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Whose Truth? Objective And Subjective Perspectives On Truthfulness In Advocacy, W. Bradley Wendel
Whose Truth? Objective And Subjective Perspectives On Truthfulness In Advocacy, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
A lawyer confronts many features of the world that are given, inflexible, and must simply be dealt with; at the same time she has latitude for creativity, for the exercise of skill and judgment toward the realization of the client’s ends. Although in law school it may seem that the law that is open-textured, manipulable, and the wellspring of creative lawyering, in practice the facts do not come pre-packaged and accepted as true for the purposes of an appellate court’s review, but are highly contingent and the product of the interaction between a lawyer and witnesses, documents, and other sources …
Government Lawyers In The Liberal State, W. Bradley Wendel
Government Lawyers In The Liberal State, W. Bradley Wendel
Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers
Criticism of the “politicization” of the role of federal government lawyers has been intense in recent years, with the scandals over the hiring practices at the Department of Justice, and the advice given to the administration by lawyers at the Office of Legal Counsel, concerning various aspects of the post-9/11 national security environment. Unfortunately, many of these critiques do not hold up very well under scrutiny. We lack a coherent account of what it means to “politicize” the practice of interpreting and applying the law. This paper argues that our evaluative discourse about the ethics of government lawyers is inadequately …