Abstract

[Narrations of Law and Legal Ethics in Hollywood movie culture] Lawyers have always been a part in Hollywood movies, and this enables us to underline how the public, in certain historical periods, generally consider law and its practitioners. The paper aims at comparing lawyer models and types, that the various jurisprudential theories of legal ethics debate provide, with models of lawyering sponsored by the Hollywood movies, in order to highlight connections and mutual influence and to analyze how legal ethics and jurisprudential discussion may affect, and be affected by, cinematography as a workable mirror of society.