W. Bradley Wendel

Publications

• The Good Lawyers of January 6
  46 CARDOZO L. REV. 2143 (2025) · Cardozo Law Review · 2025
• Where Were Purdue’s Lawyers? Lawyer Gatekeeping and Large-Scale Harms
  74 DEPAUL L. REV. 793 (2025) · DePaul Law Review · 2025
• The New Legal Ethics: The 2024 Howard Lichtenstein Distinguished Professorship in Legal Ethics Lecture
  52 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2024) · Hofstra Law Review · 2024
• In the Duty Wars, I'm Switzerland
  18 BROOK. J. CORP. FIN. & COM. L. 35 (2023) · Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law · 2023
• Malice or SNAFU? Punitive Damages and Organizational Culture Defects
  72 DEPAUL L. REV. 457 (2023) · DePaul Law Review · 2023
• Mitigation Reports in Capital Cases: Legal and Ethical Issues
  13 ST. MARY'S J. LEGAL MAL. & ETHICS 48 (2023) · St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics · 2023
• Complex Litigation Funding: Ethical Problem or Ethical Solution?
  74 UC L.J. 1459 (2023) · UC Law Journal · 2023
• Truthfulness and the Rule of Law
  35 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 795 (2021) · Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy · 2021

• The Problem of the Faithless Principal: Fiduciary Theory and the Capacities of Clients
  124 PENN ST. L. REV. 107 (2019) · Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present) · 2019
• Law and Nonlegal Norms in Government Lawyers' Ethics: Discretion Meets Legitimacy
  87 FORDHAM L. REV. 1995 (2019) · Fordham Law Review · 2019
• Paying the Piper But Not Calling the Tune: Litigation Financing and Professional Independence
  52 AKRON L. REV. (2019) · Akron Law Review · 2019
• The Promise and Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law
  72 OKLA. L. REV. 21 (2019) · Oklahoma Law Review · 2019
• Technological Solutions to Human Error and How They Can Kill You: Understanding the Boeing 737 Max Products Liability Litigation
  84 J. AIR L. & COM. 379 (2019) · Journal of Air Law and Commerce · 2019
• Campaign Contributions and Risk-Avoidance Rules in Judicial Ethics
  67 DEPAUL L. REV. (2018) · DePaul Law Review · 2018
• Economic Rationality and Ethical Values in Design-Defect Analysis: The Trolley Problem and Autonomous Vehicles
  55 CAL. W. L. REV. (2018) · California Western Law Review · 2018
• The Ordinary Heroism of Lawyers: A Tribute to Roger C. Cramton
  103 CORNELL L. REV. 1345 (2018) · Cornell Law Review · 2018
• Autonomy Isn't Everything: Some Cautionary Notes on McCoy v. Louisiana
  9 ST. MARY'S J. LEGAL MAL. & ETHICS 92 (2018) · St. Mary's Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics · 2018
• Government Lawyers in the Trump Administration
  69 UC L.J. 275 (2017) · UC Law Journal · 2017
• Sally Yates, Ronald Dworkin, and the Best View of the Law
  115 MICH. L. REV. ONLINE 78 (2017) · Michigan Law Review Online · 2017
• Whose Truth: Objective and Subjective Perspectives on Truthfulness in Advocacy
  28 YALE J. L. & HUMAN. (2017) · Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities · 2017
• Monroe Freedman: The Ethicist of the Non-Ideal
  44 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2016) · Hofstra Law Review · 2016
• Coming to Grips With the Ethical Challenges For Capital Post-Conviction Representation Posed by <i>Martinez v. Ryan</i>
  68 FLA. L. REV. 765 (2016) · Florida Law Review · 2016
• Alternative Litigation Finance and anti-Commodification Norms
  63 DEPAUL L. REV. 655 (2014) · DePaul Law Review · 2014
• Foreword: The Profession’s Monopoly and Its Core Values
  82 FORDHAM L. REV. 2563 (2014) · Fordham Law Review · 2014
• The ABA Guidelines and the Norms of Capital Defense Representation
  41 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2013) · Hofstra Law Review · 2013
• Duty in the Litigation-Investment Agreement: The Choice Between Tort and Contract Norms when the Deal Breaks Down
  66 VAND. L. REV. 1831 (2013) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2013
• Lawyering in the Christian Colony: Some Hauerwasian Themes, Reflections, and Questions
  75 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 1 (2012) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2012
• Explanation in Legal Scholarship: The Inferential Structure of Doctrinal Legal Analysis
  96 CORNELL L. REV. 1035 (2011) · Cornell Law Review · 2011
• Three Concepts of Roles
  48 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 547 (2011) · San Diego Law Review · 2011

• The Lawyer's Role in a Contemporary Democracy, Promoting the Rule of Law, Government Lawyers, Democracy, and The Rule of Law
  77 FORDHAM L. REV. 1333 (2009) · Fordham Law Review · 2009
• Deference to Clients and Obedience to Law: The Ethics of the Torture Lawyers (A Response to Professor Hatfield)
  Northwestern University Law Review · 2009
• Legal Ethics as Political Moralism or the Morality of Politics
  93 CORNELL L. REV. 1413 (2008) · Cornell Law Review · 2008
• Impartiality in Judicial Ethics: A Jurisprudential Analysis
  22 NOTRE DAME J. L. ETHICS & PUB. POL'Y 305 (2008) · Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy · 2008
• Moral Judgment and Professional Legitimation
  51 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. (2007) · Saint Louis University Law Journal · 2007
• Lawyers, Citizens, and the Internal Point of View
  75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1473 (2006) · Fordham Law Review · 2006
• Institutional and Individual Justification in Legal Ethics: The Problem of Client Selection
  34 HOFSTRA L. REV. (2006) · Hofstra Law Review · 2006
• Symposium Panel One: Does Corporate Decision Making Allow Room for Religious Values
  11 FORDHAM J. CORP. & FIN. L. 547 (2006) · Fordham Journal of Corporate & Financial Law · 2006
• Legal Ethics and the Separation of Law and Morals
  91 CORNELL L. REV. 67 (2005) · Cornell Law Review · 2005
• The Banality of Evil and the First Amendment
  102 MICH. L. REV. 1404 (2004) · Michigan Law Review · 2004
• Regulation of Lawyers Without the Code, the Rules, or the Restatement: Or, What Do Honor and Shame Have to do with Civil Discovery Practice?
  71 FORDHAM L. REV. 1567 (2003) · Fordham Law Review · 2003
• Busting the Professional Trust: A Comment on William Simon's Ladd Lecture
  30 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. (2003) · Florida State University Law Review · 2003
• Conflicts of Interest Under the Revised <i>Model Rules</i>
  81 NEB. L. REV. (2003) · Nebraska Law Review · 2003
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lawyer-Bashing: Some Post-Conferenc Reflections
  54 S. C. L. REV. (2003) · South Carolina Law Review · 2003
• Informal Methods of Enhancing the Accountability Lawyers
  54 S. C. L. REV. (2003) · South Carolina Law Review · 2003
• “Certain Fundamental Truths”: A Dialectic on Negative and Positive Liberty in Hate-Speech Cases
  65 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 33 (2002) · Law and Contemporary Problems · 2002
• Teaching Ethics in an Atmosphere of Skepticism and Relativism
  36 U. S. F. L. REV. (2002) · University of San Francisco Law Review · 2002
• Mixed Signals: Rational-Choice Theories of Social Norms and the Pragmatics of Explanation
  77 IND. L.J. (2002) · Indiana Law Journal · 2002
• Free Speech for Lawyers
  28 UC L. CONST. Q. 305 (2001) · UC Law Constitutional Quarterly · 2001
• Nonlegal Regulation of the Legal Profession: Social Norms in Professional Communities
  54 VAND. L. REV. 1953 (2001) · Vanderbilt Law Review · 2001
• Morality, Motivation, and the Professionalism Movement
  52 S. C. L. REV. (2001) · South Carolina Law Review · 2001
• Value Pluralism in Legal Ethics
  78 WASH. U. L. REV. 113 (2000) · Washington University Law Review · 2000

• Public Values and Professional Responsibility
  75 NOTRE DAME L. REV. (1999) · Notre Dame Law Review · 1999
• Rediscovering Discovery Ethics
  79 MARQ. L. REV. 895 (1996) · Marquette Law Review · 1996