In-House Lawyers’ Ethics: Institutional Logics, Legal Risk and the Tournament of Influence
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 18 - Law
- Output identifier
- 5644
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781509905959
- Publisher
- Hart Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 978-1-50990-592-8
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 264 page book is the product of five years of work and the world’s largest empirical study of in-house lawyers: a survey of 400 and 67 interviews. We use ‘institutional logics’ theory, regression models, and qualitative analysis to: (i) quantify concepts previously examined qualitatively, teasing out fresh understandings of lawyer role-orientation; (ii) test relationships between these orientations and ethical inclination indicators; showing (iii) the importance on focussing on what lawyers actually do when thinking about how lawyers should be; and (iv) demonstrating significant ethical risks when lawyers see their role as one of exploiting uncertainty and/or as unaccountable advisors.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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