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Vol. 45, No. 11 (November 18, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 45, No. 10 (November 11, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Academic Freedom And Professorial Speech In The Post-Garcetti World, Oren R. Griffin

Seattle University Law Review

Academic freedom, a coveted feature of higher education, is the concept that faculty should be free to perform their essential functions as professors and scholars without the threat of retaliation or undue administrative influence. The central mission of an academic institution, teach-ing and research, is well served by academic freedom that allows the faculty to conduct its work in the absence of censorship or coercion. In support of this proposition, courts have long held that academic freedom is a special concern of the First Amendment, granting professors and faculty members cherished protections regarding academic speech. In Garcetti v. Ceballos, the ...

Vol. 45, No. 09 (November 4, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 45, No. 08 (October 28, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Your Career: A Path To Scholarship, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

Golden Gate Dean Rachel Van Cleave interviews Professor Benedetta Faedi Duramy about her journey through academia.

The Ethics Of Lobbying Under The District Of Columbia Rules Of Professional Conduct, Michael S. Frisch

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The District of Columbia is the epicenter of lobbying in the United States. With the presence of the Congress, the Executive Branch and its various Departments and independent agencies, few industries, trade associations or large businesses lack a Washington-based government relations arm. Law firms and lawyers fill in the gaps for those entities that lack a Washington presence or supplement in-house staffing with additional expertise and contacts.

Under these circumstances, it should come as no surprise that the bar authorities in the District of Columbia have examined the issue of lawyers and lobbying and implemented rules that differ from the ...

Vol. 45, No. 07 (October 21, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Viewpoint: Coming Together, Crafting Solutions, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

I have previously called for greater collaboration among a broad variety of lawyers to address the critical issues facing legal education and the legal profession. Private lawyers, government attorneys, public interest lawyers, legal educators, and even law school regulators must come together at the table for the betterment of the profession. Last week, two conferences made some initial and very positive strides in this direction. The NALP Foundation and West LegalEdcenter held a one-day forum, Tomorrow's Law Practice: A Forum on the Market, Demand and Opportunities for Lawyers; and the Educating Tomorrow's Lawyers Initiative held its annual conference ...

Vol. 45, No. 06 (October 7, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Honoring Gideon's Promise, Rallying Gideon's Army Conference, Russell C. Gabriel

Conferences and Symposia

Honoring Gideon’s Promise, Rallying Gideon’s Army: a day long examination of Georgia’s Public Defender System, including a screening of the 2013 HBO film, “Gideon’s Army.” Panelists include the filmmaker, Dawn Porter; Steve Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights, Circuit Public Defenders and Assistant Public Defenders from around the state plus other indigent defense advocates.

Supplemental Content:

• ABA Advisory Opinion 06-441

• ABA Resolution Adopting the Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System

• ABA Ten Principles Of a Public Defense Delivery System Pamphlet

• Bright-Sanneh Defiance of Gideon Yale L J 2013

• Circuit Defender Caseloads

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"Helpless" Groups, Troy A. Mckenzie

New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This Essay confronts the idea of the “helpless” group—that is, the group comprising individuals who are thought to be incapable of protecting their own interests. That idea plays an important role in the history of the modern class action, which has been justified as a device providing redress for “small claims held by small people.” The rhetoric of helplessness did not begin with the class action. Instead, the concern about helpless individuals corralled into a group and preyed upon by their adversaries (and their own lawyers) originated in the world of business bankruptcy before it made its way to ...

The Timeliness Project: Background Report, Australian Centre For Justice Innovation (Acji)

Access to Justice

This Background Report (the Report) has been developed by the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation (ACJI) at Monash University, Australia, and explores issues relating to timeliness in the justice system. The justice system includes the various and extensive processes and schemes that support dispute resolution before proceedings commence, as well as those processes that relate to the court and tribunal system.

This Report explores definitions and measures of timeliness in the justice system and examines some of the strategies and innovations that have been used both in Australia and internationally to improve timeliness. It is intended that this Report will ...

Bankruptcy And The Future Of Aggregate Litigation: The Past As Prologue?, Troy A. Mckenzie

New York University Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

This Article considers the recent decline of the class action by comparing earlier, parallel developments in the law of business reorganizations. Until the 1930s, the equity receivership was the procedural device used to reorganize firms in financial distress, because a receivership, like a class action, could achieve a binding group resolution among dispersed claimants. Although initially viewed favorably, the receivership came under sustained attacks from political, academic, and judicial critics. These critics, like today’s critics of the class action, challenged the legitimacy of the receivership process. In particular, they painted the lawyers in receivership cases as conflicted actors who ...

Vol. 45, No. 05 (September 30, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Value(S) Of Lawyers, Rachel A. Van Cleave

Publications

Top concerns facing legal educators and the legal profession today are the cost and quality of a legal education and the job market for graduates. President Barack Obama's comments in August about whether law school should be shortened to two years have generated healthy discussions about the trifecta we are grappling with: cost, quality and employment. These are critical issues. However, it is important not to lose sight of both the value of the legal profession as well as our fundamental values as lawyers and what model might best support these.

A Lawyer For John Doe: Alternative Models For Representing Maryland's Middle Class, Lucy B. Bansal

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"A Lawyer for John Doe," explores the growing disparity between the legal services available to the upper class and the poor in the state of Maryland. The article offers four models or solutions that creatively show different ways in which middle class citizens can obtain adequate and substantive legal representation for issues that specifically concern them.

Promoting Language Access In The Legal Academy, Gillian Dutton, Beth Lyon, Jayesh M. Rathold, Deborah M. Weissman

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

"Promoting Language Access in the Legal Academy," details the progress made by the legal profession in meeting the needs of individuals with limited English language proficiency. The authors outlines the current need, summarizes various approaches taken by law schools, and emphasizes the value of training bilingual law students as well as mobilizing a cadre of undergraduate interpreters.

Vol. 45, No. 04 (September 23, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Vol. 45, No. 03 (September 16, 2013)

Indiana Law Annotated

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