Washburn Law Journal
Editor's Note
Volume 43, No. 1 (Fall 2003)
Each year the Foulston Siefkin law firm sponsors a lecture for the Washburn University School of Law students and faculty. Mark A. Sargent, Dean of the Villanova University School of Law delivered the 2003 lecture, "Lawyers in the Perfect Storm: Sarbanes-Oxley / § 307 and Corporate Lawyering Post Enron." Dean Sargent authors the lead article, Lawyers in the Perfect Storm, based on this lecture. Professor Thomas Ross responds to Sargent's article with a look at law firms' ethical responsibilities to their client, the corporate entity.
Continuing the Sarbanes-Oxley theme, Professor Professor Arnold Rochvarg compares the Enron scandal with the Watergate scandal in Enron, Watergate and the Regulation of the Legal Profession. In this article, Professor Rochvarg reviews the new rules of professional conduct that emerged in the wake of both scandals. In Accounting, Auditing and Audit Committees After Enron, et al.: Governing Outside the Box Without Stepping Off the Edge in the Modern Economy, Professor Perry E. Wallace examines the impact of corporate governance reforms on accountants, auditors, and audit committees. Professor Wallace concludes that recent reforms may decrease the frequency of and degree of harm caused by corporate misconduct.
J. Michael Milo from the Utrecht University, The Netherlands, delivered the Logan property lecture at Washburn in 1999. Professor Milo contributes a review of retention of title from this lecture. Professor Milo explores directives of the European legislature, European property law systems, and retention of title issues in Retention of Title in European Business Transactions.
Finally, three student pieces complete this issue. In A Winning Hand or Time to Fold? State Taxation of Fuel Sales on Kansas Indian Reservations, Luke Spellmeier discusses state tax on fuel sold on reservations in Kansas. Shannon Bell authors a comment on the application of the Heart Amendment in workers' compensation claims in Cold-Hearted Application of the Heart Amendment Leaves Kansas Workers' Compensation Claimants Gasping. Andrea Walker explores the use of biblical arguments by prosecutors in North Carolina death penalty cases in "The Murderer Shall Surely Be Put to Death": The Impropriety of Biblical Arguments in the Penalty Phase of Capital Cases.
R.K.C.
