Full Description
This book examines how legal professionals both engage with and challenge institutional frameworks trhough various perspectives, including Islamic, Catholic, Protestant, anti-theist, common law, and civil law traditions. Additionally, it offers a timely exploration of what it means to hold a legal office in contemporary society.
The genealogy of legal office is pieced together here to rediscover the scope and ambition of a role that has been largely lost to conscious self-reflection. Organised around a concern with the inheritance of juristic traditions, institutions, and forms of life, the contributors to this book take up the question of how a jurist might learn to live, or die, with law. The collection invites readers to reconsider fundamental questions: What responsibilities accompany the jurist's role? How do different traditions conceptualize the ethical obligations of legal interpretation? What happens when established norms face modern challenges? By reconstructing the genealogy of legal office across diverse traditions, the contributors recover aspects of juridical identity that have faded from contemporary awareness.
Law, Ethics and the Office of the Jurist will appeal to legal scholars, practitioners, and students, as well as those in adjacent fields concerned with professional ethics, institutional history, and the evolving relationship between law and society in our complex global landscape.
Contents
Chapter 1: Professing Law: An Excursus
Chapter 2: Conscience is the Essence of the Scholar's Office
Chapter 3: Ministerial Office in Post-Reformation English Thought
Chapter 4: Conducting Office
Chapter 5: Dante, Law, and the Office of the Jurist
Chapter 6: Office as Aesthetic Protocol
Chapter 7: Precarious Procurators: Kafka's Writing Scenes and the Vicariousness of Office
Chapter 8: "A Disgrace to the Collar and Divine Office": Ministry, Poetry, and the Law of Bearing
Chapter 9: The Play of Office and Institution
Chapter 10: Calling out Homphonia: A Word in the Ear of the Jawist
Chapter 11: The Office of Reviewer
Chapter 12: The Exercise of Corporate Office
Chapter 13: Constancy of Office: A Study of Jurists and Writers in time of conflict
