International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Peter A. Joy

Professor Joy is the Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic, was the inaugural Director of the Trial and Advocacy Program from 2002-06, and he also teaches Trial Practice & Procedure, the Legal Profession, and Comparative Legal Ethics Seminar. He serves on the Board of Editors for the Clinical Law Review, the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the Clinic and Skills Training Committee of the American Bar Association’s (ABA’s) Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the Executive Committee of the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility, and he consults with law professors starting clinical legal education programs in Japan. He received the 2001 AALS Pincus Award for contributions to clinical legal education. Professor Joy was a contributor to Best Practices for Legal Education, and he writes about legal education, legal ethics, lawyer and judicial professionalism, access to justice, and criminal justice issues. He is a contributing editor and co-authors an ethics column for the ABA publication Criminal Justice.