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Razian Authority And Its Implications For Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Razian Authority And Its Implications For Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
The question considered in the session was whether the concern of legal ethics is the morality of law, the morality of clients, or the morality of lawyers. The response I have been pursuing, in my book and elsewhere, is that all of these moral concerns are tied together in the lawyer’s role. The morality of law, clients, and lawyers are interrelated, but the political perspective is primary. The law serves a political purpose, of making public life possible despite first-order moral pluralism. When people disagree, either at the level of moral principles or over the facts that bear on the …
Reason And Authority In Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Reason And Authority In Legal Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Publications
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