Colleagues, I would be interested in hearing suggestions of fruitful avenues for

introducing questions of legal ethics and professional responsibility in a torts

course.

When I used to teach contracts I found this pretty easy. For instance one might

identify a contractual term that would be ineffective against consumers and

then raise the question of whether it would be ethical for a contract drafter

to include such a term in a standard-form contract (knowing that some consumers

would read the term and think they were bound by it, even though they were not).

The institution I teach at says that I am supposed to bring discussions of

lawyers' ethics into the classroom in my substantive courses, but in my

teaching of torts (which mostly involves analysis of appellate cases in the

tort of negligence) I have not found it easy to identify good occasions for

this.

Regards,

vb