Legal Ethics And Canada's Military Lawyers,
2019
Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
Legal Ethics And Canada's Military Lawyers, Andrew Martin
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
English Abstract: Military lawyers—lawyers who are legal officers in the Canadian Forces— are virtually ignored in the Canadian legal literature. This article assesses what appear to be the most striking potential legal ethics issues facing military lawyers. Several of these issues arise because military lawyers are both lawyers and military officers at the same time, and therefore face two sets of obligations that interact in complex ways. Some issues, however, arise because of the special practice contexts of military lawyers, for example, advising military commanders on the law of armed conflict. As context for this discussion, the article examines the …
Who Is The Client? Rethinking Professional Responsibility For Benefit Corporations,
2019
American University Washington College of Law
Who Is The Client? Rethinking Professional Responsibility For Benefit Corporations, Joseph Pileri
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
A growing social enterprise movement has led companies to increasingly opt into the benefit corporation form, and those companies are hiring lawyers. Benefit corporations challenge the notion that corporate law’s primary focus is on furthering shareholder interests. While many have written about the benefit corporation with respect to corporate fiduciary law, this Article is the first to explore the form’s ethical implications for lawyers. Ethical obligations necessarily reflect substantive law governing client organizations; changes to the corporate form presented by benefit corporation legislation should reverberate in legal ethics. The legal profession, however, has not addressed how to lawyer to a …
Perjury By Omission,
2019
American University Washington College of Law
Perjury By Omission, Ira P. Robbins
Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals
“Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?” There are few legal phrases that the layperson can repeat verbatim; this is one of them. But how many people truly understand the nuances and ramifications of testifying under oath? Many assume that if they do not provide the “whole truth” under oath, they will face a perjury charge. However, perjury is a charge often threatened but rarely used. The offense requires that the defendant willfully and knowingly make a false statement, under oath, regarding a material fact.
The federal perjury statute does not contemplate …
Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship In State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs And The Need For Transparency,
2019
New York Law School
Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship In State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs And The Need For Transparency, Lisa Grumet
Articles & Chapters
In all fifty states, the State Attorney General (SAG) — as the state’s chief legal officer — is charged with defending state laws that are challenged in court. If an SAG declines to defend or challenges a state law on the ground that it is unconstitutional — an action scholars describe as “nondefense” — the SAG ordinarily will disclose this decision to the public.
This Essay discusses a hidden form of nondefense that can occur when SAGs file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of their states in matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Surprisingly, some SAGs have joined multistate amicus …
Law Is Not Enough,
2019
Texas A&M University School of Law
Law Is Not Enough, Neil S. Siegel
Faculty Scholarship
In this Carhart Memorial Lecture, Professor Neil Siegel seeks to explain why, over the past several years, many Americans of diverse ideological commitments have been emphasizing the importance of constitutional norms. It is because they understand that law is not enough to sustain the American constitutional project. Why is law not enough? Because the vitally important purposes that Americans ascribe to the U.S. Constitution require more than legal fidelity for their vindication. Constitutional norms are constitutional in the sense that they are closely tied to the purposes, or spirit, of the Constitution. They are constitutional in the sense that it …
Please Tweet Responsibly: The Social And Professional Ethics Of Public Defenders Using Client Information In Social Media Advocacy,
2019
Columbia Law School
Please Tweet Responsibly: The Social And Professional Ethics Of Public Defenders Using Client Information In Social Media Advocacy, Nicole Smith Futrell
Faculty Scholarship
Every day the criminal legal system hauls poor and marginalized individuals through a process wrought with trauma, indignity, and abuse. Public defenders representing the criminally accused view their clients and the system from a unique vantage point: they bear witness to the human costs of a system that falls far short of its purported norms and ideals. For the public defender who works within this reality day in and day out, fighting for each individual client might feel limited in its wider impact. Some public defenders have found that using online and social media platforms, such as Twitter, to provide …
The Problem Of The Faithless Principal: Fiduciary Theory And The Capacities Of Clients,
2019
Cornell University Law School
The Problem Of The Faithless Principal: Fiduciary Theory And The Capacities Of Clients, W. Bradley Wendel
Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)
Philosophers sometimes criticize the lawyer-client relationship for rendering the lawyer “at best systematically amoral.” Legal ethics theorists typically analyze the lawyer-client relationship in terms of role-differentiation or a separation of public and private moralities. But if we concentrate instead on the allocation of responsibility for decisionmaking within a fiduciary relationship, the idea of differentiation or separation of moral spheres falls away somewhat . This Article considers two issues raised by the allocation of moral responsibility within the lawyer-client relationship. First, why should the agency structure of the lawyer-client relationship, with its associated fiduciary duties, do anything to affect the moral …
Special Counsel Investigations And Legal Ethics: The Role Of Secret Taping,
2019
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
Special Counsel Investigations And Legal Ethics: The Role Of Secret Taping, Peter A. Joy
Scholarship@WashULaw
In July 2016, Michael Cohen, then presidential candidate Donald Trump’s lawyer, secretly recorded Trump discussing how they would use the publisher for the National Enquirer to purchase former Playboy model Karen McDougal’s story about an alleged affair with Trump in order to stop it from becoming public before the 2016 presidential election. The National Enquirer’s publisher purchased McDougal’s story in August 2016. In a similar move to quash another alleged affair from going public in October 2016, Cohen set up a corporation to purchase adult film star Stormy Daniels’s story of her affair with Trump. Trump was elected President in …
Surrogacy, Child’S Welfare, And Public Policy In Adoption Applications,
2019
Singapore Management University
Surrogacy, Child’S Welfare, And Public Policy In Adoption Applications, Seow Hon Tan
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
This case note discusses the Singapore High Court case of UKM, in which an order was granted to a gay man to adopt his biological son conceived through a gestational surrogacy arrangement in the United States. In particular, the High Court’s assessment of the welfare of the child and of public policy, in light of two factors—the prohibition of male homosexual acts in section 377A of the Penal Code and the de facto curtailment of domestic surrogacy by Singapore’s restrictive rules relating to the use of assisted reproduction technology services—will be examined.
Immunity Incorporated: All The Injustice That Jeffrey Epstein Can Buy,
2019
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Immunity Incorporated: All The Injustice That Jeffrey Epstein Can Buy, Janice G. Raymond
Dignity: A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
No abstract provided.
Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism,
2019
University of Colorado Law School
Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
Publications
Mindfulness involves paying attention with curiosity in an intentional, open, and compassionate way to life as it unfolds moment to moment. Law students, lawyers, law professors, legal clients, and indeed all people can improve their lives through mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead to individual benefits and personal transformation. Mindfulness can also lead to societal benefits and social change. This invited symposium contribution exemplifies how mindfulness can facilitate the positive personal and professional development of law students by presenting excerpts of law students’ answers discussing mindfulness to questions from the final examination of the course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Notably, none of …
Prosecuting In The Shadow Of The Jury,
2019
William & Mary Law School
Prosecuting In The Shadow Of The Jury, Anna Offit
Faculty Publications
This Article offers an unprecedented empirical window into prosecutorial discretion, drawing on research between 2013 and 2017. The central finding is that jurors play a vital role in federal prosecutors' decision-making, professional identities, and formulations of justice. This is because even the remote possibility of lay scrutiny creates an opening for prosecutors to make commonsense assessments of (1) the evidence in their cases, (2) the character of witnesses, defendants, and victims, and (3) their own moral and professional character as public servants. By facilitating explicit consideration of the fairness of their cases from a public vantage point, I argue that …
Professionally Responsible Artificial Intelligence,
2019
University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Professionally Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Michael Hatfield
Articles
As artificial intelligence (AI) developers produce more applications for professional use, how will we determine when the use is professionally responsible? One way to answer the question is to determine whether the AI augments the professional’s intelligence or whether it is used as a substitute for it. To augment the professional’s intelligence would be to make it greater, that is, to increase and improve the professional’s expertise. But a professional who substitutes artificial intelligence for his or her own puts both the professional role and the client at risk. The problem is developing guidance that encourages professionals to use AI …
Required, Permissible, And Impermissible Forms Of Federal Judicial Assistance To Self-Represented Litigants: Toward Establishment Of A Judicial Duty Of Reasonable Assistance,
2019
Loyola University Chicago
Required, Permissible, And Impermissible Forms Of Federal Judicial Assistance To Self-Represented Litigants: Toward Establishment Of A Judicial Duty Of Reasonable Assistance, Jona Goldschmidt
Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights & Social Justice
The article examines the evolving role of judicial assistance to self-represented litigants (SRLs) in federal courts, arguing that while the Supreme Court has maintained a strict no-assistance policy, lower courts have increasingly recognized the need for accommodations to ensure fair trials. The author advocates for a more consistent and expansive approach to judicial assistance, aligning with due process and the constitutional right to self-representation, while emphasizing the importance of maintaining judicial impartiality.
The Three Ages Of Modern American Lawyering And The Current Crisis In The Legal Profession And Legal Education,
2019
Texas A&M University School of Law
The Three Ages Of Modern American Lawyering And The Current Crisis In The Legal Profession And Legal Education, Rachel F. Moran
Faculty Scholarship
During the first months of 2018, two short pieces on legal education were published. One reported on the results of a survey of college graduates, law school graduates, and holders of other advanced degrees. The study found that today’s law graduates were less likely than pre-recession counterparts to report that the J.D. degree was worth the cost and more likely to have second thoughts about the decision to go to law school. The findings prompted Aaron Taylor, executive director of the Access Lex Center for Legal Education Excellence, to conclude that there are “two distinct worlds of law graduates” made …
Judicial Impartiality In An Empirical Era,
2019
Boston University School of Law
Judicial Impartiality In An Empirical Era, Tigran W. Eldred
Faculty Scholarship
The psychological dimensions of judicial impartiality is a topic of considerable interest, with a growing body of scholarship focused on the reasons judges often are unable to perceive their own biases.1 The attention is not on why judges intentionally downplay factors that can undermine their own objectivity, but rather on the empirical reasons that everyone, judges included, tend to be unaware of the impact of their own biases. This “bias blind spot,”2 a product of a series of unconscious cognitive and motivational factors, is at the center of the discussion, with even the Supreme Court making passing reference …
Us Military Medical Ethics In The War On Terror,
2019
Boston University School of Law
Us Military Medical Ethics In The War On Terror, George J. Annas, Sondra S. Crosby
Faculty Scholarship
Military medical ethics has been challenged by the post-11 September 2001 ‘War on Terror’. Two recurrent questions are whether military physicians are officers first or physicians first, and whether military physicians need a separate code of ethics. In this article, we focus on how the War on Terror has affected the way we have addressed these questions since 2001. Two examples frame this discussion: the use of military physicians to force-feed hunger strikers held in Guantanamo Bay prison camp, and the uncertain fate of the Department of Defense’s report on ‘Ethical Guidelines and Practices for US Military …
A Common-Sense Defense Of Janus: Forthcoming Changes In The Public Sector,
2019
Boston University School of Law
A Common-Sense Defense Of Janus: Forthcoming Changes In The Public Sector, Maria O'Brien
Faculty Scholarship
Many scholars and others have, for some time now, been calling attention to the alarming growth in post-employment and other benefits for unionized employees in the public sector. 17 A fairly well-understood phenomenon is thought to explain the inability of state and local governments to resist outsized demands from their public unions. As 18 Is and others 19 have argued, the central problem with public sector unions is that they find it easy to capture their employers (taxpayers) in ways that private sector unions cannot. The role played by often eager and feckless elected officials in this process has also …
Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen Akibat Perjanjian Baku Dan Klausula Baku Pasca Keberlakuan Undang-Undang Nomor 21 Tahun 2011 Tentang Otoritas Jasa Keuangan,
2018
Faculty of Law Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Bandung
Penyelesaian Sengketa Konsumen Akibat Perjanjian Baku Dan Klausula Baku Pasca Keberlakuan Undang-Undang Nomor 21 Tahun 2011 Tentang Otoritas Jasa Keuangan, A. Dwi Rachmanto
Jurnal Hukum & Pembangunan
After the enactment of Act Number 11 of 2011 concerning the Financial Services Authority (UUOJK), there are 2 (two) of law that regulate the settlement of disputes between business actors and consumers. First, Act Number 8 of 1999 concerning Consumer Protection (UUPK), and the second Act Number 11 of 2011 concerning the Financial Services Authority (UUOJK). This paper will discuss and analyze the resolution of disputes between business actors and consumers after the enactment of Act Number 11 of 2011 concerning the Financial Services Authority by using jurudical normative/dogmatic approach. In the end of the article a number of conclusions …
The Curious Case Of Will Brooke,
2018
Cuny Graduate School of Journalism
The Curious Case Of Will Brooke, Adam Muro
Capstones
William Wade Brooke, an Alabama businessman with ties to state and national Republican Party politics and scandal, was for over one year a registered foreign agent working for the office of Saad Hariri, Prime Minister of Lebanon. He was the only registered lobbyist for Hariri while he was active, and stranger yet he stated on his Foreign Agent Registration Act forms that he was working for free. An investigation into his background and ties to Lebanon revealed that he lobbied for free in recognition of favors that Hariri did, and continues to do, for a christian missionary group Brooke is …
