Commentary on a recent California decision sanctioning an attorney for charging fees in advance for loan modification services and criticism of the requirement in light of its deterrent effect on lawyer's willingness to undertake such services for low income borrowers

This paper discusses the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct as applicable to business, transactional, real estate, and title lawyers in Colorado. This paper also discusses comparable rules of professional conduct and interpretations from a number of other states and the ABA's Model Rules of...

Whether as a matter of duty, ethics, or utility, lawyers give reasons for their actions all the time. In the various venues in which legal skills must be employed, reason-giving is required in some, expected in others, desired in many, and useful in most. This Essay underscores the pervasiveness...

Writing in 1999, legal ethics scholar Brad Wendel noted that "very little empirical work has been done on the moral decision making of lawyers." Indeed, since the mid-1990s, few empirical studies have attempted to explore how attorneys deliberate about ethical dilemmas they encounter in their...

This Review Essay explores the major contributions of the first systematic effort to describe and call for international and “internal regulation” of ethics standards for international arbitration, including commercial, investor-state and other forms of trans-border arbitration of legal...

Furthering an integrative ethics-as-practice framework, this paper explores the professional practices, self-understanding and ethics of lawyers working in the Germanic legal context. Existing studies of the legal profession often argue that changing conditions in law have led to a...

Aus dem Klappentext der Printversion im G?tersloher Verlag (2004)?Wohin f?hren die immer komplexer und un?berschaubar werdenden ?konomischen Vernetzungen? Entwickelt sich eine Art "ethischer Unzurechnungsf?higkeit", die Diffusion von Verantwortung, oder gibt es ein anderes Konzept: die...

Dieser Beitrag wendet sich an Lehrer und ist daher primär didaktisch orientiert. Das Ziel besteht darin, einige Kernüberlegungen aus dem Forschungsprogramm einer „ökonomischen Theorie der Moral“ so vorzustellen, dass sie für den Schulunterricht adaptiert werden können. Mit Hilfe des...