Volume 53, Issue 2

Just in the way he conducts himself every day, Ted serves as a role model to us all on conscientiousness, collegiality, and respect for others. If ever there was a…

Child advocacy groups argue with increasing force that children’s lawyers should function as traditional, client-directed attorneys. Consistent with this trend, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers recently revised its standards…

Despite its obvious importance to the content and legitimacy of a state’s rules of legal ethics, the process by which these rules are made has received little scholarly attention. This…

This Article compares networks of relationships among elite lawyers and other advocates found in research conducted over a period of more than thirty years in varying professional and political contexts.…

This Article chronicles the paradigmatic shift in legal ethics from a moral philosophical approach to a jurisprudential one. This Article critically examines the emerging uses of jurisprudential theory and argues…

This Article analyzes the continuing uncertainty surrounding the requirements of the Bankruptcy Code and state ethical codes with respect to a chapter 11 debtor’s retention of legal counsel. The Article…

This Article questions the traditional lawyer regulation regime that took shape when solo practice was the norm and its adequacy to promote ethical compliance in today’s law firms and other…

Since its 1993 decision *Herrera v. Collins*, the U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly left open the question of whether freestanding claims of innocence may serve as a basis for relief…

This Note analyzes the flaws of a government-created “super statute.” In an unprecedented form of statutory interpretation---known as the hybrid theory---the federal government combines the authority of two portions of…

On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070) into law and ignited a national debate on the issues of immigration policy, federal preemption, and…