Teaching Legal Ethics: Reflections on the Value of Considering Purposes

Abstract

There are many contexts within which to consider the teaching of legal ethics to law students, such as historical, philosophical, or procedural. This paper describes a course with an emphasis on considering purposes of law as a heuristic context. The work is based on the writer’s experiences in establishing a new course in legal ethics for final year law students at the University of Western Australia. The background to the development of the course lay mainly in experience as legal practitioner, legal academic, and investigator of complaints against lawyers.

Citation

Tapper, R. (2020), "Teaching Legal Ethics: Reflections on the Value of Considering Purposes", Schwartz, M., Harris, H., Highfield, C. and Breakey, H. (Ed.) Educating for Ethical Survival (Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, Vol. 24), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 161-166. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-209620200000024014