Conference: Raising the Bar: Lawyers & Leadership

The Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession will host Raising the Bar: Lawyers & Leadership from February 10-11, 2017.

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Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Professional Responsibility; Legal Profession. 

Call for Papers: International Legal Ethics Conference VII

The International Association of Legal Ethics is seeking papers/proposals for its conference, The Ethics & Regulation of Lawyers Worldwide: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, on July 14-16, 2016 at the Stein Center for Law and Ethics at Fordham law School in New York City. Topics should identify within one of the 8 streams listed, here.

To submit a paper or program proposal, go here. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Topics: Calls for Papers; International Law; Professional Responsibility.

National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism Workshop: Fellowship Application Process Now Open

The Fall 2013 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) will take place Friday, November 15 – Sunday, November 17, 2013 in Atlanta.  The workshop theme is: “Are We Making a Difference? Developing Outcome Measures to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Law School Efforts to Teach Ethics and Develop Professionalism.”

Fellows must be able to arrive at the Atlanta airport no later than 11:00 AM on Friday, November 15 (or, if driving, at the conference facility by 12:30 pm) and commit to participate to the end of the workshop at 2:00 PM on Sunday, November 17. The Fall 2013 workshop is co-sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism. Former NIFTEP Fellows are welcome to apply.

Deadline:  the review of applications will begin on June 3 and decisions will be made by June 28.  Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their applications by June 3 for the limited number of fellowships (10 or less for this workshop).  For more details, go here.

Topics: Fellowships; Professional Responsibility; Legal Education

Consumer Protection Round Table Discussion

This event will be sponsored by Suffolk University Law School, MASSPIRG and the Massachusetts Consumers’ Coalition and will be held at Suffolk University Law School on Friday, June 14, 2013 from 10AM-11:30AM.  RSVP by June 5, 2013 to Deirdre Cummings, MASSPIRG, 617-747-4319, dcummings@masspirg.org Space is limited, by invitation only.

Topics: Consumer & Financial Services Law; Conference and Symposia

Fellowship Applications: Workshops of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism

Fellowship applications are now open for the Spring 2012 and Summer 2012 workshops of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism.  The Spring 2012 workshop will take place on June 22-24, 2012 in Seattle, Washington and the Summer 2012 workshop will take place on July 10-12, 2012 and will immediately precede the International Legal Ethics Conference V in Banff, Alberta, Canada. 

To apply for the Spring workshop, go here, and for the Summer workshop, go here.  Applications will be reviewed starting March 8th and selection decisions will be made by March 23rd.  For more information, go here. 

Topics: Conferences and Symposia; Fellowships; Professional Responsibility; Teaching News

Conference: Institutional Corruption

The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics will host this conference on Saturday, February 4, 2012.  The conference will be held at Harvard Law School, Milstein East, Wasserstein Building, 2nd floor, from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. (View Map).  No ticket is required.  Free and open to the public.  Breakfast and lunch will be available to registered participants.  For more information and to register for this event, go here.

Topics: Conferences and Symposia; Professional Responsibility

Fellowship Applications Are Now Open: Workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism

Fellowship applications are now open for the Fall 2011 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism.  You may access the online application directly here.   Organizers expect to begin reviewing applications on September 12 and plan to make selection decisions by September 26. Therefore, applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their applications by September 12 for the limited number of fellowships (usually only 14 total).

The Fall 2011 workshop of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) will take place on Saturday, November 12 – Monday, November 14, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA).  For more details, go here.

Topics: Professional Responsibility; Fellowships; Conferences & Symposia; Teaching

Call for Papers Deadline – Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility

Submissions and nominations of articles are now being accepted for the second annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility. The committee will select from among articles in the field of Professional Responsibility with a publication date of 2011. The prize will be awarded at the 2012 AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.  Send submissions and nominations to Professor Samuel Levine at Touro Law Center: slevine@tourolaw.edu. The deadline for submissions and nominations is Sep. 1, 2011.

Topics: Calls for Papers; Professional Responsibility

Andy Perlman quoted in the ABA Journal

Andy Perlman was quoted in “Ethics 20/20 Commission Seeks Feedback on Ethics-Related Choice of Law Issues.” This article was posted to the ABAJournal.com on January 19, 2011. To read the full article, go here.

Topics: Faculty in the News; Professional Responsibility

JUSTICE: WHAT’S THE RIGHT THING TO DO? A Public Lecture and Symposium on Michael J. Sandel’s Recent Book

This lecture and symposium will be held October 14, 2010 at Boston University School of Law.  For more details, go here.

Topics: Conferences & Symposia; Professional Responsibility