Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

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ID19909641
AuthorsDavid Luban (0000-0003-2610-6391, Georgetown University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Publication date2007-09-13
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLegal Ethics and Human Dignity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511487484
OpenAlexW615815969
Open LibraryOL22765856M
ISBN9780511487484
LanguageEN
Citations received18

David Luban is one of the world's leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers he ranges over such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil, the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system, and jurisprudence from the lawyer's point of view. His discussion combines philosophical argument, legal analysis and many cases drawn from actual law practice, and he defends a theory of legal ethics that focuses on lawyers' role in enhancing human dignity and human rights. In addition to an analytical introduction, the volume includes two major previously unpublished papers, including a detailed critique of the US government lawyers who produced the notorious 'torture memos'. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in both philosophy and law

Applied ethics · Argument (complex analysis) · Comparative law · Dignity · Government (linguistics) · Human rights · Information ethics · Jurisprudence · Legal Ethics · Meta-ethics · Normative ethics · Philosophy of law · Political science · Sociology · Torture · Law · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law · Law and ethics · Nonfiction

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