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Assignment:
1. • Read the following article and state your personal opinion about the current state of the legal profession within the United States.
• What are the four actors in the legal profession discussed? Discuss how some of these actors and the how they can be used to provide less expensive legal advice to the everyday person.
2. Read the following article and discuss which kind of legal system is portrayed. Is it more aligned with a bureaucratically oriented system or is it more closely related to a Politically oriented system?
• How is it similar to each system? How is it different?
3. Read the following article and discuss the jurisdiction of the international criminal court, how and why it was created, and your opinion on setting up a criminal tribunal in Syria.
• What are examples of other ad hoc tribunals that were discussed?
4. What is the difference between judicial independence and judicial impartiality? Which is more important, in your opinion?
5. Go to the United Nations document "Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers" at and determine whether any of the model nations would have a compliance problem with the principles. What principles would be most problematic? For what countries?