"A Modern Legal Ethics" proposes a wholesale renovation of legal
ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally.
Daniel Markovits reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers
to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. Unlike ordinary
loyalty, fidelity requires lawyers to repress their personal
judgments concerning the truth and justice of their clients'
claims. Next, the book asks what it is like--not psychologically
but ethically--to practice law subject to the self-effacement that
fidelity demands. Fidelity requires lawyers to lie and to cheat on
behalf of their clients. However, an ethically profound interest in
integrity gives lawyers reason to resist this characterization of
their conduct. Any legal ethics adequate to the complexity of
lawyers' lived experience must address the moral dilemmas immanent
in this tension. The dominant approaches to legal ethics cannot.
Finally, "A Modern Legal Ethics" reintegrates legal ethics into
political philosophy in a fashion commensurate to lawyers' central
place in political practice. Lawyerly fidelity supports the
authority of adjudication and thus the broader project of political
legitimacy.
Throughout, the book rejects the casuistry that dominates
contemporary applied ethics in favor of an interpretive method that
may be mimicked in other areas. Moreover, because lawyers practice
at the hinge of modern morals and politics, the book's interpretive
insights identify--in an unusually pure and intense form--the moral
and political conditions of all modernity.
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