You are a new hire at the Assistant Attorney General’s office, and the child of Syrian Immigrants. You were the first child in your family to graduate college, and you have made every effort to assimilate into your new culture. Your boss wants you to be the public face of the department in its new effort to punish “sanctuary cities.” You are strongly personally against the new program, but want to advance in your department, where you think you will be able to do more good. You also aren’t sure whether you are actually qualified for the job you are being asked to do. What are the ethical dilemmas at play here, and how will you resolve them?

Describe two teleological ethical systems and describe two deontological systems.

Imagine you have a time machine that was built for one purpose: to kill Adolf Hitler in the cradle. In the time machine are two other men from history: Jeremy Bentham and Immanuel Kant. Bentham has the gun, but Kant has the bullets. You need to convince each of them that what you are about to do is the ethical thing. What will you say to each of them? What will they say to you in return?

Imagine you work for the Innocence Project. You have determined, through the use of DNA evidence, that two men on death row are actually not guilty of the crime they are about to be executed for. The Supreme Court has refused to stay the verdict, and the Governor and President have refused a pardon. Describe two types of civil disobedience that you feel would be appropriate in this case, and why this situation would ethically merit civil disobedience.

You are a judge in a small town who is receiving a guest from a totalitarian country. She herself is a judge, and doesn’t understand the procedural protections that currently are in place that allows for due process. Explain to her the various kinds of procedural protections, which are the foundation of our legal system, and also be honest with her about what some of the shortcomings of the system might be in your eyes.

Imagine you are a defense attorney for an accused terrorist. The woman you are defending walked into a crowded mall, strapped with explosives. The explosives did not detonate, and upon her apprehension, she confessed that the reason she was to blow herself up is that she had terminal brain cancer and the organization who recruited her promised to take care of her infant son for his entire life. Write an opening argument before the judge that utilizes the work of Gilligan, Bandura, and neuroscientists.