Legal ethics and professional conduct

A Modern Legal Ethics proposes a wholesale renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally.

In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement.

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world.

Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world.

Public Health Law and Ethics defines these fields for a new generation.

What can law firms do to ensure justice for all?

The act of interrogation, and the debate over its use, pervades our culture, whether through fictionalized depictions in movies and television or discussions of real-life interrogations on the news.

The Great Recession intensified large law firms' emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values.

What is it to be morally responsible for something?

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

Normative Subjects alludes to the fields of morality and law, as well as to the entities, self and collectivity, addressed by these clusters of norms.

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings.

Writers on human dignity roughly divide between those who stress the social origins of this concept and its role in marking rank and hierarchy, and those who follow Kant in grounding dignity in an abstract and idealized philosophical conception of human beings.

Lawyer misconduct affects many people: clients, adversaries, opposing counsel, judges, the legal profession, and society at large.

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

Originally published in 1972, Should Trees Have Standing?

In this compelling volume in the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, Paul Waldau expertly navigates the many heated debates surrounding the complex and controversial animal rights movement.

In Outrageous Invasions: Celebrities' Private Lives, Media, and the Law, Professor Robin D.

This book answers two basic but under-appreciated questions: first, how does the American criminal justice system address a defendant's family status?

Creon's Ghost examines the enduring problem of the relationship between man's law and a "e;higher"e; law from the perspective of core humanities texts and through discussion of hotly debated contemporary legal conundrums.

This book discusses the particular conditions necessary for the state to legally interfere with our freedom of choice, whether it be to either satisfy our individual pursuit of happiness (paternalism) or to prevent us from making immoral choices (perfectionism).

Law, Economics, and Morality examines the possibility of combining economic methodology and deontological morality through explicit and direct incorporation of moral constraints into economic models.

For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image.

The power and influence of the federal judiciary has been widely discussed and understood.

Getting the Government America Deserves analyzes government ethics law from the perspective of an academic critic and that of a lawyer who was the chief White House ethics lawyer for two and a half years.

Permit But Discourage: Regulating Excessive Consumption, by W.

Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis.

Kai Draper begins his book with the assumption that individual rights exist and stand as moral obstacles to the pursuit of national no less than personal interests.

In the last fifteen years, there has been significant interest in studying the brain structures involved in moral judgments using novel techniques from neuroscience such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

Throughout history, the American legal profession has tried to hold tight to its identity by retreating into its traditional values and structure during times of self-perceived crisis.

The Globalization of Health Care is the first book to offer a comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of the most interesting and broadest reaching development in health care of the last twenty years: its globalization.

This compact and innovative book tackles one of the central issues in drug policy: the lack of a coherent conceptual structure for thinking about drugs.

"e;Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

An engaging account of ambition, the forces that drive and constrain it, and whether it serves our deepest needs.

An engaging account of ambition, the forces that drive and constrain it, and whether it serves our deepest needs.

Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon trained at a medical school that did not evaluate its students?

Two thousand years ago, Seneca described advocates not as seekers of truth but as accessories to injustice, "e;smothered by their prosperity.

Lawyers' ethics have been condemned for centuries, but they received little scholarly scrutiny until the last few decades.

In law, as elsewhere, the ordinary is overshadowed in the popular and academic literature by the dramatic and sensational.

Common markets, open borders, air traffic, and the internet have made it faster and less expensive to change places and jurisdictions.

Common markets, open borders, air traffic, and the internet have made it faster and less expensive to change places and jurisdictions.

There are approximately 100 new cases each year coming before the higher courts dealing with regulatory and disciplinary issues.

There are approximately 100 new cases each year coming before the higher courts dealing with regulatory and disciplinary issues.

Over the past twenty years, the volume of international litigation and arbitration has increased exponentially.

Over the past twenty years, the volume of international litigation and arbitration has increased exponentially.

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body.

The essays presented in this volume challenge both theorists and citizens to confront grave injustices committed in the United States.

Since the 1980s, MRI scanners have told us much about brain function and played an important role in the clinical diagnosis of a number of conditions - both in the brain and the rest of the body.

What is a human right?