Add to ORKGThe authors argue that if we want lawyers to be fit for the purpose of practicing law, and law societies to be fit for the purpose of regulating in the public interest, then it is incumbent upon the Canadian legal profession to adopt programmes of compulsory legal ethics education (CLEE). In support of this argument the authors: provide several reasons why Canadians might be concerned about the ethical fitness of lawyers and law societies; analyse several arguments both in supporting and resisting CLEE; suggest several strategies for overcoming the ethical indolence of the legal profession; and draw inspiration from recent judicial education initiatives in Canada
Canadian legal ethics has paid little attention to how the rules of professional conduct for lawyers...
This article argues that lawyers have personal moral obligations to help ensure that no one who need...
The theme of the special issue of Law and Method on Education in (Professional) Legal Ethics consist...
The authors argue that if we want lawyers to be fit for the purpose of practicing law, and law socie...
The author presents principled arguments, consequentialist arguments, arguments by analogy and argum...
This article analyzes the transformation in the scholarship of legal ethics that has occurred in Can...
This text is a comprehensive discussion of the professional responsibilities of lawyers in Canada. T...
Lawyers working within a living government require a living ethics, an approach to ethics that accou...
Lawyers have been referred to as indispensable suppliers of “artificial trust” in the sense that the...
This issue of Legal Ethics shows how broad and deep the field has become. It is now virtually imposs...
Western law schools are suffering from an identity and moral crisis. Many of the legal profession's...
Recent increases in law school tuition provide an occasion for criticalreflection on precisely what ...
This paper proposes a solution for law schools seeking to enhance access to justice in their communi...
In theory, professional codes of conduct are supposed to assist lawyers in choosing the appropriate ...
It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of...
Canadian legal ethics has paid little attention to how the rules of professional conduct for lawyers...
This article argues that lawyers have personal moral obligations to help ensure that no one who need...
The theme of the special issue of Law and Method on Education in (Professional) Legal Ethics consist...
The authors argue that if we want lawyers to be fit for the purpose of practicing law, and law socie...
The author presents principled arguments, consequentialist arguments, arguments by analogy and argum...
This article analyzes the transformation in the scholarship of legal ethics that has occurred in Can...
This text is a comprehensive discussion of the professional responsibilities of lawyers in Canada. T...
Lawyers working within a living government require a living ethics, an approach to ethics that accou...
Lawyers have been referred to as indispensable suppliers of “artificial trust” in the sense that the...
This issue of Legal Ethics shows how broad and deep the field has become. It is now virtually imposs...
Western law schools are suffering from an identity and moral crisis. Many of the legal profession's...
Recent increases in law school tuition provide an occasion for criticalreflection on precisely what ...
This paper proposes a solution for law schools seeking to enhance access to justice in their communi...
In theory, professional codes of conduct are supposed to assist lawyers in choosing the appropriate ...
It has been over thirty years since the founding crises that birthed legal ethics as both a field of...
Canadian legal ethics has paid little attention to how the rules of professional conduct for lawyers...
This article argues that lawyers have personal moral obligations to help ensure that no one who need...
The theme of the special issue of Law and Method on Education in (Professional) Legal Ethics consist...