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Institutional And Individual Justification In Legal Ethics: The Problem Of Client Selection, W. Bradley Wendel
Institutional And Individual Justification In Legal Ethics: The Problem Of Client Selection, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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Civil Obedience, W. Bradley Wendel
Civil Obedience, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
Discussions of legal ethics generally assume that lawyers should deliberate straightforwardly on the basis of reasons to act or refrain from acting. This model of deliberation fails to account for the role of the law in resolving normative disagreement and coordinating social activity by people who do not share comprehensive ethical doctrines. The law represents a collective decision about what citizens ought to do, which replaces the reasons individuals would otherwise have to act. This Article contends that legal ethics ought to be understood as an aspect of this theory of the authority of law. On this account, lawyers have …
Busting The Professional Trust: A Comment On William Simon’S Ladd Lecture, W. Bradley Wendel
Busting The Professional Trust: A Comment On William Simon’S Ladd Lecture, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
It is truly an honor to be asked to Comment on the work of William Simon, one of the scholars who has done the most to contribute to the reputation of legal ethics as a field with intellectual rigor and depth, as well as one with significant implications for legal theory generally. The power of his critical faculties is unmatched: the platitudes offered by the organized bar in defense of the dominant view of legal ethics lie in tatters after the sustained assault in the first three chapters of The Practice of Justice. In fact, it can be difficult …
Lawyers And Butlers: The Remains Of Amoral Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Lawyers And Butlers: The Remains Of Amoral Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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