1. Lecturer in Law, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, Australia. This article was first presented at the First International Conference on Lawyers' Ethics, “New Perspectives on Professionalism: Educating and Regulating Lawyers for the 21st Century”, University of Exeter, 6–7 July 2004. My thanks go to Reid Mortensen and anonymous referees for comments on an earlier draft.