Can a Lawyer Ever Do Right?

Authors

Owen M. Fiss, Yale University

Abstract

Jacques Maury and Maurice Gargon were good people, but not good enough. They resisted the harshness of the racial laws of Vichy France but not as fully as they should have. Falling victim to the proclivity of all lawyers, they became ensnared within the technical trappings of the law. They helped individual clients who suffered under the Vichy laws, but are faulted by Richard Weisberg for failing to challenge those laws at a foundational level. Professor Weisberg described the result as grotesque.

Keywords

Ethics, Slavery, Race and Ethnicity Issues, Domestic Relations, Attorneys, Legal Profession, Legal Ethics, Professional Ethics in Law

Disciplines

Law | Law and Race | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Legal Profession

Recommended Citation

Owen M. Fiss, Can a Lawyer Ever Do Right?, 17 Cardozo L. Rev. 1859 (1996).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol17/iss6/7