3rd Annual symposium on the teaching of legal ethics and scholarship
Building on the two highly successful Symposia held in Halifax in 2006 and in Edmonton in 2007, this Symposium will consolidate our development from an information-sharing and planning exercise to an expanding forum for meaningful review of teaching, scholarship and analysis of rapidly emerging developments in the field of legal ethics, both in the academy and in the legal profession itself. It is an informal gathering of teachers and scholars in this area from law faculties across the country.
The 3rd Symposium comes at a critical time for legal ethics educators, both in terms of the increase in professional interest in the subject matter and in the degree of teaching and scholarly activity in the field in Canada. There has been a tremendous increase in jurisprudence in the field lately, and the profession has taken a renewed interest in Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility instruction in law school and within the legal profession itself.
We have planned sessions that will address and investigate recent important developments in the field, including
- a pre-conference session dealing with recent developments on the subject of conflicts of interest,
- a workshop focused around a newly published national casebook in the field,
- the US experience with legal ethics teaching and scholarship and
- perspectives of the judiciary and the legal profession relating to legal ethics teaching and scholarship.
Our intention is also to discuss the significance of various external factors related to legal education, including the implications of law school rankings, and their impact on the ‘ethical environment’ of law schools.
