A Plea for Rationality and Decency: The Disparate Treatment of Legal Writing Faculties as a Violation of Both Equal Protection and Professional Ethics

Authors

Peter Brandon Bayer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2001

Abstract

This article builds on the work of others by demonstrating that as a matter of academic ethics, informed by cardinal legal standards of decency, the disparate treatment and adverse terms and conditions imposed on writing professors are not simply unfair but defy the ethical aspirations of American law schools. Specifically, as the construct for analysis, this article establishes and utilizes the proposition that the discordant status of legal writing professors fails to satisfy minimal professional ethics. As a model, this article shows that it is not even minimally rational under the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution, our nation’s bedrock protection against arbitrary, irrational, unreasonable and unfair treatment.

Publication Citation

39 Duq. L. Rev. 329 (2001).

Recommended Citation

Bayer, Peter Brandon, "A Plea for Rationality and Decency: The Disparate Treatment of Legal Writing Faculties as a Violation of Both Equal Protection and Professional Ethics" (2001). Scholarly Works. 339.
https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/facpub/339