Christine Parker (University of Melbourne), Adrian Evans (Victoria Monash University)

Inside Lawyers' Ethics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Inside Lawyers' Ethics offers a practical examination of the moral and ethical dilemmas that legal professionals may encounter in the professional environment. The text provides comprehensive coverage and analysis of general philosophical approaches to morality as well as the legal frameworks which govern ethical decision-making and practice.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 176mm x 247mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9781316642009
• ISBN-10: 1316642003
• Artikelnr.: 50662389

Autorenporträt

Christine Parker is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne where she teaches corporate social responsibility and business regulation, legal ethics and food law and policy. Christine has a deep interest in both conceptualising and communicating how law and regulation can help individuals and especially businesses live more sustainably and well in our ecological systems. She is developing an academic research project in this area and has helped develop and show a live multi-media eco-music performance, Music for a Warming World, about our individual, social and political responses to climate change.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: values in practice
2. Alternatives to adversarial advocacy
3. The responsibility climate: professionalism and the regulation of lawyers' ethics
4. Confidentiality: boundaries and disclosure
5. Ethics in criminal justice: proof and truth
6. Civil dispute resolution and excessive adversarialism
7. Conflicting loyalties
8. Lawyers' fees and costs: billing and over-charging
9. Corporate lawyers and corporate misconduct
10. Conclusion: personal professionalism virtue, values and legal professionalism.