Lawyer-Politicians and Law Societies: Navigating the Intersection between Democracy and Accountability

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Keysel Alberto Aranzamendez Besa

• In this essay that won the 2024 Sheldon M. Chumir Memorial Award in Ethics, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, I argue that striking the proper balance between a law society’s commitment to democracy and its jurisdiction over lawyer-politicians warrants the limiting of actionable complaints to conduct that has a clear nexus to the practice of law.

• Date created

  2024-05-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Legal ethics
  • Law
  • Law and Politics
  • Lawyer-Politicians
  • Law Society Rules
  • Lawyer Conduct
  • Professional Obligation
  • Ethical Duties of Lawyer-turned-Politicians

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-df7f-d195

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International