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FUTURE
PLANS
CURRENT PROJECTS, continued ...Ethics Symposium Issue of Law Review: With the cooperation of the University of San Francisco Law Review, the CALE, led by Professor Joshua P. Davis, the center's faculty committee chair, developed a symposium issue of the law review, to be published in Fall 2002. The issue will focus on teaching values in law school. The issue's contributors include Professor Christopher Eisgruber, Princeton University; Professor Paul Tremblay, Boston College Law School; Professor W. Bradley Wendel, Washington and Lee University Law School; and Professor Joshua Rosenberg, University of San Francisco School of Law. The CALE also anticipates publishing other articles in the law review, including appropriate submissions to the Center's Legal Ethics Essay Contest.Legal Ethics Essay Contest: Starting in the 2002-2003 school year, the Center for Applied Legal Ethics will be sponsoring an essay contest. The essay topic will be on an emerging issue of legal ethics having broad and substantial interest to the profession. Students and lawyers alike will be invited to participate. Significant cash prizes will be offered, and appropriate essays will be published in the USF Law Review. This is intended to be the first in a series of such contests. The program is designed to focus attention on important current issues of legal ethics, and to encourage discussion and debate about these issues. Advanced Ethics Seminars: Beginning in the 2002-2003 school year, the CALE will cooperate with the fulltime and adjunct law school faculty in an ongoing and expanding series of advanced elective ethics courses. The first offering will focus on the ethics of trial and pre-trial civil litigation, including close scrutiny of the vagaries of modern discovery practice. A seminar on ethics in criminal law-from both the prosecution and defense perspective-is also being planned. The same interactive teaching methods that are used for the required ethics courses will be used in these seminars. On-Campus Speaking Programs: The CALE is sponsoring an ongoing series of speakers, who are invited to the law school to address significant ethical issues confronting our legal world. On-campus speaking engagements include open forums for the entire law school community, presentations to the faculty, and in-class visits for question-and-answer sessions.
The Spring 2002 program will present a leading medical ethicist addressing issues of medical ethics-and comparing
them to legal ethics. An open forum, faculty presentation, and classroom visits are all planned. Issues include:
physicians' participation in examining death-sentenced prisoners for competency, and their participation in the
execution process itself; medicating defendants to render them competent either for trial or to carry out sentences;
suicidal or dangerous clients and the duty to warn; and how and whether physicians or lawyers should intervene
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