Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations

This book represents the first attempt to subject the ethical discourse of the English legal professions to in-depth analysis and sustained critique. Drawing on insights from moral philosophy, social theory, the sociology of the legal profession, public law theories of regulation, and the extensive American literature on lawyers' ethics, it argues that, in seeking to provide definitive answers to particular problems of professional conduct, professional legal ethics has failed to deliver an approach which requires lawyers actively to engage with the ethical issues raised by legal practice." "Professional Legal Ethics: Critical Interrogations is written for lawyers, ethicists and policymakers interested in this neglected area of professional ethics and regulation.


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