This article is intended for business law and legal environment instructors who want to help students understand how they might react when presented with an ethical conflict, no matter how big or how small. The article discusses not only the compelling ethical issues that may arise in reneging cases, but also legal issues. The article provides…

The conceptions of legal ethics or professional responsibility as (1) disciplinary rules or codes; and (2) as the personal moralities of individual lawyers prevail. However, it is the application of general norms to specific circumstances through complex, creative judgment that is the ethical component of the ideal of legal professionalism. (MSE)

The theoretical background of Critical Legal Studies (CLS) is examined, CLS is advocated as part of a jurisprudence course, and some possibilities for content of such a course are discussed. (MSE)

Because law teachers model lawyering, they need to both expand their own sense of professional responsibility and challenge students' feeling that one course takes care of ethical concerns. A course in professional responsibility is more than just another course about rules. Ethical issues must be integrated into traditional substantive courses.…

Law school instruction in professional responsibility should not attempt to inculcate particular ethical values but should aim to sensitize students to the ethical dimension of the lawyer's professional role, provide insight into the nature of the legal profession, and cultivate willingness to engage in reflective judgment through traditional…

It is proposed that the most interesting ethical problems arise from the use of legal skills within the system, and a curriculum for teaching ethics in a contracts course is outlined. The approach uses personal morality to resolve ethical issues that are unresolvable by application of the Code or Rules. (MSE)

This course book is a collection of reading materials (articles, memoranda, presentations) to be used in conjunction with seminars focusing on advocacy in education. There are 13 topics that include issues surrounding separation of church and state in the public-school environment; constitutional rights of secondary school students; special…

An empirical study of lawyer-client interactions in one practice context illustrates the way lawyers respond to client problems and raises questions about the exercise of professional authority. It is concluded that law schools' failure to train lawyers to be sensitive and responsive has important consequences for the legal profession. (MSE)

A scholar on legal ethics responds to criticism that his views on legal advocacy are morally neutral, arguing that his approach is client centered, emphasizing the lawyer's role in enhancing the client's autonomy as a free person in a free society. He argues that the lawyer's autonomy must be respected. (MSE)

It is proposed that first year legal writing courses should include discussions of legal ethics, professional responsibility, and professional courtesy. This approach is illustrated in one specific writing assignment, the demand letter. Ethical issues that arise in other typical first year writing assignments are then summarized briefly. (MSE)

This paper discusses international law's nature and role and suggests that it can be studied from a number of different perspectives. The major topics include: (1) internationally relevant domestic law; (2) the relationship of law to justice; (3) international law's status and legitimacy; (4) the rights of governments, corporations, and…

Legal ethics scholarship should abandon the debate between the "hired-gun" and "moral-activist" approaches to legal ethics. Many pressing issues can not be resolved through either approach. These critics have not brought us closer to a shared understanding of moral accountability for lawyers, or of what values should activate…

Maintains that the teaching of law should not be relegated to professional law schools alone. Contends that the liberal arts and the humanities have much to offer prospective lawyers. Argues that political philosophy helps provide lawyers with a broader understanding of society and the role of law. (CFR)

Within the limits of law and process, the lawyer's concern must be the client's cause, not his own agenda. Effective legal representation requires objectivity. The lawyer's role is to counsel legality, not morality, and the law school's responsibility is to teach law, not moral obligation. (MSE)

Tenured law professors are generally exempt from threat of "publish or perish," but not because of excessive professorial power, cowardice, or institutional inertia. Except in clear cases of sloth, the exemption is essential to postprobationary academic freedom. After tenure, the institution trusts the scholar to monitor himself. (MSE)