Book contents
- The Good Chinese Lawyer
- The Good Chinese Lawyer
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Good Legal Education
- 2 The Law Practice Landscape of Greater China
- 3 Values, Ethics and Virtue in Lawyering
- 4 Connecting Character to Lawyers’ Roles
- 5 Truth and Deception
- 6 Professional Secrets
- 7 Conflicts of Loyalty and Interest
- 8 The Morality of Competence
- 9 Practical Wisdom for Lawyers
- Appendix Safety Nets for Lawyers
- Index
9 - Practical Wisdom for Lawyers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 March 2023
- The Good Chinese Lawyer
- The Good Chinese Lawyer
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Good Legal Education
- 2 The Law Practice Landscape of Greater China
- 3 Values, Ethics and Virtue in Lawyering
- 4 Connecting Character to Lawyers’ Roles
- 5 Truth and Deception
- 6 Professional Secrets
- 7 Conflicts of Loyalty and Interest
- 8 The Morality of Competence
- 9 Practical Wisdom for Lawyers
- Appendix Safety Nets for Lawyers
- Index
Summary
Technical challenges for lawyers impact on our ethics. Some predict that singularity technologies will progressively merge human and machine intelligences. These may become evident in knowledge processing and therefore affect litigation, with potential for such merged intelligences to minimize moral accountability. Perhaps machine intelligences will progressively calculate which actions are ‘better’ in rigid consequentialist terms, ignoring competing moral frameworks described in this book, and government authority will be challenged. Speculation, of course, but there is unlikely to be a lessening in the need for moral leadership from law school deans, bar association presidents and leading practitioners, as Greater China strives for overall sustainability. Arguably, with our lawyers’ sensitivity to virtue and Confucian teaching we might conclude that narrow role morality is no longer enough. Our final social utility (and the reason for any social and economic privileges we retain as lawyers) may lie in our willingness to help whole communities access practical justice: that is, genuine equality of access to health, food, housing and education.
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- The Good Chinese LawyerA Student Guide to Law and Ethics, pp. 276 - 282Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023