LEGAL PROFESSION BIBLIOGRAPHY
W. Bradley Wendel, Washington & Lee University School of Law

Professional Ethics -- Moral and Political Philosophy:

  • Mike W. Martin, Meaningful Work: Rethinking Professional Ethics
    (Oxford 2000).
  • William H. Simon, The Practice of Justice: A Theory of Lawyers' Ethics
    (Harvard 1999).
  • Arthur Isak Applbaum, Ethics for Adversaries (Princeton 1999).
  • Daniel R. Coquillette, Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility
    (Anderson 1995).
  • Joseph Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain (Oxford 1994).
  • Thomas L. Shaffer and Robert F. Cochran, Jr., Lawyers, Clients, and
    Moral Responsibility
    (1994).
  • Benjamin Sells, The Soul of the Law (Element 1994).
  • Anthony T. Kronman, The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal
    Profession
    (Harvard 1993).
  • Vincent Luizzi, A Case for Legal Ethics: Legal Ethics as a Source for
    a Universal Ethic
    (SUNY 1993).
  • Rand Jack and Dana Crowley Jack, Moral Vision and Professional Decisions:
    The Changing Values of Women and Men Lawyers
    (Cambridge 1989).
  • David Luban, Lawyers and Justice: An Ethical Study (Princeton 1988).
    Jack L. Sammons, Lawyer Professionalism (Carolina Academic Press
    1988).
  • Thomas L. Shaffer, Faith and the Professions (BYU 1987).
  • David Luban, ed., The Good Lawyer: Lawyers' Roles and Lawyers' Ethics
    (Rowman & Allanheld 1983).
  • Thomas L. Shaffer, On Being a Christian and a Lawyer (BYU 1981).
  • Alan H. Goldman, The Moral Foundations of Professional Ethics (Rowman &
    Littlefield 1980).

Sociology of the Profession:

  • Austin Sarat & Stuart Scheingold, eds., Cause Lawyering: Political
    Commitments and Professional Responsibilities
    (Oxford 1998).
  • Richard L. Abel, ed., Lawyers: A Critical Reader (New Press 1997).
  • Elliott A. Krause, Death of the Guilds: Professions, States, and the
    Advance of Capitalism, 1930 to the Present
    (Yale 1996).
  • John P. Heinz & Edward O. Laumann, Chicago Lawyers: The Social
    Structure of the Bar
    (Northwestern, Rev'd ed. 1994).
  • Robert L. Nelson, et al., eds., Lawyers' Ideals/Lawyers' Practices:
    Transformations in the American Legal Profession
    (1992).
  • Richard L. Abel, American Lawyers (1989).
  • Donald D. Landon, Country Lawyers: The Impact of Context on
    Professional Practice
    (Praeger 1990).

Ethics and Legal Education:

  • Michael J. Kelly, Legal Ethics and Legal Education (Hastings 1980).
  • Daniel Callahan & Sissela Bok, eds., Ethics Teaching in Higher
    Education
    (Plenum 1980).
  • Scott Turow, One L (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1977).

Commentaries on the Legal Profession for General Readers:

  • Richard Zitrin & Carol M. Langford, The Moral Compass of the American
    Lawyer: Truth, Justice, Power, and Greed
    (Ballantine 1999).
  • Lawrence Joseph, Lawyerland: What Lawyers Talk About When They Talk
    About Law
    (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1997).
  • Ralph Nader & Wesley J. Smith, No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the
    Perversion of Justice in America
    (Random House 1996).
  • Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (Vintage 1995).
  • Sol M. Linowitz & Martin Mayer, The Betrayed Profession: Lawyering at
    the End of the Twentieth Century
    (Johns Hopkins 1994).
  • Mary Ann Glendon, A Nation Under Lawyers: How the Crisis in the Legal
    Profession is Transforming American Society
    (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
    1994).
  • Lincoln Caplan, Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire
    (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux 1993).
  • James B. Stewart, The Partners: Inside America's Most Powerful Law
    Firms
    (Warner 1983).
  • Seymour Wishman, Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer (Times 1981).

Treatises and Reference Works on the Law Governing Lawyers:

  • American Bar Association, Annotated Model Rules of Professional Conduct
    (ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, 4th ed. 1999).
  • Nathan M. Crystal, An Introduction to Professional Responsibility
    (Aspen 1998).
  • Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr. & W. William Hodes, The Law of Lawyering (3d
    ed. 1998)
  • Monroe H. Freedman, Understanding Lawyers' Ethics (Matthew Bender
    1990).
  • Charles W. Wolfram, Modern Legal Ethics (West 1986).

Law School Casebooks:

  • Thomas D. Morgan & Ronald D. Rotunda, Professional Responsibility:
    Problems and Materials
    (Foundation, 7th ed. 2000).
  • Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., Susan P. Koniak, and Roger C. Cramton, The Law
    and Ethics of Lawyering
    (Foundation, 3d ed. 1999).
  • Stephen Gillers, Regulation of Lawyers (Aspen, 5th ed. 1998).
  • Deborah L. Rhode, Professional Responsibility: Ethics by the Pervasive
    Method
    (Aspen, 2d ed. 1998).
  • John T. Noonan & Richard W. Painter, Professional and Personal
    Responsibilities of the Lawyer
    (Foundation 1997).
  • Nathan M. Crystal, Professional Responsibility: Problems of Practice
    and the Profession
    (Aspen 1996).
  • Deborah L. Rhode & David Luban, Legal Ethics (Foundation, 2d ed.
    1995).
  • Richard A. Zitrin & Carol M. Langford, Legal Ethics in the Practice of
    Law
    (Michie 1995).
  • Roy D. Simon & Murray L. Schwartz, Lawyers and the Legal Profession
    (Michie, 3d ed. 1994).
  • John F. Sutton, Jr. & John S. Dzienkowski, Cases and Materials on the
    Professional Responsibility of Lawyers
    (West 1989).
  • Thomas L. Shaffer, American Legal Ethics: Text, Readings, and
    Discussion Topics
    (Matthew Bender 1985).
  • David Mellinkoff, The Conscience of a Lawyer (West 1973).