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Just Being A Lawyer: Reflections On The Legal Ethics Of A President Under Impeachment, John A. Humbach Jan 2001

Just Being A Lawyer: Reflections On The Legal Ethics Of A President Under Impeachment, John A. Humbach

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

The core vice that Posner finds in Clinton’s efforts to contain the truth of the Lewinsky affair is very similar to a fault the public perceives in the behavior of lawyers generally. Namely, lawyers often try to obscure or distract from factual truth order to prevent the law from applying as intended. Most of this avoidance behavior is technically lawful because, for pragmatic reasons, allowances for such avoidance have been deliberately built into the criminal laws against perjury, obstruction of justice and the like. These allowances are a compromise that the law makes with morals so its criminal prohibitions will …


Review Of "Trying Cases: A Life In The Law" By Haliburtan Fales Ii, Jay C. Carlisle Jan 1999

Review Of "Trying Cases: A Life In The Law" By Haliburtan Fales Ii, Jay C. Carlisle

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Kanter On Hiring: A Lawyer's Guide To Lawyer Hiring, Gary A. Munneke Jan 1984

Review Of Kanter On Hiring: A Lawyer's Guide To Lawyer Hiring, Gary A. Munneke

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

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