Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Lawyers take pride in a professional tradition of representing unpopular clients, understanding it as a contribution to the rule of law and the practice of toleration in a polarized society. This does not mean that lawyers are fully insulated from...

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,...

Modern society is riven by social divisions: between conservatives and progressives; liberals and socialists; the mainstream and the rise of far-right political groups etc. Instead of truth, there are 'post-truth' and 'alternative facts'. In the wake of...

In fifty years of prosecuting and defending criminal cases in New York City and elsewhere,Michael F. Armstrong has often dealt with cops. For a single two-year span, as chief counsel to the Knapp Commission, he was charged with investigating them. Based...

Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life. The costs of the most common forms of cheating total close to a trillion dollars annually. Part of the problem is that many individuals fail to see such behavior as a serious problem. "Everyone does it" is a...

This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analyzed in relation to fiction, theatre, and other dramatic forms.Of necessity, lawyers and judges need to devise techniques to make rules respond situationally. The...

Discipline in an ecclesiastical context can be defined as the power of a church to maintain order among its members on issues of morals or doctrine. This book presents a scholarly engagement with the way in which legal discipline has evolved within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990487517Author Midge MurphyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Midge MurphyPublisher Midge MurphyWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Even lawyers who obey the law often seem to act unethically--interfering with the discovery of truth, subverting justice, and inflicting harm on innocent people. Standard arguments within legal ethics attempt to show why it is permissible to do something...

Abolitionism is not only a strategy or a set of demands, aimed at the reduction (or suppression) of custody, it is also a perspective, a philosophy, an approach which challenges conventional definitions of crime. This book examines the origin, philosophy...

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...

Informed consent - as an ethical ideal and legal doctrine - has been the source of much concern to clinicians. Drawing on a diverse set of backgrounds and two decades of research in clinical settings, the authors - a lawyer, a physician, a social...

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,...

All of use heuristics--that is, we reach conclusions using shorthand cues without utilizing or analyzing all of the available information at hand. For instance, when we tell someone we walked 'a mile,' we might not know if we actually walked that...

As one of the first researchers authorised to observe hearings and access court files at the Court of Protection, Jaime Lindsey offers an original account and analysis of the workings of this court. Using data collected with the approval from the senior...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648288678Author Oagile Bethuel Key DingakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

How do lawyers resolve ethical dilemmas in the everyday context of their practice? What are the issues that commonly arise, and how do lawyers determine the best ways to resolve them? Until recently, efforts to answer these questions have focused...

An introduction to the philosophy of law, which offers a modern and critical appraisal of all the main issues and problems. This has become a very active area in the last ten years, and one on which philosophers, legal practitioners and theorists and...

The German philosopher, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, has long been recognized as an important and original figure in the history of philosophy and Western thought and as a seminal influence upon the Romantic tradition. This book focuses on Fichte's...

Regulation, compliance and ethics are the three common features of all well-run law firms. Without an understanding of regulatory expectations, compliance duties and ethical behaviours, a firm runs the risk of censure, adverse publicity, and client...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474417617Author Lilian EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780797450509Author B D CrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Legal Resources FoundationPublisher Legal Resources FoundationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354165Author Tilted Scales CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

Asymmetric conflict is changing the way that we practise and think about war. Torture, rendition, assassination, blackmail, extortion, direct attacks on civilians, and chemical weapons are all finding their way to the battlefield despite longstanding...

Judges spend their public lives in courtrooms. They speak to the public through their judgments. But senior judges are frequently invited to contribute to professional, judicial, or academic conferences or publications, on whatever topic engages the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809501298Author William, Howard TaftFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 118g

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain. The aspiration...

In the late eighteenth century, Adam Smith significantly shaped the modern world by claiming that when people individually pursue their own interests, they are together led towards achieving the common good. But can a population of selfish people achieve...

In the late eighteenth century, Adam Smith significantly shaped the modern world by claiming that when people individually pursue their own interests, they are together led towards achieving the common good. But can a population of selfish people achieve...

David Lyons is one of the pre-eminent philosophers of law active in the United States. This volume comprises essays written over a period of twenty years in which Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to...

David Lyons is one of the pre-eminent philosophers of law active in the United States. This volume comprises essays written over a period of twenty years in which Professor Lyons outlines his fundamental views about the nature of law and its relation to...

Asymmetric conflict is changing the way that we practise and think about war. Torture, rendition, assassination, blackmail, extortion, direct attacks on civilians, and chemical weapons are all finding their way to the battlefield despite longstanding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999517000Author John SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Quaker Investment CorporationPublisher Quaker Investment CorporationWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999034590Author Bruce DensonFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint T&g PressPublisher T&g PressWeight(grams) 440g

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...

Promises, Morals and LawBook InformationISBN 9780198254799Author P. S. AtiyahFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780646517360Author Shane DowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Shane DowlingPublisher Shane DowlingWeight(grams) 444g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013290831Author Meta de LangeFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Focuses on the elite nature of the profession, with its emphasis on serving business interests and its attempt to exclude participation by minorities.Book InformationISBN 9780195021707Author Jerold S. AuerbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Oxford...