Canceling Lawyers

Case Studies of Accountability, Toleration, and Regret

W. Bradley Wendel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-767342-3 (ISBN)

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Lawyers take pride in a professional tradition of representing unpopular clients, understanding it as a contribution to the rule of law and the practice of toleration in a polarized society. This does not mean that lawyers are fully insulated from criticism for the clients they represent. The seemingly intractable debate over accountability for representing nasty clients is in part the result of a deep, structural tension between the institutions and procedures of the legal system, and the underlying issues and controversies about which people disagree. We also care about the attitudes and motives of lawyers, which play an important role in evaluating the actions of others. Much of the frustration experienced by lawyers who are criticized for representing unpopular clients arises from what lawyers see as the public's inability to understand the rule of law and the function of the legal system in resolving conflicts over rights and justice. Using a series of case studies, this book explores the possibility that both lawyers and their critics are right. There is genuine value in a system of formal law that aims at settling social disagreement, but that is not the whole story. Public criticism of lawyers may reflect the sense that the legal system has fallen short of ideals of fairness and inclusiveness. Many of the lawyer shaming or “canceling” episodes discussed in this book arise out of the representation of clients in matters involving issues where it appears that the official process of establishing and interpreting formal law has been captured by powerful interests. Accepting a certain amount of public criticism is necessary to avoid a dangerous isolation of the legal profession from accountability to the broader political community, or from the humanity of lawyers being submerged by their professional role.

W. Bradley Wendel is a legal ethics scholar, trained as both a lawyer and a philosopher. He has a B.A. from Rice University, a J.D. from Duke Law School, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School, in legal philosophy. Before entering academia Dr. Wendel clerked for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Fairbanks, Alaska, and practiced as a products liability litigator in Seattle. He started his academic career at Washington and Lee Law School and moved to Cornell Law School in 2014.

Preface
1. Swiss Banks and Nazi Gold
Crisis at Cravath
Against nonaccountability
The justification of John Adams
The Freedman-Tigar debate

Erscheinungsdatum	16.02.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	150 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
ISBN-10	0-19-767342-2 / 0197673422
ISBN-13	978-0-19-767342-3 / 9780197673423
Zustand	Neuware