Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

Klappentext A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics. Zusammenfassung David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. This collection of his most significant papers includes such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil! the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system! and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The Ethics in Legal Ethics: 1. The adversary system excuse; 2. Lawyers as upholders of human dignity (when they aren't busy assaulting it); Part II. The Jurisprudence of Legal Ethics: 3. Natural law as professional ethics: a reading of Fuller; 4. A different nightmare and a different dream; 5. The torture lawyers of Washington; Part III. Moral Complications and Moral Psychology: 6. Contrived ignorance; 7. The ethics of wrongful obedience; 8. Integrity: its causes and cures; Part IV. Moral Messiness in Professional Life: 9. A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope.

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• Authors: David Luban, David (Georgetown University Luban
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521118248
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11824-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law