The ethics project in legal education

The ethics project in legal education / edited by Michael Robertson [and others].

This book discusses the teaching of 'legal ethics', arguing that the current formal rules governing lawyers are inadequate, as true engagement with ethical issues requires lawyers to exercise judgment, and therefore there is a need to rethink the aims, scope and methodology of 'legal...

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Other Authors: Robertson, Michael, 1954-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2011.
Series:Routledge research in legal ethics.
Subjects:
Legal ethics > Study and teaching.
Legal ethics.
LAW > Ethics & Professional Responsibility.
Legal ethics
Legal ethics > Study and teaching
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Taking values seriously : the democratic intellect and the place of values in the law school curriculum / Julian Webb
  • Represent a murderer : I'd never do that! : how students use stories to link ethical development and identity construction / Cassandra Sharp
  • Experience is the only teacher : bringing practice to the teaching of ethics / David F. Chavkin
  • Developing professional judgment : law school innovations in response to the Carnegie Foundation's critique of American legal education / Clark D. Cunningham & Charlotte Alexander
  • A South African response to ethics in legal education / Helen Kruuse
  • Can the bioethical principles provide simple signposts for ethical legal practice : some thoughts on using the bioethical principles as broad guidelines for ethical conduct in developing commonwealth countries in the context of the English solicitors' Code of Conduct and other ethical rules / David McQuoid-Mason
  • Towards ethics literacy by enhancing reflexivity in law students / Lynda Crowley-Cyr
  • Learning in justice : ethical education in an extra-curricular law clinic / Donald Nicolson
  • Reading reported cases through a legal ethics lens / Linda Haller
  • Coming to terms with legal ethics assessment / Justine Rogers.

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