Legal Ethics and Human Dignity

David Luban is Frederick Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University.

• Part I. The Ethics in Legal Ethics: 1. The adversary system excuse; 2. Lawyers as upholders of human dignity (when they aren't busy assaulting it); Part II. The Jurisprudence of Legal Ethics: 3. Natural law as professional ethics: a reading of Fuller; 4. A different nightmare and a different dream; 5. The torture lawyers of Washington; Part III. Moral Complications and Moral Psychology: 6. Contrived ignorance; 7. The ethics of wrongful obedience; 8. Integrity: its causes and cures; Part IV. Moral Messiness in Professional Life: 9. A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope.

"Luban is arguably one of the most brilliant and prolific legal ethicists writing today....should be read by every sentient lawyer, scholar, student of the law, and citizen, for there is arguably no better guide to the reefs and shoals of law in the real world than Luban." --Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, University of San Diego, Law and Society Review