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The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice
Scott L. Cummings
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Description for The Paradox of Professionalism: Lawyers and the Possibility of Justice
paperback. Explores how lawyers, in the face of intense market pressures, may transcend their own self-interest to act as agents of transformative politics and justice. Editor(s): Cummings, Scott L. Num Pages: 336 pages, 4 b/w illus. 13 tables. BIC Classification: LAS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, ... Read more
This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521145992
SKU
V9780521145992
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About Scott L. Cummings
Scott Cummings is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also the faculty coordinator of the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. He specializes in the legal profession, law and social change and economic development.
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