I Do Solemnly Swear - The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials (Paperback)

What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official - the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator - that guided Cicero and Washington and that we seem to have forgotten. Based on stories and law cases from America's founding to the present, this book examines what is good and right in law and why officials must care. This overview of official duties, from oaths to the law itself, explains how morals and law work together to create freedom and justice, and it provides useful maxims to argue for the right answer in hard cases. Important for scholars but useful for lawyers and readable by anybody, this book explains how American law ought to work.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Steve Sheppard
Dimensions:	226 x 150 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	306
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-73508-7
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal profession > Legal ethics & professional conduct Promotions
LSN:	0-521-73508-4
Barcode:	9780521735087

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