Hi Vaughan,

Richard Devlin should have the Schulich (formerly Dalhousie) copy of the

Legal Ethics and Professionalism Teaching Materials Database (a

CD-ROM).  It was created for precisely the purpose you raise - to allow

professors to access relevant ethics material to slot into another

substantive course.  I can't promise it has specific material on torts

but my guess is that it will have some useful material.

The other area that springs to my mind is from my chapter in the

LexisNexis national ethics casebook (of which Richard is a co-author)

dealing with negotiations.  There's a section on settlement discussions

and the ethical issues they can raise, and that section is pretty

directly relevant to tort cases.  It deals with things like "defence

medical exam discovers much more serious injuries - what do you tell the

plaintiff".

Stephen

Vaughan Black wrote:

> 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

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