Modern Virtue Ethics in Legal Practice-Q and A
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- Does David Luban see any problems with the way that Lon Fuller’s eight virtues (i.e. generality, publicity, prospectivity, clarity, consistency, possibility of compliance, constancy and faithful administration) direct professional ethics?
- In describing the lawyer of character as ‘the lawyer-statesman’, does Anthony Kronman suggest that the good lawyer must necessarily be involved in politics? If not, what is the connection between law and politics that, according to Kronman, makes the description ‘lawyer-statesman’ an appropriate one?
- According to Anthony Kronman, what is the virtue that is central to being a good lawyer? Why? How is that needed, or developed, in legal practice?
- What are Reid Mortensen’s concerns about ‘the ethics of care’? About the ‘lawyer as freind?’
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