Vol. 139 No. 5 In September 2024, then–Attorney General Merrick Garland addressed the eighty-fifth annual U.S. Attorneys’ Conference. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Garland invoked the first such address — the 1940 speech...
Vol. 139 No. 4 All lawyers are bound by the ethical rules of the legal profession. However, newly collected empirical evidence suggests that a subset of court-appointed attorneys in Pennsylvania routinely violate basic ethical principles when they employ a particular procedure: the Finley...
In a 2020 article, Dean Cynthia Fountaine documents how Germany’s Nazi regime incrementally gained control of the legal system and the role legal professionals...
Vol. 132 No. 4 Judges inhabit what is often considered the most independent branch of government. Unlike officials of other branches, who are democratically accountable, judges are thought...
Vol. 132 No. 1 There is a difference between deciding how to talk about a problem and sorting out the principles for resolving it. In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd....
In recent years, scholars have urged courts to be cautious when transporting constitutional precedent from one remedial context to another. So, for example, a...
Vol. 131 No. 7 As it has been developed over a period of many decades, administrative law has acquired its own morality. An understanding of the morality of...
