An analysis of the role of Hungarian lawyers who are blind and to a certain extent, also defenseless against recent authoritarian tendencies.
Politics Within the Legal Profession
Titaev and Shkliaruk (2016), “Investigators in Russia: Who Creates Practice in the Investigation of Criminal Cases”
Analyzes the role of investigators in the Russian criminal justice process.
Newcity (2005), “Why Is There No Russian Atticus Finch? Or Even a Russian Rumpole”
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.
Goldstein (2022), “The Attorney’s Duty to Democracy: Legal Ethics, Attorney Discipline, and the 2020 Election”
An analysis of the roles that attorneys have played in facilitating democratic backsliding internationally to draw lessons for the American legal ethics regime.
Piomelli (2009), “The Challenge of Democratic Lawyering”
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
Zacharias (2009), “True Confessions About the Role of Lawyers in a Democracy”
This essay suggests that, in a very limited sphere, lawyers play a unique role in the protection of the rule of law.
Gatto (2016), “Race Law Revisited: A Brief Review of Anti-Semitism and the Role of Lawyers in Fascist Italy”
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.
Fybel (2022), “Judges, Lawyers, Legal Theorists, and the Law in Nazi Germany”
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.
Hendley (2017), Everyday Law in Russia
Hendley argues that despite political interference in high-profile cases, ordinary Russians do engage with the legal system in everyday disputes, revealing a more nuanced and pragmatic relationship with the law than commonly assumed.
Kaminskaya (1982), Final Judgment: My Life as a Soviet Defense Attorney
Memoir of defense lawyer who was active during the 1960s. She shares her experiences representing prominent Soviet dissidents and the extent to which the bar association supported her.