ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS

Conference on New Ideas for Law School Teachers:
Teaching Intentionally
June 10-14, 2006
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Monday, June 12, 2006
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions

INNOVATIVE METHODS FOR TEACHING ETHICS AND PROFESSIONALISM
Web site: http://law.gsu.edu/ccunningham/Professionalism/NIFTEP/AALS06-SessionDescription.htm

The presenters for this session are:
Clark D. Cunningham, W. Lee Burge Professor of Law & Ethics, Georgia State University College of Law (Atlanta)
Timothy Mahoney, Professor of Philosophy, Providence College (Rhode Island); and
John Berry, Executive Director, State Bar of Michigan (Lansing).

Cunningham is the Director of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (NIFTEP) and chairs the Selection Committee for the National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism, awarded annually by the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism and the Conference of Chief Justices. Mahoney, who teaches business ethics, received his PhD in philosophy after a successful career in accounting and finance; he is part of the team that grades the Chartered Financial Analyst examination administered worldwide. Berry is the Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism; he received the ABA Michael Franck Award for achievement in lawyer ethics in 2001 and is the former director of the Center of Professionalism at the University of Florida College of Law.

The session will summarize innovative teaching methods from three sources: the inaugural NIFTEP workshop in 2005; the past three years of applications for the national award for teaching professionalism; and a survey of all American law schools on teaching professionalism conducted recently by the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism.

National Award for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching Professionalism (home page)
-- Selected Applications from 2004 - 2006

National Institute for Teaching Ethics & Professionalism (NIFTEP) (home page)
-- Program from the Inaugural Workshop (2005)

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility : go to home page to download Report on A Survey of Law School Professionalism Programs (pdf file).

Cunningham: Professional Responsibility - Heroes & Villains (Spring 06 course web site)
"Whether to Go to the Supreme Court" -- Bringing a Real-Life Ethical Dilemma into the Classroom
Student email from Spring 06