Digital Symposium: Ethical Prosecutions

The Golden Gate University Law Review is proud to promote student and faculty scholarship. It is our belief that publishing articles outside of the traditional Law Review format enriches discussion within the legal community about important issues that sometimes go unaddressed. Our first Digital Symposium explored the unique ethical and moral issues that arise in the prosecution of criminal cases. The Symposium was the product of the ideas discussed in Professor Caren Cambre’s Ethical Prosecutions class, offered each spring here at Golden Gate University School of Law.

Each student’s written article took a position on a contemporary ethical issue that faces prosecutors. These student articles are bookended by the generous and fascinating contribution of Professor Wes R. Porter, then Director of the GGU Litigation Center and a former federal prosecutor who has seen the ethical issues that face prosecutors firsthand. Professor Porter’s article addresses the topic of ethical prosecutions by discussing the teaching moments that go unlearned every day in prosecutors offices around the country. To highlight the problems he believes need to be addressed by prosecutors, Professor Porter uses the dismissed conviction of Damon Thibodeaux as a lens to magnify the lessons that go unlearned when a prosecution goes wrong.

We hope you enjoy the content of this Digital Symposium. Look for more Digital Symposium editions as part of the Golden Gate University Law Review‘s commitment to generating accessible legal scholarship.