An exploration of the differences in the societal expectations of lawyers in the United States and Russia, concluding that the sort of respect afforded to Atticus Finch is notably absent in Russia.
Analysis of the institutional weakness of criminal defense lawyers in Russia due to the informal coalition between judges and prosecutors.
An examination of legal power in the lens that authoritarianism is all over.
An analysis of the roles that attorneys have played in facilitating democratic backsliding internationally to draw lessons for the American legal ethics regime.
Democratic lawyers believe-as much of the rest of U.S. society and the bar do not-that ordinary people, acting collectively with peers, receptive professionals, and other allies, can and must play a leading role in efforts to reshape our society and political
This essay suggests that, in a very limited sphere, lawyers play a unique role in the protection of the rule of law.
This Article explores that dilemma in a stark form: through the moral biographies of two lawyers in the Third Reich, both of whom stayed on the job, and both of whom can lay claim to mitigating evil.
This article analyzes the ethical dilemmas faced by Italian lawyers during World War II, focusing on their roles in Fascist society, their responses to Mussolini's 1938 race laws, and their involvement in addressing the treatment of Jews in Italy, drawing on legal histories and survivor narratives.
This essay argues that the German legal system, including courts, judges, and lawyers, enabled and often supported the Nazi regime’s rise and its race-based atrocities by legitimizing Hitler’s incremental consolidation of power under the guise of law.
This chapter explores how reforms in the recruitment of self-governing lawyer councils between 1989 and 2017 expanded access to the legal profession and improved the availability of legal services through a 15-year process of social and legal change.