The Independent Counsel Statute: A Legal History

Putting Law and Politics in the Right Places—reforming the Independent Counsel Statute

When a public official exercises judgment to make a discretionary decision of some significance, taking into account any factors her own common sense, experience, and understanding of the public interest consider relevant, and subsequently is called to account for the soundness of the decision, she performs one of the paradigmatic acts of politics. When a public official makes a decision becaus...

The Independent Counsel Mess

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT FOR GENERAL LEGAL COUNSEL AND LAW FIRMS. A FOLLOW UP TO THE 26th ANNUAL GENERAL COUNSEL CONFERENCE

Independent Counsel and Vigorous Investigation and Prosecution

The history of legal medicine.

Before discussing legal medicine and forensic science, it would be helpful to have a general definition of terms. Forensic science is a broader term than legal medicine. The former actually encompasses the latter. The term “forensic” is used as an adjective to identify a growing group of subspecialties in science and medicine, all of which convey the fundamental concepts of methods, hopefully b...