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Legal Ethics

Tookie Williams

An argument against the death penalty
Gerald D. Coleman

Confirmation Ethics

An argument in favor of a political but fair and transparent confirmation process
Terri Peretti

Advise and Consent: What Are the Ethics of Confirmation?

From the 2005-06 National Ethics Agenda, an exploration of the ethical issues in the process of federal judicial appointments.
Ethics Center Emerging Issues Group

Equal Justice Under Law

These remarks examine how the legal principle of 'equal justice under law' is widely violated in America. The United States holds the most lawyers, but its legal system is among the least adequate when it comes to equal legal assistance.
Deborah Rhode

Case Study in Social Capital Theory in El Salvador

Using the widely accepted social capital theory, Sonia Mungal suggests reasons why in El Salvador high levels of participation in community activities are not correlated with similarly high levels of voting.
Sonia Mungal

Ethics in an Unethical World - The Legalization of Medicinal Marijuana

This show outlines the issue of legalizing medicinal marijuana, an issue that has been in the headlines a lot recently and has brought up the issue of whether or not prohibition is legitimate.
Gerald Uelmen and Ellen Ritchie

Supreme Court on Educational Diversity

From my standpoint as a constitutional law professor, a particularly interesting strand of the Grutter majority opinion is the reliance upon the First Amendment to uphold the right of public universities to value student body racial diversity.
Margaret M. Russell

Politics, the Supreme Court, and Affirmative Action

The decision in Grutter v. Bollinger that it was constitutionally permissible for public colleges and universities to consider race in student admissions was transparently political, in the sense that the outcome was grounded more in the political choices of the justices and the surrounding political context than in any objective legal principles.
Brad Joondeph

Business as Usual

A retired city engineer goes back to work for the city as an independent contractor. When he bids for a job, a councilmember raises questions.
Judy Nadler

Case of the Big Box Retailer

A revenue shortfall causes a city council to consider the tax benefits from a big-box retailer versus the potential harm to established small businesses.
Judy Nadler

The Mayor and the Manager

A case exploring the proper relationship between city councilmembers and city staff.
Judy Nadler

The decision to give Armand Tiano's victims a voice

Should a newspaper print the names of victims of a sex offender at their request?
David Yarnold and Susan Goldberg

Where speech isn't so free

Flying flags raises free speech issues at a housing development.
Rob Elder

Lost in the 'Logic of War'

War to remove Saddam Hussein from power without the approval of the United Nations is deemed an unjustified, disproportionate, and reckless response to Saddam's violations of justice.
David DeCosse

Of SNPS, TRIPS, and Human Dignity: Ethics and Gene Patenting

Report on a Center conference about the law and ethics of gene patenting.
Miriam Schulman

Confronting Unethical Conduct

Ethics for associations and nonprofit organizations.
Kirk O. Hanson

Moral Quandaries of a Government Whistleblower

A first-person account of whistleblowing in regard to financial regulation agenices.
William K. Black

Legal Ethics?

When an "outside" lawyer realizes that an officer of the company his or her firm represents may be engaged in fraud.
William K. Black

Panel Discussion of Deborah Rhode's Book

Ellen Pansky, Margaret Russell, Alan Scheflin, Ger

Who will blow the whistle if surveillance oversteps?

How does an open society deal with the probability of future terrorist attacks without compromising the privacy and civil liberties of its own citizens?
Rob Elder

Racial Profiling in an Age of Terrorism

Chief Deputy Attorney General of California Peter Siggins discusses the ethical and legal aspects of profiling in the context of national security concerns.
Peter Siggins

National Ethics Agenda

The Ethics Agenda was developed by the Emerging Issues Program of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Through this program, the Center provides timely analysis and opinion on ethical issues in the news.
Elder, Hanson, Schulman, McLean, Perry, Carbone

Expanding the Role of Ethics in Legal Education and the Legal Profession

Transcript of a talk by Stanford legal ethics scholar Deborah Rhode.
Deborah Rhode

Best Interests of the Child

How do we determine what is best for children in custody disputes?
leanor Willemsen and Michael Willemson

Why Should We Care About Racial Inequlity Per Se ?

Is a color-blind approach to racial issues the best route to equality?
Glenn Loury

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

In desperate need of a tax break for his company, a CEO contemplates a questionable campaign contribution.
Leon Panetta & Paul Locatelli, S.J.

Who Owns the Moon?

The shift in focus from exploration of the lunar surface to exploitation of lunar resources raises new ethical challenges for us. Who will profit from these resources, or, as some have phrased it, "Who owns the moon?"
Margaret McLean

Moral Attorneys; Moral People

Law students reflect on the principles they intend to follow in their professional lives.
Richard J. Heafey

Impartial Jurors, Impartial Juries

In a media-saturated society, jurors who know nothing about high-profile cases may be jurors who know nothing.
Newton N. Minow

Jumping the Gun

Election projections raise the difference between rights and the right thing to do.
Newton N. Minow

Tie That Binds

Fidelity to childrennot to spousesmay be a new way of approaching family policy.
June Carbone

Five Hardest Lessons of the O.J. Trial

One of Simpson's legal team discusses what we can learn from the case.
Gerald F. Uelmen

Ethical and Legal Concerns About Capital Punishment in the U. S.

Transcript of a radio interview on captial punishment.
Ellen Kreitzberg

Privacy vs. Security

The Center's Framework for Ethical Decision making is applied to privacy vs. security concerns in the wake of the terrorist attacks.
Bharath Krishnamurthy

Beyond Professional Codes

Professors in law, philosophy, and communication discuss media ethics, legal ethics, and the common good.
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