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Lawyer-Client Confidentiality: Rethinking The Trilemma, Monroe H. Freedman
Lawyer-Client Confidentiality: Rethinking The Trilemma, Monroe H. Freedman
Hofstra Law Review
The article discusses three ethical obligations which bear on attorney-client confidentiality in America in cases involving client perjury as of 2015, and it mentions how U.S. lawyers are required to learn as much as they can about their clients' cases, inform their clients of a lawyer's obligation to keep information confidential, and reveal confidential information to a court if an attorney knows that a client has committed perjury. The American Bar Association's ethical rules are examined.
The Curious Exclusion Of Corporations From The Privileges And Immunites Clause Of Article Iv, Stewart Jay
The Curious Exclusion Of Corporations From The Privileges And Immunites Clause Of Article Iv, Stewart Jay
Hofstra Law Review
Since the mid-nineteenth century, courts consistently have held that corporations cannot be citizens for purposes of the Privileges and Immunities Clause of Article I of the U.S. Constitution. Judges reasoned that because corporations were not humans, they were unable to be “citizens” eligible for the clause’s protection against discriminatory treatment by states. Yet the Supreme Court also held that corporations were citizens for purposes of federal judicial jurisdiction, as well as “persons” under the Fourteenth Amendment. Extending these constitutional protections to corporations is based on the idea that businesses are owned by actual people who are harmed when their companies …
Families Now: What We Don't Know Is Hurting Us, Judith T. Younger
Families Now: What We Don't Know Is Hurting Us, Judith T. Younger
Hofstra Law Review
No abstract provided.
The Gender Gap On The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias
The Gender Gap On The Federal Bench, Carl Tobias
Hofstra Law Review
No abstract provided.