Intended for use in law school courses that teach the fundamentals of legal ethics in conjunction with the current edition of West's Professional Responsibility Standards, Rules &amp; Statutes. Contains readings on moral philosophy. Includes parts of John Stuart Mill's essay on utilitarianism, a discussion of the golden rule, and parts of Immanuel Kant's discussion of the categorical imperative. Includes a set of problems for discussion in the classroom and background readings for each major topic. Includes ethics rules, judicial opinions, ethics committee opinions, and excerpts from articles and books written by judges, lawyers, and law teachers.

Lawyers, Clients and Moral Responsibility

Shaffer, Thomas L.

Cochran, Robert F., Jr.

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

West Group

Includes segments from Esquire, Legal Times, Texas Monthly, and Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer, as well as stimulating cases and law review articles. The order roughly tracks the ABA Model Rules. The casebook teaches students to think critically about the legal profession, yet avoids the cynicism that so often accompanies discussions of the profession. Includes introduction to the legal profession; the lawyer-client relationship; confidentiality and the attorney-client privilege; conflicts of interest; lawyer advocacy and its limits; business problems in the practice of law; provision of legal services; and judges.

Cases and Materials on the Rules of the Legal Profession (American Casebook Series)

Collett, Theresa S.

Business & Money

West Academic

In Habits of the Heart, Robert Bellah found that American's lives exhibit strong strains of both individualism and communitarianism, but that their predominant language is that of individualism. American law reveals a similar pattern, both in the dominance of individualist rhetoric and in the existence of a quieter, often unnoticed, communitarian strain. Law and Community: The Case of Torts uses tort law--the law through which individuals recover from those who have injured them--as a window through which to explore the relationship between law and community. Tort rules are frequently American society's method of sorting out the rights and responsibilities of individuals, and the authors find that tort law exhibits communitarian strains even as it attempts to protect individuals from harm. Robert F. Cochran Jr. and Robert M. Ackerman eloquently argue that we should balance our concern for individual rights with the need to preserve those institutions--such as families, religious congregations, and governments--that help build the social capital that keeps society together.

Law and Community, The Case of Torts

Ackerman, Robert M.

Foreign & International Law

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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