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Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics : reimagining the profession / edited by Reid Mortensen, Francesca Bartlett and Kieran Tranter. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - x, 294 p. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction;
2. Global continental shifts to a new governance paradigm in lawyer regulation and consumer protection : riding the wave;
3. Our common future : the imperative for contextual ethics in a connected world;
4. The emperor's new clothes : from Atticus Finch to Denny Crane;
5. Doing good by stealth : professional ethics and moral choices in the verdict and regarding Henry;
6. Solicitors as imagined masculine, family mediators as fictive feminine and the hybridization of divorce solicitors;
7. Stein's ethic of care : an alternative perspective to reflections on women lawyering;
8. Gender, ethics and the discretion not to prosecute in the "interests of justice" under the Rome statute for the International Criminal Court;
9. Exploring the potential of contextual ethics in mediation;
10. Nefarious conduct and the "fit and proper person" test;
11. Legal ethics and regulatory legitimacy : regulating lawyers for personal misconduct;
12. The problem of mental ill-health in the profession and a suggested solution.


ISBN: 9780415546522 (hbk.) 0415546524 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2010003242

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Legal ethics.

Dewey Class. No.: 340.1 BAR