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Scholastic Steroids: Is Generation Rx Cognitively Cheating? , Kelline R. Linton
Scholastic Steroids: Is Generation Rx Cognitively Cheating? , Kelline R. Linton
Pepperdine Law Review
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Professional Responsibility In An Uncertain Profession: Legal Ethics In China, Judith A. Mcmorrow
Professional Responsibility In An Uncertain Profession: Legal Ethics In China, Judith A. Mcmorrow
Judith A. McMorrow
The rapidly expanding Chinese legal profession provides an extraordinary opportunity for the U.S. legal profession to test U.S. assumptions about legal ethics. This essay examines challenges facing Chinese legal education and the Chinese legal profession as it develops norms of legal ethics. This essay examines this process from the law school and law student’s perspective about legal ethics, and then briefly explores the effort to create norms of attorney conduct from a top-down perspective. Both a bottom-up and top-down view show the tremendous challenges facing the emerging Chinese legal culture in building a coherent model of lawyering that can serve …
Brief Against Homophobia At The Bar: To Law School Dean-Mid 1960s, Joel J. Finer
Brief Against Homophobia At The Bar: To Law School Dean-Mid 1960s, Joel J. Finer
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
In the mid-1960s, the author addressed the following "brief" to the Dean of a major law school on behalf of a law student, successfully urging that the Dean not report the student's homosexual activities to the state Bar committee which screened applicants for "good moral character." My own view, to be presently elaborated, is that to deprive a law student of the well-earned fruits of his labor on the basis of psychiatric findings that he might, at some future time commit a homosexual act that might become public and might merely embarrass a client, employer or associate, would manifest gross …