While anonymity has many liberating aspects that can be quite positive from a personal perspective, it’s also true that from a societal perspective anonymity has many negative implications.
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law & Criminal JusticeEven if not “schooled in the particulars” of the Fifth Amendment, individuals still have beliefs about what is fundamentally fair.
- Teaching LawExperiential learning is not the answer to problems facing legal education. The better approach is to create a required curriculum where students draft common litigation documents and engage in simulations.
- Teaching LawIn the rough and changing landscape of the legal job market, legal employers have called on law schools to prepare “practice ready” attorneys.
- Rules of Evidence & Civil ProcedureRules—not mere guidelines—order civil litigation. However, in the context of electronic discovery, judges have been remarkably reluctant to treat these rules as anything more than broad guiding principles.
- Economic RegulationDebt collectors generate more complaints to the FTC than any other industry. Although many debt collectors are careful to comply with consumer protection laws, others engage in illegal conduct.
- Professional ResponsibilityDrawing from the author's experiences teaching and supervising students enrolled in the UDC HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic, the author discusses a lawyer’s ethical duties to a client with HIV or AIDS.