El estupidiario de los juristas: Reflexiones a propósito de vicios y virtudes en los Tribunales de Justicia

Abstract

This article presents a critical examination –from the stand of legal ethics– of two opposing traditions or doctrines. The first one points out that the ethical action of individuals should be oriented according to certain moral (general anC abstract) rules; the second doctrine promotes, on the contrary, an approach based on the theory of virtues and errors. This essay also provides various illustrative examples (a sort of catalog or “stupidiary”) of errors committed in the Courts of Justice, opposing such errors to desirable virtues.