Title
Legal Ethics : A Comparative Study
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Description
Examining legal ethics within the framework of modern practice, this book identifies two important ethical issues that all lawyers confront: the difference between the role of lawyers and the role of judges in pursuing justice, and the conflicting responsibilities lawyers have to their clients and to the legal system more broadly. In addressing these issues, Legal Ethicsprovides an explanation of the duties and dilemmas common to practicing lawyers in modern legal systems throughout the world.
The authors focus their analysis on lawyers in independent practice in modern capitalist constitutional regimes, including the United States, Japan, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the emerging legal systems in China and the former Soviet bloc, to develop connections between the legal profession and political systems based on the rule of law. They find that although ethical tension is inherent in the legal practice of all these societies, the legal profession is essential to stable political institutions.
ISBN
978-0804748827
Publication Date
10-2004
Publisher
Stanford University Press
City
Stanford
Recommended Citation
Hazard, Geoffrey C. Jr. and Dondi, Angelo, "Legal Ethics : A Comparative Study" (2004). Faculty Books. 7.
https://repository.uclawsf.edu/faculty_books/7