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Philosophy and Law Index The following appeared in Volume 96, Number 2 (Spring 1997) of the APA Newsletters.
FROM THE EDITOR
I would like to begin by thanking our guest editor, Jeffrey Abramson of Brandeis University, for his efforts putting together the material for this issue’s very timely special topic: Legal Ethics and the American Jury System. I hope you find it as useful and informative as I did. Please note, too, that in our Recent Law Review Articles of Interest section, we have included several abstracts of recently published work directly related to the subject of jury ethics (Alschuler, Barton, Butler, Leipold, and Nichols). While I am on the subject of law review abstracts, I would like to thank Roger Shiner and Jim Nickel for their contributions to that section of the Newsletter.
Turning now to news from the APA Committee on Philosophy and Law, the Committee is pleased to announce that Stephen Macedo, of Syracuse University, is the winner of this year’s Berger Prize. The winning essay, "Homosexuality and the Conservative Mind," was published in Georgetown Law Journal (December, 1995). Macedo will be presenting an abbreviated version of his article at the 1997 APA Pacific Division Meeting in Berkeley, CA.
The committee would also like to welcome three new members, effective July 1997: David Goldberg (School of Social Justice, Arizona State University), Frances Kamm (Philosophy, New York University), and Larry may (Philosophy, Washington University). The Committee wishes to express its thanks to Norman Gillespie (School of Law, George Mason University), Stephen Griffin (Tulane Law School), and Patricia Smith (Philosophy, Kentucky), who are all rotating off the Committee after three years of service.
Topics and topic editors for the next three issues of the Newsletter are as follows:
Fall 97
LEGAL ASPECTS OF
GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS
Submission Deadline: June 15, 1997
Editor:
Richard Nunan
Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
nunanr@ashley.cofc.edu
(803) 953-6522
Details concerning this topic were set forth in the Fall, 1996 issue. Submissions are still welcome until this summer’s deadline.
Spring 98
50th ANNIVERSARY:
UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Submission Deadline: closed
Editor:
Carl Wellman
Department of Philosophy
Campus Box 1073
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
wellman@twinearth.wustl.edu
(314) 935-6670
Details concerning this topic were set forth in the Fall, 1996 issue. Unfortunately, because we now have four solicited articles already promised for this issue, we are obliged to discourage further submissions at this time for lack of space. Any articles which were submitted during the interval between publication of the Fall 1996 issue, when this topic was first announced, and the appearance of this issue, will receive due consideration from Professor Wellman.
Fall 98
LAWYERS’ LOYALTIES
Submission Deadline: June 15, 1998
Editor:
John Kleinig
241 Sixth Avenue, #10C
New York, NY 10014
jikjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu
To whom should lawyers be loyal? To themselves? To their clients? To the courts? To the general public? To more than one of these? In cases of conflict, which loyalty should take precedence? Much of the discussion of this issue has focused-for understandable reasons-on the loyalty that lawyers should have to their clients, in particular their obligation to be zealous advocates for their clients’ interests. This has been justified not only by reference to accused individuals’ entitlement to have their rights defended, but also to the public value of a system in which individual rights are secured against the significant resources of state power. Yet many observers have been unhappy about the practical implications of such zealous advocacy: the apparently tunnel-vision promotion of client welfare at the expense of justice, victims, and seemliness. Such critics have argued accordingly for a constrained account of the loyalties of lawyers, properly understood.
At this point, it is expected that Richard Bronaugh will contribute an article focusing on the moral dilemma of determining who is expected to defend a client where it is strongly believed that the client is guilty of some immoral illegality. John Kleinig will write a more general paper on professional responsibility, in which the demands of professionalism will be used to critique the traditional postulate that a lawyer’s primary loyalty is to clients. Michael McChrystal will write a short reply to Kleinig’s paper. Other contributions will be gladly considered for inclusion.
If you are interested in submitting an article to be considered for inclusion in one of the forthcoming issues, it would be prudent to send an inquiry in advance, briefly describing your proposed topic. Space is very tight in the Newsletter, and there is room for only a few articles in each issue. Since the Newsletter aims for broad coverage of the range of issues relevant to a particular topic, it is unlikely that two articles which treat of the same subtopic will be published. Advance inquiries will also enable guest editors to furnish prospective contributors with more detailed information about the formatting requirements for submissions. In any event, authors should restrict their contributions to 3,000-4,000 words (about 12 pages, double-spaced).
Please mail inquiries concerning article submissions to the individual editor designated for the relevant issue. All other inquiries (e.g., concerning possible announcements for publication in the ‘News and Notes’ section, suggestions of possible law review articles to abstract, notices of new books of interest, etc.) should be sent directly to me (here in Charleston).
Richard Nunan
College of Charleston