ABSTRACT
What we’re going to do in this roundtable is to talk about the philosophical foundations of legal ethics, the need for philosophy in legal ethics or not, and the significance of philosophy and different philosophical approaches to legal ethics in addressing practical issues. We have worked out a series of four or five issues or questions that David
Luban (as a kind of Socrates of the group)2 is going to pose. With each question, there is going to be some discussion amongst the group and then we’ll ask for comments from the floor. Professor Deborah Rhode serves as the integrator of the group, the philoso-
phically informed and empirically grounded ethicist. Professor Brad Wendel may be playing Plato, representing the new-generation legal ethics philosopher (although he is probably too established and has made his mark too much for us to label him the new generation). I’ll hand over to Socrates.
