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Newsroom: 'Champions For Justice' Honored 12-19-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: 'Champions For Justice' Honored 12-19-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: "Getting Proximate": October 22, 2016, Michael Yelnosky
Trending @ Rwu Law: Dean Yelnosky's Post: "Getting Proximate": October 22, 2016, Michael Yelnosky
Law School Blogs
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Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa
Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa
Faculty Scholarship
This Article uses the ethicist Peter Singer's principles to examine and critique the legal profession's pro bono efforts in the face of the persistent gap between the public's legal needs and their ability to meet them. Singer argues that adults should jump into a pond to save a drowning child. Using the drowning child as an analogy, this Article argues that lawyers are morally obligated to (1)increase the amount of their pro bono efforts, (2) be more selective in the cases they take, and (3) be significantly more generous in their financial support for legal services providers. These obligations are …
Newsroom: Johnson Wins 2nd Term As Mbwa President 09/28/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Johnson Wins 2nd Term As Mbwa President 09/28/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Newsroom: Introducing Urban, Experiential Campus, 6-5-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Introducing Urban, Experiential Campus, 6-5-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Newsroom: Defending The Defenseless, 5-26-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Defending The Defenseless, 5-26-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Newsroom: Introducing Urban, Experiential Campus 04-05-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Introducing Urban, Experiential Campus 04-05-2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Trending @ Rwu Law: Brittani Mulholland's Post: Alternative Spring Break's Biggest Year Yet!: 03/04/2016, Brittani Mulholland
Trending @ Rwu Law: Brittani Mulholland's Post: Alternative Spring Break's Biggest Year Yet!: 03/04/2016, Brittani Mulholland
Law School Blogs
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Newsroom: 'Champions For Justice' Honored, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: 'Champions For Justice' Honored, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
No abstract provided.
Alternative Spring Break 2016 Report, Roger Williams University School Of Law, Association For Public Interest Law
Alternative Spring Break 2016 Report, Roger Williams University School Of Law, Association For Public Interest Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
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A Call To Cultivate The Public Interest: Beyond Pro Bono, Ann Juergens, Diane Galatowitsch
A Call To Cultivate The Public Interest: Beyond Pro Bono, Ann Juergens, Diane Galatowitsch
Faculty Scholarship
This essay asserts that incorporation of the public's interests in lawyers' daily work is an essential responsibility of the profession. The Preamble to the Model Rules of Professional Conduct frames this lawyers' duty as that of a "public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice." Yet the modem legal profession has reduced "public interest" practice to work that is done for no or almost no fee. The transformation of lawyer from public citizen to servant of mostly private interests has taken place over the last thirty-five years, following the legal profession's embrace of pro bono work by volunteer …