Abstract
Although courses in legal ethics are now part of the main stream curriculum in the majority of undergraduate law programs, a perceived lack of ethical orientation among legal practitioners, has led to calls for an even greater emphasis upon ethical education. At the same time, legal educators frequently report that students often fail to engage with the content of courses on legal ethics. This paper outlines an approach to reconceptualising legal ethics which emphasises the links between legal ethics and legal practice. In addition, it describes a model for incorporating this approach to legal ethics into the first year curriculum using an online teaching site.
Highlights
Once respected as a learned profession, today the legal profession is frequently derided by the public as lacking in ethics.[2]
This is despite the fact that instruction in legal ethics is a common feature of many undergraduate law programs
On the one hand they are subject to enormous pressure from both the public and the profession to produce ethical graduates; on the other hand, students seem to find legal ethics courses uninteresting and irrelevant
Summary
Once respected as a learned profession, today the legal profession is frequently derided by the public as lacking in ethics.[2]. The content of many legal ethics programs reflects a very traditional view of legal ethics which privileges a philosophical perspective that may
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