From the Introduction by Iris and Amalia

“This volume aims to contribute to the development of a virtue approach to the ethics of the legal professions. Although virtue theory has already been erected as an important framework for examining central issues in professional legal ethics in contemporary legal scholarship, the spread of virtue theoretic analysis to the ethics of the legal professions has been uneven. Judicial ethics has received a great deal of attention, compared with the work being done on other legal professionals. (…) This special issue aims to broaden the scope of a virtue theory of the ethics of the legal professions and show the fruitfulness of this framework to give an account of the ethical dimensions of a diversity of legal professional roles.“

Overview of all articles

'Introduction: Virtue and the Legal Professions' (Amalia Amaya @The University of Edinburgh and Iris van Domselaar)

'The Legislator as Phronimos (or Anti-Phronimos): Virtue and the Legislative Role' (Matthew A. Edwards @Zicklin School of Business)

'Practical Wisdom and the Character of Administrative Decisions' (Pía Chible @University of Oxford)

'Can Bad People be Good Judges?' (Jorge Malen @Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Barcelona)

'Virtue Jurisprudence for Jurors' (Sean Cordell @The Open University)

'Lawyer Competence: Epistemic Virtues in Legal Ethics' (Boudewijn de Bruin@Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

'The Uses and Abuses of Virtue in Policing' (Luke William Hunt @The University of Alabama)

'The Excellent Legal Scholar' (Seow Hon Tan @SMU Yong Pung How School of Law)

'Ethos and the Virtues of the Legal Professions' (Michele Mangini @Università degli Studi di Bari)

'The Complementarity between the Virtue of Law (the Rule of Law) and the Legal Virtues' (Elizabeth Trujillo @Università degli studi di Palermo)

The complete special issue is available open access at: Introduction: Virtue and the Legal Professions (boomportaal.nl)''