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

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

  3. Community, Goodness and Solidarity in Legal Ethics
  4. W Bradley Wendel

  5. The Lost Lawyer Regained – Virtue, Liberalism and Citizenship in Lawyers’ Ethics
  6. Reid Mortensen

  7. Human Dignity as the Ground of Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Role Revisited, from
  8. Luban to Levinas

    Julian Webb

  9. Back to Basics, and Beyond Belief: The Radical Re-Valuation Project of the New
  10. Standard Conception

    Rob Atkinson

  11. The Fragility of Legal Ethics: On the Role of Theory, Lawyerly Virtues, and Moral
  12. Remainders in the Life of a Good Lawyer

    Iris van Domselaar

  13. Repentence: Did Atticus Defend Jim Crow?
  14. Tim Dare

    Part II – Diverse Origins - New Directions

  15. The Ghost of the Profession's Past
  16. Rebecca Roiphe

  17. In Search of Public Interest Lawyering: What Does it Take to Give Practical
  18. Content to Better Professional Norms?

    Richard Moorhead and Steven Vaughan

     

  19. Race Matters: White Dispatches from the Professional Front
  20. Allan C Hutchinson

  21. Revisiting Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: An Engaged Followership
  22. Perspective on Legal Ethics

    Tigran W Eldred

  23. James Rest’s Four Component Model (FCM): A Case for its Central Place in
  24. Legal Ethics

    Justine Rogers and Hugh Breakey

  25. 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/.