This is a compilation that contains the major statutes affecting professional responsibility (view table of contents)

Freshman Composition and other writing courses, including courses with an emphasis on writing across the curriculum. Designed to serve as the core text in college composition programs and as a handy reference throughout college, this comprehensive handbook begins with coverage of the writing process, and then treats all aspects of grammar, punctuation, and style. The Simon & Schuster Handbook includes chapters on critical reading and thinking, the research process, writing across the curriculum, and writing argument. Like the second edition, the revision is based on the latest research in composition and takes a thoroughly modern approach to the teaching of writing. The unparalleled supplements package features the Annotated Instructor's Edition of the handbook, a resource that has become indispensable in many composition programs.

Product Description: Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book that explores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-making through hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of this volume is that each chapter sets forth a hypothetical fact pattern which includes role assignments to encourage participants to actively take part in group discussions and debate the controversial and cutting-edge topics that are presented...read more

Product Description: Talk about law often includes reference to ideals of justice, equality or freedom. But what do we refer to when we speak about ideals in the context of law? This book explores the concept of ideals by combining an investigation of different theories of ideals with a discussion of the role of ideals in law...read more

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Product Description: The justification and commensurability of punishments is a central problem of all state and social philosophies. This essay is concerned with theories of retribution and theories of general prevention of crime, and works out its own point of view in a combination of the concept that the purpose of punishment is to deter the offender and resocialization, and derives from this a plea for a system for dealing with criminals which respects their human dignity...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to facilitate the introduction of international, transnational, and comparative law issues into a course on Professional Responsibility. The book is very accessible for law students (and their professors). The chapters can be used in any combination and in any order...read more

Product Description: Theology has traditionally originated from the pulpit or the lecture hall. For Christians seeking to live out their faith in everyday life a new kind of theologizing is necessary. Since 1975 the Zadok Institute for Christianity and Society has been supporting this kind of theological writing and reflection—grounded in workplaces and cafes frequented by Christians between Monday and Saturday...read more

Product Description: This handbook is organised into eight parts: What are Professional Ethics?; Nature and Structure of the Profession; Common-law Ethical Duties of a Legal Practitioner; Statutory Duties of a Legal Practitioner; Administering Oaths; Cessation or abandonment of practice; Disciplinary Proceedings; and Judges Magistrates and Prosecutors...read more

Product Description: For more than a decade, American lawyers have bewailed the ethical crisis in their profession, wringing their hands about its bad image. But their response has been limited to spending money on public relations, mandating education, and endlessly revising ethical rules...read more

Making ethics accessible and applicable to media practice, Media Ethics: Key Principles for Responsible Practice explains key ethical principles and their application in print and broadcast journalism, public relations, advertising, and media-based marketing. Unlike application-oriented case books, this text sets forth the philosophical underpinnings of key principles and explains how each should guide responsible media behavior. It avoids moralizing and instead emphasizes the deliberative nature of ethics, inviting students to grapple with ethical dilemmas on their own and presenting ethical theory in a way designed to enrich classroom discussion. Author Patrick Lee Plaisance synthesizes classical and contemporary ethics in an accessible way to help students ask the right questions and develop their critical reasoning skills, both as media consumers and media professionals of the future.

Product Description: Race, Rights, and Justice explores questions of the nature of law and constitutional interpretation, international law and global justice, and the nature, function, and importance of rights each from a perspective that takes seriously the realities of race and racism...read more

In this work, lawyer and economist Klaus Mathis appraises Richard A. Posner’s normative justification of the efficiency paradigm from the perspective of the philosophy of law. He points out the possibilities as well as the limits of economic analysis of law.