caa a22 4500 388050845 CHVBK 20180307125053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199803 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S1352325200000926 doi S1352325200000926 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S1352325200000926 Applbaum Arthur Isak Harvard University Are Lawyers Liars?: The Argument of Redescription [Elektronische Daten] [Arthur Isak Applbaum] In "Professional Detachment: The Executioner of Paris,” I concluded with the cheap and some would say libelous suggestion that lawyers might accurately be described as serial liars, because they repeatedly try to induce others to believe in the truth of propositions or in the validity of arguments that they believe to be false. Good lawyers have responded with some indignation that, in calling zealous advocacy "lying,” I have misdescribed the practice of law. I wish to explain why I believe that it is the practice of lawyering that engages in misdescription. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998 Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/1(1998-03), 63-91 1352-3252 4:1<63 1998 4 LEG https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200000926 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325200000926 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Applbaum Arthur Isak Harvard University NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Legal Theory Cambridge University Press 4/1(1998-03), 63-91 1352-3252 4:1<63 1998 4 LEG CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge