Speakers
Keynote Speakers
The Honourable Justice Paul de Jersey AC
Chief Justice of Queensland
Professor David Luban
University Professor, Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy
David Luban joined the faculty of Georgetown University Law Center in 1997, coming from the University of Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy and its School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Chicago and PhD in philosophy from Yale University, and taught philosophy at Yale and Kent State Universities, before moving to Maryland. He has held visiting appointments in law at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale Law Schools, and visiting appointments in philosophy at Dartmouth College and the University of Melbourne. In 1982 he was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institutes in Frankfurt and Hamburg. In addition, Luban has been a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. Other awards include the Keck Fellowship for distinguished scholarship in legal ethics, the Sanford D. Levy award of the New York State Bar Association, and Georgetown's Frank Flegal teaching award.
Luban has published numerous books and articles, most recently Legal Ethics and Human Dignity (Cambridge UP, forthcoming in 2007). He writes on legal ethics, legal theory, international criminal law, just war theory, and, most recently, US torture policy.
His courses include American Legal Profession, International Criminal Law, Legal Justice, and several seminars (most recently a seminar on Just and Unjust Wars). He has also taught in the Center for Applied Legal Studies, Georgetown's political asylum clinic.
Professor Deborah Rhode
Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, Stanford University
Deborah Rhode is one of the United States' leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and professional responsibility. A prolific author of articles and books on the regulation and reform of the legal profession, she has headed Stanford Law School's Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession, and is the founding director of Stanford University's Center on Ethics. Professor Rhode is also a renowned scholar on the legal status of women and feminist approaches to jurisprudence, and has served as chair of the American Bar Association Commission on Women and the Profession, and director of Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender. A former president of the Association of American Law Schools, Professor Rhode is also a regular columnist for the National Law Journal. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1979, she was a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and Judge Murray Gurfein of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Key Publications
- Deborah L. Rhode, Access to Justice, New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Deborah L. Rhode and David Luban, Legal Ethics, New York, NY: Foundation Press, 4th edition, 2004. 1044 pages.
- Deborah L. Rhode, Pro Bono in Principle and Practice, 53 Journal of Legal Education 413-464 (2003).
- Katharine T. Bartlett, Angela P. Harris, and Deborah L. Rhode, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine and Commentary., New York, NY: Aspen Law and Business, 3rd edition, 2002. 1337 pages.
- Deborah L. Rhode, Speaking of Sex: the Denial of Gender Inequality, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 341 pages.
Guest Speakers
The Honourable Ian Callinan, AC QC,
Former Justice of the High Court of Australia
Invited Speakers
Professor Kim Economides
Professor of Legal Ethics, School of Law, University of Exeter
Kim Economides is Professor of legal Ethics and a former Head of Exeter School of Law (1999-2004). He was Acting Director of the Centre for Legal Practice (2005-2006) prior to the Centre's transfer to the University of Plymouth. Since joining the School of Law in 1979 he has developed his interest in the education, work and values of the legal profession. Before coming to Exeter he was a researcher on the Florence Access to Justice Project based at the European University Institute in Italy. He was Co-Director of the ESRC-funded Access to Justice in Rural Britain Project (1983-1987) and from 1993-95 was seconded as Education Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education & Conduct (ACLEC). He is Founding General Editor of the international journal Legal Ethics and currrently Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Hamlyn Trust. He serves on local, national and international committees concerned with legal education and legal services and, most recently, in 2006 was appointed Specialist Adviser to the Joint Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill.
Professor W. Bradley Wendel
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School, Cornell University
Education
- B Arts, Rice University, 1991
- D Jurisprudence, Duke University Law School, 1994
- M Laws, 1998 and D Juridical Science, 2002, Columbia University Law School
Professor Wendel joined the Cornell faculty in 2004, after teaching at Washington and Lee Law School from 1999-2004. Before entering graduate school and law teaching, he was a product liability litigator at Bogle and Gates in Seattle and a law clerk for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. His teaching interests are in the regulation of the legal profession and torts, and his research focuses on the application of moral and political philosophy to problems of legal ethics.
Professor Allan C. Hutchinson
Distinguished Research Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
B Laws (London), M Laws (Manchester), D Laws (Manchester), Barrister of Gray's Inn, and of the Bar of Ontario, FRSC
A member of Osgoode's faculty since 1982, Professor Allan Hutchinson served as Associate Dean from 1994 to 1996 and later, in 2003, he was named Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies and External Relations). Professor Hutchinson is a legal theorist with an international reputation for his original and provocative writings. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and named a Distinguished Research Professor by York University in 2006.
His research interests are
- law and politics
- legal theory
- the legal profession
- constitutional law
- torts
- jurisprudence
- civil procedure
- racism and law
- public law
As well as publishing in most of the common law world's leading law journals, he has written or edited many books. Much of his work has been devoted to examining the failure of law to live up to its democratic promise. His latest publication is Evolution and the Common Law (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Other prominent speakers
Dr. Christine Parker
Dr. Christine Parker is an ARC Australian Research Fellow and also Associate Professor and Reader at the Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia. She is one of Australia’s leading legal ethics writers and teachers. In 1997 she published her doctoral research on lawyers’
ethics, self-regulation and access to justice—Just Lawyers (Oxford). In 2007, with co-author Adrian Evans, she published Inside Lawyers’ Ethics (Cambridge), a practical introduction to critical social ethics for Australian lawyers. She is also internationally known for her research,
writing and consultancy work on corporate compliance, business ethics and the impact of regulatory enforcement, including her 2002 book, The Open Corporation (Cambridge). She is currently beginning a major international research project investigating the implementation and
impact of ethical infrastructure in large law firms with Adrian Evans, Linda Haller, Suzanne LeMire, Reid Mortensen and international collaborators.
Associate Professor Adrian Evans
Adrian Evans has taught, practised law and consulted in clinical and legal ethics education contexts for thirty years at LaTrobe and Monash Universities. He was coordinator of Springvale Monash Legal Service Inc. from 1988-2000, a site for Monash Law School’s clinical legal education programme, which is the oldest in Australia. He is both an academic and a legal practitioner, with teaching and managerial responsibilities in legal ethics, justice education and clinical case supervision. He has empirically examined and published in relation to ‘best practice’ ethics in law firms, fidelity compensation, ‘quality’ clinical-traditional links in law teaching, client attitudes to lawyers and values development in legal practitioners. Adrian has been closely involved in the development of Australian clinical legal education and the Global Alliance for Justice Education (GAJE). He is currently working on the ethical climate in large law firms and the feasibility of securing the future of legal professionals through enhanced processes of ethics assessment and accreditation.
Adrian is a recipient of the Monash Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, is a Co-Chair of the Professional Ethics Committee of the International Bar Association and the Convenor of Legal Practice Programs at Monash Law School.