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Fighting Fair: Legal Ethics for an Adversarial Age
Allan C. Hutchinson
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Description for Fighting Fair: Legal Ethics for an Adversarial Age
paperback. This book draws an extended analogy with military theory to propose a new model for legal ethics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: LAS; LATC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 143 x 215 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
Along with used car dealers and telemarketers, lawyers are considered to be among the least trustworthy of all professionals. If lawyers want more respect, they will have to earn it by reframing their ethical responsibilities. In an original approach to law's moral dilemma, legal theorist Allan C. Hutchinson takes seriously the idea that 'litigation is war'. By drawing an extended analogy with the theory of ethical warfare, he examines the most difficult questions facing practicing lawyers today. Comparing the role of military officers to legal professionals and theories of just peace to legal settlement, Hutchinson outlines a boldly original approach ... Read more
Along with used car dealers and telemarketers, lawyers are considered to be among the least trustworthy of all professionals. If lawyers want more respect, they will have to earn it by reframing their ethical responsibilities. In an original approach to law's moral dilemma, legal theorist Allan C. Hutchinson takes seriously the idea that 'litigation is war'. By drawing an extended analogy with the theory of ethical warfare, he examines the most difficult questions facing practicing lawyers today. Comparing the role of military officers to legal professionals and theories of just peace to legal settlement, Hutchinson outlines a boldly original approach ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107539709
SKU
V9781107539709
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About Allan C. Hutchinson
Allan C. Hutchinson is a Distinguished Research Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and an internationally recognized legal theorist. He is the author or editor of twenty books, including Evolution and the Common Law (2005), The Province of Jurisprudence Democratized (2008) and Is Eating People Wrong? (2010).
Reviews for Fighting Fair: Legal Ethics for an Adversarial Age
'If lawyers continue to insist that litigation is 'war' by other means, then it is critical that they move beyond the 'all is fair' caricature of the ethics of war that typically underpins this comparison. In this timely book, Allan Hutchinson turns the standard 'law is war' analogy on its head by challenging us to consider the implications of applying ... Read more