Lawyers and Fidelity to Law

by W. Bradley Wendel

Book Overview

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 these arguments fail to turn wrongs into rights. Even many lawyers think legal ethics is flawed because...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691156212
• ISBN13: 9780691156217
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"