Vincent Luizzi is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southwest Texas State University and Associate Municipal Judge, City of San Marcos.

"Vincent Luizzi's A Case for Legal Ethics is a fine piece of scholarship, humane and thoughtful in all its concepts. Luizzi offers superb insights into the quality of being human and skillfully avoids the simplistic debates that there are instrinsic standards for professionals that require them to act differently from others. Luizzi's work challenges the long-standing assumption that in the relationship between general ethics and the main area of professional ethics, the former should have jurisdiction over the latter. Luizzi is able to inquire most pragmatically into the possibility that general ethics should be more like legal ethics. By closely assessing the procedural features of legal ethics, Luizzi derives a uniform theory for dealing with our nature, our more restricted roles and our external environments. The whole work breathes an atmosphere of respect and freedom for the good coupled to a deep insight into the human dilemmas." — Leo W. Zonneveld, OLJ, President, United Teilhard Trust and Member, British Diplomatic Mission in The Hague, The Netherlands

• Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue 1. A Case for Legal Ethics 2. Human Nature 3. Professions and the Legal Profession 4. The Attorney's Environments: Adversary and Socio-Political Systems 5. The Contours of the Universal Ethic: Its Nature, Scope, and Limits Epilogue Notes Index

Vincent Luizzi is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southwest Texas State University and Associate Municipal Judge, City of San Marcos.

"Vincent Luizzi's A Case for Legal Ethics is a fine piece of scholarship, humane and thoughtful in all its concepts. Luizzi offers superb insights into the quality of being human and skillfully avoids the simplistic debates that there are instrinsic standards for professionals that require them to act differently from others. Luizzi's work challenges the long-standing assumption that in the relationship between general ethics and the main area of professional ethics, the former should have jurisdiction over the latter. Luizzi is able to inquire most pragmatically into the possibility that general ethics should be more like legal ethics. By closely assessing the procedural features of legal ethics, Luizzi derives a uniform theory for dealing with our nature, our more restricted roles and our external environments. The whole work breathes an atmosphere of respect and freedom for the good coupled to a deep insight into the human dilemmas." — Leo W. Zonneveld, OLJ, President, United Teilhard Trust and Member, British Diplomatic Mission in The Hague, The Netherlands

• Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue 1. A Case for Legal Ethics 2. Human Nature 3. Professions and the Legal Profession 4. The Attorney's Environments: Adversary and Socio-Political Systems 5. The Contours of the Universal Ethic: Its Nature, Scope, and Limits Epilogue Notes Index

Vincent Luizzi is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Southwest Texas State University and Associate Municipal Judge, City of San Marcos.

"Vincent Luizzi's A Case for Legal Ethics is a fine piece of scholarship, humane and thoughtful in all its concepts. Luizzi offers superb insights into the quality of being human and skillfully avoids the simplistic debates that there are instrinsic standards for professionals that require them to act differently from others. Luizzi's work challenges the long-standing assumption that in the relationship between general ethics and the main area of professional ethics, the former should have jurisdiction over the latter. Luizzi is able to inquire most pragmatically into the possibility that general ethics should be more like legal ethics. By closely assessing the procedural features of legal ethics, Luizzi derives a uniform theory for dealing with our nature, our more restricted roles and our external environments. The whole work breathes an atmosphere of respect and freedom for the good coupled to a deep insight into the human dilemmas." — Leo W. Zonneveld, OLJ, President, United Teilhard Trust and Member, British Diplomatic Mission in The Hague, The Netherlands

• Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue 1. A Case for Legal Ethics 2. Human Nature 3. Professions and the Legal Profession 4. The Attorney's Environments: Adversary and Socio-Political Systems 5. The Contours of the Universal Ethic: Its Nature, Scope, and Limits Epilogue Notes Index