I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (755 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521735084 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 306 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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An Important and Timely Message John Jackson This book is so appropriate for our current times. Demonization of politicians and officials we like, despite their character, and canonization of politicians we don't like, regardless of their character, is something that all Americans are doing to some degree. Straw man att. The role of judicial officials and the importance of their discretionary rights Fundamental to understanding the roles of legal officials (including judges) is the recognition of the significance and nature of the right that such officials both need and have to exercise discretion in making their decisions: without such discretion judicial decision makin
This brilliant book is essential reading for all those interested in public office." --H. Laing Professor of Law, McGill University"By focusing his important new book, I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials, on what he calls "the retail ideas of justice," that is, the interplay of rules, behavior, and beliefs that shape the actions of individual judges, lawyers, and other legal officials, Professor Steven Sheppard helps restore a human face to the law and, in the process, brings new clarity to the legal system and its functioning. not just legal" may ring strange to the many accustomed to the notion that the legal system long ago severed it links to morality, but the case is compelling, both descriptively and pro
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. 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. 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. Important for scholars but useful for lawyers and readable by anybody, this book explains how American law ought to work.
Steve Sheppard is the William Enfield Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. He clerked and practised law in Mississippi and throughout the South and lives with his family in the Ozarks. He is the editor of the Aspen Bouvier: A Law Dictionary, The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke, The History of Legal Education in the United States, Karl Llewellyn's The Bramble Bush, and several series of law book