Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice: A Critical Reader

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Susan D. Carle
NYU Press, 22. aug 2005 - 425 pages

Legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility; they can serve as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. Lawyers’ Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice broadens the discussion on legal ethics by first introducing the historical and theoretical background and then connecting it to real world issues while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice.
The reader features differing critical approaches and opens up new avenues of ethical debate. While the literature included is diverse and interdisciplinary, it shares a vision of legal ethical inquiry as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. Through a combination of provocative selections, lively writing, concrete examples of cases and social movements, and incisive editorial commentary, Lawyers ’Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice defines the emergence of an exciting new field of critical legal ethics scholarship.

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Contents

Theories of Professional Regulation
13
Professional Empowerment
25
Who Should Regulate Lawyers?
31
Seeking the Faces of Otherness
41
Ideology of Antebellum Legal Ethics
61
Reconsidering Brandeis
72
A Stratified Profession
79
Sadie T M
92
Ethical Discretion in Lawyering
238
b critical race theory
245
Revisiting
258
Erraceing an Ethic of Justice
265
feminist theorylegal praxis
274
Race and Essentialism in Feminist Legal Theory
282
Lessons and Challenges of Becoming Gentlemen
289
The Ethics of Feminism
295

the later twentieth century
99
Charles Hamilton Houston and
120
b the poverty law movement
136
Clinical Approaches
145
Reappraisal
151
Subordination Rhetorical Survival Skills
157
Recognizing Client
169
The Missing Element
181
b communityrebellious lawyering
187
Community Lawyering
201
A Practitioners
210
Critical Theories
224
Legal Ethics Exploration through Literature
306
Professionalism of The Remains of the Day
317
Legal Ethics and Religious Commitment
327
The Jewish Lawyers Question
339
Corporate Power and Lawyers
351
A New Role for Lawyers? The Corporate Counselor
371
Appendix
385
Notes
399
Index
419
About the Editor
425
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Susan D. Carle is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, D.C.

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