Alice Woolley is a thoughtful and brave scholar. (Check out her blogs on Slaw and ABlawg.)  In “Lawyers and the Rule of Law:  Independence of the bar, the Canadian constitution and the law governing lawyers” she takes on the substantive question of whether our constitution compels independence of the bar.  Alice has work that I think presses harder at the boundaries of legal ethics, and that I think better exemplifies her scholarly style and focus (check out her SSRN page here), but I’m suggesting this piece because it’s a topic that presumably all lawyers should know something about.  So read it.