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Full-Text Articles in Law
Judicial Comments On Pending Cases: The Ethical Restrictions And The Sanctions – A Case Study Of The Microsoft Litigation, Ronald D. Rotunda
Judicial Comments On Pending Cases: The Ethical Restrictions And The Sanctions – A Case Study Of The Microsoft Litigation, Ronald D. Rotunda
Law Faculty Articles and Research
No abstract provided.
Recent Case: United States V. Hayes, 227 F.3d 578 (6th Cir. 2000), Emily Gold Waldman
Recent Case: United States V. Hayes, 227 F.3d 578 (6th Cir. 2000), Emily Gold Waldman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
In 1996, the Supreme Court recognized the existence of a federal psychotherapist-patient privilege in Jaffee v. Redmond. The Court did not explain, however, how this evidentiary privilege should coexist with a psychotherapist's so-called Tarasoff duty to breach confidentiality when necessary to protect third parties against whom a patient has articulated serious threats. Jaffee included a footnote indicating that the privilege was not intended to invalidate this duty, but left unclear whether the privilege continues once disclosure of the patient's threats has breached confidentiality. Indeed, the two circuits that have considered this issue since Jaffee have adopted divergent approaches. The Tenth …
Legal Skills For A Transforming Profession, Gary A. Munneke
Legal Skills For A Transforming Profession, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
The legal profession is undergoing dramatic changes that will drive a reformation in legal education. Legal educators must anticipate these changes to effectively prepare students for the practice of law in the twenty-first century. In order to be proficient practitioners, these students will require an expanded set of professional skills. Although the current legal skills paradigm was articulated by the American Bar Association MacCrate Task Force in 1991, it is time to reexamine legal skills with an eye toward preparing students to practice law in the new millennium. In Section II, this article examines trends in modern society and the …
Just Between Us -- Aba Considers New Ethical Rules, Irma S. Russell
Just Between Us -- Aba Considers New Ethical Rules, Irma S. Russell
Faculty Journal Articles & Other Writings
This article briefly describes one of the proposed rule revisions (Model Rule 1.6) to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct that will be presented to the ABA House of Delegates in July 2001 by the Ethics 2000 Commission.
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
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
No abstract provided.
Recalling Atticus Finch: Conversations With Practicing Lawyers, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Recalling Atticus Finch: Conversations With Practicing Lawyers, Deborah A. Schmedemann
Faculty Scholarship
This article discusses the skills, values, and attitudes that are key to practicing law. Input from practicing attorneys shows that while some traits are essential for all practice areas, other traits are specifically necessary for certain types of attorneys.
The Ermine And Woolsack: Disciplinary Proceedings Involving Judges, Attorney-Magistrates, And Other Judicial Figures, David R. Cleveland, Jason Masimore
The Ermine And Woolsack: Disciplinary Proceedings Involving Judges, Attorney-Magistrates, And Other Judicial Figures, David R. Cleveland, Jason Masimore
Law Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Litigating Ethics Issues In Land Use: 2000 Trends And Decisions, Patricia E. Salkin
Litigating Ethics Issues In Land Use: 2000 Trends And Decisions, Patricia E. Salkin
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
Race Prosecutors, Race Defenders, Anthony V. Alfieri
First Panel: The Law Schools' Reponse To Professionalism Issues, Jack L. Sammons (Presenter), Anthony V. Alfieri (Presenter), Nathan Crystal (Responder), Richard E. Carter (Responder), The Honorable Roger K. Warren (Responder), Caroline R. Heil (Responder)
First Panel: The Law Schools' Reponse To Professionalism Issues, Jack L. Sammons (Presenter), Anthony V. Alfieri (Presenter), Nathan Crystal (Responder), Richard E. Carter (Responder), The Honorable Roger K. Warren (Responder), Caroline R. Heil (Responder)
Articles
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Through The Lens Of The Sequence, Ellen Wright Clayton
Through The Lens Of The Sequence, Ellen Wright Clayton
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The completion of the rough draft of the human genome is a scientific feat worthy of celebration. But the media attention that has been devoted to the Human Genome Project demonstrates that most people are not as interested in what the sequence is as in what it means for individuals and for society, for good or for ill. My purpose in writing this essay is to discuss how the project was conducted here in the United States, and some of the implications of knowing the sequence (or more aptly, a sequence).
Lawyer And Public Service, The Historical Perspectives On Pro Bono Lawyering, Russell G. Pearce
Lawyer And Public Service, The Historical Perspectives On Pro Bono Lawyering, Russell G. Pearce
Faculty Scholarship
Historically, the first way of viewing the lawyer's role was as a member of America's governing class. Second came cause lawyering on behalf of a particular issue. Third, and most recently, arose the idea of pro bono lawyering, a less ambitious incarnation of the governing class lawyer who contributes time to helping cause lawyers. These categories are not rigid: for each individual they may overlap to one degree or another. This framework is preliminary and requires further research and development. Nonetheless, it provides a useful tool for explaining how lawyers-and in particular the heroic lawyers described in this symposium-connect to …
Misattribution In Legal Scholarship: Plagiarism, Ghostwriting, And Authorship, Lisa G. Lerman
Misattribution In Legal Scholarship: Plagiarism, Ghostwriting, And Authorship, Lisa G. Lerman
Scholarly Articles
No abstract provided.
Lawyers, Jails, And The Law’S Fake Bargains, Michael E. Tigar
Lawyers, Jails, And The Law’S Fake Bargains, Michael E. Tigar
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Practicing Law Across Geographic And Professional Borders: What Does The Future Hold?, Gary A. Munneke
Practicing Law Across Geographic And Professional Borders: What Does The Future Hold?, Gary A. Munneke
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
A new global business reality is transforming the practice of law. Nowhere is this transformation more apparent than in the areas of multijurisdictional and multidisciplinary practice. These two trends, towards practice across jurisdictional boundaries on the one hand and across professional boundaries on the other, are engaging the attention of lawyers at the American Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association: the American Corporate Counsel Association, the International Bar Association, as well as numerous other state and local, international, and specialty bar associations. This article describes that new business reality, those trends, and some of the ethical constraints presented by current …
The Prosecutor's Duty To Truth, Bennett L. Gershman
The Prosecutor's Duty To Truth, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Part I of this Article discusses the prosecutor's duty to refrain from conduct that impedes the search for truth. A prosecutor may impede the truth-finding process in several ways: (1) distorting the truth by attacking the defendant's character, misleading and misrepresenting facts, and engaging in inflammatory conduct; (2) subverting the truth by making false statements and presenting false evidence; (3) suppressing the truth by failing to disclose potentially truth-enhancing evidence or obstructing defense access to potentially truth-enhancing evidence; and (4) other truth-disserving conduct that exploits defense counsel's misconduct and mistakes and prevents introduction of potentially truth-serving defenses. Part I also …
Expression And Appearance: A Comment On Hellman, Matthew D. Adler
Expression And Appearance: A Comment On Hellman, Matthew D. Adler
Faculty Scholarship
Response to, Deborah Hellman, Judging by Appearances: Professional Ethics, Expressive Government, and the Moral Significance of How Things Seem, 60 Maryland Law Review 653 (2001).
Bringing Ohio's Legal Ethics Into The 21st Century, Lloyd B. Snyder
Bringing Ohio's Legal Ethics Into The 21st Century, Lloyd B. Snyder
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The time has come for Ohio to replace the Code of Professional Responsibility with a set of standards based on the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. The author offers seven reasons for doing so.
"On The Make": Campaign Funding And The Corrupting Of The American Judiciary, David R. Barnhizer
"On The Make": Campaign Funding And The Corrupting Of The American Judiciary, David R. Barnhizer
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
The thesis offered here is that the cost of judicial campaigns has reached a level where both candidates and sitting judges are shaping their behavior to attract financial and other support. This not only results in distortion of judicial selection by repelling meritorious potential candidates who are unwilling to compromise their principles, but in the capture of judges by special interests willing to finance judicial campaigns. Some argue that the great increase in contributions to judicial candidates simply means that contributors are giving to candidates they feel certain will support their positions. To some extent this is certainly true. But …
Health Care Ethics Experts In Canadian Courts, Jocelyn Downie
Health Care Ethics Experts In Canadian Courts, Jocelyn Downie
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
In this paper, I will first describe the traditional approach to the use of experts in Canadian courts. Then I will consider whether, on this approach, health care ethics experts should be permitted to testify in Canadian courts. I will argue that they should be permitted to testify but caution should be exercised by the courts, the parties, and the experts themselves. The objective of the paper is to highlight the strengths and raise some concerns about the weaknesses of a practice that appears to be growing, so that the potential harmful consequences might be anticipated, problems with the practice …
Faith And The Lawyer's Practice Symposium: Law Religion And The Public Good, Russell G. Pearce
Faith And The Lawyer's Practice Symposium: Law Religion And The Public Good, Russell G. Pearce
Faculty Scholarship
If there is a religious way to read, is there a religious way to be a lawyer? More and more lawyers, judges and scholars are answering yes to that question. We heard earlier from Cardinal Bevilacqua about the history of the Religious Lawyering Movement, which blossomed in the 1990s. There was writing about the law and religion before that time." We can date religious lawyering as a body of work in mainstream legal literature, as Cardinal Bevilacqua did, to the work of Professor Thomas Shaffer in the 1980s.Why did this movement take off in the 1990s? Again, what accounts for …
Reflections On The Ethics Of Legal Academics: Law Schools As Mdps; Or, Should Law Professors Practice What They Teach Symposium: Ethics Of Law Professors, Bruce A. Green
Faculty Scholarship
[A member of the House of Commons said in Samuel Johnson's presence] that he paid no regard to the arguments of counsel at the bar of the House of Commons, because they were paid for speaking. JOHNSON. 'Nay, Sir, argument is argument. You cannot help paying regard to their arguments, if they are good, If it were testimony, you might disregard it, if you knew that it were purchased. There is a beautiful image in Bacon upon this subject: testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow; the force of it depends on the hand that draws it. …
Moral Pluck: Legal Ethics In Popular Culture, William H. Simon
Moral Pluck: Legal Ethics In Popular Culture, William H. Simon
Faculty Scholarship
Favorable portrayals of lawyers in popular culture tend to adopt a distinctive ethical perspective. This perspective departs radically from the premises of the "Conformist Moralism" exemplified by the official ethics of the American bar and the arguments of the proponents of President Clinton's impeachment. While Conformist Moralism is strongly authoritarian and categorical, popular culture exalts a quality that might be called "Moral Pluck " – a combination of resourcefulness and transgression in the service of basic but informal values. This Essay traces the theme of Moral Pluck through three of the most prominent fictional portrayals of lawyers in recent years …
Making Clinical Trials Safer For Human Subjects, Michael S. Baram
Making Clinical Trials Safer For Human Subjects, Michael S. Baram
Faculty Scholarship
Clinical trials, in which new biotech and other medical products are tested on human subjects, provide much of the data used by the FDA to determine whether the products are suitable for routine use in health care. Thus, the trials are of obvious importance to medical progress and improvement of public health, and to those who have career and financial interests at stake. But clinical trials are also important to the human subjects involved because the products being tested on them may remedy their illnesses, but may also pose risks since the products have usually not been previously tested on …
Law Professors As Lawyers: Consultants, Of Counsel, And The Ethics Of Self-Flagellation, Rory K. Little
Law Professors As Lawyers: Consultants, Of Counsel, And The Ethics Of Self-Flagellation, Rory K. Little
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
To Our Children's Children's Children: The Problems Of Intergenerational Ethics, Lawrence B. Solum
To Our Children's Children's Children: The Problems Of Intergenerational Ethics, Lawrence B. Solum
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
This essay serves as the introduction to the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review's symposium on intergenerational justice. The importance of this topic cannot be overstated. Intergenerational ethics bears on questions of environmental policy, health policy, intellectual property law, international development policy, social security policy, telecommunications policy, and a variety of other issues.
Part II, Clarifying the Problems of Intergenerational Ethics, is a first sketch of the scope and nature of intergenerational justice, introducing a variety of cases and contexts in which issues of intergenerational ethics arise and distinguishing between the political and moral dimensions of these issues. Part …
Can You Be A Good Person And A Good Prosecutor?, Abbe Smith
Can You Be A Good Person And A Good Prosecutor?, Abbe Smith
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
Somehow, it is understood that prosecutors have the high ground. Most people simply assume that prosecutors are the good guys, wear the white hats, and are on the "right" side. Most law students contemplating a career in criminal law seem to think this. It could be that most practicing lawyers think this, as well.
Prosecutors represent the people, the state, the government. This is very noble, important, and heady stuff. Prosecutors seek truth, justice, and the American way. They are the ones who stand up for the victims and would-be victims, the bullied and battered and burgled. They protect all …
Fear And Loathing Of Politics In The Legal Academy, William H. Simon
Fear And Loathing Of Politics In The Legal Academy, William H. Simon
Faculty Scholarship
In a recent lament about Bush v. Gore, Bruce Ackerman feared that the patent groundlessness of the opinion would convince many of a proposition he attributed to critical legal studies: that law is simply a form of politics.
This remark reflects two tendencies prominent at the Yale Law School in recent years: first, a preoccupation with a now extinct and never very successful movement of left legal academics, and second, a tendency to conflate this movement with the legal conservatism of Jusice Scalia and his collaborators at the University of Chicago and the Rehnquist Court.
These tendencies ride high …
Bar Association Ethics Committees: Are They Broken Conference On Legal Ethics: What Needs Fixing, Bruce A. Green
Bar Association Ethics Committees: Are They Broken Conference On Legal Ethics: What Needs Fixing, Bruce A. Green
Faculty Scholarship
This Article explores the work of bar association ethics committees. These are committees established by bar associations to give advice to lawyers about how to comply with the applicable rules of professional conduct. My question is, are these committees broken? Over the past two decades, several legal academics have concluded that they are. At its harshest, the critique is that ethics committees, typified by the American Bar Association's ("ABA") ethics committee, publish opinions that respond to trivial questions by providing poorly reasoned answers on which nobody can or does rely, and that the reason that the committees' opinions are inadequate …
Ending Illegitimate Advocacy: Reinvigorating Rule 11 Through Enhancement Of The Ethical Duty To Report, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.
Ending Illegitimate Advocacy: Reinvigorating Rule 11 Through Enhancement Of The Ethical Duty To Report, Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.
Scholarly Works
This article seeks to draw attention to certain ethical misconduct of litigators that is routinely accepted, tolerated, or ignored by the legal profession. Though there are other examples, the author focuses on conduct prohibited by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. In particular, the author concentrates on that rule's so-called “safe harbor” provision, which he argues serves to insulate, and possibly encourage, illegitimate advocacy in the form of the assertion and maintenance of frivolous claims, defenses, or other contentions ironically, the very conduct that the rule was ostensibly intended to deter. Regardless of the frequency of this sort of misbehavior, …