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The Law As Bard: Extolling A Culture's Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, And Telling Its Story, Adam J. Macleod
The Law As Bard: Extolling A Culture's Virtues, Exposing Its Vices, And Telling Its Story, Adam J. Macleod
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Before literacy rates in the English speaking world reached their apex (and long before they dropped into the trough they are now thought to occupy), before we commoners read newspapers (and long before we wrote blogs), before autobiographies crowded book shelves (and long before reality television created celebrities out of rather mean raw material), our cultural forebears appointed a rather singular individual to preserve for their children a record of their values, rituals, institutions, and assumptions: the bard.
The bard told stories. But the bard didn't tell just any stories. The bard told stories drawn from the fabric of which …
The Importance Of An Independent Bar, Stephen A. Saltzburg
The Importance Of An Independent Bar, Stephen A. Saltzburg
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This paper, presented at International Bar Association's 10th Transnational Crime Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 9, 2007 begins from the premise that, as the world becomes more complex and therefore more dangerous, governments seek to limit individual rights in the name of crime control and/or national security. The paper cautions that we must always keep in mind that individual rights once lost are not easily regained. Accordingly, the unique and important role of an independent bar in protecting and defending liberty is more, not less, important than ever before. Thus, the efforts of the lawyers, military and civilian, to …