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How Do Roles Generate Reasons? On The Methods Of Legal Ethics, Stephen Galoob
How Do Roles Generate Reasons? On The Methods Of Legal Ethics, Stephen Galoob
Stephen Galoob
Debates about legal ethics should be oriented around the generative problem, which asks two fundamental questions. First, how does the lawyer’s role generate normatively compelling reasons for action? Second, what kinds of reasons can this role generate?
Every substantive theory of legal ethics is based on a solution to the generative problem. On the generative problem method, we should evaluate these theories based on their implicit solutions to the generative problem. None of the main theories of legal ethics is based on a solution to the generative problem that is both structurally valid and empirically verified.
The generative problem method …