Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
$106.72
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
4 November 2012
Summary
Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically–interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person. But in the view of most critics these arguments fail to turn wrongs into rights. Even many lawyers think legal ethics is flawed because it does not accurately describe the cons…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691156217 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691156212 |
| Author: | W. Bradley Wendel |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 4 November 2012 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 152mm |
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Critics Review
One of Choice’s Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 “This ambitious project is carefully executed and trenchantly defended. The book is especially good when confronting cases in which fidelity to the law appears to lead to perverse outcomes, such as encouraging obedience to unjust laws or making disobedience to unjust laws more difficult.”–Choice
About The Author
W. Bradley Wendel
W. Bradley Wendel is professor of law at Cornell Law School.
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