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Second-Best Criminal Case, William Ortman
Second-Best Criminal Case, William Ortman
Law Faculty Research Publications
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When Should The First Amendment Protect Judges From Their Unethical Speech?, Lynne H. Rambo
When Should The First Amendment Protect Judges From Their Unethical Speech?, Lynne H. Rambo
Faculty Scholarship
Judges harm the judicial institution when they engage in inflammatory or overtly political extrajudicial speech. The judiciary can be effective only when it has the trust of the citizenry, and judicial statements of that sort render it impossible for citizens to see judges as neutral and contemplative arbiters. This lack of confidence would seem especially dangerous in times like these, when the citizenry is as polarized as it has ever been.
Ethical codes across the country (based on the Model Code of Judicial Conduct) prohibit judges from making these partisan, prejudicial or otherwise improper remarks. Any discipline can be undone, …
A Rhetorician’S Practical Wisdom, Linda L. Berger
A Rhetorician’S Practical Wisdom, Linda L. Berger
Scholarly Works
For three years, I had the great good fortune to work in the office next to Jack Sammons. My good fortune extended to a coincidence of timing that allowed me to work with Jack on a co-authored article, The Law's Mystery. During the time I worked next door, I felt cursed by an inability to grasp concepts that to Jack appeared inevitable and essential, whether those inevitabilities and essences were to be found within the law, good lawyering, or good legal education. The curse persisted throughout the writing of The Law's Mystery.
For Jack, the essence of a …
Moralizing In Public, Anita L. Allen
Between Law And Virtue, Joseph P. Tomain, Barbara Watts
Between Law And Virtue, Joseph P. Tomain, Barbara Watts
Faculty Articles and Other Publications
Legal ethics, professional responsibility, and professionalism are timely topics as lawyers continually reevaluate the standards of their profession, particularly in light of the challenges of multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional practice, as well as the embarrassment facing lawyers involved in and surrounding the Enron collapse. In this article, our goal is to discuss how to think and talk about ethics and professionalism. By way of preview, we need to understand that ethics and professionalism use different vocabularies and, consequently, talk past each other to some extent. Our hope is that understanding the existence of these two vocabularies helps reduce the misunderstanding. Both …
On A New Theory Of Justice, William Ewald
On A New Theory Of Justice, William Ewald
All Faculty Scholarship
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A Meditation On The Theoretics Of Practice, Robert Dinerstein
A Meditation On The Theoretics Of Practice, Robert Dinerstein
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
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