Lawyers and Fidelity to Law (eBook)

W. Bradley Wendel (Autor)

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2010
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3658-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 an ordinary person. But in the view of most critics these arguments fail to turn wrongs into rights. Even many lawyers think legal ethics is flawed because it does not accurately describe the considerable moral value of their work. In Lawyers and Fidelity to Law, Bradley Wendel introduces a new conception of legal ethics that addresses the concerns of lawyers and their critics alike. Wendel proposes an ethics grounded on the political value of law as a collective achievement that settles intractable conflicts, allowing people who disagree profoundly to live together in a peaceful, stable society. Lawyers must be loyal and competent client representatives, Wendel argues, but these obligations must always be exercised within the law that constitutes their own roles and confers rights and duties upon their clients. Lawyers act unethically when they treat the law as an inconvenient obstacle to be worked around and when they twist and distort it to help their clients do what they are not legally entitled to do. Lawyers and Fidelity to Law challenges lawyers and their critics to reconsider the nature and value of ethical representation.

Autor

W. Bradley Wendel is professor of law at Cornell Law School.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.9.2010
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
• Schlagworte: acquittal • affair • Ambiguity (law) • attempt • Balkinization (blog) • By-law • Civil disobedience • Civil law (common law) • Common Law • confidentiality • Conflict of Laws • Consideration • constitutional law • Contract • Controversy • counsel • Criminal Defense Lawyer • Criminal defenses • Criticism • Decision-Making • defendant • Deliberation • Deontological Ethics • Directive (European Union) • DIRTY HANDS • Discretion • Dispute Resolution • Duty of Confidentiality • Ethical Dilemma • ethics • Explanation • Fair procedure • Finality (law) • Fraud • freedom of speech • good faith • Governance • Ideology • inference • Institution • John Rawls • Joseph Raz • Judgment (law) • Jurisprudence • law firm • Lawmaking • Law of Agency • Law of obligations • Law of the United States • Law School • lawyer • Legal advice • Legal ethics • legality • Legal Opinion • Legal Practice • legal profession • Legislation • Legislator • Legitimacy (political) • Marty Lederman • moral agency • Morality • moral responsibility • national security • Necessity • Non-Disclosure Agreement • Obligation • Opportunism • Philosopher • plaintiff • Political Ethics • Politics • Practice of law • Precedent • prima facie • Procedural law • Product Liability • Professional Ethics • Prosecutor • public reason • Reasonable Person • Regulation • Requirement • result • Rule of Law • Rule of Recognition • Settlement (litigation) • Standing (law) • Statute • Structuring • Suffering • Suggestion • Tax • Tort • Torture • Trade secret • Tribunal • Value theory • wrongdoing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3658-1 / 1400836581
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3658-1 / 9781400836581