Steve Sheppard

I Do Solemnly Swear (eBook, PDF)

The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials

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Produktbeschreibung

What should the people expect from their legal officials? This book asks whether officials can be moral and still follow the law, answering that the law requires them to do so. It revives the idea of the good official - the good lawyer, the good judge, the good president, the good legislator - that guided Cicero and Washington and that we seem to have forgotten. Based on stories and law cases from America's founding to the present, this book examines what is good and right in law and why officials must care. This overview of official duties, from oaths to the law itself, explains how morals and law work together to create freedom and justice, and it provides useful maxims to argue for the right answer in hard cases. Important for scholars but useful for lawyers and readable by anybody, this book explains how American law ought to work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511530623
• Artikelnr.: 38201815

Autorenporträt

Steve Sheppard was born in Guildford, the youngest by some distance of three brothers, and spent his formative years in the heart of the Surrey stockbroker belt, where he played a lot of sport (poorly), met a lot of people (friendly) and had a lot of jobs (of varying degrees of noteworthiness). He also appeared on stage in a number of amateur productions, whether anyone wanted him to or not. Disappointed at failing to meet any actual stockbrokers, he moved to West Oxfordshire over twenty years ago, with in a series of recalcitrant cats. Bored to Death in the Baltics is his second novel. He has won 2nd place in short story writing contests, and hasn't placed in many more contests.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Law and office
2. The stakes: the interests of others in official actions
3. Officials' obligations arise from more than the law alone
4. The moral obligations of legal officials
5. Patterns of relationship between legal and moral obligations
6. Breaching duties
7. Tools for the trade: maxims and fallacies.