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Who Is The Client? Rethinking Professional Responsibility For Benefit Corporations, Joseph Pileri
Who Is The Client? Rethinking Professional Responsibility For Benefit Corporations, Joseph Pileri
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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 …
Ethics And The History Of Social Movement Lawyering, Susan Carle
Ethics And The History Of Social Movement Lawyering, Susan Carle
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Same-Sex Couples - Comparative Insights On Marriage And Cohabitation, Macarena Sáez
Same-Sex Couples - Comparative Insights On Marriage And Cohabitation, Macarena Sáez
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This book shows six different realities of same-sex families. They range from full recognition of same-sex marriage to full invisibility of gay and lesbian individuals and their families. The broad spectrum of experiences presented in this book share some commonalities: in all of them legal scholars and civil society are moving legal boundaries or thinking of spaces within rigid legal systems for same-sex families to function. In all of them there have been legal claims to recognize the existence of same-sex families. The difference between them lies in the response of courts. Regardless of the type of legal system, when …
From Buchanan To Button: Legal Ethics And The Naacp (Part Ii), Susan Carle
From Buchanan To Button: Legal Ethics And The Naacp (Part Ii), Susan Carle
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