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Legal Ethics And Campaign Contributions: The Professional Responsibility To Pay For Justice, Keith Swisher
Legal Ethics And Campaign Contributions: The Professional Responsibility To Pay For Justice, Keith Swisher
Keith Swisher
Lawyers as johns, and judges as prostitutes? Across the United States, attorneys (“johns,” as the analogy goes) are giving campaign money to judges (“prostitutes”) and then asking those judges for legal favors in the form of rulings for themselves and their clients. Despite its pervasiveness, this practice has been rarely mentioned, much less theorized, from the attorneys’ ethical point of view. With the surge of money into judicial elections (e.g., Citizens United v. FEC), and the Supreme Court’s renewed interest in protecting justice from the corrupting effects of campaign money (e.g., Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co.), these conflicting currents …
Colonial Relics: Unearthing The Lingering Of Tyranny Of Colonial Discourse In U.S. –Caribbean Immigration Law And Policy, Glenys Spence
Colonial Relics: Unearthing The Lingering Of Tyranny Of Colonial Discourse In U.S. –Caribbean Immigration Law And Policy, Glenys Spence
Glenys Spence
Immigration law is constantly evolving. It is one of the most dynamic and multi-faceted areas of law. Specifically, in the space of asylum and refugee law, practitioners, immigration judges and our appellate courts face a daunting task of reconciling the law with the plethora of human misery that flock to our shores. The laws are plagued with ambiguity and complexity, and the task of interpretation is a daunting one. As a result, legal interpretation by our immigration courts can leave immigrants to languish in “a field of pain and death.” This article will examine the politics of location inherent in …
Lost In Translation: Notario Fraud – Immigration Fraud, Mary Dolores Guerra
Lost In Translation: Notario Fraud – Immigration Fraud, Mary Dolores Guerra
Mary Dolores Guerra
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