The Good Chinese Lawyer: A Student Guide to Law and Ethics

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The Good Chinese Lawyer explores the ethical and professional challenges that will confront a law student, and will help them to prepare for life as a lawyer. The book offers principled and pragmatic advice about how to overcome such challenges. It urges readers to examine motives for seeking a career in law, to foster a deep understanding of what it means to be 'good' lawyer, and how to draw on virtue and judgment when difficult choices arise, rather than simply relying on rushed compliance with rules or codes. The Good Chinese Lawyer analyses four important areas of legal ethics - truth and deception, professional secrets, conflicts of interest, and professional competence - and explains the choices that are available when determining a course of moral action. It links theory to practice, and includes many diagrams and scenarios to illustrate ethical concepts and good decision-making.

Adrian Evans is an Emeritus Professor of Law at Monash University, Australia. He is an academic legal ethicist and a former practising solicitor, with teaching responsibilities in clinical legal education, legal systems and legal ethics. Adrian is a recipient of the Monash Vice-Chancellor's Award for Distinguished Teaching and was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2020. Richard Wu is an Associate Professor of Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong (HKU), Adjunct Professor of School of Transnational Law, Peking University, China, and School of Law, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He is a qualified lawyer in Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom and Singapore, and was a partner of Johnson Stokes & Master (now renamed as Mayer Brown) before joining academia. He is an expert on legal ethics in the Greater China Region, and received HKU Faculty Knowledge Exchange Award and HKU Faculty Teaching Award for his contribution to Chinese legal ethics education in 2021. Shenjian Xu is Professor and Dean of the School of Juris Master, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing. He was elected as the Director of the Committee of Mock Trial, China Legal Education Society. He has written numerous textbooks on Chinese legal education and professional ethics, and has won numerous teaching awards. He is the Vice President and General Secretary of the China Legal Writing Society and is the Deputy Director of the Committee of Chinese Clinical Legal Educators. His research focuses on Legal Ethics, Procedural Law, and Practical Legal Education.