Professors Tigran Eldred (New England) and Jim Milles (Buffalo) have created a new listserv devoted to the discussion of behavioral insights about legal ethics. The listserv grows out of a recent (and terrific) conference at UNLV on Psychology and Lawyering organized by Jean Sternlight. Here's the announcement from Tigran:
As many LEF readers are aware, there has been growing recognition throughout the profession of the importance of a behavioral approach to legal ethics. Scholarship over the last decade – including two recent articles here and here -- has demonstrated how unethical behavior is often the result of ethical blind spots rather than intentional misconduct. Situational forces, many of which are subtle and hard to detect, exert significant influence on behavior as well. At the recently concluded conference on Law and Psychology at UNLV, a number of ethics experts presented on these and related topics, reinforcing that the time is right for a more sustained discussion on behavioral legal ethics. To that end, a new listserv has been set up to facilitate discussion on a broad array of topics, including teaching behavioral legal ethics in the law school classroom; application of behavioral research in the areas of compliance, ethical infrastructure of firms, the situations confronting solo practitioners and small practice settings, the disciplinary process, and other aspects of the profession; highlighting new and interesting social science research findings; announcements of new legal scholarship in the area and relevant conferences, etc.
The list is open and can be joined here for anyone who is interested: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=behavioral-legal-ethics-list&A=1
Questions can be sent to Tigran Eldred (teldred@nesl.edu) or James Milles (jgmilles@buffalo.edu).