Steven and I have been moved by the untimely death of Professor Deborah Rhode. Deborah was one of the giants of legal ethics. She has shown great personal kindness to many legal ethics scholars, and written many great works. As it happens last week we were finalising a chapter on leading works on ethics for a volume being edited by Julian Webb of the University of Melbourne and we had chosen to focus on Deborah’s book, In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession. Here is an excerpt from our draft singling out what we thought makes Deborah’s work so important and so influential on our own…