Law

Authors: Davis, Michael
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
Abstract: This article argues that, when you define a "profession" as an organizational group organized to use the characteristic skill of its memberrs for the public good" it follows the members of a profession are committed to following the...
Year: 1988
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/publication/Professionalism.pdf

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Brinkman, Anthony ; Robert Ladenson ; Skipper, Robert Boyd
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: New York State does not grant no-fault divorces. In New York there are only four sanctioned grounds for divorce: cruel and inhuman treatment, adultery, abandonment for one year, and three years imprisonment. While many advocacy grou...
Year: 2010
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/For%20Bitter%20or%20Worse.pdf

Authors: Hamilton, Neil W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Liberal Education
Abstract: Discusses lessons that can be learned by the academic profession about professional ethics and peer review from the failure of accounting and legal professions and the clergy in the U.S. Responsibilities of a learned profession; Pri...
Year: 2003

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Authors: Miller, Richard ; Dillard, Brenda ; Dodds, Rhiannon ; Potthast, Adam ; Carr, Edward ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; England, Renee ; Matalski, Mark ; Elliott, Deni ; Price, Connie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: According to the United Nations, women do two-thirds of the work in the world (including unpaid, household work), receive less than 5 percent of the world's income, and own less than 1% of the world's property. The devaluation of un...
Year: 2007
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Women's%20Work.pdf

Authors: Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Bellon, Christina ; Connolly, Peggy ; Brinkman, Anthony
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When the the parents of Anna Mae He face severe financial troubles, they agree to grant short-term custody of Anna Mae to some friends from church, Jerry and Louise Baker. This agreement is extended after the financial trouble of A...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Case%205.pdf

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: As gay marriage becomes legal in states like Massachusetts and with the the U.S. Supreme Court striking down anti sodomy laws in Texas in 2003, the arguements for legalizing polygamy now seem stronger then they have been for many ye...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Polygamy.pdf

Authors: Carr, Edward ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Dillard, Brenda ; Carr, Sarah ; Price, Connie ; England, Renee ; Elliott, Deni ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Potthast, Adam ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Does a vow of client confidentiality extend past the client's death? This case examines the plight of attorney Staples Hughes who testified at a hearing for a man who may have been wrongfully accused of murder. In 1984, Hughes repr...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Client%20Confidentiality.pdf

Authors: Carr, Edward ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Dillard, Brenda ; Carr, Sarah ; Price, Connie ; England, Renee ; Elliott, Deni ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Potthast, Adam ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Prior to the Civil war, a number of African Americans lived on Cherokee lands as slaves of tribe members, as freed slaves, or as children of bi-racial parents. While some "Cherokee Freedmen" have remained active in the tribe, othe...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Cherokee%20Freedmen.pdf

Authors: Carr, Sarah ; Dillard, Brenda ; Funke, Rhiannon Dodds ; Boxall, Susanna Flavia ; Diaz-Sprague, Raquel ; Carr, Edward ; Potthast, Adam ; Elliott, Deni ; Funke, Michael Brian ; Price, Connie
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: More than half of U.S. states have passed legislation to restrict the locations of where sex offenders can live, often keeping them from living within a given distance from schools, parks, school bus stops, and day care centers. Wh...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Pedophile%20Housing

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: The Servicemembers Civil Rights Relief Act was signed into law to help ease the economic legal burdens on military personnel in active duty status, and postpones creditor action while military personnel are serving their country. Ho...
Year: 2008
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Soldiers%20Losing%20Custody%20While%20Serving.pdf

Authors: Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1999, a fight broke out in the stands during a football game at Eisenhower High School in Decatur, Illinois. The fight involved no weapons, and no one was seriously injured. As the fight was caught on videotape, six students wh...
Year: 2000
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Fairness%20in%20Punishment.pdf

Authors: Wueste, Daniel E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: A strain of realism in practical and professional ethics similar to what is called legal realism in jurisprudence is identified and explained. Drawing on the work of legal philosophers Ronald Dworkin and Randy Barnett, a response to...
Year: 1999

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Authors: Tidwell, Alan C.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The article examines the process of professionalism in the emergence of mediation in Australia. ...
Year: 1998

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Authors: Rezendes, Paul
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The author argues why the "agency" model of the professional-client relationship is a useful device for understanding lawyers' ethical obligations, and why, to some extent, all professionals who serve identifiable clients should thi...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Loevinger, Lee
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The author discusses how codes of ethics have become inherent in the concept of a profession and how U.S. Federal Courts have historically interpreted and enforced these codes of ethics....
Year: 1996

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Authors: Little, Joseph W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: To practice law in most U.S. States, a practitioner must not only demonstrate adequate knowledge of the law and a suitable record of honesty and integrity, but must also be sworn in as a member of that state's Bar Association. The a...
Year: 1992

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Authors: McDowell, Banks
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: The author of this article argues that misconduct an ethical lapses in the professions is not a problem of a lack of ethical instruction, but rather of individuals not living up to the standards held by their profession. The author ...
Year: 1994

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-05-21 16:38

Authors: Jasanoff, Sheila
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: ISIS: Journal of the History of Science in Society
Abstract: The disastrous gas leak at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in December 1984 displayed the law's tragic inability to cope with the consequences of technological globalization. This essay describes the protracted efforts of th...
Year: 2007
DOI: 10.1086/518194

Authors: Getz, Kathleen A.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Professional Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Journal
Abstract: the author of this article did a literature review to discover the reasons why professional associations participate in the political process and nature of this political action. The author discusses the nature of a profession, and ...
Year: 1996

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Authors: Schneider, Carl E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Argues that law provides a rich language for thinking about bioethical issues but the language of the law fails to achieve its desired effect. The doctrine of autonomy; Drawbacks of analyzing bioethical problems in legal terms; The ...
Year: 1994

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Authors: Herb, Alice
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the legal and ethical issues concerning a hospital-based legal services for HIV-infected patients. Significance of providing legal services within the clinical context; Role of a hospital-based attorney; Key factors to con...
Year: 1995

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Authors: Capron, Alexander Morgan
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the value of expert testimonies in court cases. Court's refusal to admit unpublished epidemiologic reanalyses in the `Daubert v. Merell Dow' case; People's concern with statutory interpretation; Qualification of a testimo...
Year: 1993

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Authors: Sagoff, Mark
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This volume discusses the foundations of environmentalism and analyzes social policy in relation to the environment, pollution, the workplace, and public safety and health...
Year: 2008

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Authors: O'Connell, B. M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE
Abstract: Contemporary US jurisprudence is confronted with a constellation of issues that, while frequently masked as purely technical in nature, concern fundamental themes such as privacy and freedom of expression. Future court decisions wil...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1109/ISTAS.1996.540444

Authors: Keller, David R. ; Hinman, Lawrence ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: You are the Executive Director of a large professional association planning your organization's annual convention. While the association's board approved your earlier recommendation that he be held in Cincinnati,in the intervening m...
Year: 2002
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Convention%20Boycott%20on%20Cincinnati.pdf