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Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Study Aids

W. Bradley Wendel, Professional Responsibility: Examples & ExplanationsKF306 .W46 2020 - Study Aids, 1st Floor.

Grace M. Giesel, Mastering Professional ResponsibilityKF306 .G547 2009 - Study Aids, 1st Floor. E-Book available (2d. ed. 2015).

Ronald D. Rotunda, Legal Ethics in a Nutshell, KF 306 .R677 2018 - Study Aids, 1st Floor.

Monroe Freedman and Abbe Smith, Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics, KF306 .F76 2016 - Study Aids, 1st Floor. E-Book available (5th ed. 2016).

Restatement

A Restatement of the Law is a treatise that restates the common law for a particular subject of the law.

American Law Institute, Restatement (Third) of the Law Governing Lawyers, KF300 .R48 2000 - 2nd Floor. E-Book available.

Legal Ethics Treatises

General

Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. & W. William Hodes, The Law of Lawyering, KF306 .H33 2001 - 2nd Floor. Updated through 2013.

Ronald D. Rotunda & John Dzienkowski, Legal Ethics: The Lawyer’s Deskbook on Professional Responsibility, E-Book available on Westlaw. 


Judicial Conduct

Charles Gardner Geyh and Jeffrey M. Shaman, Judicial Conduct and Ethics, KF8779 .S47 2013 - 2nd Floor.


Dispute Resolution

Phyllis Bernard and Bryant G. Garth, Dispute Resolution Ethics, KF9084 .D578 2002 -2nd Floor.


Litigation

William H. Fortune et al., Modern Litigation and Professional Responsibility Handbook: The Limits of Zealous Advocacy, KF306 .F67 1996 - 2nd Floor.

Duffy Graham, The Consciousness of the Litigator, KF306 .G724 2005 - 2nd Floor.


Criminal Defense

John M. Burkhoff, Criminal Defense Ethics: Law and Liability, E-Book available on Westlaw. 

John Wesley Hall, Jr., Professional Responsibility in Criminal Defense PracticeE-Book available on Westlaw.  


Child Welfare

Jennifer L. Renne, Legal Ethics in Child Welfare Cases, KF3735 .R46 2004 - 2nd Floor.


Bankrutpcy

Jukka Kilpi, The Ethics of Bankruptcy, E-book available (2002).


Public Sector

Patricia E. Salkin, ed., Ethical Standards in the Public Sector, KF299 .G6 E87 2008 -2nd Floor. E-Book available.

Legal Periodicals

Legal periodicals focused on issues of ethics and professional responsibility.

  • ABA Journal of the Professional Lawyer
  • ABA The Professional Lawyer
  • Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review
  • Criminal Justice Ethics
  • Defense Counsel Journal
  • Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
  • Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics
  • Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy (Available here)
  • Journal of Law, Business & Ethics
  • Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics
  • Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy
  • St. Mary’s Journal on Legal Malpractice & Ethics
  • Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics

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