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Client As Subject: Humanizing The Legal Curriculum, Eduardo R.C. Capulong

Faculty Law Review Articles

In this essay, I suggest that we create a distinct field of academic inquiry: clients, in particular subordinated clients. Rising to Professor L ´ opez’s challenge, I propose that we organize the disparate strands of practice and scholarship in this area and develop a theoretical framework by which to study them.4 I attempt a modest step in that direction here. After summarizing the current conception and treatment of clients in the legal curriculum, I harness and reconceive various strands of literature and weave them into one curricular model for client studies. We are well-familiar with the ways in which most …

Human Capital Discrimination, Law Firm Inequality, And The Limits Of Title Vii, Kevin Woodson

Cardozo Law Review

This Article advances the legal scholarship on workplace inequality through use of evidence derived from interviews of a sample of black attorneys who have worked in large, predominantly white law firms. It does so by calling attention to the manner in which these firms operate as sites of human capital discrimination-patterns of mistreatment that deprive many black associates of access to the substantive work opportunities crucial to their professional development and career advancement. This Article identifies the specific arrangements and practices within these firms that facilitate human capital discrimination and describes the varied, often subtle harms and burdens that they …

Moral Courage In Indigent Defense, Tigran W. Eldred

Faculty Scholarship

In this essay, I take a different perspective, one that focuses on why people are able to act ethically despite pressures to do otherwise. Social science has convincingly demonstrated that the power of the situation can exert significant influence over individual behavior, thus undermining the claim that only “bad” people engage in unethical conduct.⁴ Yet, we know that there are individual differences to how people respond to ethical dilemmas, which raises a core question: why do some individuals act more ethically than others, even in similar situations?

To explore this question, I focus on a familiar domain from my …

2016 Distinguished Service Award Program

Distinguished Service Awards

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Newsroom: Johnson Wins 2nd Term As Mbwa President 09/28/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Vol. 51, No. 06 (September 26, 2016)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Roger Williams University School Of Law 17th Annual Law Alumni Scholarship Golf Tournament 09/25/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Trending @ Rwu Law: Professor Niki Kuckes's Post: Video Highlights Litigation Academy: September 20, 2016, Niki Kuckes

Law School Blogs

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Vol. 51, No. 05 (September 19, 2016)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Seeking Common Sense For The Common Law Of Common Interest In The D.C. Circuit, Jared S. Sunshine

Catholic University Law Review

Privilege law can be frustrated by the complexity of modern legal actions involving ramified enterprises engaging with their peers. To protect such allied parties cooperating in litigation or other legal matters, courts have innovated doctrines extending discovery protections to such postures under the names of co-client, joint defense, and common interest privilege. The niceties of these doctrines have proven unclear, however, particularly in the challenging situation of competing companies whose collusion or combinations must be monitored for antitrust concerns. Following a thorough overview of each doctrine and identifying how they overlap and differ, a focused examination of multi-party privilege law …

Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony, University Of Michigan Law School

Event Materials

Program for the Distinguished Alumni Award Ceremony honoring Mary Frances Berry.

Trending @ Rwu Law: Professor Cecily Banks's Post: Time To Teach Business: September 16, 2016, Cecily Banks

Law School Blogs

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Surviving The Storm 2016: Employee Benefit Compliance & Employment Law Update, George Thompson, Brooks R. Magratten, Mark A. Pogue, Kelli Viera, Cecily Banks, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Vol. 51, No. 04 (September 12, 2016)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Rwu's New 'Rising Tide' Of Educational Opportunity 9-8-2016, Roger Williams University

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

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Newsroom: A 'Rising Tide' Of Educational Opportunity 9/8/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Newsroom: Media Alert: Rwu To Showcase Expanding Urban Initiatives 9/6/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Vol. 51, No. 03 (September 5, 2016)

Indiana Law Annotated

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Peter Singer, Drowning Children, And Pro Bono, John M.A. Dipippa

West Virginia Law Review

This Article uses the ethicist Peter Singer's principles to examine and critique the legal profession's pro bono efforts in the face of the persistent gap between the public's legal needs and their ability to meet them. Singer argues that adults should jump into a pond to save a drowning child. Using the drowning child as an analogy, this Article argues that lawyers are morally obligated to (1) increase the amount of their pro bono efforts, (2) be more selective in the cases they take, and (3) be significantly more generous in their financial support for legal services providers. These obligations …

September 2016 Newsletter

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