Law Ethics

The Lost Lawyer : Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession

Anthony Kronman describes a spiritual crisis affecting the American legal profession, and attributes it to the collapse of what he calls the ideal of the lawyer-statesman: a set of values that prizes good judgment above technical competence and encourages a public-spirited devotion to the law.For nearly two centuries, Kronman argues, the aspirations of American lawyers were shaped by …

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On Liberty

The Origin of Liberalism. Influenced by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham, Mill adopted a modified laissez-faire position, believing in the efficiency of free enterprise, but aware of the frequent failure of the market to maximize utility. Later refining this stance, he argued that the promotion of happiness is a moral duty (though he made a clear distinction between …

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Balancing Privacy and Free Speech: Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media (Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law)

In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests …

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Medical Law and Ethics

Medical Law and Ethics covers not only the core legal principles, key cases, and statutes that govern medical law, but also explores the key ethical debates and dilemmas that exist in the field to ensure that the law is firmly embedded within its context. Carefully constructed features highlight these debates, drawing out the European angles, religious beliefs, and …

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Dignity, Rank, and Rights (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures)

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings. In these lectures, Jeremy Waldron contrives to combine attractive features of both strands. In the first …

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The Law

Here, in this 1850 classic, a powerful refutation of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, published two years earlier, Bastiat discusses: • what is law? • why socialism constitutes legal plunder • the proper function of the law • the law and morality • “the vicious circle of socialism” • the basis for stable government • and more. …

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The Right To Be Loved

S. Matthew Liao argues here that children have a right to be loved. To do so he investigates questions such as whether children are rightholders; what grounds a child’s right to beloved; whether love is an appropriate object of a right; and other philosophical and practical issues. His proposal is that all human beings have rights to …

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Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law & Ethics, 9th Edition

An exceptionally popular casebook, Regulation of Lawyers is a sophisticated, lively mix of up-to-date materials, realistic problems and relevant examples that covers the full range of professional responsibility issues. Author Gillers goes “”beyond the rules”” to get at the subtle differences between proper and improper conduct in the real world. Drawing from an excellent selection of case law, …

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Ethics in Criminal Justice

By combining case studies and text, Ethics in Criminal Justice helps students prepare for the ethical situations they will encounter as criminal justice professionals. The text focuses on the morality of the individual professional with an emphasis on Aristotle’s virtue theory to help readers resolve ethical issues. It includes discussions of constitutional and religious ethics along with …

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Soul, Self, and Society: The New Morality and the Modern State

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account of moral transformations, these prophets of doom are missing …

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