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Preserving The Past, Roger J. Miner '56
150 Years Of Research : A Bibliography Of The Indiana University School Of Law Faculty, 1842-1992, Linda K. Fariss
150 Years Of Research : A Bibliography Of The Indiana University School Of Law Faculty, 1842-1992, Linda K. Fariss
150 Years of Research: A Bibliography of Indiana University School of Law Faculty, 1842-1992
Compiled for the law school's sesquicentennial in 1992, this work contains comprehensive entries for all past and then current faculty members, listing works written before and during their time at the law school.
Law library librarians Keith A. Buckley, Mitchell E. Counts, Ralph F. Gaebler, Michael M. Maben, Marianne Mason, F. Richard Vaughan and Nona K. Watt contributed to the bibliography and Linda K. Fariss edited.
Rediscovering The Republican Origins Of The Legal Ethics Codes, Russell G. Pearce
Rediscovering The Republican Origins Of The Legal Ethics Codes, Russell G. Pearce
Faculty Scholarship
Many commentators wrongly assume that the hired gun ideal is the foundation of our legal ethics codes. This article explains that this assumption is based on an historical mistake that has consequences for interpreting the modern codes. Judge George Sharswood, the nineteenth century scholar whose work provided the basis for the 1908 A.B.A. Canons of Ethics, had a republican conception that rejected the adversarial ethic in favor of a more nuanced conception that combined loyalty to clients with a thick obligation to the public good that both bounded client representation and required lawyers to provide political leadership. Although the emphasis …