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A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age


ISBN13: 9780691148137
Published: September 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Paperback (Hardback in 2008)
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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 personal judgments concerning the truth and justice of their clients' claims.

Next, the book asks what it is like--not psychologically but ethically--to practice law subject to the self-effacement that fidelity demands. Fidelity requires lawyers to lie and to cheat on behalf of their clients. However, an ethically profound interest in integrity gives lawyers reason to resist this characterization of their conduct. Any legal ethics adequate to the complexity of lawyers' lived experience must address the moral dilemmas immanent in this tension. The dominant approaches to legal ethics cannot.

Finally, A Modern Legal Ethics reintegrates legal ethics into political philosophy in a fashion commensurate to lawyers' central place in political practice. Lawyerly fidelity supports the authority of adjudication and thus the broader project of political legitimacy.

Throughout, the book rejects the casuistry that dominates contemporary applied ethics in favor of an interpretive method that may be mimicked in other areas. Moreover, because lawyers practice at the hinge of modern morals and politics, the book's interpretive insights identify--in an unusually pure and intense form--the moral and political conditions of all modernity.

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Other Jurisdictions , Professional Conduct and Ethics, USA
Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Adversary Advocacy
Chapter 1: The Wellsprings of Legal Ethics
Chapter 2: The Lawyerly Vices
Chapter 3: The Seeds of a Lawyerly Virtue
Part II: Integrity
Chapter 4: Introducing Integrity
Chapter 5: An Impartialist Rejoinder?
Chapter 6: Integrity and the First Person
Part III: Comedy or Tragedy?
Chapter 7: Integration through Role
Chapter 8: Lawyerly Fidelity and Political Legitimacy
Chapter 9: Tragic Villains
Postscript

Notes
Index of Cases Cited
Index of Model Rules and Other Authorities
Index of Subjects