Join Professor Tigran Eldred to discuss his work in behavioral legal ethics. 

Professor Eldred's scholarship in this area was cited in a landmark legal ethics decision, United States v. Kentucky Bar Association. In addition, he blends this area into his Ethics class at New England Law. Professor Eldred explains the topic, the effect behavioral legal ethics has on lawyers, the United States v. Kentucky Bar Association decision, and his work integrating this field into the classroom. You can learn more at the blog which Professor Eldred coauthors.

Today, we are discussing a recent Mass. Crim. Digest blog post on Commonwealth v. Vacher, decided August 14, 2014. 

The Mass. Crim. Digest, formerly known as the Massachusetts Criminal Digest, was the New England Law Review’s online case-summary database that provided citable, straightforward summaries of recent criminal law cases decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, or SJC. 

In 2014 the Mass. Crim. Digest was retired, though summaries of cases decided by the SJC under Articles 12 and 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights are still provided through our editor blog. We are joined by a Volume 49 Comment and Note Editor, Catherine Flaherty, to discuss her Mass. Crim. Digest blog post about Commonwealth v. Vacher, 469 Mass. 425.

Today, we are joined by Professor Steven Morrison, a Visiting Professor of Law at New England Law | Boston, to discuss his two latest pieces of scholarship. The first entitled “Brandenburg for Groups,” which seeks to recover the right to assembly as a core First Amendment right and proposes a test that would protect group activity. The second is entitled “The Membership Crime Origin of the Frist Amendment” and provides a historical overview of the World War 1 era during which time the First Amendment protected the right to assembly the same as it protected speech.