Legal ethics and lawyering in transnational litigation. Some scattered hints

Etica legale e avvocatura nelle controversie transnazionali. Alcune osservazioni preliminari

Abstract

The basic hint of this short paper is that any insight into the legal ethics in comparative perspective -as in itself that of transnational litigation- should take into account some basic differentiations in the models of legal education around the world. The reasons of these discrepancies, and serious drawbacks, here are linked to huge differences in the lawyers' perceived technical, professional, and ethical standards. This all seems to imply the urgent need to overcome such a wholesome unevenness through serious reforms at normative as well as at cultural level.