Legal Ethics and Human Dignity »

David Luban is Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University.

A wide-ranging collection of essays from a leading scholar of legal ethics.

Part I. The Ethics in Legal Ethics:

1. The adversary system excuse;
2. Lawyers as upholders of human dignity (when they aren't busy assaulting it);

Part II. The Jurisprudence of Legal Ethics:
3. Natural law as professional ethics: a reading of Fuller;
4. A different nightmare and a different dream;
5. The torture lawyers of Washington;

Part III. Moral Complications and Moral Psychology:
6. Contrived ignorance;
7. The ethics of wrongful obedience;
8. Integrity: its causes and cures;

Part IV. Moral Messiness in Professional Life:
9. A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope.