from Part IV - Political Liberalism and the Legal Complex
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2019
This chapter provides a socio-legal perspective on justice in the legal profession and in legal scholarship by bringing together the values of idealism and humanism with ambition, materialism, and science. For lawyers and judges, the practice of justice may be guided by contradictory pulls toward public-spirited idealism (for instance, helping an indigent client or promoting social transformation) and self-serving materialism (for instance, increasing personal earnings or improving reputation). For legal scholars, studies of law emanate from sometimes conflicting impulses to build social theory and the rule of law, adopt social scientific research designs, and achieve personal goals that improve one’s renown. Exposing these tensions in pursuing justice and in writing about justice reveals the promises and perils of legal practice and legal scholarship.
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