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Access To Justice: A Study Of Legal Assistance Programs For The Poor In Santiago, Chile, Michael A. Samway Apr 1996

Access To Justice: A Study Of Legal Assistance Programs For The Poor In Santiago, Chile, Michael A. Samway

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


Malpractice Immunity: An Illegitimate And Ineffective Response To The Indigent-Defense Crisis, Harold H. Chen Feb 1996

Malpractice Immunity: An Illegitimate And Ineffective Response To The Indigent-Defense Crisis, Harold H. Chen

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Redefining The Professional In Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Teaching Professionalism, David B. Wilkins Jul 1995

Redefining The Professional In Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Teaching Professionalism, David B. Wilkins

Law and Contemporary Problems

For the last three years, the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession has been exploring the contemporary meaning of professionalism and developing new ways to impart the best aspects of this normative understanding to students. Wilkins reports on an intensive course involving both law students and medical students entitled "Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice: Physicians and Lawyers in Dialogue."


Information Technology And Legal Ethics: Expanding The Teaching And Understanding Of Legal Ethics Through The Creation Of A New Generation Of Electronic Reference Materials, Roger C. Cramton, Peter W. Martin Jul 1995

Information Technology And Legal Ethics: Expanding The Teaching And Understanding Of Legal Ethics Through The Creation Of A New Generation Of Electronic Reference Materials, Roger C. Cramton, Peter W. Martin

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cramton and Martin present a very brief summary of the inward-looking elements of the Cornell Law School prorgam to improve the basic required course in professional ethics and to encourage the pervasive teaching of the subject throughout the law curriculum. The Cornell program focuses on the preparation and dissemination of electronic material on legal ethics on a state-by-state basis.


Ethics Education In The First Year: An Experiment, Stephen Mcg. Bundy Jul 1995

Ethics Education In The First Year: An Experiment, Stephen Mcg. Bundy

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bundy presents an account of the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law's experiment with teaching the required professional responsibility course in the first year. During this experiment, the faculty members involved in the course developed a strong set of teaching materials and a strong commitment to teaching from those materials.


Getting Personal, Stephen Giller Jul 1995

Getting Personal, Stephen Giller

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce Jul 1995

Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce

Law and Contemporary Problems

Daly et al assert that professional responsibility has matured as a subject matter to the point where a new genre of courses should join the pervasive method and the traditional survey course. The new age of professaional responsibility will reflect intellectual maturity through the introduction of contextual course that are designed to nurture the development of reflective ethical judgment.


Integrating Theory And Practice Into The Professional Responsibility Curriculum At The University Of Texas, John S. Dzienkowski, Sanford Levinson, Charles Silver, Amon Burton Jul 1995

Integrating Theory And Practice Into The Professional Responsibility Curriculum At The University Of Texas, John S. Dzienkowski, Sanford Levinson, Charles Silver, Amon Burton

Law and Contemporary Problems

Teaching ethics to large classes has always proved to be a great challenge for those who teach professional responsibility at the University of Texas. A new program at the University of Texas to improve the professional responsibility curriculum is discussed.


Seeing The Trees Within The Forest: Contexturalized Ethics Courses As A Strategy For Teaching Legal Ethics, Thomas B. Metzloff Jul 1995

Seeing The Trees Within The Forest: Contexturalized Ethics Courses As A Strategy For Teaching Legal Ethics, Thomas B. Metzloff

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Professional Preparedness: A Comparative Study Of Law Graduates’ Perceived Readiness For Professional Ethics Issues, James E. Militerno Jul 1995

Professional Preparedness: A Comparative Study Of Law Graduates’ Perceived Readiness For Professional Ethics Issues, James E. Militerno

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Encouraging Personal Responsiblity—An Alternative Approach To Teaching Legal Ethics, Christine Mary Venter Jul 1995

Encouraging Personal Responsiblity—An Alternative Approach To Teaching Legal Ethics, Christine Mary Venter

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson Jul 1995

Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson

Law and Contemporary Problems

Little has been done to teach professional responsibility in a way that provides students with more than a mere sampling of rules and principles. In an attempt to move Beyond mere tinkering with the way professional responsibility is taught, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles restructured the way it taught the subject by creating a class that fully integrated ethics and lawyering skills into a single required course.


New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan Jul 1995

New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan

Law and Contemporary Problems

Legal Ethics became a required course in the late 1970s; however, the requirement of this course both helped and hindered the development of the status of legal ethics as a respected discipline. The role of law schools in teaching legal ethics is explored.


Annotated Bibliography Of Educational Materials On Legal Ethics, Deborah L. Rhode Jul 1995

Annotated Bibliography Of Educational Materials On Legal Ethics, Deborah L. Rhode

Law and Contemporary Problems

Rhode presents an annotated bibliography that includes references to written and audiovisual materials for legal ethics courses and curricular integration projects.


Legal Representation For Indigent Criminal Defendants In South Africa: Possibilities Under The 1994 Constitution, Jennifer L. Huber Apr 1995

Legal Representation For Indigent Criminal Defendants In South Africa: Possibilities Under The 1994 Constitution, Jennifer L. Huber

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


Our Partners’ Keepers? Agency Dimensions Of Partnership Relationships, Deborah A. Demott Apr 1995

Our Partners’ Keepers? Agency Dimensions Of Partnership Relationships, Deborah A. Demott

Law and Contemporary Problems

Many distinctive consequences of the relationship among partners stem from applicable norms of agency law, but basic agency norms applicable to incorporated businesses are fundamentally different. Agency doctrines that are distinctive to the partnership context are examined, and their consequences and rationales are explored.


Cuba’S Transition To A Free-Market Democracy: A Survey Of Required Changes To Laws And Legal Institutions, Matias F. Travieso-Diaz, Steven R. Escobar Apr 1995

Cuba’S Transition To A Free-Market Democracy: A Survey Of Required Changes To Laws And Legal Institutions, Matias F. Travieso-Diaz, Steven R. Escobar

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


Federal Defender Services: Serving The System Or The Client, John J. Cleary Jan 1995

Federal Defender Services: Serving The System Or The Client, John J. Cleary

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cleary discusses how defense services should be provided. He reviews the evolution of the right to effective assistance of counsel and the advent of compensated defense services and suggests reforms.


Indigent Defense Systems In The United States, Robert L. Spangenberg, Marea L. Beeman Jan 1995

Indigent Defense Systems In The United States, Robert L. Spangenberg, Marea L. Beeman

Law and Contemporary Problems

Spangenberg and Beeman describe the structure and funding of the systems of delivery of legal services to indigent criminal defendents in use at the state level, including assigned counsel, contract attorneys and public defenders.


Defending, Michael E. Tigar Jan 1995

Defending, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Foreword, Robinson O. Everett Jan 1995

Foreword, Robinson O. Everett

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.


Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado Jan 1995

Process And Progress: Reviewing The Criminal Justice Act, Edward C. Prado

Law and Contemporary Problems

Prado describes the results of a comprehensive study of the federal defender program and concludes that as the federal criminal justice system evolves, the Criminal Justice Act program must adapt to ever-changing conditions.


An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr. Jan 1995

An Essay On The New Public Defender For The 21st Century, Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

Funding for public defender services is woefully inadequate. Ogletree offers some anecdotal advice for public defenders and those designing public defender services.


Adoption And Aspiration: The Uniform Adoption Act, The Deboer-Schmidt Case, And The American Quest For The Ideal Family, Joan Heifetz Hollinger Jan 1995

Adoption And Aspiration: The Uniform Adoption Act, The Deboer-Schmidt Case, And The American Quest For The Ideal Family, Joan Heifetz Hollinger

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

When the state must designate a child's legal parentage, should the goal be to protect the biological parents' "opportunity interests" to raise "their" child or to protect the child's established relationships with the individuals who have actually functioned as her parents? What characteristics render an adult an appropriate parent? These questions, long in the background of disputes over adoption, have been raised with new intensity in the early 1990s in two distinctive settings. The first is the debate about these questions waged in the courts and the media. The second is the effort of the National Conference of Commissioners on …


Cooperation In International Procedural Conflicts: Prospects And Benefits, Takeshi Kojima Jul 1994

Cooperation In International Procedural Conflicts: Prospects And Benefits, Takeshi Kojima

Law and Contemporary Problems

The need for international integration of civil procedure has been strongly felt all over the world, particularly in the countries of Asia, North America and Europe. The birth of an international treaty will be good news for all those involved in international civil disputes.


Recent Legal Developments Of The European Community, Jen Rosenkvist, Laurent M. Campo Apr 1994

Recent Legal Developments Of The European Community, Jen Rosenkvist, Laurent M. Campo

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.


Better Regulations: The National Performance Review’S Regulatory Reform Recommendations, Jeffrey S. Lubbers Apr 1994

Better Regulations: The National Performance Review’S Regulatory Reform Recommendations, Jeffrey S. Lubbers

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Pretrial Case Management Under The Amended Rules: Too Many Words For A Good Idea, Michael E. Tigar Jan 1994

Pretrial Case Management Under The Amended Rules: Too Many Words For A Good Idea, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Waiver Of Tribal Sovereign Immunity In The Contractual Context: Conflict Between The Ninth Circuit And The Alaska Supreme Court, Kenton Keller Pettit Dec 1993

The Waiver Of Tribal Sovereign Immunity In The Contractual Context: Conflict Between The Ninth Circuit And The Alaska Supreme Court, Kenton Keller Pettit

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rule 82 Revisited: Attorney Fee Shifting In Alaska, Kevin Michael Kordziel Dec 1993

Rule 82 Revisited: Attorney Fee Shifting In Alaska, Kevin Michael Kordziel

Alaska Law Review

No abstract provided.