A modern legal ethics : adversary advocacy in a democratic age /

A modern legal ethics : adversary advocacy in a democratic age / Daniel Markovits.

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A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally. Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. Unlike ordinary loyalty, fidelity requires lawyers to repress their...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Markovits, Daniel, 1969-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Legal ethics > United States.
Attorney and client > United States.
Attorney and client.
Legal ethics.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The wellsprings of legal ethics
  • The lawyerly vices
  • The seeds of a lawyerly virtue
  • Introducing integrity
  • An impartialist rejoinder?
  • Integrity and the first person
  • Integration through role
  • Lawyerly fidelity and political legitimacy
  • Tragic villains.

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