Taking French lessons

Article Abstract:

Regulations in the French bar take place at a more local level and in some ways are superior to those generally followed in the US. They give the chairman of the local bar organization more authority, and encourage more civil and intimate contact between lawyers by privileging inter-lawyer communication. The rules also prohibit most remunerative compensation not earned by practicing law. Similar rules in the US could be beneficial, and might help to counter the centrifugal forces of heterogeneity.

Laws, regulations and rules, France, Comparative analysis, Bar associations, Legal ethics

---

Virtue and inculpation

Article Abstract:

Aristotelian virtue ethics provides a basis for a republican theory of the concept of inculpation in criminal law. According to this perspective, the criminal law promotes virtue by evaluating the practical judgment of the defendant. A judgment of guilt represents a rejection of the person's chosen ends. The analysis is supported by application to borderline cases involving negligence, inchoate offenses and omissions. Objections based on perfectionism and determinism are met.

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Aristotle, Virtue, international

---

Taking and saving lives

Article Abstract:

Society is willing to excuse deaths that result in the course of trying to save larger groups of people because autonomous individuals tend to think that is what they would want if asked to sacrifice their life in such a situation. The law of justifiable killings, therefore, should be in line with moral imperatives and excuse criminal defendants who prove that their act represented society's willingness to yield individual liberty interests to the pursuit of the common good.

Analysis, Ethics, Justifiable homicide

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Comparing apples to oranges: the need for a new media classification. The new audiovisual media services directive: television without frontiers, television without cultural diversity
• Abstracts: The perfect question; setting the trap in cross-examination
• Abstracts: The political economy of the Wagner Act: power, symbol, and workplace cooperation. Why the Christian Right must protect the environment: theocentricity in the political workplace

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.