The genealogy of legal office is pieced together here to rediscover the scope and ambition of a role that has been largely lost to conscious self-reflection. Organized around a concern with the inheritance of juristic traditions, institutions, and forms of life, the contributors to this book take up the question of how a jurist might learn to live, or die, with law. The collection invites readers to reconsider fundamental questions: What responsibilities accompany the jurist’s role? How do different traditions conceptualize the ethical obligations of legal interpretation? What happens when established norms face modern challenges? By reconstructing the genealogy of legal office across diverse traditions, the contributors recover aspects of juridical identity that have faded from contemporary awareness.
Law, Ethics, and the Office of the Jurist will appeal to legal scholars, practitioners, and students, as well as those in adjacent fields concerned with professional ethics, institutional history, and the evolving relationship between law and society in our complex global landscape.
Edited by:
Peter Goodrich,
Shaun Mcveigh
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781041113911
ISBN 10: 1041113919
Series: Discourses of Law
Pages: 278
Publication Date: 31 December 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
Chapter 1: Professing Law: An Excursus Chapter 2: Conscience is the Essence of the Scholar’s Office Chapter 3: Ministerial Office in Post-Reformation English Thought Chapter 4: Conducting Office Chapter 5: Dante, Law, and the Office of the Jurist Chapter 6: Office as Aesthetic Protocol Chapter 7: Precarious Procurators: Kafka’s Writing Scenes and the Vicariousness of Office Chapter 8: “A Disgrace to the Collar and Divine Office”: Ministry, Poetry, and the Law of Bearing Chapter 9: The Play of Office and Institution Chapter 10: Calling out Homphonia: A Word in the Ear of the Jawist Chapter 11: The Office of Reviewer Chapter 12: The Exercise of Corporate Office Chapter 13: Constancy of Office: A Study of Jurists and Writers in time of conflict
Peter Goodrich, Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law and Visiting Professor in Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, is an ardent advocate of argute alliterations and the habile silent ‘p’, as in raspberry and psittacist, ptomaine, psithurism, and rhubarb. He is the author, recently and most compositely, of Advanced Introduction to Law and Literature (Edward Elgar), of Judicial Uses of Images: Vision in Decision (Oxford University Press), and also co-editor of Performing Law (Cambridge University Press). Shaun McVeigh is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne School of Law. His current work is on the continuing influence of colonial legal inheritance and lawful existence in the South.
