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The Brandeis Thought Experiment: Reflection On The Elimination Of Racial Bias In The Legal System, Patrick C. Brayer

Faculty Works

This essay prompts the reader to engage in a thought experiment and consider their own limits in advancing the cause of; a legal system free from racism and bias, and lawyers are encouraged to use the experience of a young Louis Brandeis as a guide in this self-reflection. Specifically, this essay calls attention to the fact that Louis Brandeis started his legal career, at the same time when, and in the same place where thousands of African Americans were escaping persecution and traveling in search of economic and political freedom, yet he was publicly absent on issues of race. As …

Immunity Incorporated: All The Injustice That Jeffrey Epstein Can Buy, Janice G. Raymond

Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence

No abstract provided.

Análisis De La Adaptación De Políticas Públicas De Inclusión Educativa De Personas En Condición De Discapacidad De Lo Internacional A Lo Nacional, María Camila Ortiz Jiménez

Licenciatura en Español y Lenguas Extranjeras

El presente artículo académico atiende a la pregunta “¿Cuáles son las políticas públicas internacionales de inclusión educativa para niños con discapacidad y cómo se han aplicado en las políticas públicas en Colombia?” con el fin de identificar y categorizar dichas políticas para obtener un contenido útil que aporte a la práctica docente y promueva la educación inclusiva. Para lograr esto, se llevó a cabo una investigación cualitativa de tipo descriptivo, acompañada de un método histórico y de la técnica de investigación, análisis de contenido. A través de esta técnica, se analizaron 76 documentos de políticas públicas de inclusión educativa y, …

“Second Looks, Second Chances”: Collaborating With Lifers Inc. On A Video About Commutation Of Lwop Sentences, Regina Austin

All Faculty Scholarship

In Pennsylvania, life means life without the possibility of parole (“LWOP”) or “death by incarceration.” Although executive commutation offers long serving rehabilitated lifers hope of release, in the past 20 years, only 8 commutations have been granted by the state’s governors. This article describes the collaboration between an organization of incarcerated persons serving LWOP and the law-school-based Penn Program on Documentaries and the Law that produced a video supporting increased commutations for Pennsylvania lifers. The article details the methodology of collaborative videomaking employed, the strategic decisions over content that were impacted by the politics of commutation, and the contributions of …

Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang

Publications

Mindfulness involves paying attention with curiosity in an intentional, open, and compassionate way to life as it unfolds moment to moment. Law students, lawyers, law professors, legal clients, and indeed all people can improve their lives through mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead to individual benefits and personal transformation. Mindfulness can also lead to societal benefits and social change. This invited symposium contribution exemplifies how mindfulness can facilitate the positive personal and professional development of law students by presenting excerpts of law students’ answers discussing mindfulness to questions from the final examination of the course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Notably, none of …

Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang

Publications

Mindfulness involves paying attention with curiosity in an intentional, open, and compassionate way to life as it unfolds moment to moment. Law students, lawyers, law professors, legal clients, and indeed all people can improve their lives through mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead to individual benefits and personal transformation. Mindfulness can also lead to societal benefits and social change. This invited symposium contribution exemplifies how mindfulness can facilitate the positive personal and professional development of law students by presenting excerpts of law students' answers discussing mindfulness to questions from the final examination of the course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Notably, none of …

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Data Harvesting: What You Need To Know, Ikhlaq Ur Rehman

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In 2018, it became public knowledge that millions of Facebook users’ data had been harvested without their consent. At the heart of the issue was Cambridge Analytica (CA) which in partnership with Cambridge researcher, Aleksandr Kogan harvested data from millions of Facebook profiles. Kogan had developed an application called “thisisyourdigitallife” which featured a personality quiz and CA paid for people to take it. The app recorded results of each quiz, collected data from quiz taker’s Facebook account such as personal information and Facebook activity (e.g., what content was “liked”) as well as their Facebook friends which led to data harvesting …

Still “Snowing” In The Sunshine State: An Analysis Of And Potential Solutions To The Lack Of Protection From Employer Retaliation For Florida Lawyers Who Adhere To The State’S Mandatory Reporting Of Professional Misconduct Rule, Jason A. Anon

FIU Law Review

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Disciplinary Regulation Of Prosecutorial Discretion: What Would A Rule Look Like?, Samuel J. Levine

Scholarly Works

This Essay is the third part of a larger project examining the potential role of professional discipline in the regulation and supervision of prosecutors’ charging decisions. The first two parts of the project argued that courts have both the authority and the ability to exercise effective disciplinary review of charging decisions through the adoption of ethics rules and their enforcement in the disciplinary process. This Essay takes the next step in the project, considering the nature of rules that courts might adopt, by exploring potential rules targeting two improprieties: arbitrary and capricious charging decisions, and discriminatory charging decisions.

Regulating Prosecutors’ Courtroom Misconduct, Bruce A. Green

Faculty Scholarship

Trial prosecutors’ visible misbehavior, such as improper questioning of witnesses and improper jury arguments, may not seem momentous. Sometimes, the improprieties are simply the product of poor training or overenthusiasm. In many cases, they pass unremarked. As the Chicago Eight trial illustrated, trial prosecutors’ improprieties may also be overshadowed by the excesses of other trial participants—the witnesses, the defendants, the defense lawyers, or even the trial judge. And when noticed, prosecutors’ trial misbehavior can ordinarily be remedied, and then restrained, by a capable trial judge. It is little wonder that disciplinary authorities, having bigger fish to fry, are virtually indifferent …

Trabajo De Campo En El Área Administrativa Y Contable Fundación Jesús El Buen Pastor, Katherine Lastra Vargas, Luis Eduardo Aroca Cobos

Administración de Empresas

En este trabajo podemos encontrar la aplicación de los conocimientos adquiridos en las carreras de Administración de Empresas y Contaduría Pública para el mejoramiento de los procesos y procedimientos de la Fundación Jesús El Buen Pastor, el cual contribuyó a crear un marco estratégico que permitió identificar la misión para la cual la organización fue creada y a su vez establecer lineamientos y herramientas que pudieran ayudar al crecimiento de la fundación tanto administrativo como contable. Al desarrollar este trabajo de grado se pudo obtener la situación actual de la fundación, realizar un diagnóstico de la misma y a su …

Legal Analytics, Social Science, And Legal Fees: Reimagining "Legal Spend" Decisions In An Evolving Industry, Nancy B. Rapoport, Joseph R. Tiano Jr.

Scholarly Works

This article discusses how legal analytics can help law firms and clients understand, monitor, and improve the components that comprise bills for legal fees and expenses.

Auditoría De Gestión En La Revisoría Fiscal, Andrés Camilo Vélez Acosta

Contaduría Pública

La Auditoría de Gestión representa un instrumento llamado a apoyar la gerencia estratégica en las organizaciones, mediante el suministro de herramientas que permiten medir y dar un juicio objetivo sobre el desempeño de las compañías, a fin de que éstas puedan lograr la consecución de sus metas. En el ámbito contable, este tema es causa de conflictos entre quienes conciben a la Auditoría de Gestión como una herramienta inherente al ejercicio de la Revisoría Fiscal y quienes están en desacuerdo con tal afirmación. Este artículo reflexiona respecto ambas posturas, pasando por una breve descripción de la Auditoría de Gestión, sus …

The Future Is ̶B̶R̶I̶G̶H̶T̶ Complicated: Ai, Apps & Access To Justice, Emily S. Taylor Poppe

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Diseño Plan De Auditoría Para La Evaluación Al Sistema De Control Interno De Las Entidades Del Sector Financiero, Laura Juliana Contreras Caro

Contaduría Pública

En el desarrollo del presente artículo se encontrará un contexto que guiará y sustentará la importancia de proponer un diseño de plan de auditoría para la evaluación del sistema de control interno en las entidades del sector financiero, el contenido corresponde a una temática apoyada en la normatividad colombiana. con responsabilidad frente a una normatividad internacional, con el ánimo de retroalimentar la perspectiva e importancia del control interno, de cara con algunos sucesos de inestabilidad en las entidades financieras ocurridos en la realidad y que develan la importancia de una óptima implementación y evaluación de control interno . Se encontrará …

Train Wrecks: 3m National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning And Generative Responses From Colossal Failures, William B. Strean, Patrick T. Maher, Kim Brooks

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

We all fail. We also like to look good and avoid looking bad. So, even though we know that taking risks and trying new approaches are important for enhancing our teaching and students’ learning (Strean, 2017), we rarely talk about our failures. Our claim in this paper is that our insecurities create a substantial barrier to improving and enriching our teaching practices. If we do not find time to take big risks, and then to explore and critically reflect on failures that result sometimes from those risks, we lose out on the chance to become better teachers; more fundamentally, we …

Legal Ethics And Canada's Military Lawyers, Andrew Martin

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

English Abstract: Military lawyers—lawyers who are legal officers in the Canadian Forces— are virtually ignored in the Canadian legal literature. This article assesses what appear to be the most striking potential legal ethics issues facing military lawyers. Several of these issues arise because military lawyers are both lawyers and military officers at the same time, and therefore face two sets of obligations that interact in complex ways. Some issues, however, arise because of the special practice contexts of military lawyers, for example, advising military commanders on the law of armed conflict. As context for this discussion, the article examines the …

Learning To Be More Than A Lawyer, Carol Morgan

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Who Is The Client? Rethinking Professional Responsibility For Benefit Corporations, Joseph Pileri

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

A growing social enterprise movement has led companies to increasingly opt into the benefit corporation form, and those companies are hiring lawyers. Benefit corporations challenge the notion that corporate law’s primary focus is on furthering shareholder interests. While many have written about the benefit corporation with respect to corporate fiduciary law, this Article is the first to explore the form’s ethical implications for lawyers. Ethical obligations necessarily reflect substantive law governing client organizations; changes to the corporate form presented by benefit corporation legislation should reverberate in legal ethics. The legal profession, however, has not addressed how to lawyer to a …

La Importancia De La Evidencia En La Revisoría Fiscal: Documentación Probatoria, Lizeth Angélica Reyes Sepúlveda, Geraldine Rojas Marín

Contaduría Pública

El objetivo de este artículo, es mostrar la necesidad e importancia de la documentación probatoria que soporta la opinión y las conclusiones del revisor fiscal, teniendo en cuenta la evidencia recopilada durante la auditoría la cual debe ser válida y suficiente para lograr seguridad razonable en el dictamen a los estados financieros. Adicionalmente, se reconoció la normatividad Colombiana que aplica a los revisores fiscales con sus diferentes responsabilidades, también las prácticas frente a la documentación probatoria, esclareciendo las implicaciones legales y jurídicas del revisor fiscal al no soportar apropiadamente el dictamen de los estados financieros. También se exponen los diferentes …

La Importancia Del Control Interno En Las Pymes, Caso Ferrin Petrol Sas, Ángela Julieth Gutiérrez Osorio, Laura Natalia Castiblanco Peña

Contaduría Pública

El propósito de este trabajo es presentar la importancia del control interno en las Pymes, caso FERRIN PETROL SAS, para la mejora continua de los procesos y los procedimientos, puesto que en Colombia las empresas en su mayoría empiezan como entes económicos muy pequeños que no tienen. una base organizacional muy fuerte ni sólida. Uno de esos grupos de empresas son las familiares, las cuales tienen diferentes procesos según el objeto social de la misma; por tal razón, es de gran importancia mencionar, entender y saber cómo es el manejo del control interno en dichas organizaciones, con el fin de …

Análisis De La Implementación De La Factura Electrónica En Colombia Como Mecanismo De Control Al Fraude Fiscal, Carlos Alberto Palacio Ospina

Contaduría Pública

El presente documento tiene como intención determinar si la implementación de la factura electrónica en Colombia puede llegar a ser un eficiente mecanismo de control fiscal que permita disminuir los índices de evasión que tiene el país. Para lograr este objetivo se realizó un análisis a la evolución histórica del sistema tributario colombiano, con el fin de contextualizar y evidenciar las causas del fraude fiscal. Igualmente, los niveles de evasión fiscal en Colombia fueron documentados en cifras y estadísticas, comparadas con las de otros países de la región. Se analizó también cómo ésta problemática afecta a las finanzas públicas. Luego, …

Comparación De La Auditoría Del Control Interno Entre Una Empresa Colombiana Y Una Estadounidense Según El Marco Regulatorio, Caterine Patiño Nariño, María Alejandra Galindo Peña

Contaduría Pública

En el presente documento se expondrán algunos de los requisitos legales y financieros que exigen Colombia y Estados Unidos en cada uno de sus países para que las empresas realicen sus respectivas auditorías de control interno, al aclarar los principales postulados según las leyes y procedimientos, se hará una comparación entre el Bank of América en Estados Unidos y el Banco de Caja Social en Colombia, para determinar cuáles son las principales diferencias entre los documentos que publican las corporaciones para dar fe pública de sus actividades.

Hey, Big Spender: Ethical Guidelines For Dispute Resolution Professionals When Parties Are Backed By Third-Party Funders, Elayne E. Greenberg

Faculty Publications

This first-of-its-kind paper introduces ethical guidelines and suggested practices for dispute resolution providers and neutrals when third-party funders provide financial backing for parties in U.S. domestic arbitrations and mediations. Sophisticated third-party funders have realized that litigation and dispute resolution are fast-growing, unregulated investment opportunities. Seizing these opportunities, third-party funders are now making billions of dollars in profits through their strategic investments in domestic and global litigation and dispute resolution with few ethical rules or regulations to curtail their investment behavior.3 Preferring to be secretive about the terms of their funding contracts and invisible in their work, third- party funders are …

Technology In Legal Practice: Keeping Ethical Obligations In Mind, Teresa J. Verges, Christine Lazaro

Faculty Publications

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The use of technology in the legal profession is ubiquitous, expanding, and ever changing. Lawyers connect with their clients, co-workers, and others through email. Cloud computing has allowed lawyers to create virtual and mobile workspaces, providing them with accessibility to client files and resources anywhere in the world. Social media allows lawyers to showcase their expertise and build their practice. Technology has undoubtedly impacted how lawyers provide legal services to their clients. However, as lawyers, we remain subject to long-standing professional and ethical obligations that govern our practice. This article explores how commonly used technology in legal practice implicates …

"You Have The Data"...The Writ Of Habeas Data And Other Data Protection Rights: Is The United States Falling Behind?, Sarah L. Lode

Indiana Law Journal

In Part I of this Note, I will discuss the writ of habeas data that has been developed primarily, but not exclusively, in Latin American countries. I will discuss the intricacies of the writ, how it evolved, and how it is applied today. Using Argentina as an example, I will discuss how the writ would be used by an Argentine citizen to protect her personal data. Part II summarizes the previously employed data protection scheme in the European Union, the Data Protection Directive (“the Directive”), and will also discuss the new EU data protection regulation, the General Data Protection Regulation …

International Developments And Their Impact On U.S. Lawyer Regulation, Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

Anti-Money Laundering (Aml) Legal Profession Related Resources (Updated March 2019), Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

Resources And Urls Related To Aba Model Rule Of Professional Conduct 5.4 (Originally Prepared For The May 2019 Aba Cpr Conference In Vancouver), Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry

• Rule 5.4
• Rule 5.4 State variations chart
• Rationale for Rule 5.4
• State Versions of Rule 5.4 that Differ From/Supplement ABA Model Rule 5.4:
• Jurisdictions that Currently Are Considering Rule 5.4 Issues (Arizona, California, Utah)
• U.S. Groups That …

Examples Of Regulatory Objectives For The Legal Profession (Updated March 2, 2019), Laurel S. Terry

Laurel S. Terry