Český Atikus? Příběhy a jejich hrdinové v české profesní etice právníků
Czech Atticus? Stories and Their Heroes in Czech Legal Professional Ethics

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, there has been a growing demand in the Czech legal community for studying and teaching legal ethics, including professional ethics. However, one perspective on legal ethics is somewhat lost in the current Czech discourse. It is the perspective of Law and Literature, or Law and Humanities, even though the connection between legal ethics and art is obvious, as a strong emphasis on narrative links them. The provisions of relevant legislation, such as the Courts and Judges Act or the Advocacy Act, may be well written. Still, education in values and virtues not only works through examples rather than commands and prohibitions, but we can draw on art to tell these very stories, just as the founders of Law and Literature suggested. The most influential, at least in the Anglo-American milieu, is undoubtedly Atticus Finch of the novel and film To Kill a Mockingbird. This article aims to explore in general terms the advantages and disadvantages, benefits and risks of using examples from art and culture in questions of legal ethics, and in particular whether the fate of Zdenko Auředníček and his involvement in the Leopold Hilsner case can be such an example and how it relates to the story of Atticus Finch.

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