Michael Gerhardt

Professor of Constitutional Law, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of The Power of Precedent

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The Bush Justice Department began an investigation of lawyers who signed so-called " torture memos " authorizing waterboarding and other brutal methods of interrogation.  The completed…

When Does a Lawyer's Mistake Become Judicial Misconduct?

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