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The University of Chicago Law School Roundtable is pleased to announce its Winter 2001 symposium: The History of Legal Ethics: How the Past Shapes and Informs the Law’s Codes of Ethics. The symposium is at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, February 9, 2001, at the University of Chicago Law School, Courtroom, 1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL. Presentations will be divided into two panels, divided by a brief intermission. Question and answer sessions will follow the presentations of each panel. The symposium will conclude at 7:00 p.m., with a reception to follow. All are welcome, and neither reservations nor tickets are needed.
As the University of Chicago’s interdisciplinary legal journal, the Roundtable is dedicating a special issue to the history of ethics. At the February 9 panels, the participants will briefly present papers, which the Roundtable will publish this spring in the special edition. Included articles draw from history as remote as the Middle Ages and as current as the 1960s. Participants and their topics or working titles where available are:
Paul Brand (Oxford University): “Ethical Standards for Royal Justices in England, c. 1175-1307”
Susan Carle (American University): “From Buchanan to Button: Legal Ethics and the NAACP (Part II)”
Jacob Corre (Chicago-Kent College of Law): “Notes on the Prehistory of Rule 11”
Richard Helmholz (University of Chicago): “The History of Legal Ethics: Money and Judges in the Law of the Medieval Church”
Michael Krauss (George Mason University): History of the “Hired Gun”
John Leubsdorf (Rutgers University): French legal ethics
Judith Maute (University of Oklahoma): Changing expectations of lawyers’ pro bono contributions
Richard Painter (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “The Ethics of Evaluating other People’s Ethics: Lessons from the Brandeis Confirmation Hearings”
Russ Pearce (Fordham University): “Lawyers as America’s Governing Class: The History of an Ideology”
Jonathan Rose (Arizona State University): “Of Ambidexters and Daffidowndillies: Defamation of Lawyers, Legal Ethics, and Profession Reputation”
Chuck Wolfram (Cornell University): Legalization of American legal ethics; (Prof. Wolfram will submit an article, but is unable to attend the symposium)
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