Legal Ethics and Human Dignity by David Luban (English) Paperback Book

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David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. This collection of his most significant papers includes such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil, the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system, and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view.

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David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers he ranges over such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil, the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system, and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view. His discussion combines philosophical argument, legal analysis and many cases drawn from actual law practice, and he defends a theory of legal ethics that focuses on lawyers' role in enhancing human dignity and human rights. In addition to an analytical introduction, the volume includes two major previously unpublished papers, including a detailed critique of the US government lawyers who produced the notorious 'torture memos'. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both philosophy and law.

Author Biography

David Luban is Professor of Law at The University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Ethics in Legal Ethics: 1. The adversary system excuse; 2. Lawyers as upholders of human dignity (when they aren't busy assaulting it); Part II. The Jurisprudence of Legal Ethics: 3. Natural law as professional ethics: a reading of Fuller; 4. A different nightmare and a different dream; 5. The torture lawyers of Washington; Part III. Moral Complications and Moral Psychology: 6. Contrived ignorance; 7. The ethics of wrongful obedience; 8. Integrity: its causes and cures; Part IV. Moral Messiness in Professional Life: 9. A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope.

Review

"Luban is arguably one of the most brilliant and prolific legal ethicists writing today....should be read by every sentient lawyer, scholar, student of the law, and citizen, for there is arguably no better guide to the reefs and shoals of law in the real world than Luban."--Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, University of San Diego, Law and Society Review

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A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics.

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"Luban is arguably one of the most brilliant and prolific legal ethicists writing today....should be read by every sentient lawyer, scholar, student of the law, and citizen, for there is arguably no better guide to the reefs and shoals of law in the real world than Luban." --Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, University of San Diego, Law and Society Review

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A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics.

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David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. This collection of his most significant papers includes such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil, the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system, and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view.

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David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. This collection of his most significant papers includes such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil, the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system, and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view.

Details ISBN0521118247 Author David Luban Short Title LEGAL ETHICS & HUMAN DIGNITY Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Law Language English ISBN-10 0521118247 ISBN-13 9780521118248 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 174.3 Pages 352 Year 2009 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Residence MD, US Birth 1949 Affiliation Georgetown University, Washington DC Publication Date 2009-08-06 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises UK Release Date 2009-08-06 AU Release Date 2009-08-06 NZ Release Date 2009-08-06 Alternative 9780511487484 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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