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Focusing Your Firm On Ethics, Alex B. Long

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Relinquished Responsibilities, Penny White

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The World's Richest Indian: The Scandal Over Jackson Barnett's Oil Fortune, Iris Goodwin

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The Ethics Of Blawging: A Genre Analysis, Judy Cornett

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Lawyers are blogging. As of October 16, 2009, the website Blawg.com tracked 2,788 legal blogs ("blawgs"). Another blawg directory compiled 4,622 blawgs in 69 substantive categories. When lawyers communicate, by whatever medium, ethical dilemmas arise; when lawyers blog, ethical dilemmas arise that are unique to blogging. The most visible ethical debate inspired by this new genre is the issue of whether to treat a lawyer's blog as advertising. Surprisingly, given the popularity of blawging, there are few resources addressing the full range of its ethical ramifications. This Article applies genre theory to blawging in order to highlight certain characteristics of …

Using Judicial Performance Evaluations To Supplement Inappropriate Voter Cues And Enhance Judicial Legitimacy, Penny White

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Regulation And Reform Of The Mortgage Market And The Nature Of Mortgage Loans: Lessons From Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac, Thomas E. Plank

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Treated Differently In Life But Not In Death: The Execution Of The Intellectually Disabled After Atkins V. Virginia, Penny White

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Faithful Hermeneutics, Francis J. Mootz Iii

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This article was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Law Schools on January 9, 2009 as part of a panel on "Scriptural and Constitutional Hermeneutics." The panel was co-sponsored by the Law and Religion Section, Section on Jewish Law, and Section on Islamic Law, and the papers will be published by the Michigan State Law Review.

My article compares legal and religious hermeneutics by exploring the dual nature of what I term "faithful hermeneutics." The ambiguity evoked by this phrase is intentional. On one hand, it suggests an investigation of the relationship between legal and religious …

Teaching Problem-Solving And Preventive Law Skills Through International Labour And Employment Law, Ruben J. Garcia

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This essay describes how problem-solving and preventive law principles apply in the teaching of international labor and employment law. This is because the subject itself crosses disciplinary and geographical boundaries. Students are taught about the importance of the lawyer's role as a counselor, rather than simply a litigator, which is at the center of the model of the lawyer as a problem solver.

Attorney-Client Fee Agreements That Offend Public Policy, Alex B. Long

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Under traditional contract law principles, an agreement may be deemed unenforceable because it so clearly offends established public policy that recovery under the contract is inappropriate. In such cases, there has traditionally been a presumption against permitting the offending party to recover, either under the contract or in quantum meruit. Yet, the legal profession (through the Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers) and the courts (through their decisions) have effectively reversed that presumption and have announced a general rule in favor of permitting lawyers to recover fees even when their fee agreements clearly offend well-established and strong public policy. Moreover, …

Pedagogic Techniques: Multi-Disciplinary Courses, Annotated Document Review, Collaborative Work & Large Groups, George Kuney

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Protecting A Business Entity Client From Itself Through Loyal Disclosure, Paula Schaefer

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Introduction To The Special Report, George Kuney

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