How to Be Good: The Struggle Between Law & Ethics - Paperback

by Patricia Chisolm (Editor), Philip Slayton (Author)

A collection of essays - pointed, provocative, ironic, sometimes funny - on the relationship between law and ethics. Is trust in your fellow human being more important than relying on legal rules? Why are lawyers depressed? Are money and ambition all that matter? Does an evil person deserve vigorous legal representation? Should young lawyers take ethical advice from old lawyers? How should lawyers be regulated? What do we do about the pitiful state of access to justice? How can a lawyer be a good person?

Author Biography

Philip Slayton is a best-selling author and past president of PEN Canada. He studied law at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and has been law clerk to a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, dean of a Canadian law school, and senior partner at a Bay Street law firm.