Commentary on a recent California decision sanctioning an attorney for charging fees in advance for loan modification …

Whether as a matter of duty, ethics, or utility, lawyers give reasons for their actions all the time. In the various … presence in law and legal institutions. The Essay includes a brief discussion of the intersection of reason-giving and ethics … administrative law decision-making and law school grading with the process of judicial review of agency action. In this case study …

international and “internal regulation” of ethics standards for international arbitration, including commercial, investor-state and …, legal systemic differences in rules, ethics and practices, third party funding of arbitrations, discovery and evidentiary … rules and conflicts and variations in treatment of these issues as a form of “comparative ethics” that must be “harmonized …

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 … ethics are complex and contingent. Focusing on the ‘moral rules in use’ and how lawyers negotiate ethical matters ‘from …

This article explores the emerging field of behavioral legal ethics and decision making to analyze the dynamic that … attorney’s ethical decision making, this article shows how the predictions of behavioral ethics may be heterogeneous across … takes place when a new attorney makes ethical decisions that diverge from ethical beliefs. The study of decision making is a …