LEGAL ETHICS

Volume 13. Part 2 of Legal Ethics is now published and includes some articles by Canadians:

“The Legitimate Concerns of Legal Ethics” and “Truth or Truthiness? A Modern Legal Ethics’ Understanding of the Lawyer and Her Community”:   Alice Woolley SSRN page click here

“Canada: Sex on the Internet and Fitness for Judicial Office”: Adam Dodek  SSRN page click here 

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Paul Jonathan Saguil, “Ethical Lawyering Across Canada’s Legal Traditions” (2010) 9 (1) Indigenous Law Journal

Abstract:

This article examines the extent to which a “reconceptualization” from the deontological and consequentialist paradigms that characterize traditional legal ethics discourse, even as it attempts to break from the tradition, still remains rooted in Western ideals of “self;” “law” and “society” — that is, a notion of lawyers as understood in the common and civil law traditions. It engages the emerging notion of a multi-juridical Canadian legal tradition — that is, in addition to the common law and civil law traditions of the English and French, Canada’s legal inheritance includes (and thus must be harmonized with) indigenous law — and questions how our notions of lawyering and legal practice may have to change to accommodate this non-Western (but nevertheless Canadian) perspective.

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Adam Dodek and Lorne Sossin, eds., Judicial Independence in Context ( Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010).

A collection of essays by leading scholars, lawyers, and judges that examines both the theory and practice of judicial independence in Canada and around the world.  Contributors include: Peter Hogg; Lori Sterling & Sean Hanley; Lorne Sossin; Graeme G. Mitchell; Benjamin Alarie & Andrew Green; Jacob Ziegel; Sonia Lawrence; Rosemary Cairns Way; Patricia Hughes; Adam Dodek; Karen Eltis; Graham Gee; Jameson W. Doig; Amnon Reichman; Penelope Andrews; Fabien Gelina; Martin L. Friedland; John Honderich; Justice Robert J. Sharpe & Michelle Bradfield; Janice Gross Stein; Peter H. Russell; and Justice Brian W. Lennox.

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