Adam Dodek, “Lawyering at the Intersection of Public Law and Legal Ethics: Government Lawyers as Custodians of the Rule of Law” (2010) 33 (1) Dalhousie Law Journal.

Abstract: Government lawyers are significant actors in the Canadian legal profession, yet they are largely ignored by regulators and by academic scholarship. The dominant view of lawyering fails to adequately capture the unique role of government lawyers. Government lawyers are different from other lawyers by virtue of their role in creating and upholding the rule of law. Continue reading →

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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