Lawyers' Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice A Critical Reader

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. Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justicebroadens 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. 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 Justicedefines the emergence of an exciting new field of critical legal ethics scholarship.Carle, Susan D. is the author of 'Lawyers' Ethics And The Pursuit Of Social Justice A Critical Reader', published 2005 under ISBN 9780814716397 and ISBN 0814716393.