This volume reviews and takes stock of legal ethics, at a time when the legal profession globally is experiencing considerable change and challenges, through a re-evaluation of writings that are in some way foundational to the field. This book is an essential resource for scholars and students of legal ethics theory.

1. Introduction: Surfing the Waves of Legal Ethics Scholarship, Julian Webb and Nicola Hard Part I: Philosophies Revisited 2. Community, Goodness and Solidarity in Legal Ethics, W Bradley Wendel 3. The Lost Lawyer Regained – Virtue, Liberalism and Citizenship in Lawyers’ Ethics, Reid Mortensen 4. Human Dignity as the Ground of Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Role Revisited, from Luban to Levinas, Julian Webb 5. Back to Basics, and Beyond Belief: The Radical Re-Valuation Project of the New Standard Conception, Rob Atkinson 6. The Fragility of Legal Ethics: On the Role of Theory, Lawyerly Virtues, and Moral Remainders in the Life of a Good Lawyer, Iris van Domselaar 7. Repentence: Did Atticus Defend Jim Crow?, Tim Dare Part II – Diverse Origins - New Directions 8. The Ghost of the Profession's Past, Rebecca Roiphe 9. In Search of Public Interest Lawyering: What Does it Take to Give Practical Content to Better Professional Norms? Richard Moorhead and Steven Vaughan 10. Race Matters: White Dispatches from the Professional Front, Allan C Hutchinson 11. Revisiting Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority: An Engaged Followership Perspective on Legal Ethics, Tigran W Eldred 12. James Rest’s Four Component Model (FCM): A Case for its Central Place in Legal Ethics, Justine Rogers and Hugh Breakey 13. Not the End of Lawyers, But a Beginning—The Place of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Legal Ethics, Renee Knake Jefferson and Russell G Pearce