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Law, Ethics, and the Office of the Jurist
The genealogy of legal office is pieced together here to rediscover the scope and ambition of a role that has been largely lost to conscious self-reflection. Organized around a concern with the inheritance of juristic traditions, institutions, and forms of life, the contributors to this book take up the question of how a jurist might learn to live, or die, with law. The collection invites readers to reconsider fundamental questions: What responsibilities accompany the jurist’s role? How do different traditions conceptualize the ethical obligations of legal interpretation? What happens when established norms face modern challenges? By reconstructing the genealogy of legal office across diverse traditions, the contributors recover aspects of juridical identity that have faded from contemporary awareness.
Law, Ethics, and the Office of the Jurist will appeal to legal scholars, practitioners, and students, as well as those in adjacent fields concerned with professional ethics, institutional history, and the evolving relationship between law and society in our complex global landscape.
1 Professing law: An excursus
Peter Goodrich and Thanos Zartaloudis
PART 1 Histories
2 Conscience is the essence of the scholar’s office
Adam Sitze
3 Ministerial office in post-Reformation English thought
Alexander Thom
4 Conducting office: Inheriting conduct manuals for jurists in the Islamic legal tradition
Adil Hasan Khan
5 Dante, law, and the office of the jurist
Gian-Giacomo Fusco
6 Office as aesthetic protocol
Valérie Hayaert
PART 2 Aesthetics and politics
7 Precarious procurators: Kafka’s writing scenes and the vicariousness of office
Katrin Trüstedt
8 A disgrace to the collar and divine office: Ministry, poetry and the law of bearing
Adam Gearey
9 The play of office and institution
Serene Richards
10 Calling out homophonia: A word in the ear of a jawist
Gary Watt
11 The office of reviewer
Anthony Carty
12 The exercise of corporate office
Timothy Peters
13 Constancy of office: A jurisographic study of jurists and writers in time of conflict (Bobbio and Ginzburg)
Ann Genovese and Shaun McVeigh
Biography
Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law and Visiting Professor in Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, is an ardent advocate of argute alliterations and the habile silent ‘p’, as in raspberry and psittacist, ptomaine, psithurism, and rhubarb. He is the author, recently and most compositely, of Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar), of Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision (Oxford University Press), and also co-editor of Performing Law (Cambridge University Press).
Shaun McVeigh is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne School of Law. His current work is on the continuing influence of colonial legal inheritance and lawful existence in the South.
