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Presidential Ethics: Should A Law Degree Make A Difference?, Nancy B. Rapoport
Presidential Ethics: Should A Law Degree Make A Difference?, Nancy B. Rapoport
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Two of the nation's most controversial presidents, Nixon and Clinton, were both lawyers, and both of them had ethics-related problems while in office. This essay reviews whether any model ethics rules force lawyer-presidents to behave at a higher standard than non-lawyer-presidents; then it discusses the implications for legal education if we really do want lawyers to go above and beyond the norm of behavior.
Everything I Need To Know About Presidents I Learned From Dr. Seuss, Gary S. Lawson
Everything I Need To Know About Presidents I Learned From Dr. Seuss, Gary S. Lawson
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Oaths are out of fashion these days. This is an era in which it is widely considered unreasonable to expect the President of the United States to obey basic principles of law and justice, much less to honor something as abstract as an oath. Perjury the violation of a legally binding oath-is publicly defended as proof of the offender's humanity rather than his criminality. And one should not even mention in polite company something as gauche as honoring an oath of marriage. Those pesky vows of marital fidelity were, after all, just words.