Professional Responsibility (Buzzard)
Faculty
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| Greg Buzzardgbuzzard@gmail.com |
Additional Information
Skills Training
Other Professional Skills:
Grading
100% Other (Students’ grades in this course will be based on a final exam, worth 100 points total, administered at the end of the semester. Additionally, per the instructor's attendance policy, each unexcused absence from class will result in a 2-percentage point reduction in the student’s raw score (i.e., a student who achieves a perfect raw score of 100 on the final exam, but has one unexcused absence, will receive a final raw score of 98). Excused absences will not result in any reduction.)
Exam
Essay,
Take Home,
Open-Book
No
Class meets in person.
Course Continuity
Students are encouraged to stay home if you are ill or experience flu-like symptoms. If you miss a class for any reason, it is still your responsibility to make up the work missed.
I offer the following to students who miss class due to illness:
- Class sessions are regularly recorded. I will make these recordings routinely available on the course site to everyone in the class.
Meeting Times/Location
T 6:40PM - 8:30PM
Gittis Hall 213
Category
Upper-Level
Credits
2.0
Professional Responsibility explores the ethical challenges lawyers face in the practice of law, and the legal and practical implications of ethical (or unethical) decision-making. Students learn about these topics through examination of the American Bar Association Model Rules of Professional Conduct (ABA Model Rules); versions of the ABA Model Rules that have been adopted by state supreme courts; and state judicial opinions that interpret and enforce those rules. Given the profession’s important role within the justice system, this course also considers the broader policy and societal implications that underpin and inform our understanding of lawyers’ ethical responsibilities to clients, courts, and opposing parties. Finally, although disciplinary matters are largely the responsibility of state supreme courts, this course examines federal judicial opinions that implicate ethical issues in the practice of law, ranging from judicial recusals to First Amendment considerations to the use of Artificial Intelligence when representing clients.
Professional Responsibility and Ethics Learning outcomes: Demonstrate an understanding of how the law affects, and is affected by, the individual course topic; Perform legal analysis in the context of the individual course topic; Communicate effectively on the legal and other aspects of the individual course topic; Demonstrate the ability to use other disciplines to analyze legal issues relevant to the individual course topic, including economics, philosophy, and sociology, as appropriate.