Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Lawyers and Fidelity to Law
By (Author) W. Bradley Wendel
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
5th November 2012
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Ethics and moral philosophy
174.30973
Short-listed for Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2011
Physical Properties
Paperback
304
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
Description
Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something as a lawyer that it would be wrong to do as an ordinary person. But in the view of most critics
Reviews
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2011 "This ambitious project is carefully executed and trenchantly defended. The book is especially good when confronting cases in which fidelity to the law appears to lead to perverse outcomes, such as encouraging obedience to unjust laws or making disobedience to unjust laws more difficult."--Choice
Author Bio
W. Bradley Wendel is professor of law at Cornell Law School.
