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Leading Works in Legal Ethics book cover

1st Edition

Leading Works in Legal Ethics

Edited By Julian Webb Copyright 2024
294 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

294 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume reviews and takes stock of legal ethics, at a time when the legal profession globally is experiencing considerable change and challenges, through a re-evaluation of writings that are in some way foundational to the field. Legal ethics, understood here as the study of the ethics and professional regulation of lawyers, has emerged as a novel and important field of study over the last 50... Read more
  1. Introduction: Surfing the Waves of Legal Ethics Scholarship

    2. Julian Webb and Nicola Hard

    Part I: Philosophies Revisited

  2. Community, Goodness and Solidarity in Legal Ethics

    3. W Bradley Wendel

  3. The Lost Lawyer Regained – Virtue, Liberalism and Citizenship in Lawyers’ Ethics

    4. Reid Mortensen

  4. Human Dignity as the Ground of Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Role Revisited, from

    5. Luban to Levinas

    Julian Webb

  5. Back to Basics, and Beyond Belief: The Radical Re-Valuation Project of the New

    6. Standard Conception

    Rob Atkinson

  6. The Fragility of Legal Ethics: On the Role of Theory, Lawyerly Virtues, and Moral

    7. Remainders in the Life of a Good Lawyer

    Iris van Domselaar

  7. Repentence: Did Atticus Defend Jim Crow?

    8. Tim Dare

    Part II – Diverse Origins - New Directions

  8. The Ghost of the Profession's Past

    9. Rebecca Roiphe

  9. In Search of Public Interest Lawyering: What Does it Take to Give Practical

    10. Content to Better Professional Norms?

    Richard Moorhead and Steven Vaughan

    　

  10. Race Matters: White Dispatches from the Professional Front

    11. Allan C Hutchinson

  11. Revisiting Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: An Engaged Followership

    12. Perspective on Legal Ethics

    Tigran W Eldred

  12. James Rest’s Four Component Model (FCM): A Case for its Central Place in

    13. Legal Ethics

    Justine Rogers and Hugh Breakey

  13. Not the End of Lawyers, But a Beginning—The Place of Entrepreneurship and

Innovation in Legal Ethics

Renee Knake Jefferson and Russell G Pearce

Biography

Julian Webb is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia

“Informative, inspiring and ambitious, Leading Works is a landmark work in legal ethics. The care and effort put in by Webb, as editor, and the chapter authors shines through. The wide-ranging and thought-provoking territory that the book covers make it an invaluable resource to both newcomers and established contributors to the field alike.”

Amy Salyzyn, New Kid No Longer: Tracing Legal Ethics’ Growth and Charting its Future, JOTWELL (January 29, 2025) (reviewing Julian Webb (editor), Leading Works in Legal Ethics (2024)), https://legalpro.jotwell.com/new-kid-no-longer-tracing-legal-ethics-growth-and-charting-its-future/.

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