The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.

An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far. John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but, pointing to his conservative victories on voting rights and campaign finance. Yet he broke from orthodoxy in his decision to preserve Obamacare. How are we to understand the motives of the most powerful judge in the land? In The Chief, award-winning journalist Joan Biskupic contends that Roberts is torn between two, often divergent, priorities: to carry out a conservative agenda, and to protect the Court's image and his place in history. Biskupic shows how Roberts's dual commitments have fostered distrust among his colleagues, with major consequences for the law. Trenchant and authoritative, The Chief reveals the making of a justice and the drama on this nation's highest court.

This book provides an introduction to the legal reasoning and the modes of persuasion and justification used by Supreme Court justices in the United States, as well as others engaged in constitutional adjudication. It is designed to be used as a supplement to a constitutional law casebook.

Contains summaries of the judgments, advisory opinions and orders of the Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ), from 1922 to 1946, in all the official languages of the United Nations. This publication is prepared by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs, in the framework of the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law. This website will contain electronic versions of published summaries of judgments, advisory opinions and orders, prepared by the PCIJ, and summaries of all separate or dissenting opinions by the Judges, prepared by the Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs. While the reports of the Court appear exclusively in its two official languages (English and French), the present publication is made available in all the official languages of the United Nations, thus aiming at increasing public awareness of the work of the Court and facilitating access to its jurisprudence. The summaries are made available for information purposes and should not be quoted as the actual texts they refer to.