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Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics : reimagining the profession
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The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in...
The study of legal ethics and the legal profession has emerged as a distinct and important field of scholarship over the last 30 years. However, as in other disciplines, academic recognition can in turn entrench static and powerful meta-theories and narratives about professional ethos and practise, this collection seeks to disrupt this homogenising impulse and to present alternative voices by bringing together a range of international scholars writing about legal ethics and the legal profession. The book features significant and timely contributions which take contemporary and non-ma
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- Creator
- edited by Francesca Bartlett, Reid Mortensen and Kieran Tranter
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York : Routledge, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1136937404, 1136937412, 1282781367, 9786612781360, 0203846885, 0415813174, 0415546524
- OCLC
- ocn664551694, ocn671781466
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Global continental shifts to a new governance paradigm in lawyer regulation and consumer protection : riding the wave / Judith L. Maute -- Our common future : the imperative for contextual ethics in a connected world / Vivien Holmes and Simon Rice -- The emperor's new clothes : from Atticus Finch to Denny Crane / Paula Baron -- Doing good by stealth : professional ethics and moral choices in the verdict and regarding Henry / Rachel Spencer -- Solicitors as imagined masculine, family mediators as fictive feminine and the hybridization of divorce solicitors / Lisa Webley -- Stein's ethic of care : an alternative perspective to reflections on women lawyering / Elizabeth Gachenga -- Gender, ethics and the discretion not to prosecute in the "interests of justice" under the Rome statute for the International Criminal Court / Tina Dolgopol -- Exploring the potential of contextual ethics in mediation / Rachael Field -- Nefarious conduct and the "fit and proper person" test / Duncan Webb -- Legal ethics and regulatory legitimacy : regulating lawyers for personal misconduct / Alice Woolley -- The problem of mental ill-health in the profession and a suggested solution / Michelle Sharp