Conscience of Lawyers in International Criminal Law: The Burden of Doppelgangers

Empowering ethical codes is vital in all branches of law because without these codes, we would be unable to differentiate between right and wrong in our personal judgments. Lawyers can either be the most precious or most precarious parties in a criminal case—depending on the state of their conscience. In certain cases, immorality replaces morality, and legal norms become pawns in a game, the goal ...