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Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study
by David Luban

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Publisher Comments:

The law, Holmes said, is no brooding omnipresence in the sky. "If that is true," writes David Luban, "it is because we encounter the legal system in the form of flesh-and-blood human beings: the police if we are unlucky, but for the (marginally) luckier majority, the lawyers." For practical purposes, the lawyers are the law. In this comprehensive study of legal ethics, Luban examines the conflict between common morality and the lawyer's "role morality" under the adversary system and how this conflict becomes a social and political problem for a community.

Using real examples and drawing extensively on case law, he develops a systematic philosophical treatment of the problem of role morality in legal practice. He then applies the argument to the problem of confidentiality, outlines an affordable system of legal services for the poor, and provides an in-depth philosophical treatment of ethical problems in public interest law.

Synopsis:

This is a book about the ethics of the legal profession proceeding from one basic premise: our nation is so dependent on its lawyers that their ethical problems transform themselves into public difficulties.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780691022901
Subtitle:
An Ethical Study
Other:
Luban, David
Author:
Luban, David
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Location:
Princeton, N.J. :
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Ethics
Subject:
Government and political science
Subject:
Legal System
Subject:
Practice of law
Subject:
Justice, administration of
Subject:
Legal ethics
Subject:
Public interest law
Subject:
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Subject:
Political philosophy
Subject:
Political Science and International Relations
Subject:
Law
Copyright:
1988
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series Volume:
5
Publication Date:
January 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
College/higher education:
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
472
Dimensions:
9.27x6.10x1.14 in. 1.44 lbs.
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