Ethics & Professional Responsibility

What options did Paul Bernardo's lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn't doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her...

"A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543805901Author James E MoliternoFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

This book challenges the view that legal positivism should be reduced to a conceptual analysis of legal validity.Instead, Elena Namli reclaims legal positivism as a theory of the relationship between law, morality, and politics. Presenting novel...

Ethics in Public Administration: Understanding Ethics, Corruption, and Public Policy provides students with a timely and valuable collection of articles, essays, and case studies regarding ethical challenges, expectations, and opportunities in public...

Depression is amorphous. It defies easy generalization, and eludes medical and legal categories. Is it part of the self, or its predator? Can a sufferer be held responsible for their actions? This edited collection provides a holistic study of a protean...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937484361Author William B CrawfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Amika PressPublisher Amika PressWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

In 1776, Thomas Paine declared the end of royal rule in the United States. Instead, "law is king," for the people rule themselves. Paine's declaration is the dominant American understanding of how political power is exercised. In making law king,...

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces...

Permit But Discourage: Regulating Excessive Consumption, by W.A. Bogart is the first book to focus on problem gambling and its regulation and to situate this analysis in the larger context of regulating excessive consumption. This work analyzes the...

Should a lawyer keep a client's secrets even when disclosure would exculpate a person wrongly accused of a crime? To what extent should a lawyer exploit loopholes in ways that enable clients to gain unintended advantages? When can lawyers justifiably...

To maintain public confidence in the judiciary, judges are governed by the strictest of ethical codes. Codes of conduct not only circumscribe a judge's official conduct but also restrict every aspect of a judge's off-bench life. Judges in Street Clothes:...

One of the distinguishing features of Drucilla Cornell's work is its emphasis on the significance of ideals. The essays collected here examine how the ideals of freedom and equality associated with the democratic revolutions of the West have survived the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958554098Author Liliane Masengo Mwamba KabambaFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Authors' Tranquility PressPublisher Authors' Tranquility...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946357038Author Amie N ElyFormat PaperbackPage Count 698Imprint National Association of Attorneys GeneralPublisher National Association of Attorneys...

This book will help practicing mental health professionals understand the sometimes intricate responsibility of breaching clinical confidentiality when clients become dangerous to themselves or others. It examines the basis for clinical confidentiality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543846171Author W Bradley WendelFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 853gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

In 1776, Thomas Paine declared the end of royal rule in the United States. Instead, "law is king," for the people rule themselves. Paine's declaration is the dominant American understanding of how political power is exercised. In making law king,...

Labeling a person, institution or particular behavior as "corrupt" signals both political and moral disapproval and, in a functioning democracy, should stimulate inquiry, discussion, and, if the charge is well-founded, reform. This book argues, in a set...

When creating the norms of criminal law, the legislator should strive for their compatibility with the principle of human dignity while taking into account the ethical legitimacy of criminal law. This thesis is the axis around which The Ethical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543815641Author Lisa G LermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 482gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

At the start of the twenty-first century, America is in the midst of a profound national reconsideration of the death penalty. There has been a dramatic decline in the number of people being sentenced to death as well as executed, exonerations have...

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image. But their response has been limited to spending money on public relations, mandating education, and endlessly...

Debate about the separation of law and morality has ancient roots and is still vigorously discussed today. Mostly, the debate has been conducted as a technical problem in jurisprudence or legal philosophy. As a technical, philosophical problem, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543829839Author Dru StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 693gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Lawyer misconduct affects many people: clients, adversaries, opposing counsel, judges, the legal profession, and society at large. The records of disciplinary proceedings offer a penetrating, and largely ignored, perspective on how lawyers misbehave...

Rules perform a moral function by restating moral principles in concrete terms, so as to reduce the uncertainty, error, and controversy that result when individuals follow their own unconstrained moral judgment. Although reason dictates that we must...

This title was first published in 2001. This work explores the professional standards of the French bar as it moves, rapidly but with misgivings, into a world of competition, organization and globalism. It focuses on the ideology of French legal ethics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781543841510Author Susan R MartynFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Aspen PublishingPublisher Aspen PublishingWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

This key collection brings together a selection of papers commissioned and published by the Cardiff Centre for Ethics, Law & Society. It incorporates contributions from a group of international experts along with a selection of short opinion pieces...

Frequently the ethical attorney finds himself in a position where he can no longer reconcile con-flicting responsibilities he owes to his clients with those he owes so-ciety and himself. Faced with the dilemma of choice among coun-tervailing and...

Defenders and critics of the controversial Spitzer study analyze its methodologies and findingsIn 2001, Robert L. Spitzer, MD, presented his study on sexual conversion therapy with its controversial findings that some homosexuals can change their sexual...

An engaging account of ambition, the forces that drive and constrain it, and whether it serves our deepest needs. Ambition is a dominant force in for human civilization, driving its greatest achievements and most horrific abuses. Our striving has...

Dead Certainty is about the challenge of judging matters of public concern without a common sense of the good or other shared criteria that validate final decisions. Examining both the philosophical and the practical aspects of this challenge, this book...

This is an unprecedented volume that brings together J. Hillis Miller, Julia Kristeva, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau, Alain Badiou, Nancy Fraser, and other prominent intellectuals from five countries in seven disciplines to provide fresh perspectives on...

Money laundering is a global issue and there is evidence that the services provided by the legal profession may be misused to launder the proceeds of crime. This book explores the experiences of professionals within Top 50 law firms when seeking to...

Gruesome Spectacles tells the sobering history of botched, mismanaged, and painful executions in the U.S. from 1890 to the present. Since the book's initial publication in 2014, the cruel and unusual executions of a number of people on death row,...

Few mental illness treatments are more reviled in the public mind than Electroconvulsive Shock Therapy. However, in reality, ECT is a safe and effective treatment for cases of clinical depression and catatonia that are unresponsive to drug therapy. Also,...

The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large...

Professionals, it is said, have no use for simple lists of virtues and vices. The complexities and constraints of professional roles create peculiar moral demands on the people who occupy them, and traits that are vices in ordinary life are praised as...