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5 days ago · Researching legal ethics and professional responsibility involves looking at rules (model and state specific), cases (that can cover criminal law, malpractice, disciplinary appeal, and more), and ethics opinions. Legal ethics involve both mandatory rules and aspirational goals.
- Susan Boland
- 2014
1 day ago · It is usually divided into three major fields: normative ethics, applied ethics, and metaethics . Normative ethics discovers and justifies universal principles that govern how people should act in any situation. According to consequentialists, an act is right if it leads to the best consequences.
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1 day ago · It has been argued that our concepts can be disrupted or challenged by technology or normative concerns, which raises the question of whether we can create, design, engineer, or define more robust concepts that avoid counterexamples and conceptual challenges that can lead to conceptual disruption. In this paper, it is argued that we can. This argument is presented through a case study of a ...
5 days ago · Under Rule 1.9 (b), a lawyer who did not herself represent a client of the Legal Aid Society would have a conflict in representing someone “materially adverse” to that former Legal Aid Society client only if the lawyer had “acquired” confidential information that was “material” to the new matter and if the matters were ...
5 days ago · Utilitarianism: A philosophy that bases the moral worth of an action upon the number of people it gives happiness or pleasure to. A utilitarian philosophy is used when making social, economic or ...
3 days ago · Christian Barry was educated at Columbia University in New York, receiving his PhD in philosophy in 2005. Prior to joining the ANU, he was a program officer at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs (Justice & the World Economy), a consultant to the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations Development Program, and a Lecturer in Politics and International ...
5 days ago · Applied Ethics: Judgments Examples: – Rights e.g.: Coerced contraception violates human liberties. – Justice e.g.: Environmental Justice requires affluent nations to limit their consumption and help pay for contraceptive services for the poor – Beneficence e.g.: Garrett Hardin's argument that "lifeboat ethics" justify coercive measures to ...
