The Counsel of Rogues?

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
What is it about lawyers?......Page 12
The principle of partisanship......Page 16
The principle of neutrality......Page 19
The principle of non-accountability......Page 21
Summary of the standard conception......Page 22
Role-differentiated obligation......Page 23
Morality and the standard conception......Page 26
Roles and responsibility......Page 30
Moral insensitivity......Page 31
Law’s crisis of morale......Page 35
Introduction......Page 40
What are roles and role-obligations?......Page 41
A prima facie case for role-obligations......Page 42
The direct route: role-obligations as obligations of ordinary morality......Page 44
A less direct route: role obligations as dependent rules......Page 51
A clean break: role-obligations as distinct from obligations of ordinary morality (the indirect route)......Page 55
Conclusion......Page 68
Introduction......Page 70
Law and reasonable pluralism......Page 71
Legal ethics and legal positivism......Page 74
The principle of neutrality......Page 85
The principle of partisanship......Page 86
A fictional application: The artists and the nasty landlord......Page 97
The imbalance of expertise and power......Page 100
The importance of the matters about which clients consult professionals......Page 101
The opacity of professional diligence and expertise......Page 102
The limited nature of the relationship between clients and professionals......Page 103
Significance for particular obligations......Page 104
Significance for the standard conception......Page 105
Charles Fried: The lawyer as the client’s ‘special purpose friend’......Page 107
Introduction......Page 112
Character-based ethics and the nature of moral reasoning......Page 114
To Kill a Mockingbird: an overview......Page 117
Mockingbird’s three great moments for legal ethics......Page 119
Mockingbird and the return to virtue......Page 121
An alternative reading of the three moments: Atticus as a tragic figure......Page 124
Challenges to Atticus as Phronemos: Boo’s case......Page 125
The role of law......Page 128
Anthony Kronman: The Lost Lawyer......Page 129
The client-professional relationship......Page 130
Virtue ethics and rules......Page 131
Introduction......Page 134
Integrity as autonomy......Page 136
Integrity as integration......Page 143
Integrity as identity......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 156
8 Conclusion: A Response to the Critique......Page 158
Morality and the standard conception......Page 159
Roles and responsibility......Page 161
Moral insensitivity......Page 164
Law’s crisis of morale......Page 167
Concluding remarks......Page 169
Bibliography......Page 172
Index......Page 178