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Probing The Effects Of Judicial Specialization, Lawrence Baum
Probing The Effects Of Judicial Specialization, Lawrence Baum
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
A Question Of Costs: Considering Pressure On White-Collar Criminal Defendants, Sarah Ribstein
A Question Of Costs: Considering Pressure On White-Collar Criminal Defendants, Sarah Ribstein
Duke Law Journal
Because of the expense of defending white-collar criminal cases, individual corporate defendants can rarely fund their own defenses and often rely on their employers to pay their legal costs. Employers, however, often feel pressure to refuse to pay their employees' attorneys' fees. When employers decline to pay their employees' defense costs, defendants can be, in effect, coerced into pleading guilty because they do not have the financial resources to defend themselves at trial. Commentators have discussed the problem of pressure on white-collar defendants but have not traced the cause of the pressure back to one of its most basic roots: …
“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel
“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel
Law and Contemporary Problems
Matthew Hale is a white supremacist who likes to attract media attention. He set himself up as the leader of a racist "church" called the World Church of the Creator and immediately went about attempting to put an articulate, polite face on the organization. Hale's application to become a licensed attorney in Illinois, his subsequent denial and the litigation that followed are discussed.
Recapturing The Spirit Of Furman: The American Bar Association And The New Abolitionist Politics, Austin Sarat
Recapturing The Spirit Of Furman: The American Bar Association And The New Abolitionist Politics, Austin Sarat
Law and Contemporary Problems
Sarat locates the American Bar Association's call for a moratorium on executions in the context of modern abolitionist politics. New abolitionism links anti-death penalty work with a broader civil rights agenda.
“For The United States”: Government Lawyers In Court, Patricia M. Wald
“For The United States”: Government Lawyers In Court, Patricia M. Wald
Law and Contemporary Problems
Wald provides a largely impressionistic view of governmental layering in court.
Malpractice Immunity: An Illegitimate And Ineffective Response To The Indigent-Defense Crisis, Harold H. Chen
Malpractice Immunity: An Illegitimate And Ineffective Response To The Indigent-Defense Crisis, Harold H. Chen
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
2001: A Train Ride: A Guided Tour Of The Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Gerald F. Uelmen
2001: A Train Ride: A Guided Tour Of The Sixth Amendment Right To Counsel, Gerald F. Uelmen
Law and Contemporary Problems
Uelmen offers a guided railway tour of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, making stops along the way to revisit various legal landmarks such as "Nabb v. United States" and "Powell v. Alabama."
Indigent Defense Systems In The United States, Robert L. Spangenberg, Marea L. Beeman
Indigent Defense Systems In The United States, Robert L. Spangenberg, Marea L. Beeman
Law and Contemporary Problems
Spangenberg and Beeman describe the structure and funding of the systems of delivery of legal services to indigent criminal defendents in use at the state level, including assigned counsel, contract attorneys and public defenders.
An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
Law and Contemporary Problems
Funding for public defender services is woefully inadequate. Ogletree offers some anecdotal advice for public defenders and those designing public defender services.
Prosecuting Attorneys For Money Laundering: A New And Questionable Weapon In The War On Crime, Adam K. Weinstein
Prosecuting Attorneys For Money Laundering: A New And Questionable Weapon In The War On Crime, Adam K. Weinstein
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Attorney’S Duty To Reveal A Client’S Intended Future Criminal Conduct, Timothy J. Miller
The Attorney’S Duty To Reveal A Client’S Intended Future Criminal Conduct, Timothy J. Miller
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Foreword, Murray L. Schwartz
Compensation Formulas For Court Awarded Attorney Fees, Marshall J. Breger
Compensation Formulas For Court Awarded Attorney Fees, Marshall J. Breger
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
The Role Of Attorney Fee Shifting In Public Interest Litigation, Robert V. Percival, Geoffrey P. Miller
The Role Of Attorney Fee Shifting In Public Interest Litigation, Robert V. Percival, Geoffrey P. Miller
Law and Contemporary Problems
No abstract provided.
Criminal Malpractice: Threshold Barriers To Recovery Against Negligent Criminal Counsel, David H. Potel
Criminal Malpractice: Threshold Barriers To Recovery Against Negligent Criminal Counsel, David H. Potel
Duke Law Journal
No abstract provided.