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Lawyer-Politicians and Law Societies: Navigating the Intersection between Democracy and Accountability
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In this essay that won the 2024 Sheldon M. Chumir Memorial Award in Ethics, Human Rights and Civil Liberties, I argue that striking the proper balance between a law society’s commitment to democracy and its jurisdiction over lawyer-politicians warrants the limiting of actionable complaints to conduct that has a clear nexus to the practice of law.
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- 2024-05-01
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- Article (Published)