Legal ethics and professional conduct

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.

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms.

Contempt of court has been aptly described as the Proteus of the legal world, assuming an almost infinite diversity of forms.

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?

The last ten years have been a period of extraordinary change for law firms.

What is a human right?

The last ten years have been a period of extraordinary change for law firms.

Professional misconduct within the academic community is highly publicised.

Professional misconduct within the academic community is highly publicised.

In an empirical study of the interaction between law, adjudication, and conflicts about behaviour in the workplace, Lizzie Barmes analyses how labour and equality rights operate in practice in the UK.

In an empirical study of the interaction between law, adjudication, and conflicts about behaviour in the workplace, Lizzie Barmes analyses how labour and equality rights operate in practice in the UK.

This is the first comprehensive study of corruption in international investment arbitration.

This is the first comprehensive study of corruption in international investment arbitration.

This book analyses the key skills that a lawyer needs to handle a case effectively, a topic that is not covered coherently in any other book.

This book analyses the key skills that a lawyer needs to handle a case effectively, a topic that is not covered coherently in any other book.

International arbitration is a remarkably resilient institution, but many unresolved and largely unacknowledged ethical quandaries lurk below the surface.

International arbitration is a remarkably resilient institution, but many unresolved and largely unacknowledged ethical quandaries lurk below the surface.

A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States.

A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States.

Americans claim to care about character.

Americans claim to care about character.

The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment.

The specter of procedural injustice motivates many popular and scholarly objections to capital punishment.

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.

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain.

Advances in new neuroscientific research tools and technologies have not only led to new insight into the processes of the human brain, they have also refined and provided genuinely new ways of modifying and manipulating the human brain.

Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights.

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime.

Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and farreaching as any over a lifetime.

Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life.

Cheating is deeply embedded in everyday life.

Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "e;metaethics"e; concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality.

Understood one way, the branch of contemporary philosophical ethics that goes by the label "e;metaethics"e; concerns certain second-order questions about ethics-questions not in ethics, but rather ones about our thought and talk about ethics, and how the ethical facts (insofar as there are any) fit into reality.

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).