Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Jan. 10, 2020
Teaching professional responsibility isn’t easy
Teaching the required course in professional responsibility, an anodyne title for legal ethics, I always face the same issue at the beginning of the semester.
Frank H. Wu
President Designate
Queens College
Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.
Teaching the required course in professional responsibility, an anodyne title for legal ethics, I always face the same issue at the beginning of the semester. Students, no different than most of us, assume only people who are dimwitted, corrupt, or both will face problems. Yet the compelling cases often involve members of the bar who are smart and virtuous, but, faced with a choice that might not even be regarded as a moral dilemma, made the situation worse. With hind...
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