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Electronic Social Media: Friend Or Foe For Judges, M. Sue Kurita Oct 2017

Electronic Social Media: Friend Or Foe For Judges, M. Sue Kurita

St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics

The use of electronic social communication has grown at a phenomenal rate. Facebook, the most popular social networking website, has over 1,968,000,000 users—a number that has exponentially grown since its inception in 2004. The number of judges accessing and using electronic social media (ESM) has also increased. However, unlike the general population, judges must consider constitutional, ethical, technical, and evidentiary implications when they use and access ESM. The First Amendment forbids “abridging the freedom of speech” and protects the expression of personal ideas, positions, and views. However, the American Bar Association’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct and the Texas Code …

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The First Thing We Do, Jorge R. Roig Dec 2013

The First Thing We Do, Jorge R. Roig

Jorge R Roig

There is currently a concerted effort to dumb down America. In the midst of this, the American Bar Association’s Council of the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar recently agreed to propose that tenure for law professors be eliminated as a requirement for accreditation of law schools. This article analyzes the arguments for and against tenure in legal academia, and concludes that the main proposed justifications for eliminating tenure are highly questionable, at best. A lawyer is more than a legal technocrat. Lawyers are policy makers and public defenders. They are prosecutors and activists. And the development …

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Crisis In The Legal Profession: Don’T Mourn, Organize!, Michael E. Tigar Jan 2011

Crisis In The Legal Profession: Don’T Mourn, Organize!, Michael E. Tigar

Faculty Scholarship

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“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel Apr 2002

“Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic On Negative And Positive Liberty In Hate-Speech Cases, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Lawyers, Please Check Your First Amendment Rights At The Bar: The Problem Of State-Mandated Bar Dues And Compelled Speech, James B. Lake Sep 1993

Lawyers, Please Check Your First Amendment Rights At The Bar: The Problem Of State-Mandated Bar Dues And Compelled Speech, James B. Lake

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Gentile V. State Bar Of Nevada: Trial In The Court Of Public Opinion And Coping With Model Rule 3.6 - Where Do We Go From Here, Lynn S. Fulstone Jan 1992

Gentile V. State Bar Of Nevada: Trial In The Court Of Public Opinion And Coping With Model Rule 3.6 - Where Do We Go From Here, Lynn S. Fulstone

Villanova Law Review

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