Legal ethics and professional conduct

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.

An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered in the legal academy.

An interdisciplinary conversation between law and Christian thought exists, but has so far been centered in the legal academy.

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Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children?

Why do we consider incest wrong, even when it occurs between consenting adults unable to have children?

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.

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

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

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

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

Forty years ago, managerialism dominated corporate governance.

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.

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

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.

What is it to be morally responsible for something?

A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive todaySuppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one.

A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive todaySuppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one.

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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.

When people pay bribes to foreign public officials, how should the law respond?

When people pay bribes to foreign public officials, how should the law respond?

NOW A MAJOR BBC COMEDY "e;As a criminal barrister, you work with the material you get: a junkie shoplifter with thirty-five previous convictions and four packs of Lidl's frozen chicken stuffed down his trousers is heading only one way .

Can harsh interrogation techniques and torture ever be morally justified for a nation at war or under the threat of imminent attack?

Following a deadly car crash, small-town lawyer Lance Cooper risked everything to battle one of the most powerful auto corporations in the world to get justice for a young woman.