Professional Responsibility in an Uncertain Profession: Legal Ethics in China
Akron Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, 2010
Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 207
26 Pages Posted: 26 Oct 2010
Date Written: October 25, 2010
Abstract
The rapidly expanding Chinese legal profession provides an extraordinary opportunity for the U.S. legal profession to test U.S. assumptions about legal ethics. This essay examines challenges facing Chinese legal education and the Chinese legal profession as it develops norms of legal ethics. This essay examines this process from the law school and law student’s perspective about legal ethics, and then briefly explores the effort to create norms of attorney conduct from a top-down perspective. Both a bottom-up and top-down view show the tremendous challenges facing the emerging Chinese legal culture in building a coherent model of lawyering that can serve as the foundation for a system of legal ethics.
Keywords: China, legal ethics, professional responsibility, international comparative law, professional conduct
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