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6 Legal Ethics 1 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/lethics6 and id is 1 raw text is: Legal Ethics, Volume 6, No. 1 Editorial KIM ECONOMIDES and CHARLES SAMPFORD SPECIAL ISSUE Ethics of Public Legal Service In this second special issue of Legal Ethics', our guest editor2 has joined us to help organise a series of contributions focusing on judicial ethics, judicial accountability, and the raising of judicial standards. The majority of these contributions were papers originally presented at the Second International Institute of Public Ethics (IIPE) Conference (Brisbane, 4-7 October 2002). Academics and practitioners in ethics and governance gathered from around the world to debate whether and how the public interest can be defined in a globalising world. The Conference also discussed pressing issues of public ethics responding to asylum-seekers and displaced persons; responding to international terrorism; and East/West dialogue on the public interest. This Conference particularly through its workshops was designed to enable those working toward best practice in applied ethics and governance to hear first-hand what other countries and cultures are doing, and to share their own insights and strategies. Now their reflections from the Conference and workshops are distilled in this journal for the benefit of a wider audience. We also include contributions from other confer- ences held last year in France which examine judicial ethics. With this special issue we aim to record some of the new thinking to emerge from the Brisbane conference and to carry forward the international debate on judicial and public legal service ethics, a topic that has been neglected for far too long in the existing academic literature examining legal ethics.3 We are most fortunate in having contributions from distinguished members of the judiciary and in future issues we should welcome further contributions that explore the tensions between independence and engagement within the modern judiciary. Our contributors also raise questions about the influence and impact of 1 Our first Special Issue w\as published as LE 2:2 (1999) on The Political and Ethical Economy of the New lIawycring with Professor John Flood as the guest cditor. 2 Professor Charles Sampford, Foundation Professor of Law; President, International Institute for Public Ethics; Dircctor, Kcy Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governancc, Griffith University, Australia. Professor Charlcs Sampford (email: c.sampford(amailbox.gu.edu.au) has been assisted b) \Is Carmel Connors (c.connors(agriffith. cdu.au) and Dr Tom Round (t.rounda griffith.cdu.au), both rescarchers at the Kcy Ccntre (http://www.gu.cdu. au/centre/kceljag/). - Sce Editorial to IE 1:2 (1998) covcring standards in govcrnment and also the Pinochei dccision. Scc also T. Bingham, J udicial Ethics in Ross Cranston (ed.), Legal Ethis and Prossional Reponsiilizty (Oxford, 1995) 48.

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