Ethics

(That's ILEC4, for those of you who are fond of acronyms.)  The Stanford Center on the Legal Profession has put out a call for papers for the Fourth International Legal Ethics Conference, to be held July 15-17, 2010, in Palo Alto, California.  The theme is "Legal Ethics in Times of Turbulence."  According to the call for papers, topics that fall under the conference theme include (without limitation), the advocate's role, conditions of legal practice, bar regulatory structures, access to justice, diversity, cause lawyering, client relationships, conflicts of interest, and globalization. 

Long-time readers will recognize this conference as the next in a biennial series of conferences that have taken place in Exeter, England; Auckland, New Zealand; and Gold Coast, Australia.  As an attendee of all of these conferences, I have been excited to see them grow in scale and prominence.  The last conference, ILEC3, has led to several volumes of conference papers, the first of which will be published later this year by Routledge. 

The conference organizers have suggested two different tracks for submission, individual papers and proposed sessions with multiple participants.  Individual paper proposals should be submitted directly to the conference organizers, but maybe readers of the blog will find it useful to propose session topics here in the comments.  Alternatively, we can post panel proposals separately on the blog, as I will do now with Richard Devlin's session on conflicts of interest.  In any event, proposals are due October 1, 2009, with priority given to submissions received before September 1, 2009. 

Just to be clear, I am not playing any organizing role in this conference.  Questions should be addressed to legalprofession@law.stanford.edu.