Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2009
Publication Information
54 Am. J. Juris. 187 (2009) (book review)
Abstract
Professor Markovits has given us in A Modern Legal Ethics a profound, provocative, and closely argued philosophical treatment of his subject. He begins by asserting "that adversary advocates commonly do, and indeed are often required to do, things in their professional capacities, which, if done by ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, would be straightforwardly immoral" (1). Noting that lawyers commonly take issue with such a claim, he sets out to prove it in a chapter called "The Lawyerly Vices," divided into two sections: "Lawyers Lie," and "Lawyers Cheat." Against these, he sets the "lawyerly virtues" of "professional detachment" and "fidelity."
Recommended Citation
Robert E. Rodes,
A Modern Legal Ethics: Adversary Advocacy in a Democratic Age,
54 Am. J. Juris. 187 (2009) (book review).
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