Section on Professional Responsibility

2024

• Main Program
• Works-in-Progress
• Award Ceremony
• Litigation, Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility, Pro-Bono & Access to Justice, and Technology, Law and Legal Education
• Leadership, Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility
• Alternative Dispute Resolution, Co-Sponsored by Legislative & Law of the Political Process and Professional Responsibility
• Legal Writing, Reasoning, and Research, Co-sponsored by Professional Responsibility, and Student Services
• Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession, Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility

2023

• Main Program
• Works-in-Progress
• Award Ceremony
• Legal History (Co-Sponsored by Jewish Law, Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Professional Responsibility, and Women in Legal Education)
• Clinical Legal Education (Co-Sponsored by Law Professors with Disabilities and Allies, Professional Responsibility, and Women in Legal Education)

2022

• Main Program
• Legal Writing, Reasoning and Research (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)
• Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)
• Leadership (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)
• Litigation (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)
• AALS Open Source Program (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)
• Works in Progress
• Networking Session

2021

• Main Program
• Pedagogy
• Works in Progress
• Litigation (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)
• Leadership (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)

2020

• Main Program
• Luncheon
• Works In Progress – New Voices
• Empirical Study of Legal Education and the Legal Profession (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)

2019

• Main Program
• Breakfast
• Works In Progress – New Voices
• Leadership (Co-Sponsored by Professional Responsibility)

Fred Zacharias Memorial Prize

The Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility is awarded yearly to an outstanding work in legal ethics by the AALS Section on Professional Responsibility. Zacharias, a law professor at University of San Diego Law School, died in 2009 at the age of 56, after a career as a nationally known expert in professional responsibility, writing on the ethical duties that lawyers have to the legal system and society as well as clients. This prize was established to honor and carry on his work.

Recipients