Legal Ethics

The New “Blacklists” Work When Law Firms Stay Silent

by Andrew Weissmann

Mar 24th, 2025

The Just Security Podcast: Politicization and Weaponization of the Justice Department in the Second Trump Administration

by Ryan Goodman, Tom Joscelyn, Mary B. McCord, Paras Shah and Clara Apt

Mar 6th, 2025

Timeline: Politicization and Weaponization of Justice Department in Second Trump Administration

by Ryan Goodman and Audrey Balliette

Mar 4th, 2025

The Just Security Podcast: Repression of Lawyers in Belarus and Around the World

by Nils Muiznieks, Maksim Polovinko, Meg Satterthwaite, Paras Shah and Clara Apt

Feb 7th, 2025

Solidarity Needed Amid Stranglehold on Belarusian Lawyers

by Nils Muiznieks, Meg Satterthwaite and Aloysia Sonnet

Feb 7th, 2025

The Ethics Complaint Against Liz Cheney: Blue Smoke Without Fire

by David Luban

Jan 2nd, 2025

Beyond Law: When States Use Ethics to Excuse War Crimes

by Jessica Wolfendale

Nov 20th, 2024

The Fulton County Disqualification Allegations: Myths, Facts and Unknowns

by Norman L. Eisen, Joyce Vance and Barbara McQuade

Jan 30th, 2024

Why Fani Willis Is Not Disqualified Under Georgia Law

by Norman L. Eisen, Joyce Vance and Richard Painter

Jan 21st, 2024

Trump’s Lawyers Face Sanctions, Discipline, and Indictment – How Should the Legal Profession Respond?

by Alan Neff and Caroline Fredrickson

Dec 6th, 2023

Leonard Leo and Harlan Crow Would Be Wise to Comply with Their Senate Subpoenas

by Grant Tudor and Anne Tindall

Nov 30th, 2023

A Letter to Kenneth Chesebro on Pleading Guilty

by Katya Jestin, Marcus A.R. Childress and Caroline M. Darmody

Sep 7th, 2023

The Best Defense: How Attorneys Advise Clients Through the Mental Process of a Plea Bargain

by Thomas Green

Sep 7th, 2023

Anatomy of a Fraud: Kenneth Chesebro’s Misrepresentation of My Scholarship in His Efforts to Overturn the 2020 Presidential Election

by Laurence H. Tribe

Aug 8th, 2023

The Just Security Podcast: Supreme Court Ethics 101

by Paras Shah, Tiffany Chang, Michelle Eigenheer and Clara Apt

Apr 21st, 2023

It’s Time for the Supreme Court to Take Ethics Seriously

by Alan Neff and Caroline Fredrickson

Mar 24th, 2023

The Méndez Principles: The Case for US Legislation on Law Enforcement Interviews

by Rebecca Shaeffer

Jun 29th, 2021

The Méndez Principles: Beware Crossing the Line to Psychological Torture

by Nils Melzer and Steven J. Barela

Jun 25th, 2021

The Méndez Principles: A Focus on the Exclusionary Rule

by Pavle Kilibarda and Gloria Gaggioli

Jun 22nd, 2021

The Méndez Principles: Sharpening the View on Interrogation and Utilitarianism

by Steven J. Barela

Jun 17th, 2021

The Méndez Principles: Building Rapport and Trust in Interrogations to Elicit Reliable Information

by Laure Brimbal, Steven Kleinman, Simon Oleszkiewicz and Christian Meissner

Jun 15th, 2021

The Méndez Principles: The Need to Update the Army Field Manual on Interrogation for the 21st Century

by Susan Brandon and Mark Fallon

Jun 11th, 2021

The Méndez Principles: Emergence and Global Expansion of Non-Coercive Interviewing

by Ray Bull, Asbjørn Rachlew and Mary Schollum

Jun 8th, 2021

The Méndez Principles: Science Shows Interrogation is Too Serious for Amateurs

by Shane O'Mara

Jun 3rd, 2021

The Méndez Principles: A New Standard for Effective Interviewing by Police and Others, While Respecting Human Rights

by Juan E. Méndez and Vanessa Drummond

Jun 1st, 2021

The Méndez Principles: Leadership to Transform Interrogation via Science, Law, and Ethics

by Steven J. Barela and Mark Fallon

Jun 1st, 2021

Stopping Torture: Why Professional Governance Failed, and How It Can Do Better

by Gregg Bloche

May 4th, 2021

Trump Has a “Right to Pursue Legal Challenges” to Election, But Not Without the Facts

by James Wagstaffe

Nov 13th, 2020

How to Restore Ethics to the U.S. Department of State

by Donald K. Sherman