If you happen to be at the SEALS Annual Meeting, join us this afternoon for two terrific Professional Responsibility workshops plus a bonus panel tomorrow on the future of gender equality in the legal profession!
Thursday 1:30-3:15 PM
WORKSHOP ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Good Lawyers Don't Eat What They Kill: Professional Values and Personal Goals
This panel will discuss Eli Wald and Russel Pearce's forthcoming book entitled "Good Lawyers Don’t Eat What They Kill: A Guide for Reconciling Professional Values and Personal Goals.” Wald and Pearce are preeminent scholars in professional responsibility and the book and this panel will explore their nuanced and contextual approach to legal ethics and lawyering. Wald and Pearce argue that law schools, bar regulators, and the legal profession have been too reliant on an "autonomous self-interest" model, to the detriment of lawyers and the public at large. Wald and Pearce argue for relationally self-interested professionalism, which expands narrow self-interest to include the relationships and contexts that lawyers operate within, to the benefit of the individual, the profession, and the public.
Moderator: Professor Benjamin Barton, The University of Tennessee College of Law
Speakers: Professor Lonnie T. Brown, University of Georgia School of Law; Professor Ellen Murphy, Wake Forest University School of Law; Professor Russell Pearce, Fordham University School of Law
Thursday 3:30-6:30PM
WORKSHOP ON PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
Discussion Group: The Ethics of Legal Education
This discussion group picks up where the 2018 AALS Section on Professional Responsibility leaves off on the ethics of legal education. The group addresses the ethical challenges that U.S. law schools have faced during the past decade and considers the path ahead. Topics include accreditation decisions, admissions and scholarship practices, employment issues, for-profit law schools, and how law schools have or have not lived up to their ethical obligations recently. Some of us will have drafts we briefly present and some of us will just come ready to chat.
Moderator: Professor Benjamin Barton, The University of Tennessee College of Law
Discussants: Professor Benjamin Cooper, The University of Mississippi School of Law; Professor Bruce Green, Fordham University School of Law; Dean Matthew Kerns, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, William H. Bowen School of Law; Professor Renee Knake, University of Houston Law Center; Professor Milan Markovic, Texas A&M University School of Law; Professor Carol Needham, Saint Louis University School of Law; Professor Russell Pearce, Fordham University School of Law; Professor Veronica Root, University of Notre Dame Law School; Professor Paula Schaefer, The University of Tennessee College of Law
Friday 1:00 PM-2:45 PM
Perspectives on the Future of Gender Equality in the Legal Profession
This panel focuses on gender and equality throughout the legal profession. Panelists reflect historically about the exclusion of women and minorities, and consider the stories of those who have successfully ascended into positions of leadership and power and those who were overlooked despite their impeccable qualifications. Panelists also examine contemporary practices that disparately impact women and minorities, such as their appointment into academic leadership positions in times of crisis—in a context when these positions require harder work with fewer economic rewards. They speculate about what the future of the profession, creation of federal laws/policies, and judicial decision-making might look like with more diverse representation, and they consider how many of these phenomena exist not just in law, but across other professions.
Moderator: Professor Becky Jacobs, The University of Tennessee College of Law
Speakers: Professor Hannah Brenner, California Western School of Law; Professor Renee Knake, University of Houston Law Center; Professor Carla Pratt, Washburn Law School
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