Professional
Responsibility: Heroes and Villains
Excerpts from Videos That May be Shown in Class
Clark D. Cunningham
W. Lee Burge Professor of Law & Ethics
Georgia State University College of Law
Course
Web Site: http://law.gsu.edu/ccunningham/PR/
(Each of the video excerpts can be viewed on the Internet using
a
computer with a fast connection and that has RealPlayer software installed.
Select "Videos" on the Course Web Site Home Page)
Heroes of Their Own Lives
M.K. Gandhi and Civil Disobedience in South Africa (Gandhi)
a. “There is at least one colored attorney in South Africa.”
b. “They will have my dead body -- not my obedience!”
Client-Centered Lawyering
John Quincy Adams and the Amistad Slave Mutiny (Amistad)
a. “What is their story?”
b. “Your words”
Confidentiallity
Frank Armani and the Robert Garrow “Two Bodies” Case (PBS Ethics on Trial)
“It’s a terrible thing to play God.”
Conflicts of Interest
Clarence Darrow and the McNamara Brothers (Henry Fonda as Darrow)
Client Counseling and Decisionmaking
Constance Baker Motley and the James Meredith Case (Eyes on the Prize)
“A genuine revolution on the part of black people”
Suellyn Scarnecchia and the Baby Jessica Case
a. Too close? (Interview with Scarnecchia)
b. The hardest moment. (Interview with Scarnecchia)
c. Turning over Baby Jessica (Whose Child is This? Made-for-TV movie)