He is the author, most recently, of "Stop and Frisk, Judicial Independence, and the Ironies of Improper Appearances," in the forthcoming issue of the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics.
It's a wrong appearance when a group of senators appear in a meeting with a group of regulators, because it conveys the impression of undue and improper influence.
They include improper disclosure, the appearance of unusually favorable dates to begin or halt selling, and plans where excessive discretion is used.
Transgressions are heavily chewed over on the Web, doing no good for the reputation of a paper trying to protect its integrity from even the appearance of improper influence.
After passage of the law overhauling the nation's financial regulations, the federal agencies responsible for writing the rules are striving for transparency to avoid the appearance of improper coziness with lobbyists, bankers and executives in the financial services industry.
But what happens when almost half the population has been convinced that the media's inherent liberalism creates an appearance of improper bias?
As Lawrence Lessig stresses, it is the appearance of improper influence that so plagues the U.S. Congress and sullies any trust it could have with the people who elect it.
"I am aware that the indications have generated the appearance of something improper, something that in reality did not occur," Peña Nieto said last Tuesday.
Specifically, it said that even though neither of them violated any Senate rule, their conduct "gave the appearance of being improper".
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