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Rule Of Law(Yers), The, Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Rule Of Law(Yers), The, Robert F. Cochran Jr.
Missouri Law Review
In recent years, several lawyers and law professors have written books about the decline of ethical behavior in the legal profession.' They have found that lawyers are more adversarial, less civil, less honest, less concerned with justice, and less happy than in the past.2 Associates are less loyal to firms, and firms are less loyal to associates. 3 Many lawyers lament what the profession has become. They wonder whether they do a good thing. "Can I be a lawyer and a good person?" "Do lawyers add to the misery of the world?"
Kenneth Starr: Diabolically Evil?, Jeanne L. Schroeder, David G. Carlson
Kenneth Starr: Diabolically Evil?, Jeanne L. Schroeder, David G. Carlson
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Equality And Affiliation As Bases Of Ethical Responsibility, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
Equality And Affiliation As Bases Of Ethical Responsibility, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.
All Faculty Scholarship
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Review Of The Dark Side Of The Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism In America, Donald J. Herzog
Review Of The Dark Side Of The Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism In America, Donald J. Herzog
Reviews
In this elegantly written, provocative, and sometimes just plain provoking book, punctuated by bits of anguish and rather more pique, Richard Ellis worries that the American Left has been so passionate about equality that it has run roughshod over liberty. So put, the thesis is not exactly news. It has been the recurrent lament of conservative indictments- Tocqueville's is the canonical statement, but he has plenty of precursors and followers. And it has its scholarly variations, too, such as Arthur Lipow, Authoritarian Socialism in America: Edward Bellamy and the Nationalist Movement (1982). No profound surprises are on offer here.
Positivism And The Notion Of An Offense, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
Positivism And The Notion Of An Offense, Claire Oakes Finkelstein
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While the United States Supreme Court has developed an elaborate constitutional jurisprudence of criminal procedure, it has articulated few constitutional doctrines of the substantive criminal law. The asymmetry between substance and procedure seems natural given the demise of Lochner and the minimalist stance towards due process outside the area of fundamental rights. This Article, however, argues that the "positivistic" approach to defining criminal offenses stands in some tension with other basic principles, both constitutional and moral. In particular, two important constitutional guarantees depend on the notion of an offense: the presumption of innocence and the ban on double jeopardy. Under …
Linking The Visions, Donald H. Regan
Linking The Visions, Donald H. Regan
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In my case, which may be unusual, the importance of my non-law training and commitments is not in specific contributions they make to my work in law. Rather, it is in their contributions to my being me.