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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Choosing a Casebook: Professional Responsibility
Please use the comments section to share thoughts on choosing a casebook in Professional Responsibility. (See here and here for a discussion of the Course Preparation Project.)
Posted by Matt Bodie on May 10, 2007 at 04:36 PM in Teaching Law | Permalink
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With help from participants on the legal ethics listserv, I generated this (surprisingly long) list of basic PR texts, which I hope will be useful for this discussion. I am also compiling a list of supplemental texts, but that seems beyond the scope of this project. If there is one supplement I'd recommend, it's James L. Kelley's "Crossing Lines," which has nine well chosen stories about ethics in different practice areas. (Personally, I use my own materials.)
Cochran/Collett
Coquillette
Crystal
Devine et al.
Dzienkowski/Burton
Gillers
Hayden
Hazard, et al.
Kaufman/Wilkins
Lerman/Schrag
Martyn/Fox
Moliterno
Morgan/Rotunda
Noonan/Painter
Patterson
Pirsig/Kirwin
Rhode (Pervasive)
Rhode/Luban
Schwartz Wydick et al.
Shaffer
Simon, et al.
Sutton/Dzienkowski
Wydick, Perschbacher et al.
Zitrin/Langford /Tarr
Posted by: John Steele | May 11, 2007 4:12:08 PM
I would be eager to hear others' thoughts on this subject. I have taught PR twice and used two different books, and neither was quite what I was looking for. I am looking for a casebook in this area that concentrates on cases rather than problems, but that is well-suited to a professor-added problem approach and perhaps includes *some* problems, either in the main text or in the teacher's manual.
Posted by: Paul Horwitz | May 11, 2007 12:23:55 PM
I recommend using a casebook that doesn't focus solely on the rules, which can quickly drop the average pulse rate in the class to 12. Students love, and benefit by, exposure to readings on the state of the legal profession, the pressures of firm life, etc. I think many (most?) of the current casebooks have improved on that front. I've always used Kaufman and Wilkins (Carolina Press).
Posted by: Rob Vischer | May 11, 2007 12:02:19 PM
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