Globalization in a Fallen World: Redeeming Dust

Law and Religion Symposiu

Multiple Unities in the Law

The issues in ethics among differing jurisdictions are not simply about reconciling the formal rules of plural bar associations. Multijurisdictional ethics are not merely colliding codes or labyrinths negotiated by choice of law rules. In a world newly in touch with its diversity, ethics must struggle with difference's impact on coherence. There is a crucial dilemma more profound than how to avoid violating the canons of ethics of how to dodge disciplinary proceedings, for the lawyer in a world of plural ethics: the dilemma posed by the primary tension in ethics today between reason and spirit. The jurisdiction of the "world" is concerned with not getting caught or not running afoul of what some bar committee decides is "ethical" in their back yard; the jurisdiction of the spirit of the law is something else. The world and the spirit are not another Cartesian dualism, however-many commentators, notably many feminists, are choosing to belong to "neither one nor the other" but to both, to both the so-called secular world and to the sacred. This is not a simple story

CLE: 2011: Ethics Tales: Interesting Cases from 2010

The presentation will include a number of attorney discipline cases from 2010 in various jurisdictions. The cases will apply broadly to attorney misconduct. Ethics: