Alternative perspectives on lawyers and legal ethics
Subtitle: reimagining the profession
By: edited by Reid Mortensen, Francesca Bartlett and Kieran Tranter.
Contributors: Mortensen, Reid.; Bartlett, Francesca.; Tranter, Kieran.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780415546522; 9780203846889
Subjects: Legal ethics
Description: "This book, the second of three, arises out of papers delievered at the Third International Legal Ethics Conference held at the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia in July 2008. The conference was hosted jointly by Griffith Law School at Griffith University and the T.C. Beirne School of Law at The University of Queensland."--P. vii.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Global continental shifts to a new governance paradigm in lawyer regulation and consumer protection : riding the wave / Judith L. Maute; title: Our common future : the imperative for contextual ethics in a connected world / Vivien Holmes and Simon Rice; title: The emperor's new clothes : from Atticus Finch to Denny Crane / Paula Baron; title: Doing good by stealth : professional ethics and moral choices in the verdict and regarding Henry / Rachel Spencer; title: Solicitors as imagined masculine, family mediators as fictive feminine and the hybridization of divorce solicitors / Lisa Webley; title: Stein's ethic of care : an alternative perspective to reflections on women lawyering / Elizabeth Gachenga; title: Gender, ethics and the discretion not to prosecute in the "interests of justice" under the Rome statute for the International Criminal Court / Tina Dolgopol; title: Exploring the potential of contextual ethics in mediation / Rachael Field; title: Nefarious conduct and the "fit and proper person" test / Duncan Webb; title: Legal ethics and regulatory legitimacy : regulating lawyers for personal misconduct / Alice Woolley; title: The problem of mental ill-health in the profession and a suggested solution / Michelle Sharp.