Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction 1

I The ethics in legal ethics 17

1 The adversary system excuse 19

2 Lawyers as upholders of human dignity (when they

aren’t busy assaulting it) 65

II The jurisprudence of legal ethics 97

3 Natural law as professional ethics: a reading of Fuller 99

4 A different nightmare and a different dream 131

5 The torture lawyers of Washington 162

III Moral complications and moral psychology 207

6 Contrived ignorance 209

7 The ethics of wrongful obedience 237

8 Integrity: its causes and cures 267

IV Moral messiness in professional life 299

9 A midrash on Rabbi Shaffer and Rabbi Trollope 301

Index 332