The Role of the Courts: Judicial Ethics & Recusal

The Nashville Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

  • Professor Ronald Rotunda, Doy & Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Chapman University School of Law

Speaker:

  • Professor Ronald Rotunda, Doy & Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Chapman University School of Law

Professor Ronald Rotunda is the Doy & Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Chapman University School of Law. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a member of Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge Walter R. Mansfield of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and served as assistant majority counsel for the Watergate Committee. He has co-authored the most widely used course book on legal ethics, Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility, and is the author of a leading course book on constitutional law, Modern Constitutional Law. He was a Fulbright Professor in Venezuela in 1986 and a Fulbright Research Scholar in Italy in 1981. In 1996 he assisted the Czech Republic in drafting the first Rules of Ethics for lawyers in that country.

Cost: $10 at the door, lunch will be served. Approved for 1 Hour Dual CLE Credit.

Please RSVP by February 15, 2012 to [email protected].