AALS CFP: Professional Responsibility 2018 Works In Progress

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AALS Section on Professional Responsibility Call for Papers – 2018 AALS Annual Meeting  

The AALS Section on Professional Responsibility invites papers for its program “Professional Responsibility 2018 Works in Progress Workshop” at the AALS Annual Meeting in San Diego. Two papers will be selected from those submitted.  

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:  

This workshop will be an opportunity to test ideas, work out issues in drafts and interrogate a paper prior to submission. It will pair each work in progress scholar with a more senior scholar in the field who will lead a discussion of the piece and provide feedback. Successful papers should engage with scholarly literature and make a meaningful original contribution to the field or professional responsibility or legal ethics.  

ELIGIBILITY:  

Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submit papers. Preference will be given to junior scholars focusing their work in the area of professional responsibility and legal ethics. Pursuant to AALS rules, faculty at fee-paid law schools, foreign faculty, adjunct and visiting faculty (without a full-time position at an AALS member law school), graduate students, fellows, and non-law school faculty are not eligible to submit. Please note that all faculty members presenting at the program are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.  

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:  

Two papers will be selected by the Section’s Executive Committee for presentation at the AALS annual meeting.  

There is no formal requirement as to the form or length of proposals. However, the presenter is expected to have a draft for commentators one month prior to the beginning of the AALS conference.  

The paper MUST be a work in progress and cannot be published at the time of presentation. It may, however have been accepted for publication and be forthcoming.  

DEADLINE:  

Please email submissions to Ben Edwards, Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, at ben.edwards.unlv@gmail.com on or before September 30, 2017. The title of the email submission should read: “Submission – 2018 AALS Section on Professional Responsibility.” 

 

Comments

[Deep State Special Legal Counsel]

Educate me please. Why are attorney ethics soooooo complicated that one needs to submit papers? Seems pretty straight forward to a Solo like me. 1. Don't steal from clients. 2. Don't sleep those clients or employees 3. Don't neglect client matters. 4. Don't lie to a Judge. Simple. Done. Paper not necessary. Just a few sentences.