![]() | Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study Subjects: Legal ethics -- United States; Practice of law -- United States; Justice Administration of -- United States; Public interest law -- United States; Legal ethics; Justice Administration of; The law, Holmes said, is no brooding omnipresence in the sky. "If that is true," writes David Luban, "it is because we encounter the legal system in the form of flesh-and-blood human beings: the police if we are unlucky, but for the (marginally) luckier majority, the lawyers." For practical purposes, the lawyers are the law. In this comprehensive study of legal ethics, Luban examines the conflict between common morality and the lawyer's "role morality" under the adversary system and how this conflict becomes a social and political problem for a community. |
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