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Full-Text Articles in Law
Love, Anger, And Lawyering, Deborah J. Cantrell
Love, Anger, And Lawyering, Deborah J. Cantrell
Publications
This essay explores how mindfulness practices helped one lawyer, now legal scholar, explore the roles of love and anger in lawyering.
The Prosecutor’S Duty Of Silence, Bennett L. Gershman
The Prosecutor’S Duty Of Silence, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
Prosecutors enjoy broad opportunities to communicate with the public outside the courtroom. Justice Holmes’s famous dictum -- “The theory of our system is that conclusions to be reached in a case will be induced only by evidence and argument in open court, and not by any outside influence, whether of private talk or public print” – is just that – a “theory.” The reality is otherwise. Prosecutors, and defense lawyers too, engage in extrajudicial speech frequently, and often irresponsibly. But in contrast to other lawyers, prosecutors have a higher “special” duty to serve justice rather than a private client. And …
Disciplinary Regulation Of Prosecutors As A Remedy For Abuses Of Prosecutorial Discretion: A Descriptive And Normative Analysis, Samuel J. Levine, Bruce A. Green
Disciplinary Regulation Of Prosecutors As A Remedy For Abuses Of Prosecutorial Discretion: A Descriptive And Normative Analysis, Samuel J. Levine, Bruce A. Green
Scholarly Works
Although courts have traditionally relied primarily on prosecutors’ individual self-restraint and institutional self-regulation to curb prosecutors’ excesses and redress their wrongdoing, aspects of prosecutors’ conduct can be regulated externally as well. One potential source of external regulation is professional discipline. As lawyers, prosecutors are regulated by state courts, which oversee processes for disciplining lawyers who engage in misconduct. In responding to prosecutors’ wrongdoing, courts generally express a preference for professional discipline over civil liability, which is limited by principles of absolute and qualified immunity. Likewise, courts favor professional discipline over adjudicatory remedies such as reversal of criminal convictions or suppression …
Mediation, Legal Clinic Program
Mediation, Legal Clinic Program
Course Descriptions and Information
Students will learn and develop skills crucial to the role of mediators and legal professionals. By focusing and implementing mediation methodologies, students will learn skills of active listening and communications; conflict, issue and interests spotting, information gathering and negotiations techniques; problem-solving strategies and approaches; and effective mediation settlement agreement drafting.
The Prosecutor's Duty To "Imperfect" Rape Victims, Tamara Rice Lave
The Prosecutor's Duty To "Imperfect" Rape Victims, Tamara Rice Lave
Articles
No abstract provided.
Ethical Challenges Of Using Law Student Interns/Externs To Expand Services To Low-Income Older Adults, Eleanor Lanier
Ethical Challenges Of Using Law Student Interns/Externs To Expand Services To Low-Income Older Adults, Eleanor Lanier
Scholarly Works
No abstract provided.
A Critical Assessment Of The Model Standards Of Conduct For Mediators (2005): Call For Reform, Omer Shapira
A Critical Assessment Of The Model Standards Of Conduct For Mediators (2005): Call For Reform, Omer Shapira
Marquette Law Review
Over the years, commentators have raised concerns about some aspects of the Model Standards, for example, their failure to adequately guide mediators in situations of competing values, and the vagueness of their substantive provisions. No work to date has exposed the Model Standards to a systematic and comprehensive assessment, which is necessary for an evaluation of their adequacy as a coherent statement of the fundamental ethical guidelines for mediators, and for the development of a viable alternative to them. Ten years after the adoption of the revised Model Standards in 2005, this Article comes to fill the gap in the …
Peer Review: Navigating Uncertainty In The United States Jury System, Anna Offit
Peer Review: Navigating Uncertainty In The United States Jury System, Anna Offit
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
This Article examines American prosecutors’ approaches to uncertainty during voir dire. At different points during trial preparation— and during jury selection itself—lawyers draw on multiple interpretive systems to make sense of ordinary citizens. Taking Assistant United States Attorneys in a federal jurisdiction in the Northeast United States as a case study, and drawing on ethnographic research, I focus on three systems prosecutors alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) use to evaluate jurors: (1) probabilistic and evaluative analogies, (2) juror-types generated from the details of criminal cases, and (3) local knowledge stemming from prosecutors’ relationships and experiences outside of the courtroom. I show …
Friend Request Denied: Judicial Ethics And Social Media, Shaziah Singh
Friend Request Denied: Judicial Ethics And Social Media, Shaziah Singh
Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet
"Social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have revolutionized our social lives and dominate the way we communicate with each other. Whether it comes to personal or professional use, social media platforms come with a multitude of complications. What to post, whom to “friend,” whom to share information with, and what job updates to share are just some of the problems social media users face daily. These complications are only multiplied for judges. A judge’s unique position to influence makes what constitutes acceptable social media usage much more complex. With almost 1.5 billion users on Facebook and 300 …
Domestic Violence And The Politics Of Self-Help, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
Domestic Violence And The Politics Of Self-Help, Elizabeth L. Macdowell
Scholarly Works
Self-help programs are conceptualized as alternatives to attorney representation that can help both courts and unrepresented litigants. The rhetoric of self-help also typically includes empowering unrepresented individuals to help themselves. But how do self-help programs respond to litigants’ efforts at self-advocacy? This Article reports findings from a study of courthouse self-help programs assisting unrepresented litigants applying for protection orders. The central finding is that self-help staff members were not neutral in the provision of services despite a professed ethic of neutrality. Using the sociological concept of demeanor, this Article shows that staff members rewarded protection order applicants who conformed to …
The Ethics Of Non-Traditional Contract Drafting, Lori D. Johnson
The Ethics Of Non-Traditional Contract Drafting, Lori D. Johnson
Scholarly Works
A new generation of contract drafters faces increasing commentary advising them to change traditional contract terms into plain language constructions. Yet, traditional, tested terms have consistent meanings, and when these meanings benefit client objectives, advocates should consider retaining them. This article posits that failing to do so can impact a lawyer’s ethical obligations. Specifically, an attorney’s duties of competence, allocation of authority, diligence, and communication under the Model Rules of Professional Conduct require careful thought about modernizing tested contract terms. These duties require the ethical drafter to research whether the use of a traditional, tested term advances a client goal …
The House Edge: On Gambling And Professional Discipline, Stacey A. Tovino
The House Edge: On Gambling And Professional Discipline, Stacey A. Tovino
Scholarly Works
On March 26, 2014, the Iowa Supreme Court revoked the license to practice law of Cedar Rapids attorney Susan Hense. Admitted to the Iowa Bar in 1996, Hense subsequently misappropriated $837,000 in client trust funds to feed her addiction to casino gambling. This Article assesses how attorneys like Hense who are addicted to gambling are treated in professional disciplinary actions, including license suspension, revocation, and reinstatement proceedings. Themes that emerge include public misunderstanding of gambling disorder, stigma against individuals with gambling disorder, statutory recognition of substance addictions but not behavioral addictions, and mandatory attendance at religion based fellowship meetings as …
Applied Ethics: A Misnomer For A Field?, Leslie Francis
Applied Ethics: A Misnomer For A Field?, Leslie Francis
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
You may have guessed that I’m a pragmatist, methodologically. To that, I plead guilty; I think ethics could learn a great deal from the pragmatist tradition. And one of the most important things it could learn is to object to artificial separations between “ethics” and its “application.”
The Legal And Medical Ethical Entanglements Of Infant Male Circumcision And International Law, Paul Mclaughlin
The Legal And Medical Ethical Entanglements Of Infant Male Circumcision And International Law, Paul Mclaughlin
Scholarly Works
The practice of infant male circumcision has been debated by legal and medical experts for years. The practice, once seen as a social norm, has come under opposition by children’s rights, legal, and medical organisations around the world. In order to meet the requirements of international treaty law and allow infant male children the fullest opportunity for self determination, infant male circumcision must be treated under the law and by medical practitioners with the same degree of opposition that female genital mutilation has received.
The Rule Of Law And Ethical Integrity: Does Haiti Need A Code Of Legal Ethics?, Kate Bloch, Roxanne Edmond-Dimanche
The Rule Of Law And Ethical Integrity: Does Haiti Need A Code Of Legal Ethics?, Kate Bloch, Roxanne Edmond-Dimanche
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Cross-Cultural Challenges, Consensus, And Opportunities For Advancing The Professional Ethical Integrity Of Legal System Actors, Rory Little
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Bridging Rule Of Law Theory And Implementation: The Role Of Professional Ethical Integrity,, Kate Bloch
Bridging Rule Of Law Theory And Implementation: The Role Of Professional Ethical Integrity,, Kate Bloch
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Liberty And Justice For All? : Ethics In The American Criminal Justice System, Haley Hasenstein
Liberty And Justice For All? : Ethics In The American Criminal Justice System, Haley Hasenstein
Honors Program Theses
The American Bar Association (ABA) claims a commitment to ethics for all that fall under its jurisdiction. As a part of the Bar Exam that lawyers must take to join the Association they are issued a character and fitness test, where some prior misbehavior may disqualify an individual from becoming barred. “Miscarriages of justice” is a common theme among literature about lawyers in the criminal justice system. In this study I will shed light on some of the ethical discrepancies in the legal profession’s values and practice. This study focuses on criminal lawyers’ experiences with personal ethics as well as …
In Memory Of Monroe Freedman: The Hardest Question For A Prosecutor, Bennett L. Gershman
In Memory Of Monroe Freedman: The Hardest Question For A Prosecutor, Bennett L. Gershman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
I’ve chosen to honor Monroe Freedman’s iconic essay on the hardest questions for a criminal defense attorney by posing the same question for prosecutors. What is the hardest question for a prosecutor? This in itself is a hard question. The thousands of federal, state, and local prosecutors in the country would likely give widely varying responses – discretionary charging, immunity grants, bargained pleas, unreliable witnesses, police testimony, and disclosure duties, for starters. Too, prosecutors are not a generic group. Just as some defense lawyers might recoil or be indifferent to Freedman’s provocative thesis, so might many prosecutors reject or be …
Section 276 Misconstrued: The Failure To Properly Interpret And Apply Canada's Rape Shield Provisions, Elaine Craig
Section 276 Misconstrued: The Failure To Properly Interpret And Apply Canada's Rape Shield Provisions, Elaine Craig
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Despite the vintage of Canada’s rape shield provisions (which in their current manifestation have been in force since 1992), some trial judges continue to misinterpret and/or misapply the Criminal Code provisions limiting the use of evidence of a sexual assault complainant’s other sexual activity. These errors seem to flow from a combination of factors including a general misunderstanding on the part of some trial judges as to what section 276 requires and a failure on the part of some trial judges to properly identify, and fully remove, problematic assumptions about sex and gender from their analytical approach to the use …
Legal And Medical Ethical Entanglements Of Infant Male Circumcision And International Law, Paul Mclaughlin
Legal And Medical Ethical Entanglements Of Infant Male Circumcision And International Law, Paul Mclaughlin
Law Library Faculty Scholarship
Recommended citation: Paul Jerome McLaughlin, Jr., Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2016, pp. 23-38 (16).
The practice of infant male circumcision has been debated by legal and medical experts for years. The practice, once seen as a social norm, has come under opposition by children’s rights, legal, and medical organizations around the world. In order to meet the requirements of international treaty law and allow infant male children the fullest opportunity for self determination, infant male circumcision must be treated under the law and by medical practitioners with the same degree of opposition that …
Bend Or Break: Enhancing The Responsibilities Of Law Societies To Promote Access To Justice, Richard Devlin Frsc
Bend Or Break: Enhancing The Responsibilities Of Law Societies To Promote Access To Justice, Richard Devlin Frsc
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
There now appears to be a consensus in Canada that we have a serious access to justice problem. Chief Justices have been vocal. The Governor-General has made an intervention. Legal newspapers and websites have weekly, if not daily, stories on access to justice concerns. There have been several thorough reports which both detail the problems and propose possible paths forward. And one CEO of a national law firm has lamented that “access to justice is the legal profession’s equivalent of global warming.”
However, in my opinion, despite all this alarm, attention, and progress, two key components tend to be missing …
Big Data And The Future For Privacy, Neil M. Richards, Jonathan H. King
Big Data And The Future For Privacy, Neil M. Richards, Jonathan H. King
Scholarship@WashULaw
In our inevitable big data future, critics and skeptics argue that privacy will have no place. We disagree. When properly understood, privacy rules will be an essential and valuable part of our digital future, especially if we wish to retain the human values on which our political, social, and economic institutions have been built. In this paper, we make three simple points. First, we need to think differently about "privacy." Privacy is not merely about keeping secrets, but about the rules we use to regulate information, which is and always has been in intermediate states between totally secret and known …
The Ethical Identity Of Sexual Assault Lawyers, Elaine Craig
The Ethical Identity Of Sexual Assault Lawyers, Elaine Craig
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Despite progressive law reforms, sexual assault complainants continue to experience the criminal justice response to the violations that they have suffered as unsatisfactory, if not traumatic. One emerging response to this dilemma involves greater consideration of the ethical boundaries imposed on lawyers that practice sexual assault law. What is the relationship between a criminal lawyer’s ethical duties and the reforms to the law of sexual assault in Canada? How do lawyers themselves understand the ethical limits imposed on their conduct of a sexual assault case? How do lawyers that practice in this area of law comprehend their role in the …
The Ethics Of Inter Partes Review Before The Uspto., Dorian Ojemen
The Ethics Of Inter Partes Review Before The Uspto., Dorian Ojemen
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Resolving The Ri Grande (Rio Bravo) Water Dispute., Ruben R. Barrera, Dan A. Naranjo
Bridge Over Troubled Waters: Resolving The Ri Grande (Rio Bravo) Water Dispute., Ruben R. Barrera, Dan A. Naranjo
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Ford V. State: Texas Forces A Resolution In The Cell Site Location Information Debate., Brandon J. Grable
Ford V. State: Texas Forces A Resolution In The Cell Site Location Information Debate., Brandon J. Grable
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
Suppressing The Truth: States' Purposeful Violation Of The Right Of No Cruel Or Unreal Punishment In Lethal Injection Executions., Nadine G. Rodriguez
Suppressing The Truth: States' Purposeful Violation Of The Right Of No Cruel Or Unreal Punishment In Lethal Injection Executions., Nadine G. Rodriguez
St. Mary's Law Journal
Abstract Forthcoming.
The Dilemma Of Interpreting Rules Of Civil Procedure: A Proposal For Elastic Formalism., L. Wayne Scott
The Dilemma Of Interpreting Rules Of Civil Procedure: A Proposal For Elastic Formalism., L. Wayne Scott
St. Mary's Law Journal
When lawyers are well prepared, know the law, present the law, and have it ignored by judges who interpret the law in their own way, it can be frustrating. When courts publish opinions embodying this attitude, students, too, become frustrated or conclude that the law is whatever judges decide it should be. This Article does not focus on unethical judges who decide cases with wrong motives but, rather, it focuses on ethical judges who are faced with “hard” cases and have the dilemma of deciding the case, either by the rule or by the judge’s concept of fairness. In both …
Texas's Excessive Demand Doctrine Impacts Recoveries In Litigation., Stephanie M. Green
Texas's Excessive Demand Doctrine Impacts Recoveries In Litigation., Stephanie M. Green
St. Mary's Law Journal
A party demanding money they are not entitled to becomes subject to the excessive demand doctrine. Because the excessive demand doctrine is an affirmative defense, a defending party must allege its claim of excessive demand in its pleadings. A party must “plead it, prove it, and obtain findings of fact on its essential elements.” To obtain findings on the issue, both the pleadings and the evidence are required to put a question or instruction before the jury. Ensuring that the evidence is enough depends upon the trial court—whose judgment will only be overturned upon a showing of an abuse of …