The Lawyers of Watergate: How a ‘3rd-Rate Burglary’ Provoked New Standards for Lawyer Ethics

On June 26, 1973, the growing Watergate scandal was already a year old, and John W. Dean III, President Richard M. Nixon’s former White House counsel, was in his second day of testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee when Herman Talmadge, a Democrat from Georgia, directed his attention to exhibit…

Jun 1, 2012 10:20 AM CDT

Probing Questions: Experts Debate the Need to Create Exceptions to Rules on Coerced Confessions

Jun 1, 2012 10:10 AM CDT

Should We Create Exceptions to Rules Regarding Coerced Interrogation of Terrorism Suspects?

Jun 1, 2012 10:00 AM CDT

Help in KIND: Group Guides Pro Bono Attorneys Serving Unaccompanied Child Immigrants

Jun 1, 2012 9:50 AM CDT

The Righthaven Experiment: A Journalist Wonders If a Copyright Troll Was Right to Sue Him

Almost anyone who uses the Internet and is slightly curious about their own digital existence has, over the past decade, had what might be termed a Google moment. These are times, as you type your name into the search engine box, that you realize you don’t have control, that whatever…

May 1, 2012 10:20 AM CDT

Cyberattacks: Computer Warfare Looms as Next Big Conflict in International Law

May 1, 2012 10:10 AM CDT

What Is the Role of Lawyers in Cyberwarfare?

May 1, 2012 10:00 AM CDT

Chasing the Dream: Sorting Fact and Myth Is Biggest Obstacle to Immigration Reform

May 1, 2012 9:50 AM CDT

Tracking Techies: Finding the Footprints of America’s Switched-on Lawyers

While the moniker “America’s Techiest Lawyer” may conjure an entity with a quad-core heart, onboard latte maker and a predilection to show up for court in holographic form, it turns out law’s real-life silicon wonders are a bit tamer than that. But not by much. During the past few weeks,…

Apr 1, 2012 11:19 AM CDT

The Prosecutor on Trial: Ex-Maricopa County Attorney Faces Disbarment for Political Acts

Apr 1, 2012 11:00 AM CDT

Uneasy Targets: How Justifying the Killing of Terrorists Has Become a Major Policy Debate

Apr 1, 2012 10:49 AM CDT

Washed Away: As Sea Levels Rise, Island Nations Look to the Law to Fend off Extinction

The Marshall Islands—two roughly parallel chains of low-lying coral atolls that stretch across 800 miles just north of the equator—have an intensely close relationship with the Pacific Ocean that surrounds them. The full implications of that relationship were apparent in a student’s question for John M. Silk, who was serving…

Mar 1, 2012 11:19 AM CST

Facing the Alternative: How Does a Flat Fee System Really Work?

Mar 1, 2012 11:10 AM CST

Show Me the Money: States, ABA Try to Figure Out When Campaign Cash Leads to a Judge’s Recusal

Mar 1, 2012 11:00 AM CST

Patriots Debate: The Meaning of the Constitution in a Time of Terror

Since the events of 2001, the intersection of law and terrorism has become one of the most volatile zones in the public square—a place where qualities of life and manners of death are deliberated against 225 years of the U.S. Constitution.

Feb 1, 2012 11:39 AM CST