ABSTRACT

A common starting point for all the chapters in this book – the third and final volume in the series of publications flowing from the Third International Legal Ethics Conference held in Australia in 2008 – is that law schools worldwide do have an important role to play in preparing law students for the ethical challenges of legal practice. This fundamental assumption has not always been widely shared, and some resistance to the proposition continues. In fact, law school ethics teachers in most, if not all, of the countries represented by the contributors to this volume continue to see themselves as a minority in law school education. Not only are legal ethics teachers still relatively few and far between, but many who have chosen – sometimes passionately – to work in this area and to develop a scholarship on the pedagogy of legal ethics continue to see their mission as one that needs to be advocated constantly within wider legal and academic communities.