Scholarship Update
An interesting application of the research on behavioral ethics to adoption lawyers: Malinda L. Seymore, Ethical Blind Spots in Adoption Lawyering, University of Richmond Law Review (2019),...
View ArticleThe CLE of BLE
Two of the audiences for this blog are teachers of legal ethics who want to explore the behavioral aspects of ethical decision-making with their students and practicing attorneys who grapple with...
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Congratulations to the Practising Law Institute for winning a Gold Award, the highest level of recognition, in the “Best Use of Video for Learning” category in the Brandon Hall Group’s Excellence...
View Article2019 ComplianceNet Conference
Behavioral ethics has forceful implications for the compliance world, as many leaders in the field have demonstrated (for a sampling, see works by Donald Langevoort, Scott Killingsworth, Jeff Kaplan,...
View ArticleDebating Debate (repost)
Many lawyers started on their path toward law in high school and college — as members of an organized debate team, arguing one side and then the other of the annual national resolution. For me it was...
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Two important works on behavioral ethics have been posted recently. The first is by Professor Eyal Zamir, a leading scholar on the application of behavioral science to legal decision-making, who makes...
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Professor Donald Langevoort from Georgetown Law, a leading scholar on the application of behavioral science in the corporate context, has posted an important new work, Gatekeepers, Cultural Captives,...
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Professor Russell Korobkin from UCLA School of Law has posted an important new article, Behavioral Ethics, Deception, and Legal Negotiation. Abstract Research in the field of behavioral ethics finds...
View ArticleReminder: Motivated Reasoning and Legal Ethics
A reminder to anyone who teaches legal ethics that the interactive video program, Motivated Reasoning and Legal Ethics, is available free to law professors from the Practising Law Institute. This...
View ArticleShort Primer on Motivated Reasoning and Legal Ethics
Here is a short primer on Motivated Reasoning and Legal Ethics, published in the PLI Chronicle. This is a companion to the interactive video on the same subject, which is available here. The co-authors...
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