This is a book about the ethics of the legal profession proceeding from one basic premise: our nation is so dependent on its lawyers that their ethical problems transform themselves into public difficulties.
10 Reaves 2009, p. 6. For extended discussion, see Balko 2014. 12 Mosteller 2020. 13 The Economist 2014. 14 Delehanty et al. 2017. 7.2.2 The System's Response Fewer than 1% of police killings 7 Abuse of Power 175.
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