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If a lawyer that is representing a defendant finds that his client is guilty, how is he supposed to act?
If a lawyer that is representing a defendant finds that his client is guilty, how is he supposed to act?
Can a lawyer lie or pretend he doesn't know something? Should or could he, morally, try to win ...
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What's the difference between a 'duty' and 'obligation'?
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I enrolled in a class, The Philosophy of Human Rights. The authors of the course readings never use 'duty' and 'obligation' interchangeably, so I suspect that the terms may have distinct ...
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Violation of everyday rights or "whose right to what did I violate today?"
The idea of rights seems to be strongly, if not inextricably, connected to the idea of duties. As far as I remember in philosophy of law this is referred to as "reciprocity". If I must do something, ...
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