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Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique
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dc.date.available
2020-08-11T17:56:14Z
dc.date.issued
2015-05
dc.identifier.citation
Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique; Is it Morally Wrong to Defend Unjust Causes as a Lawyer?; Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc; Journal of Applied Philosophy; 32; 2; 5-2015; 177-189
dc.identifier.issn
1468-5930
dc.identifier.uri
http://hdl.handle.net/11336/111432
dc.description.abstract
The question I address in this paper is whether it is morally wrong for a lawyer to represent a client whose purpose is immoral or unjust. My answer to this question is that it is wrong, prima facie. This conclusion holds, even accepting certain traditional principles of lawyers professional ethics, such as the right of defense and the so-called principle of adversarial litigation. Both the adversarial system and the right of defense are sufficient to support or justify the right of potential clients (and citizens in general) to defend their interests in the judicial system and to do so with the technical assistance of a lawyer. This right includes a right to pursue unjust or immoral purposes (within the law). However, having a right to do X does not mean that it is morally right to do X. We can have a right to do something morally wrong. This being so, the fundamental moral reason for a lawyer not to accept representation for a client with an immoral purpose is that it is, prima facie, morally wrong to help someone do something wrong.
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application/pdf
dc.language.iso
eng
dc.publisher
Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc
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dc.rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/
dc.subject
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
dc.subject
LAWYERS
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Ética
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Filosofía, Ética y Religión
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dc.subject.classification
HUMANIDADES
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dc.title
Is it Morally Wrong to Defend Unjust Causes as a Lawyer?
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.type
info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo
dc.type
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
dc.date.updated
2020-08-11T15:29:48Z
dc.journal.volume
32
dc.journal.number
2
dc.journal.pagination
177-189
dc.journal.pais
Reino Unido
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dc.journal.ciudad
Londres
dc.description.fil
Fil: Rivera López, Eduardo Enrique. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Argentina
dc.journal.title
Journal of Applied Philosophy
dc.relation.alternativeid
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12082
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info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/japp.12082
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