Professor of Law
Co-Director, Center for Professional Values and Practice
LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
It's Not About Us: Beyond the Job Market Critique of U.S. Law Schools, 26 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS (forthcoming 2013) [link to PDF]
Organizational Alliances by U.S. Law Schools, 80 FORDHAM L. REV. 2615 (2012) [link to PDF]
Two Questions for Law Schools About the Future Boundaries of the Legal Profession, 36 J. LEGAL PROF. 329 (2012) [link to PDF]
Whose Ethics? The Benchmark Problem in Legal Ethics Research, in LAWYERS IN PRACTICE: ETHICAL DECISION MAKING IN CONTEXT, Leslie Levin & Lynn Mather, Eds. (2012) [link to PDF]
Queensland Law Firms Partner with
Regulators and Researchers to Improve Firms’ Ethical Culture,
JOTWELL: THE JOURNAL OF THINGS WE LIKE (LOTS), January 24, 2011 (article
review) [link to
PDF]
Measuring Law Firm Culture, in LAW, POLITICS AND SOCIETY: LAW FIRMS, LEGAL CULTURE, AND LEGAL PRACTICE (Austin Sarat, ed., 2010) [link to PDF]
New Sources of Managerial Authority in Large Law Firms, 22 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS 63 (2009) [link to PDF]
When Do Facts Persuade? Some Thoughts on the Market for "Empirical Legal Studies," 71 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 17 (2008) [link to PDF]
Some Realism About Bar Associations, 57 DEPAUL L. REV. 425 (2008) (with Bruce Green) [link to PDF]
The Professionalization of Law Firm In-House Counsel, 84 N.C. L. REV. 1515 (2006) [link to PDF]
The Nirvana Fallacy in Law Firm Regulation Debates, 33 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 119 (2005) [link to PDF]
The Shoe Still Fits, LEGAL AFFAIRS (September/October, 2005) [link to PDF]
The Scope of In-Firm Privilege, 80 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1721 (2005) [link to PDF]
A New Framework for Law Firm Discipline, 16 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS 335 (2003) (with David B. Wilkins) [link to PDF]
The Emerging Role of Ethics Advisors, General Counsel, and other Compliance Specialists in Large Law Firms, 44 ARIZ. L. REV. 559 (2002) (with David B. Wilkins) [link to PDF]
Promoting Effective Ethical Infrastructure in Large Law Firms: A Call for Research and Reporting, 30 HOFSTRA L. REV. 691 (2002) (with David B. Wilkins) [link to PDF]
MDPs: Toward an Institutional Strategy for Entity Regulation, 4 LEGAL ETHICS 45 (UK) (2002) [link to PDF]
Regulation of Lawyers, in INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES (Neil J. Smelser & Paul B. Baltes, eds., 2001) [link to PDF]
Professional Responsibility: Lawyers, a Case Study, 69 FORDHAM L. REV. 817 (2000) [link to PDF]
Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter's Legacy, 25 LAW & SOC. INQUIRY 41 (2000) (with Christopher Uggen) [link to PDF]
Organizational Determinants of Law Firm Integration, 46 AM. U.L. REV. 669 (1997) [link to PDF]
Title VII as a Displacement of Conflict, 6 TEMP. POL. & CIV. RTS. L. REV. 1 (1996) [link to PDF]
Legal Ambiguity and the Politics of Compliance: Affirmative Action Officers' Dilemma, 13 LAW & POL’Y 1 (1991) (with Lauren B. Edelman, Stephen Petterson & Howard S. Erlanger) [link to PDF]
The Process of Negotiation: An Exploratory Investigation in the Divorce Context, 40 RUTGERS L. REV. 1133 (1988) (with Marygold Melli & Howard S. Erlanger) [link to PDF]
Participation and Flexibility in Informal Processes: Cautions from the Divorce Context, 21 LAW & SOC’Y REV. 585 (1987) (with Howard S. Erlanger & Marygold Melli) [link to PDF]
RESEARCH REPORTS
IILP REVIEW 2011: THE STATE OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION, Elizabeth Chambliss, Ed. (Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession, 2011) [link to PDF]
MILES TO GO IN NEW YORK: MEASURING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DIVERSITY AMONG NEW YORK LAWYERS (New York State Bar Association Committee on Minorities in the Profession, forthcoming 2007)
MILES TO GO: PROGRESS OF MINORITIES IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION (American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, 2004)
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL REPORT ON THE STATE OF BLACK ALUMNI, 1869-2000 (Harvard Law School, 2002) (with David B. Wilkins, Lisa A. Jones & Haile Adamson)
MILES TO GO 2000: PROGRESS OF MINORITIES IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION (American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, 2000)
MILES TO GO: PROGRESS OF MINORITIES IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION (American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession, 1998)
BOOK REVIEWS
Susan P. Shapiro: Tangled Loyalties: Conflicts of Interest in Legal Practice, 32 CONTEMP. SOC. 456 (2003)
Roberts and Goliath, JURIST BOOKS-ON-LAW (November, 1998)
Margaret Thornton: Dissonance and Distrust: Women in the Legal Profession, 24 J.L. & SOC’Y 583 (1997)
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Assistant: Jessa Farkas
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College of Charleston, B.S. 1983 magna cum laude, Phi Beta
Kappa
University of Wisconsin-Madison, M.S. 1984, J.D. 1988 cum laude,
Order of the Coif, Ph.D. 1992
At New York Law School since 2004.