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Lawyers' Professional Ethics—Do They Exist?
Author(s) -
Aarnio Aulis
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9337.00168
Subject(s) - morality , de facto , set (abstract data type) , professional ethics , law , sociology , legal norm , legal ethics , engineering ethics , epistemology , political science , philosophy , computer science , programming language , engineering
The author's aim is to prove that certain moral principles will always be etched into laws when the interest of society demands it and when morality as a set of norms guiding behavior no longer functions in an expected manner outside the system of law. In this paper, it is argued that morality is constituted within the law in a more profound way as well as in a way which is also much more difficult to identify than, for example, conventional instructions concerning professional ethics may indicate. The main thesis is that de facto there are no particular professional ethics of lawyers beyond or above the ethical principles binding all people.