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Susan D. Carle centers this collection of texts on the premise that legal ethics should be far more than a set of rules on professional responsibility. Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice broadens the discussion introduced in law schools' legal ethics courses by first introducing the historical and theoretical background on the topic and then connecting legal ethics to real world issues of social justice while addressing lawyers' ethical obligations to work for social justice. Carle draws on material traditionally covered in legal ethics courses, such as client confidentiality issues, representing organizations, conflicts of interest, and ethics issues as they arise in specific practice locations - including criminal law, corporate representation, and government lawyering - to demonstrate how they intersect with professional responsibility and social justice, using concrete examples of cases and social movements. The reader features differing critical approaches that are often in opposition to one another and opens up new avenues of ethical debate. While the literature included is diverse and interdisciplinary, it shares a vision of legal ethical inquiry as a means for changing power relations, empowering the disenfranchised, and advocating progressive social change. Through a combination of provocative selections, lively writing, and clear and incisive editorial commentary, Lawyers' Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice defines the emergence of an exciting new field of critical legal ethics scholarship.

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Susan Carle has done an extraordinary service. Her collection is sophisticated, challenging, and desperately needed. The legal academy is often sadly prone to treat the ethics of lawyering as an afterthought or a necessary nuisance. This smart collection of critical essays gives the subject the serious attention it deserves. --Peggy Cooper Davis, New York University School of Law Carle has put together an important collection of readings. This book will be a valuable addition to any course on the legal profession. --David Wilkins, Harvard Law School Susan Carle's book brings together the best writings on the more visionary and justice-seeking goals of the legal profession. Lawyers should serve society, clients at large, as well as clients in need. This book will be assigned reading in courses devoted to lawyering and social justice--it should be required reading for all legal professionals. --Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Georgetown University Law Center Lawyers and law students alike will benefit from this volume's strong and persuasive reminder that traditional 'good' lawyering and a moral commitment to social justice can walk hand in hand. Teachers who want to remind students of why they came to law school--to leave the world a better place than they found it--will find this book a great asset. --Richard Zitrin, author of Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law

<p> Lawyers and law students alike will benefit from this volume's strong and persuasive reminder that traditional 'good''lawyering and a moral commitment to social justice can walk hand in hand. Teachers who want to remind students of why they came to law school--to leave the world a better place than they found it--will find this book a great asset. <br>

Lawyers and law students alike will benefit from this volume's strong and persuasive reminder that traditional 'good' lawyering and a moral commitment to social justice can walk hand in hand. Teachers who want to remind students of why they came to law school--to leave the world a better place than they found it--will find this book a great asset. - Richard Zitrin, author of Legal Ethics in the Practice of Law

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Susan D. Carle is Professor of Law at Washington College of Law, American University in Washington, D.C.

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