The practice of justice : a theory of lawyers' ethics / William H. Simon.
1998
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The practice of justice : a theory of lawyers' ethics / William H. Simon.
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
Call Number
KF300 .S55 1998
ISBN
0674697111 (alk. paper)
Description
viii, 253 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37725575
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
1
Introduction
1
An Anxious Profession
1
The Moral Terrain of Lawyering
4
The Dominant View and Alternatives
7
A Preview
12
False Starts
13
2
A Right to Injustice
26
The Entitlement Argument
27
The Libertarian Premise
30
The Positivist Premise
37
Libertarianism versus Positivism
43
The Problem of Retroactivity
44
The Problem of Private Legislation
46
3
Justice in the Long Run
53
Confidentiality
54
The Adversary System and Trial Preparation
62
Identification with Clients and Cognitive Dissonance
68
The Efficiency of Categorical Norms
69
Aptitude for Complex Judgment
74
4
Should Lawyers Obey the Law?
77
Lawyer Obligation in the Dominant View
78
Positivist versus Substantive Conceptions of Law
79
The Pervasiveness of Implicit Nullification
86
Some Clarification about Nullification
95
Nullification versus Reform
97
Tax versus Prohibition
98
Determination versus Obligation
99
A Prima Facie Obligation?
103
Divorce Perjury and Enforcement Advice Revisited
105
5
Legal Professionalism as Meaningful Work
109
The Problem of Alienation
111
The Professional Solution
120
The Lost Lawyer
126
The Brandeisian Evasions
132
Self-Betrayal
135
6
Legal Ethics as Contextual Judgment
138
The Structure of Legal Ethics Problems
139
Some Objections
156
The Moral Terrain of Lawyering Revisited
162
7
Is Criminal Defense Different?
170
Contested Issues
170
Weak Arguments for Aggressive Criminal Defense
173
Social Work, Justice, and Nullification
187
The Stakes
193
8
Institutionalizing Ethics
195
A Contextual Disciplinary Regime: The Tort Model
197
Restructuring the Market for Legal Services
203
Notes
217
Further Reading
243
Acknowledgments
247
Index
251