Waves of Legal Ethics Scholarship

Julian Webb and Nicola Hard

Part I: Philosophies Revisited

Community, Goodness and Solidarity in Legal Ethics

W. Bradley Wendel

The Lost Lawyer Regained – Virtue, Liberalism and Citizenship in Lawyers’ Ethics

Reid Mortensen

Human Dignity as the Ground of Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Role Revisited, from

Luban to Levinas

Julian Webb

Back to Basics, and Beyond Belief: The Radical Re-Valuation Project of the New

Standard Conception