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Title The John F. Sonnett Memorial Lectures at Fordham University School of Law : a half-century of advocacy and judicial perspectives / Dennis J. Kenny and Joel E. Davidson, editors
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Intro; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword by John D. Feerick; Editors' Note; Half Title; The Art of Advocacy; The Role of the Judge; Prison: The Judge's Dilemma; The Special Skills of Advocacy: Are Specialized Training and Certification of Advocates Essential to Our System of Justice?; The Decline of Professionalism; The Compleat Advocate; Minnesota Plan: Mandatory Continuing Legal Education for Lawyers and Judges as a Condition for the Maintaining of Professional Licensing; The Most Lustrous Branch: Watergate and the Judiciary
The Attorney General: The Federal Government's Chief Lawyer and Chief Litigator, or One Among Many?Cruel and Unusual Punishments: The Proportionality Rule; Intelligence Gathering and the Law: Conflict or Compatibility?; Waste Not, Wait Not: A Consideration of Federal and State Jurisdiction; Barristers and Judges in England Today; The Supreme Court of the United States: Managing Its Caseload to Achieve Its Constitutional Purposes; The Office of Chief Judge of a Federal Court of Appeals; Advocacy: Has It a Future?; Untitled (Sonnett Lecture); The Invisible Prince; Fictions
Legal Remedies for the Failure of European Community Institutions to Act in Conformity with EEC Treaty ProvisionsThe Advocate: Should He Speak or Write?; Appellate Advocacy: Some Reflections from the Bench; Law and Lawyers: The Road to Reform; Matters of Life and Death; Lawyering for a New Age; The Role of a Supreme Court in a Democracy; The Secret Life of Judges; A Pillar of Democracy: Reflections on the Role and Work of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Summary The John F. Sonnett Memorial Lectures explore the evolution of legal ethics, legal training, prisoner rights, the role of the judiciary and other jurisprudential issues. The lectures continue to impact the current debates and discussions surrounding these issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 31, 2018)
Subject Law.
Justice, Administration of.
LAW -- Essays.
LAW -- General Practice.
LAW -- Jurisprudence.
LAW -- Paralegals & Paralegalism.
LAW -- Practical Guides.
LAW -- Reference.
Justice, Administration of
Law
Genre/Form lectures.
Lectures
Lectures.
Conférences.
Form Electronic book
Author Kenny, Dennis J., editor
Davidson, Joel E., editor
Fordham University. School of Law.
ISBN 9780823276653
0823276651
9780823276660
082327666X