Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Ethics & Professional Responsibility

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 considerable moral value of their work. In Lawyers and Fidelity to Law, Bradley Wendel introduces...

Technology has come to dominate the modern experience of pregnancy and childbirth, but instead of empowering pregnant women, technology has been used to identify the foetus as a second patient characterised as a distinct entity with its own needs and interests. Often, foetal and the woman s interests will be aligned, though in legal and medical discourses the two patients are frequently framed as antagonists with conflicting interests.

This book focuses upon the permissibility of encroachment on the pregnant woman s autonomy in the interests of the foetus. Drawing on the law in England...

What options did Paul Bernardo's lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn't doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real-life stories to probe the tension between ethics and the law. Whether re-examining high-profile cases, celebrating barristers who tore down barriers, or pointing out current injustices within the justice system, their stories...

Dantes 'Gottliche Komodie' gehort zu den bedeutendsten Schopfungen der Weltliteratur. Bislang haben es eher die Romanisten als die Juristen unternommen, den rechtsphilosophischen Gehalt der Dichtung zu ermessen. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht daher den in der Gottlichen Komodie zum Ausdruck kommenden Gerechtigkeitssinn Dantes unter Berucksichtigung seines rechtsphilosophischen Hauptwerks und seiner anderen Werke.