The Status of Legal Ethics

Cover
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Traditions and transformations of legal ethics
	1.1. Preliminary remarks
	1.2. The beginnings of legal ethics
	1.3. Traditions of legal ethics
		1.3.1. The French tradition
		1.3.2. The American tradition
		1.3.3. The German tradition
	1.4.Transformations of legal ethics
		1.4.1. Juridisation
			1.4.1.1. Codification
			1.4.1.2. Legalisation
		1.4.2. Professionalisation
			1.4.2.1. Profession\'s criteria
			1.4.2.2. Profession\'s mission
		1.4.3. Globalisation
			1.4.3.1. Institutions of globalisation
			1.4.3.2. Intercultural communication
		1.4.5. Transformations of legal ethics: modernisation orAmericanisation?
	1.5. Legal ethics in Poland
Chapter 2: Conceptions of legal ethics
	2.1. Preliminary remarks
	2.2. Empirical and analytical conceptions
		2.2.1. The lawyer\'s ethos and its forms
		2.2.2. The myth of legal ethics
		2.2.3. Legal ethics as ideology
		2.2.4. Professional deontology
	2.3. Normative and critical conceptions
		2.3.1. Applied ethics
		2.3.2. The situational ethics of a lawyer
		2.3.3. Critical professional ethics
Chapter 3: Multi-dimensional theory of legal ethics
	3.1. Preliminary remarks
	3.2. Validation crisis in ethics
		3.2.1. Two views of ethics
		3.2.2. Practical rationality and the tradition
	3.3. Three planes of ethical theory
		3.3.1. The scope of the planes of ethical theory
		3.3.2. Pragmaticality
		3.3.3. Ethicality
		3.3.4. Morality
	3.4. The problem of universalisation of professional deontology standards
		3.4.1. Universalisation and generalisation in ethics
		3.4.2. \'Little\' universalisation in deontology
	3.5. Legal ethics in social structure
		3.5.1. Professional roles of lawyers
		3.5.2. Protecting and building trust
		3.5.3. The problem of good life and integrity
	3.6. Professional virtues and professional responsibility
		3.6.1. The good of practice as the object of virtue
		3.6.2. The good of practice as the object of responsibility
	3.7. Conclusions: multi-dimensional theory of legal ethics and methodology
Chapter 4: Legal ethics and some theoretical models of law
	4.1. Preliminary remarks
	4.2. Paradigms of law and its theoretical models
	4.3. Legal ethics and the positivist model
		4.3.1. Legal ethics of classical legal positivism
		4.3.2. Legal ethics and theses of modern positivism
			4.3.2.1. The social thesis
			4.3.2.2. The separability thesis
	4.4. Legal ethics and the juriscentric model
		4.4.1. Legal ethics and the theory of law as integrity
		4.4.2. Legal ethics in institutional reality
	4.5. Legal ethics and the discursive model
		4.5.1. Topical-rhetorical conceptions
			4.5.1.1. Exemplary character of legal discourse
			4.5.1.2. Legal ethics as the limit of argumentation
		4.5.2. Procedural conceptions
			4.5.2.1. Special character of legal discourse
			4.5.2.2. Legal ethics as a condition of argumentation
	4.6. Conclusion: morality of law and morality of lawyers
Chapter 5: Legal ethics among legal sciences
	5.1. Research program of legal ethics
	5.2. Interdisciplinarity of legal ethics
Conclusion
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