Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : surfing the waves of legal ethics scholarship / Julian Webb and Nicola Hard -- Community, goodness, and solidarity in legal ethics / W Bradley Wendel -- The lost lawyer regained-virtue, liberalism, and citizenship in lawyers' ethics / Reid Mortensen -- Human dignity as the ground of legal ethics : the lawyer's role revisited, from Luban to Levinas / Julian Webb -- Back to basics, and beyond belief : the radical re-valuation project of the new standard conception / Rob Atkinson -- The fragility of legal ethics : on the role of theory, lawyerly virtues, and moral remainders in the life of a good lawyer / Iris van Domselaar -- Repentence : did Atticus defend Jim Crow? / Tim Dare -- The ghost of the profession's past / Rebecca Roiphe -- In search of public interest lawyering : what does it take to give practical content to better professional norms? / Richard Moorhead and Steven Vaughan -- Race matters : white dispatches from the professional front / Allan C Hutchinson -- Revisiting Stanley Milgram's obedience to authority : an engaged followership perspective on legal ethics / Tigran W Eldred -- James Rest's Four component model (FCM) : a case for its central place in legal ethics / Justine Rogers and Hugh Breakey -- Not the end of lawyers, but a beginning-the place of entrepreneurship and innovation in legal ethics / Renee Knake Jefferson and Russell G. Pearce.

"This volume reviews and takes stock of legal ethics, at a time when the legal profession globally is experiencing considerable change and challenges, through a re-evaluation of writings that are in some way foundational to the field. Legal ethics, understood here as the study of the ethics and professional regulation of lawyers, has emerged as a novel and important field of study over the last 50 years. It is also one that displays considerable diversity in its scholarship, with distinctive philosophical and interdisciplinary approaches emerging over the years to underpin and supplement the doctrinal 'law on lawyering'. With contributions from leading and emerging scholars from the United States, Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, this collection offers not just critical insights into the authors' chosen texts, but a thought-provoking commentary on the current state of legal ethics scholarship and its future directions. In addition to being an essential resource for scholars and students of legal ethics theory, it will also be of interest to academics and researchers in legal theory, the philosophy of law, and applied ethics"-- Provided by publisher.

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