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Lawyers And Butlers: The Remains Of Amoral Ethics, W. Bradley Wendel

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Through The Looking Glass Of Ethics And The Wrong With Rights We Find There, Susan P. Koniak

Faculty Scholarship

An ethic that imposes strong obligations to protect those who are most powerful and capable of protecting themselves and weak obligations to protect the powerless and most vulnerable is wrong. I take it this first proposition is self-evident, at least for those of us who still feel comfortable speaking of right and wrong. For those more comfortable speaking of "efficiency" and "inefficiency," the inefficiency of such an ethical system should similarly be self-evident.

Instructing Judges: Ethical Experience And Educational Technique, Cynthia Gray, Frances Kahn Zemans

Law and Contemporary Problems

Most professional responsibility textbooks do not discuss judicial conduct, and not surprisingly, many judges find themselves unprepared for the ethical dilemmas they face when they make the transition from partisan advocate to neutral arbiter. Gray and Zemans discuss the nine-topic curriculum for judicial educators to use to teach judicial ethics to judges at programs for new judges, continuing judicial education courses and judicial conferences.

Annotated Bibliography Of Educational Materials On Legal Ethics, Deborah L. Rhode

Law and Contemporary Problems

Rhode presents an annotated bibliography that includes references to written and audiovisual materials for legal ethics courses and curricular integration projects.

Contextualizing Professional Responsibility: A New Curriculum For A New Century, Mary C. Daly, Bruce A. Green, Russell G. Pearce

Law and Contemporary Problems

Daly et al assert that professional responsibility has matured as a subject matter to the point where a new genre of courses should join the pervasive method and the traditional survey course. The new age of professaional responsibility will reflect intellectual maturity through the introduction of contextual course that are designed to nurture the development of reflective ethical judgment.

New Horizons In The Role Of Law Schools In Teaching Legal Ethics, Robert F. Drinan

Law and Contemporary Problems

Legal Ethics became a required course in the late 1970s; however, the requirement of this course both helped and hindered the development of the status of legal ethics as a respected discipline. The role of law schools in teaching legal ethics is explored.

Redefining The Professional In Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach To Teaching Professionalism, David B. Wilkins

Law and Contemporary Problems

For the last three years, the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession has been exploring the contemporary meaning of professionalism and developing new ways to impart the best aspects of this normative understanding to students. Wilkins reports on an intensive course involving both law students and medical students entitled "Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice: Physicians and Lawyers in Dialogue."

Seeing The Forest And The Trees: The Proper Role Of The Bankruptcy Attorney, Nancy B. Rapoport

Indiana Law Journal

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The Profession Of Law: Columbia Law School’S Use Of Experiential Learning Techniques To Teach Professional Responsibility, Carol Bensinger Liebman

Law and Contemporary Problems

Columbia Law School's ethics course, "The Profession of Law," is an interactive, experiential exploration of legal ethics. The course puts students in a role and asks them to deal, with issues that most of them are likely to encounter, and then the students are asked to reflect on what their role-playing performance has taught them about legal ethics.

Teaching Legal Ethics: Exploring The Continuum, Edmund B. Spaeth Jr., Janet G. Perry, Peggy B. Wachs

Law and Contemporary Problems

Spaeth et al assert that the only reason to teach legal ethics, or professional responsibility, is to try to make the legal profession more worthy of its stated ideals. The University of Pennsylvania Law School Center on Professionalism's efforts to achieve this are discussed.

Ethics With An Attitude: Comments On New Directions For Keck Philanthropy, Timothy P. Terrell

Law and Contemporary Problems

Terrell asserts that the W. M. Keck Foundation should turn its attention to a different set of challenges and opportunities involving legal ethics and the future of the legal profession. The education emphasis for the foundation should shift to the busy practitioner.

Teaching The Basic Ethics Class Through Simulation: The Northwestern Program In Advocacy And Professionalism, Robert P. Burns

Law and Contemporary Problems

The Northwestern University School of Law created and published a set of materials for teaching the basic ethics course principally through the simulation method. Burns provides a very compressed summary of the underlying program, describes the classes themselves and the mix of teaching methods professors employ, and briefly discusses the program materials.

Into The Valley Of Ethics: Professional Responsibility And Educational Reform, Deborah L. Rhode

Law and Contemporary Problems

For most of history, American legal education has aspired to teach professional responsibility by a pervasive method. Rhode charts efforts to realize that aspiration, not just in theory but in practice.

Professional Responsibility As A Lawyering Skill, Michael E. Wolfson

Law and Contemporary Problems

Little has been done to teach professional responsibility in a way that provides students with more than a mere sampling of rules and principles. In an attempt to move Beyond mere tinkering with the way professional responsibility is taught, Loyola Law School in Los Angeles restructured the way it taught the subject by creating a class that fully integrated ethics and lawyering skills into a single required course.

Ethics Education In The First Year: An Experiment, Stephen Mcg. Bundy

Law and Contemporary Problems

Bundy presents an account of the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law's experiment with teaching the required professional responsibility course in the first year. During this experiment, the faculty members involved in the course developed a strong set of teaching materials and a strong commitment to teaching from those materials.

Enriching The Legal Ethics Curriculum: From Requirement To Desire, Heidi Li Feldman

Law and Contemporary Problems

The faculty at the University of Michigan Law School has been attempting to increase students' awareness of the practical significance of legal ethics and the relationship between legal ethics and other areas of law. Feldman describes some of Michigan's innovations in the area of professional responsibility and outlines some of the plans to expand and improve the reforms already in place.

The University Of North Carolina Intergenerational Legal Ethics Project: Expanding The Contexts For Teaching Professional Ethics And Values, Walter H. Bennett Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

The University of North Carolina Law School Intergenerational Legal Ethics Project (UNC Project) is an effort to identify new course concepts and structures and other curricular innovations that can bring education in professional values to a deeper, more personal level. The UNC project includes the premise that ethical learning is deep, internal learning.

The Personal Dimension Of Professional Responsibility, John Mixon, Robert P. Schuwerk

Law and Contemporary Problems

The development of a professional responsibility course at the University of Houston Law Center that focused on the personal dimension of professional reponsibility is described. Mixon and Schuwerk present an evaluation of their experience with the course and a critique of that effort.

Paying Attention To The Signs, Susan P. Koniak, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Law and Contemporary Problems

Legal ethics is considered the step-child of legal education, and serious scholarship in legal ethics is considered somewhat of an oxymoron. Koniak and Hazard set out to produce materials that would help law students learn something about their responsibilities as lawyers and that would encourage a serious approach toward those responsibilities and the complexity of being an ethical person in an unredeemed and often unforgiving world.

Integrating Theory And Practice Into The Professional Responsibility Curriculum At The University Of Texas, John S. Dzienkowski, Sanford Levinson, Charles Silver, Amon Burton

Law and Contemporary Problems

Teaching ethics to large classes has always proved to be a great challenge for those who teach professional responsibility at the University of Texas. A new program at the University of Texas to improve the professional responsibility curriculum is discussed.

The Infusion Method At Ucla: Teaching Ethics Pervasively, Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Richard H. Sander

Law and Contemporary Problems

From the beginning, the focus on teaching about legal ethics and the legal profession at UCLA was on the diversity of ways of teaching and learning about different aspects of legal ethics and the legal profession.

Ethical Training In The Profession: The Special Challenge Of The Judiciary, V. Robert Payant

Law and Contemporary Problems

Although ethics for lawyers and ethics for judges have the same ultimate goal, the rules governing the two professions, the mechanisms for enforcement of these rules and the methods of training vary substantially. The National Judicial College is an institution with the specific mission to train judges.

Information Technology And Legal Ethics: Expanding The Teaching And Understanding Of Legal Ethics Through The Creation Of A New Generation Of Electronic Reference Materials, Roger C. Cramton, Peter W. Martin

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cramton and Martin present a very brief summary of the inward-looking elements of the Cornell Law School prorgam to improve the basic required course in professional ethics and to encourage the pervasive teaching of the subject throughout the law curriculum. The Cornell program focuses on the preparation and dissemination of electronic material on legal ethics on a state-by-state basis.

Paying Attention To The Signs, Susan P. Koniak, Geoffrey C. Hazard

Faculty Scholarship

After all our efforts and all Keck's money, where are we? Some good has been accomplished. By committing its resources to the study of legal ethics, the W.M. Keck Foundation has encouraged law schools to pay attention to a subject all too often ignored. That itself is good. The money has made things happen. Schools have held conferences devoted to legal ethics that otherwise would not have been held;¹ schools have experimented with teaching programs in legal ethics that otherwise might have been left untried;' members of the practicing bar have had conversations and debates with academics about the …

Who Is Right About Responsibility: An Application Of Rights Talk To Balla V. Gambro, Inc. And General Dynamics Corp. V. Rose, Justine Thompson

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Cross-Examining Legal Ethics: The Roles Of Intentions, Outcomes, And Character, R. George Wright

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Learning By Doing - Preparing Law Students For The Practice Of Law: The Legal Practicum, John O. Sonsteng, Roger S. Haydock

Faculty Scholarship

The MacCrate Report outlined ten skills that are essential for every practicing attorney and should ideally be taught in every law school. The Association of American Law Schools (AALS) concluded that these ten skills cannot be effectively obtained through every law school curriculum because of each school's individual, economic limitations. This article demonstrates how one law school—William Mitchell College of Law, in St. Paul, Minnesota—has , since 1984, incorporated a cost effective Legal Practicum course into its curriculum to help meet the MacCrate Report goal of providing the law student with the opportunity to learn and apply fundamental lawyering skills. …

Multiple Unities In The Law, Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

In a world newly in touch with its diversity, ethics must struggle with the impact difference has on coherence. There is a crucial dilemma more profound than how to avoid violating the canons of ethics, or how to dodge disciplinary proceedings. For the lawyer in a world of plural ethics—the dilemma posed by the primary tension in ethics today between reason and spirit.

There are multiple unities of meaning in which a lawyer works, a sort of multijurisdictionalism. These multiple unities, these many worlds, are emblematic of a time in which people are recognizing that multiculturalism is not a trendy …

Rambo As Potted Plant: Local Rulemaking's Preemptive Strike Against Witness-Coaching During Depositions, David H. Taylor

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.

Avoiding Error In Closing Argument, H. Patrick Furman

Publications

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