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Activism
Adultery
Anonymity
Attempt
Author_David Luban
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Class action
Closing argument
Confidentiality
Consent of the governed
Consideration
Constitutional amendment
Corporate law
Counsel
Courtesy
Criminal defense lawyer
Criminal defenses
Criticism
Deed
Defendant
Deliberation
Division of labour
Duty of confidentiality
Economic development
Employment
Entitlement
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Eviction
Explanation
Fallacy
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Felony
Formality
Freedman
Full disclosure (computer security)
Good faith
Hearsay
Hickman v. Taylor
Institution
Instruction set
International relations
Law firm
Lawyer
Legal aid
Legal practice
Legal profession
Legislation
Limited liability
Mapp v. Ohio
Market rate
Morality
Nazism
Obligation
Openness
Oppression
Partnership
Perjury
Plaintiff
Plea
Presumption (canon law)
Pro bono
Prosecutor
Public housing
Public interest
Reductio ad absurdum
Regulation
Right to silence
Ring of Gyges
Scientific theory
Statute
Tax law
Torture
Wrongdoing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691022901
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 21 Dec 1988
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
