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Cooperation And Turnover In Law Faculties: A Game-Theoretic Model And An Empirical Study, Shi-Ling Hsu Oct 2018

Cooperation And Turnover In Law Faculties: A Game-Theoretic Model And An Empirical Study, Shi-Ling Hsu

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A standard account of group cooperation would predict that group stability would bring about greater cooperation because repeat-play games would allow for sanctions and rewards. In an academic unit such as a department or a law faculty, one might thus expect that faculty stability would bring about greater cooperation. However, academic units are not like most other groups. Tenured professors face only limited sanctions for failing to cooperate, for engaging in unproductive conflict, or for shirking. This article argues counter-intuitively that within limits, some level of faculty turnover may enhance cooperation. Certainly, excessive and persistent loss of faculty is demoralizing, …


Leaving Law Firms With Client Fees: Florida's Path, Donald J. Weidner Dec 2017

Leaving Law Firms With Client Fees: Florida's Path, Donald J. Weidner

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The Honorable Robert R. Merhige, Jr.: A Judge Ahead Of His Time, Wayne A. Logan Sep 2017

The Honorable Robert R. Merhige, Jr.: A Judge Ahead Of His Time, Wayne A. Logan

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Growing Up With Scout And Atticus: Getting From To Kill A Mockingbird Through Go Set A Watchman, Rob Atkinson Mar 2016

Growing Up With Scout And Atticus: Getting From To Kill A Mockingbird Through Go Set A Watchman, Rob Atkinson

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Medicine And Law As Model Professions: The Heart Of The Matter (And How We Have Missed It), Rob Atkinson Jan 2013

Medicine And Law As Model Professions: The Heart Of The Matter (And How We Have Missed It), Rob Atkinson

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This article has two coordinate goals: to undergird the functionalist understanding of professionalism with classical normative theory and to advance the classical theory of civic virtue with the insights of modern social science. More specifically, this article seeks to connect classical theories about the care of the body and the soul with modern theories of market and government failure. The first step is to distinguish two kinds of professions, caring professions like medicine and public professions like law, by identifying the distinctive virtue of each. The distinctive virtue of the caring professions is single-minded commitment to those in their care, …


The Most Ethical Of People, The Least Ethical Of People: Proposing Self-Determination Theory To Measure Professional Character Formation, Lawrence S. Krieger Jan 2011

The Most Ethical Of People, The Least Ethical Of People: Proposing Self-Determination Theory To Measure Professional Character Formation, Lawrence S. Krieger

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Pro Bono Publico: The Growing Need For Expert Aid, Hannah J. Wiseman Jan 2008

Pro Bono Publico: The Growing Need For Expert Aid, Hannah J. Wiseman

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Taking Inventory: The Science Of Happiness, Lawrence S. Krieger Jan 2003

Taking Inventory: The Science Of Happiness, Lawrence S. Krieger

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Psychological Insights: Why Our Students And Graduates Suffer, And What We Might Do About It, Lawrence S. Krieger Jan 2002

Psychological Insights: Why Our Students And Graduates Suffer, And What We Might Do About It, Lawrence S. Krieger

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Law As A Learned Profession: The Forgotten Mission Field Of The Professionalism Movement, Rob Atkinson Apr 2001

Law As A Learned Profession: The Forgotten Mission Field Of The Professionalism Movement, Rob Atkinson

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Pro Bono Publico Representation Of The Poor: The Good As Enemy Of The Best, Rob Atkinson Jan 2001

Pro Bono Publico Representation Of The Poor: The Good As Enemy Of The Best, Rob Atkinson

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Liberating Lawyers: Diverging Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson Dec 1999

Liberating Lawyers: Diverging Parallels In Intruder In The Dust And To Kill A Mockingbird, Rob Atkinson

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Professor Atkinson hopes William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust will replace Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird as our favorite story of lawyerly virtue. In both stories, a white male lawyer and his protégé try to free a black man falsely accused of a capital crime. But below these superficial similarities, Professor Atkinson finds fundamental differences. To Kill a Mockingbird, with its father-knows-best attorney, Atticus Finch, celebrates lawyerly paternalism; Intruder in the Dust, through its aristocratic black hero, Lucas Beauchamp, and his lay allies, challenges the rule of lawyers, if not law itself. The first urges us to …


Br'er Rabbit Professionalism: A Homily On Moral Heroes And Lawyerly Mores, Rob Atkinson Oct 1999

Br'er Rabbit Professionalism: A Homily On Moral Heroes And Lawyerly Mores, Rob Atkinson

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Law School Engagement In Professionalism And Improved Bar Relations, Donald J. Weidner Jul 1998

Law School Engagement In Professionalism And Improved Bar Relations, Donald J. Weidner

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What We're Not Telling Law Students -- And Lawyers -- That They Really Need To Know: Some Thoughts-In-Action Toward Revitalizing The Profession From Its Roots, Lawrence S. Krieger Jan 1998

What We're Not Telling Law Students -- And Lawyers -- That They Really Need To Know: Some Thoughts-In-Action Toward Revitalizing The Profession From Its Roots, Lawrence S. Krieger

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The Florida Supreme Court Commission On Professionalism And The Crises Of Legal Education, Donald J. Weidner May 1997

The Florida Supreme Court Commission On Professionalism And The Crises Of Legal Education, Donald J. Weidner

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A Dissenter's Commentary On The Professionalism Crusade, Rob Atkinson Dec 1995

A Dissenter's Commentary On The Professionalism Crusade, Rob Atkinson

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A Dissenter's Commentary On The Professionalism Crusade, Rob Atkinson Jan 1994

A Dissenter's Commentary On The Professionalism Crusade, Rob Atkinson

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Neutral Partisan Lawyering And International Human Rights, Rob Atkinson Jan 1993

Neutral Partisan Lawyering And International Human Rights, Rob Atkinson

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This Essay considers the applicability of a particular model of legal ethics, neutral partisanship, to American lawyers’ representation of those who violate, or are accused of violating, international human rights. I maintain that neutral partisanship, a deficient model for American lawyers in their domestic practice, is even more problematic when applied in the international arena. The central question is this: are there limits, short of engaging in illegal conduct, that should constrain lawyers in the representation of those who violate international human rights? Neutral partisanship holds that any lawyer may, or, more strongly, must, pursue any legal end for any …