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The Judicial Prerogative, Thomas W. Merrill
The Judicial Prerogative, Thomas W. Merrill
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In John Locke's account of separation of powers, the executive is not limited to enforcing the rules laid down by the legislature. The chief magistrate also exercises the prerogative, a power "to act according to discretion for the public good, without the prescription of the law and sometimes even against it. "Locke explained that such a discretionary power is required because "it is impossible to foresee and so by laws to provide for all accidents and necessities that may concern the public, or make such laws as will do no harm, if they are executed with an inflexible rigor on …
The Third Man, Philip C. Bobbitt
The Third Man, Philip C. Bobbitt
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Sandy is a divided man. On the one hand he is captivated by the notion of the theoretical and the explanatory, an idea that has captivated all of us since the 17th century. For Descartes, for Newton, for Freud, for Marx, for Levinson: theory is the foundation for understanding, and understanding for practice. How do they calculate the attraction among the planets? They apply the inverse square law according to the theories of Newton. How does Freud cure his patients: he explains to them why they've been behaving so peculiarly; he does this by expositing his theory. How does Marx …
Towards Parity In Bar Passage Rates And Law School Performance: Exploring The Sources Of Disparities Between Racial And Ethnic Groups, Katherine L. Vaughns
Towards Parity In Bar Passage Rates And Law School Performance: Exploring The Sources Of Disparities Between Racial And Ethnic Groups, Katherine L. Vaughns
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No abstract provided.
The Whole Truth?: How Rules Of Evidence Make Lawyers Deceitful, Bruce A. Green
The Whole Truth?: How Rules Of Evidence Make Lawyers Deceitful, Bruce A. Green
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No abstract provided.
Voices Heard In Jury Argument: Litigation And The Law School Curriculum, Michael E. Tigar
Voices Heard In Jury Argument: Litigation And The Law School Curriculum, Michael E. Tigar
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No abstract provided.
Ethical Considerations For The Corporate Legal Counsel, Thomas B. Metzloff
Ethical Considerations For The Corporate Legal Counsel, Thomas B. Metzloff
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No abstract provided.
The Devolution Of The Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, Ronald J. Gilson
The Devolution Of The Legal Profession: A Demand Side Perspective, Ronald J. Gilson
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Economic analysis has not played a significant role in the increasingly intense debate over the decline of professionalism among lawyers.Economists' lack of interest in the issue may be understandable. The lawyers' lament is that the legal profession is devolving into the business of law. That this concern has not captured the economists' attention may reflect only that economists do not view the label "business" as a pejorative. If becoming a business means efficiently rendering an important service in a competitive environment, then of what is there to complain?
Lawyers, more directly concerned with maintaining their professional status, would find little …
"Portrait Of A Lady": The Woman Lawyer In The 1980s, Stacy Caplow, Shira A. Scheindlin
"Portrait Of A Lady": The Woman Lawyer In The 1980s, Stacy Caplow, Shira A. Scheindlin
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No abstract provided.
Doctors And Lawyers And Wolves, George J. Annas
Doctors And Lawyers And Wolves, George J. Annas
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Relations between lawyers and physicians, and therefore between law and medicine, are getting more and more destructive and counterproductive. It used to be a joke, but it's not funny anymore. We can't afford the continuing and escalating acrimony between our professions and it's time that we take constructive steps in the public interest to deal with it.
Practical Suggestions For Practicing Lawyers, Anita Bernstein
Practical Suggestions For Practicing Lawyers, Anita Bernstein
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Autopsy Of A Murder: Using Simulation To Teach First Year Criminal Law, Stacy Caplow
Autopsy Of A Murder: Using Simulation To Teach First Year Criminal Law, Stacy Caplow
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After Professional Virtue, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
After Professional Virtue, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
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Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role Developments, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley
Teaching Mediation As A Lawyering Role Developments, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley
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The growth of the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) movement has generated an increased interest in the study and practice of mediation as a nonadversarial method of conflict resolution. With mediation, individuals settle their disputes using a neutral third party who has no power to impose a settlement. Historically, mediation has been widely neglected in legal education, and-except for those involved in the labor field-lawyers have not practiced it. Recent gains in visibility have not necessarily resulted in widespread acceptance of mediation. In fact, mediation has even been openly resisted by some members of the legal profession.
Warrior Bards, Kevin Mccarthy, Michael E. Tigar
Warrior Bards, Kevin Mccarthy, Michael E. Tigar
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Coming Of Age In A Corporate Law Firm: The Economics Of Associate Career Patterns, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Coming Of Age In A Corporate Law Firm: The Economics Of Associate Career Patterns, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
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The traditional American corporate law firm, long an oasis of organizational stability, in recent years has been the subject of dramatic change. The manner in which firms divide profits, perhaps the most revealing aspect of law firm organization because it displays the balance the firm has selected between risk-sharing and incentives, has changed in a critical way. From a long standing reliance on seniority that emphasizes risk-sharing, profit division is shifting to a system based on the productivity of individual partners that emphasizes incentives. With what seems to be only a short time lag from the change in how profits …
Duty To The Target: Is An Attorney's Duty To The Corporation A Paradigm For Directors, Roberta S. Karmel
Duty To The Target: Is An Attorney's Duty To The Corporation A Paradigm For Directors, Roberta S. Karmel
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No abstract provided.
The Lawyer As Litigator In The 1980s, Mary Kay Kane
The Lawyer As Litigator In The 1980s, Mary Kay Kane
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Professional Qualification And Educational Requirements For Law Practice In A Foreign Country: Bridging The Cultural Gap, Roger J. Goebel
Professional Qualification And Educational Requirements For Law Practice In A Foreign Country: Bridging The Cultural Gap, Roger J. Goebel
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This Article will discuss preparation for transnational legal practice, and the extent of the right to engage in transnational legal practice in major commercial centers. It is divided into five parts: (I) the role of the transnational lawyer in bridging the cultural gap; (II) education in preparation for transnational practice; (III) professional qualification requirements for foreign lawyers in New York and several major commercial centers abroad; (IV) the extent of the lawyer's right to provide services and the right of professional establishment in the EEC; and (V) some general reflections on desirable qualification requirements for law firms and individuals to …
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
Original Understanding And The Constitution, Michael E. Tigar
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No abstract provided.
Of Carrots And Sticks: Evaluating The Role Of The Class Action Lawyer, Mary Kay Kane
Of Carrots And Sticks: Evaluating The Role Of The Class Action Lawyer, Mary Kay Kane
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No abstract provided.
To Whom Does The Government Lawyer Owe The Duty Of Loyalty When Clients Are In Conflict, William Josephson, Russell G. Pearce
To Whom Does The Government Lawyer Owe The Duty Of Loyalty When Clients Are In Conflict, William Josephson, Russell G. Pearce
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This Article focuses on the continuing debate on the ethical obligations of government lawyers: do government lawyers represent the people or do they represent a client? The Article explains that the dominant conception that government lawyers represent the people actually results in government lawyers representing themselves. After examining alternative approaches to determining the identity of the government lawyer’s client, the Article concludes that only one approach is consistent with both the ethical rules and our republican system of government. The government lawyer’s client properly understood is an elected official or, in certain cases, an agency head with legal authority independent …
Crime Talk, Rights Talk, And Double-Talk: Thoughts On Reading Encyclopedia Of Crime And Justice (Review Essay), Michael E. Tigar
Crime Talk, Rights Talk, And Double-Talk: Thoughts On Reading Encyclopedia Of Crime And Justice (Review Essay), Michael E. Tigar
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No abstract provided.
Legal Informality And Redistributive Politics, William H. Simon
Legal Informality And Redistributive Politics, William H. Simon
Faculty Scholarship
Until recently, one of the most consistent themes in both right and left critiques of the legal system has been the repudiation of procedural formality, that is, of specialized, rule-bound procedures. The left critique portrayed formality as facilitating the manipulation of the legal system by the privileged to the disadvantage of others. Both right and left critiques portrayed formality as expressing and fostering alienation and antagonism.
In recent years, however, attitudes toward formality on the left have become increasingly complex and ambivalent. This development may be partly a reaction to the rising prominence of a conservative rhetoric that links proposals …
Sharing Among The Human Capitalists: An Economic Inquiry Into The Corporate Law Firm And How Partners Split Profits, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
Sharing Among The Human Capitalists: An Economic Inquiry Into The Corporate Law Firm And How Partners Split Profits, Ronald J. Gilson, Robert H. Mnookin
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Large corporate law firms seem to be in a state of extraordinary flux. Success and failure are both on the rise. Large firms appear to supply a substantial and growing proportion of the legal services consumed by American business enterprises and to hire a significant fraction of the graduating classes of elite American law schools. Moreover, the last twenty years have witnessed a remarkable expansion in both the number of large firms and the absolute size of the biggest. But accompanying this striking success, there are also signs of serious institutional instability. During the last few years, several previously successful …
Lawyers, Politics, And The "Lawyers' Interest": An Historical Inquiry, James W. Gordon
Lawyers, Politics, And The "Lawyers' Interest": An Historical Inquiry, James W. Gordon
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The assumption that the occupational identification of "lawyer" is the salient feature in evaluating political motivation is interesting, if questionable, according to the Author. Does occupational identity overwhelm other identities? Are politically active lawyers really a homogeneous group? Are they less affected by competing identities associated with wealth, geography, familial and constituency concerns, political ideology, party considerations, or any of the myriad other sources of public and private motivation of behavior? Surely the hypothesis that politically active lawyers behave differently from nonlawyers is worth investigating. This Article offers some preliminary responses to these questions posed, which are grounded in empirical …
Why Lawyers Should Be Allowed To Advertise: A Market Analysis Of Legal Services , Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Russell G. Pearce, Jeffrey W. Stempel
Why Lawyers Should Be Allowed To Advertise: A Market Analysis Of Legal Services , Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., Russell G. Pearce, Jeffrey W. Stempel
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Last August, the American Bar Association adopted the Model Rules of Professional Conduct which significantly altered the ABA' position on lawyer advertising. It is still unclear how the states will respond to the ABA's new position, and the debate about the propriety of lawyer advertising continue. In the authors' view, both sides of the debate have overlooked an important point: For purposes of analyzing the advertising problem, legal services are of two types, and the effect of advertising on the legal services market will vary with the type of service involved."Individualized" services involve legal matters that pose a significant risk …
Arguing The Law: The Advocate's Duty And Opportunity, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Arguing The Law: The Advocate's Duty And Opportunity, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
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No abstract provided.
Introduction, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Court Appointment Of Attorneys In Civil Cases: The Constitutionality Of Uncompensated Legal Assistance Note, Bruce A. Green
Court Appointment Of Attorneys In Civil Cases: The Constitutionality Of Uncompensated Legal Assistance Note, Bruce A. Green
Faculty Scholarship
Whether an individual becomes a party to judicial proceeding involuntarily, as a criminal or civil defendant, or voluntarily, as a civil plaintiff seeking redress of an injury, the assistance of counsel will increase his chances for a favorable disposition. When an impecunious litigant is unable to retain counsel, the question arises of who must bear the burden created by the complexity of adjudication. Although the Supreme Court has been sympathetic to the need for counsel in criminal cases, an indigent litigant in civil cases often will be denied legal assistance, and therefore will bear the burden himself In other instances, …
An Identity Crisis For The Corporate Lawyer, Roberta S. Karmel
An Identity Crisis For The Corporate Lawyer, Roberta S. Karmel
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.