The importance of lawyers and society of the ethics and the selection of judges cannot be minimized. Judges set the tone for lawyers\u27 ethics. Judicial behavior significantly influences the attitude of the lay citizens toward justice and the integrity of his government. And, if the courts are to retain their independence and influence—without either the power of the purse or the sword—our judicial officers must be beyond question in matters of ethics and impartiality. The proposed A.B.A. Code of Judicial Conduct, if widely adopted and enforced, will be a significant step toward this goal
Judges are expected not simply to decide the law but to exemplify it. In the face of increasing publ...
Most violations of judicial ethics appear to be inadvertent. Aside from the few cases where judges d...
Our society depends to a large extent on lawyers to assure all citizens the protection and advantage...
It was natural that the general trend of public opinion in this country in favor of codification, as...
Judicial ethics is a topic of increasing interest to the public, the bar, and the judiciary; only re...
We sometimes think, loosely, that ethics is good and that therefore more is better than less. But mo...
As the preamble to the Model Code of Judicial Conduct indicates, traditional notions of judicial eth...
Although ethics for lawyers and ethics for judges have the same ultimate goal, the rules governing t...
Most professional responsibility textbooks do not discuss judicial conduct, and not surprisingly, ma...
An introduction to the symposium issue papers and comments that were originally presented at the ann...
The fundamental value in judicial ethics is impartiality. This means that a judge is duty-bound to d...
Judges are expected not simply to decide the law but to exemplify it. In the face of increasing publ...
All speakers today have emphasized the necessity of doing everything valid that we can do to sustain...
Judges have as much interest in lawyers\u27 ethics and lawyers in judges\u27 ethics as we all have i...
While the ethics of the American judiciary cover a broad spectrum, both good and bad, the general ov...
Judges are expected not simply to decide the law but to exemplify it. In the face of increasing publ...
Most violations of judicial ethics appear to be inadvertent. Aside from the few cases where judges d...
Our society depends to a large extent on lawyers to assure all citizens the protection and advantage...
It was natural that the general trend of public opinion in this country in favor of codification, as...
Judicial ethics is a topic of increasing interest to the public, the bar, and the judiciary; only re...
We sometimes think, loosely, that ethics is good and that therefore more is better than less. But mo...
As the preamble to the Model Code of Judicial Conduct indicates, traditional notions of judicial eth...
Although ethics for lawyers and ethics for judges have the same ultimate goal, the rules governing t...
Most professional responsibility textbooks do not discuss judicial conduct, and not surprisingly, ma...
An introduction to the symposium issue papers and comments that were originally presented at the ann...
The fundamental value in judicial ethics is impartiality. This means that a judge is duty-bound to d...
Judges are expected not simply to decide the law but to exemplify it. In the face of increasing publ...
All speakers today have emphasized the necessity of doing everything valid that we can do to sustain...
Judges have as much interest in lawyers\u27 ethics and lawyers in judges\u27 ethics as we all have i...
While the ethics of the American judiciary cover a broad spectrum, both good and bad, the general ov...
Judges are expected not simply to decide the law but to exemplify it. In the face of increasing publ...
Most violations of judicial ethics appear to be inadvertent. Aside from the few cases where judges d...
Our society depends to a large extent on lawyers to assure all citizens the protection and advantage...