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The Paradox of Professionalism

The Paradox of Professionalism

Cummings, Scott L.

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General Law

ISBN10: 0521192684
ISBN13: 9780521192682
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 21 2011
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book is about the role of lawyers in constructing a just society. Its central objective is to provide a deeper understanding of the relationship between lawyers' commercial aims and public aspirations. Drawing on interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, it explores whether lawyers can transcend self-interest to meaningfully contribute to systems of political accountability, ethical advocacy, and distributional fairness. Its contributors, some of the world's leading scholars of the legal profession, offer evidence that although justice is possible, it is never complete. Ultimately, how much - and what type of - justice prevails depends on how lawyers respond to, and reshape, the political and economic conditions in which they practice. As the essays demonstrate, the possibility of justice is diminished as lawyers pursue self-regulation in the service of power; it is enhanced when lawyers mobilize - in the political arena, workplace, and law school - to contest it.

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