Product Description: University can be a psychologically distressing place for students. Empirical studies in Australia and the USA highlight that a large number of law students suffer from psychological distress, when compared to students from other disciplines and members of the general population...read more

Product Description: “ Si l’on admet que la vertu doit être la règle, et le bonheur le but des actions humaines, celui qui fait voir comment l’instrument peut s’appliquer le mieux à la production de la fin, et comment la fin peut être accomplie dans le plus haut degré qu’il soit possible d’obtenir ; celui-1à, sans nul doute, fait un acte vertueux et a droit aux récompenses réservées à la vertu...read more

Product Description: What options did Paul Bernardo's lawyer have when his client directed him to retrieve hidden evidence? Where would David Milgaard be today if a lawyer hadn't doggedly challenged his murder conviction? And what should a defence lawyer do when told her client is a danger to the public? In this book, leading Canadian legal academics and practising lawyers draw on real-life stories to probe the tension between ethics and the law...read more

Product Description: In an empirical study of the interaction between law, adjudication, and conflicts about behavior in the workplace, Lizzie Barmes analyses how labor and equality rights operate in practice in the UK. Arguing that individual employment rights have a Janus-faced quality, simultaneously challenging and sustaining existing distributions of power between management and employees, she calls for legal intervention at work to focus on resolving tensions between collective and individual concerns across the range of workplaces, and to stimulate the expression and reconciliation of different viewpoints in the implementation and enforcement of individual legal entitlements...read more

Product Description: With increasing frequency, professionals and their firms are facing some variant of a nightmarish scenario that, if not handled correctly, threatens the professionals' livelihood and the firms' very existence.This book touches on many areas of law practice and of substantive law, bringing together these many areas into a primer on client fraud cases against professionals to help identify available defenses and strategies...read more

New examples of white collar crime, business scandals from Wall Street to Main Street, and more are all featured in ETHICAL DILEMMAS AND DECISIONS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE. Real-life cases and situations demonstrate the significance of ethics in the world of criminal justice today for those studying or contemplating a career in criminal justice.

Product Description: The toughest ethical issues for lawyers aren’t the ones that come up on law school exams. Practicing lawyers have more practical questions, such as: (1) when may I finally shred my closed files? (2) what magic words do I need to make the arbitration clause in my engagement agreement enforceable? (3) how can I use social media to enhance my reputation rather than to ruin it? (4) what are the 10 ways to avoid disciplinary complaints? (5) what are the 8 keys to a compliant law firm website? Louisiana Legal Ethics: Standards & Commentary (2016), is a newly-updated compendium of Louisiana legal ethics standards...read more

Product Description: With often tragic consequences, why does the Global North appear to be having a crisis of political will when it comes to welcoming refugees and migrants in to their countries? Is this connected to a global rise of xenophobia? Yet, amongst these international crises of conscience, we are witnessing a quiet humanitarian crisis that is one of cultural displacement...read more

Product Description: This book brings together the issues surrounding banking secrecy and confiscation of criminal proceeds. The book examines the existing legal agreements at the international, regional and national levels and their interaction in the substantive areas of confiscation, anti-money laundering and banking confidentiality laws...read more