Imagine the following: After Congress passes laws to clean up corporate boardrooms and the accounting industry, the Justice Department and SEC claim they lack the resources to monitor compliance. Congress responds by stripping the enforcement provisions from the law, concluding that the job of bringing lawsuits against corporations and accountants should be left to private individuals.
Keep the Promise of a Living Wage in Buffalo
August 19, 2002
Keep the Promise of a Living Wage in Buffalo
By Scott Schell
Imagine the following: After Congress passes laws to clean up corporate boardrooms and the accounting industry, the Justice Department and SEC claim they lack the resources to monitor compliance. Congress responds by stripping the enforcement provisions from the law, concluding that the job of bringing lawsuits against corporations and accountants should be left to private individuals.
Papers from the Executive Session on Public Defense
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Cultural Revolution: Transforming the Public Defender's Office
By Robin Steinberg and David Feige, Bronx Defenders
Editorial Memorandum: An "Unhealthy Democracy" Florida Court Case Highlights Felon Disenfranchisement Crisis in U.S.; National Effort to Restore Voting Rights to Ex-Felons Grows
In Judicial Elections, Due Process Is Paramount
The National Law Journal
April 29, 2002
In Judicial Elections, Due Process Is Paramount
By Deborah Goldberg
If You Gag the Lawyers, Do You Choke the Courts?
Article in the Fordham Urban Law Journal examines restrictions on legal services lawyers that are particularly likely to cause such interference.
Corporations and American Democracy
Read the Brennan Center's op-ed on how the new campaign finance law will affect the public.
Buying Time: The Fallacies Of Campaign Reform And Our Advertising Laws
The Brennan Center talks about issue advocacy.
What Judges Do
Legal Times
February 4, 2002
What Judges Do
By Mark Kozlowski
Why I'm Suing the Federal Government
We need the court to decide whether the government can continue to curb private philanthropy that does not agree with its views.
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