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Judicial Ethical Integrity: Challenges And Solutions, Morris A. Ratner

Faculty Scholarship

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Startups And Unmet Legal Needs, Alice Armitage, Evan Frondorf, Christopher Williams, Robin Feldman

Faculty Scholarship

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Judicial Ethical Integrity: Challenges And Solutions, Morris A. Ratner

Faculty Scholarship

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Improving Access To Justice In Developing And Post-Conflict Countries: Practical Examples From The Field, Jessica Vapnek, Peter Boaz, Helga Turku

Faculty Scholarship

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Capturing The Insights: Commonalities And Differences, Naomi Roht-Arriaza

Faculty Scholarship

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Startups And Unmet Legal Needs, Robin Feldman, Alice Armitage, Evan Frondorf, Christopher Williams

Faculty Scholarship

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The Multiplication Effect Of Legal Insurance, Ben Depoorter, Jef De Mot, Michael G. Faure

Faculty Scholarship

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Disruptive Innovation: New Models Of Legal Practice, Joan C. Williams, Aaron Platt, Jessica Lee

UC Law Journal

For decades, lawyers have been complaining that they hate working at law firms, and clients have expressed increasing frustration with high legal fees. But complaining is as far as either group went, until recently. This is perhaps the first attempt at a comprehensive review of a wide variety of new business organizations that have arisen in recent years to remedy the market’s failure to deliver business organizations responsive to the complaints of either lawyers or of clients. The “New Models of Legal Practice” described here typically offer a new value proposition for lawyers and clients. For lawyers, New Models offer …

Five-Year Infrastructure Plan, David Seward

Long Range Campus Planning Archive

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Board Of Directors Open Meeting 09/11/2015, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2015 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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The Treaty Shopping Practice: Corporate Structuring And Restructuring To Gain Access To Investment Treaties And Arbitration, Julien Chaisse

UC Law Business Journal

This article analyzes the magnitude of the treaty shopping practice and draws relevant theoretical and policy implications for proper rule-making. This fills the gap in the literature, as it is based on a comprehensive survey of tribunal awards to assess the real prevalence of treaty shopping. Also, observing that in all systems of law, whether domestic or international, there are concepts framed in order to avoid misuse of the law; reference may be made in this respect to "good faith" ("bonne foi"), "détournement de pouvoir" (misuse of power) or "abus de droit" (abuse of right), this Article seeks to identify …

Board Of Directors Open Meeting 06/05/2015, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2015 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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Board Of Directors Open Meeting 03/06/2015, Uc Hastings Board Of Directors

2015 Board of Directors Agenda and Materials

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The Morality Of Law Practice, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

UC Law Journal

This is an inquiry about the morality of lawyers and law practice. Some modern academic critiques hold law practice to be immoral or unjust as compared to the standard of “common morality” or of the sense of “justice” shared in the community. This Essay advances a different standard of reference, one that takes into account the pervasive conflicts within society and the limitations on the government’s ability to get at the truth. These limitations generate a role for lawyers as empowered figures who employ government authority as partisans and confidantes for their clients. That role is comparable to other roles …

Uc Hastings (Spring 2015), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

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Uc Hastings (Fall 2015), Hastings College Of The Law Alumni Association

Hastings Alumni Publications

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The Long Tail And Demand Creation In The Legal Marketplace, Kristen E. Killian

UC Law Business Journal

This note examines new legal technology companies that are innovating transactional legal products, but not legal services. Legal Tech Innovation Companies (LTICs) represent an innovative leap in how companies that are not law firms provide legal products directly to a consumer. Although these companies are not yet disrupting the core of the legal marketplace, they are meaningfully lowering cost and increasing efficiency through both simplification and speed.

This note describes the type of legal consumers for whom LTICs are creating demand for their legal products and discusses several LTICs in greater detail. It further addresses policy considerations for the transactional …

Supporting Social Movements: A Brief Guide For Lawyers And Law Students, Jim Freeman

UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice

In recent years, there has been a surge in grassroots organizing and activism, creating new possibilities for advancing social, racial, gender, and economic justice. As a result, lawyers now have a rare opportunity to help create powerful and sustainable social movements by supporting, strengthening, and amplifying these on-the-ground efforts. However, there is a long history of would-be "movement lawyers" who have inadvertently undermined many promising grassroots-led initiatives. This article summarizes, from a practitioner's perspective, the essential elements of effective movement lawyering and how they can help to avoid the mistakes of the past and promote transformative social change.

Reforming Law Schools: A Manifesto, Frank H. Wu

Faculty Scholarship

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The Future Of Polyamorous Marriage Lessons From The Marriage Equality Struggle, Hadar Aviram, Gwendolyn Leachman

Faculty Scholarship

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Class Counsel As Litigation Funders, Morris A. Ratner

Faculty Scholarship

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Disruptive Innovation: New Models Of Legal Practice, Joan C. Williams, Aaron Platt, Jessica Lee

Faculty Scholarship

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The Morality Of Law Practice, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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Legal Education In A Modern World: Evolution At Work, Leo P. Martinez

Faculty Scholarship

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A Genuine Civil Justice Crisis?, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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Once More Unto The Breach?, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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The Role Of Law And Lawyers For Disaster Victims: A Uc Hastings-Waseda Symposium On The Legal Aftermath Of The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Disaster – Introduction To The Symposium Issue, Setsuo Miyazawa

Faculty Scholarship

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Uc Hastings College Of The Law 133rd Commencement, Uc Hastings College Of The Law

Commencement Exercises

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Legal And Economic Challenges To The Business Model Of The Television Industry, John B. Meisel

UC Law SF Communications and Entertainment Journal

Gaining access to content is critically important for entrance into the television industry; this is a necessary input to become a viable competitor against incumbent video industry players. However, incumbents have the ability and incentive to withhold programming that discourages potential competitors from entering the market. Entrants, built up over a long period of time, confront a symbiotic relationship between traditional content providers and incumbent content distributors. Access to video programming or access in the format (i.e., online) that a viewer chooses is in high demand. This demand is evident by an increasing number of legal, technological, economic, and political …

The U.S. Supreme Court's Failure To Fix Plea Bargaining: The Impact Of Lafler And Frye, Cynthia Alkon

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

Virtually every criminal conviction in the United States is the result of a guilty plea, not a jury trial. Yet it was not until 2012, in the companion cases of Lafler v. Cooper and Missouri v. Frye, that the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a defendant's constitutional right to effective assistance of counsel during plea bargaining. Legal commentators suggested that these cases were "the single greatest revolution in the criminal justice process since Gideon v. Wainwright." But will things really improve for defendants in the wake of Lafler and Frye? The simple answer is: "No." Lafler and Frye will not bring …