Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice: A Critical Reader (Critical America)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (548 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814716393 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 425 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-12 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility; they can serve as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. While the literature included is diverse and interdisciplinary, it shares a vision of legal ethical inquiry as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. Through a combination of provocative selections, lively writing, concrete examples of cases and social movements, and incisive editorial commentary, Lawyers ’Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice defines the emergence of an exciting new field of critical legal ethics scholarship.. Lawyers’ Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice broadens the discussion on legal ethics by first introducing the historical and theoretical background and then connecting it to real world issues while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice.The reader features differing critical approaches and opens up new avenues of ethical debate
“Susan Carle has done an extraordinary service. Lawyers should serve society, clients at large, as well as clients in need. The legal academy is often sadly prone to treat the ethics of lawyering as an afterthought or a necessary nuisance. This book will be a valuable addition to any course on the legal profession.”-David Wilkins,Harvard Law School. This book will be assigned reading in courses devoted to lawyering and social justice—it should be required reading for all legal professionals.”-Carrie Menkel-Meadow,Georgetown University Law
K. Kruse said Great collection of essays for teaching. This volume is a welcome addition to the teaching materials on legal ethics. It pulls together a diverse collection of important writing on the subject of lawyers and social justice. It includes both older "classics" and newer emerging voices and perspectives. And it includes writing from a range of academic perspectives--legal history, moral philosophy, critical theory, and clinical scholarship--that are rarely pulled together in one place. Although each selection is severely edited, they are packaged and juxtaposed in ways that distill the different perspectives represented by each author. As a resu. Not just for lawyers Axel Rayhorn I am not a lawyer and I don't much like lawyers, but I picked this book up in my local book store and I was amazed. It actually discusses the ways in which some lawyers have understood their work as a way of furthering social justice. I loved the parts about how lawyers helped the NAACP achieve civil rights for African-Americans, and also the parts about how lawyers have developed theories that connect lawyering with civil rights, feminism, critical race theory and poverty rights. If more lawyers thought this way, we'd have a much more just society. The introduction says the book is intended in part f. PDB said Excellant Read for anyone interested in law's role in the pursuit of justice. This is by far the best book on the subject primarily because of the careful attention paid to presenting a broad variety of perspectives on and strategies for achieving justice. Taken as whole this book is a great historical road map of the various ways lawyers have participated in bettering the material conditions of the lives of the underrepresented and marginalized. This is the perfect book for anyone who is interested in the law and social change.
Susan D. Carle is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, D.C.