El principio de no responsabilidad de los abogados y el dilema de la heroicidad

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  • Hugo Omar Seleme CONICET/ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5347/62/2025/787

Parole chiave:

concezione standard dell'etica legale, condotta supererogatoria, libertà di selezione dei clienti, neutralità

Abstract

Il principio di non-responsabilità degli avvocati e il dilemma dell'eroismo

Esiste una tensione tra il sostenere il principio di non-responsabilità, secondo cui gli avvocati non possono essere moralmente criticati per i clienti che scelgono di difendere, e la pratica di considerare alcuni avvocati come eroi. Bradley Wendel presenta questa tensione sotto forma di un dilemma: o abbandoniamo i giudizi di eroismo che formuliamo sugli avvocati, oppure abbandoniamo il principio di non-responsabilità. Questo lavoro propone che il "dilemma dell'eroismo" di Wendel sia superfluo o falso. Attraverso una nuova interpretazione del principio di non-responsabilità, viene introdotta una versione rivista del dilemma che viene risolta mediante l'utilizzo del concetto di condotta supererogatoria per spiegare i giudizi di eroismo.

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2025-06-30

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Seleme, H. O. (2025). El principio de no responsabilidad de los abogados y el dilema de la heroicidad. Isonomía - Revista De teoría Y filosofía Del Derecho, (62), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.5347/62/2025/787

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