Lawyers and Justice

Lawyers and Justice
Author: David Luban
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 069118755X

The law, Holmes said, is no brooding omnipresence in the sky. "If that is true," writes David Luban, "it is because we encounter the legal system in the form of flesh-and-blood human beings: the police if we are unlucky, but for the (marginally) luckier majority, the lawyers." For practical purposes, the lawyers are the law. In this comprehensive study of legal ethics, Luban examines the conflict between common morality and the lawyer's "role morality" under the adversary system and how this conflict becomes a social and political problem for a community. Using real examples and drawing extensively on case law, he develops a systematic philosophical treatment of the problem of role morality in legal practice. He then applies the argument to the problem of confidentiality, outlines an affordable system of legal services for the poor, and provides an in-depth philosophical treatment of ethical problems in public interest law.

Lawyers and Justice

Lawyers and Justice
Author: Honoré Daumier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 121
Release: 19??
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN: 9780881681956

Law, Lawyers and Justice

Law, Lawyers and Justice
Author: Kim D Weinert
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-04-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1000048039

This book engages with the place of law and legality within Australia’s distinctive contribution to global televisual culture. Australian popular culture has created a lasting legacy – for good or bad – of representations of law, lawyers and justice ‘down under’. Within films and television of striking landscapes, peopled with heroes, antiheroes, survivors and jokers, there is a fixation on law, conflicts between legal orders, brutal violence and survival. Deeply compromised by the ongoing violence against the lives and laws of First Nation Australians, Australian film and television has sharply illuminated what it means to live with a ‘rule of law’ that rules with a legacy, and a reality, of deep injustice. This book is the first to bring together scholars to reflect on, and critically engage with, the representations and global implications of law, lawyers and justice captured through the lenses of Australian film, television and social media. Exploring how distinctively Australian lenses capture uniquely Australian images and narratives, the book nevertheless engages these in order to provide broader insights into the contemporary translations and transmogrifications of law and justice.

People's Lawyers

People's Lawyers
Author: Diana Klebanow
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780765606730

A collection of biographies of ten American lawyers. Some are well-known, such as Thurgood Marshall and Morris Dees and Ralpha Nader; others, such as Belva Lockwood and Samuel Leibowitz, are not. Each chapter is accompanied by an annotated bibliography, a chronology, and a table of cases.

Rebooting Justice

Rebooting Justice
Author: Benjamin H. Barton
Publisher: Encounter Books
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1594039348

America is a nation founded on justice and the rule of law. But our laws are too complex, and legal advice too expensive, for poor and even middle-class Americans to get help and vindicate their rights. Criminal defendants facing jail time may receive an appointed lawyer who is juggling hundreds of cases and immediately urges them to plead guilty. Civil litigants are even worse off; usually, they get no help at all navigating the maze of technical procedures and rules. The same is true of those seeking legal advice, like planning a will or negotiating an employment contract. Rebooting Justice presents a novel response to longstanding problems. The answer is to use technology and procedural innovation to simplify and change the process itself. In the civil and criminal courts where ordinary Americans appear the most, we should streamline complex procedures and assume that parties will not have a lawyer, rather than the other way around. We need a cheaper, simpler, faster justice system to control costs. We cannot untie the Gordian knot by adding more strands of rope; we need to cut it, to simplify it.

Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice
Author: Susan D. Carle
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2005-08-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0814716393

Susan D. Carle centers this collection of texts on the premise that legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility.

THE PRACTICE OF JUSTICE

THE PRACTICE OF JUSTICE
Author: William H. Simon
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780674002753

William Simon, a legal theorist with experience in practice, here argues that the profession's standard approach to questions of legal ethics is incoherent and implausible, insisting the critical weakness is the style of judgment.

Unequal Justice

Unequal Justice
Author: Jerold S. Auerbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1977-02-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199728925

Auerbach here focuses on the elite nature of the profession, examining its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempts to exclude participation by minorities.

The Paradox of Professionalism

The Paradox of Professionalism
Author: Scott L. Cummings
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2011-02-21
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1139498053

This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practise. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace and law school - to contest it.