Law, lawyering and legal education: building an ethical profession in a globalizing world
In: Routledge/challenges of globalisation, 11
Abstract
"Once a highly cosmopolitan profession, law was largely domesticated by the demands of the Westphalian state. But as the walls between sovereign states are lowered, law is globalizing in a way that is likely to change law, lawyering and legal education as much over the next 30 years -- when the students entering law schools today reach the peak of their profession -- as it has over the last 300. This book provides a sustained investigation of the theoretical and practical aspects of legal practice and education ... The book features two major areas of investigation. First, it explains the significance of the 'critical', 'theoretical' and 'ethical' dimensions of legal education and legal practice in making more effective practitioners -- placing ethics and values at the heart of the profession. Second, it explores the old/new challenges and opportunities for ethical lawyers. Challenges include those for lawyers working in large organisations dealing with issues from international tax minimisation to advising governments bent on war. Opportunities range from the capacity to give client's ethical advice to playing a key role in the emergence of an international rule of law as they had to the 'domestic' rule of law."--
Verfügbarkeit
Themen
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
Routledge
ISBN
9781317644668, 1317644662, 9781317644651, 1317644654, 9781138793347, 1138793345
Seiten
xviii, 381
DOI
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