International Legal Ethics Conference 2022 (ILEC 9)
“Lawyers In A World of Crisis”
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Aug 13-15, 2022
ILEC 2022 took place from Aug. 13-15, 2022 at UCLA School of Law, USA, organized by Scott Cummings and his team. The UCLA School of Law’s Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession hosted ILEC9. After having to cancel the planned 2020 event due to COVID-19, ILEC9 was an opportunity to gather again as a legal ethics community, commemorating what we have lost, critically examining where we have arrived, and thinking proactively about how to strengthen legal ethics in a world of continuing crisis. There was full-day programming on August 13th and 14th, and a half day of programming on August 15th. Delegates from all over the world presented scholarship addressing critical issues in legal ethics, legal professions, lawyering, and legal education. Through these discussions, the conference deepened the collective understanding of the ethical practice of law and how lawyers can strengthen professional values, equal justice, and the rule of law in a period of significant instability and increasing inequality, but also one with new opportunities for lawyers to participate in movements to promote equity and inclusion
Conference Organizer: Professor Scott Cummings, UCLA Law School
International Legal Ethics Conference 2020
“Lawyers In Divided Times”
UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, USA
June 23-25, 2020
ILEC 2o2o was cancelled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It was scheduled to take place at the UCLA School of Law.
International Legal Ethics Conference 2018 (ILEC 8)
“Legal Ethics in the Asian Century”
Melbourne Law School, Australia
December 8-10, 2018
Conference organizer: Professor Julian Webb, Melbourne Law School
International Legal Ethics Conference 2016 (ILEC 7)
“Ethics and Regulation of Lawyers Worldwide: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”
Fordham Law School, New York, USA
July 14-16, 2016
Conference Organizer: Prof. Bruce Green, Fordham Law School
International Legal Ethics Conference 2014 (ILEC 6)
Legal Ethics at a Time of Regulatory Change
City Law School, London, United Kingdom
July 10-12, 2014
In July 2014, exactly ten years after the first ILEC, ILEC 2014 returned to the UK to meet at City University Law School, London. Numbers had grown considerably and this time there were well over 230 participants with 140 presentations covering new themes such as the impact of technology on ethical practice; law and religion and also judicial ethics. Perhaps most noticeable was the breakthrough to jurisdictions beyond the common-law world: this time delegates came from over 35 countries with significant representation from eastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia) and the Middle East (Iran, Israel, Kuwait, Oman, Turkey). Contrasting common law views of ethics were well-represented by personal and thought-provoking parables delivered by Lord Justice Laws, in his after dinner speech held in the Great Hall of the Inner Temple, and Professor Deborah Rhode’s ethical sermon delivered the following morning at the Temple Church.
Conference Organizers: Professor Andy Boon & Professor Nigel Duncan, City University of London
International Legal Ethics Conference 2012 (ILEC 5)
“Merging Worlds, Emerging Discourses”
Banff, Alberta, Canada
July 12-14, 2012
LEC 5 met in Banff, Alberta, in July 2012, and was co-hosted by the University of Calgary and Dalhousie University. This meeting attracted over 200 participants from around 20 different countries and confirmed the study of legal ethics as a global movement now bringing together not only legal scholars but also judges, legal regulators and practitioners interested debating the following key themes: empirical approaches to legal ethics; culture, ethics and society; philosophy and legal ethics; regulation of the profession and ethics and education.
Conference Organizers: Professor Alice Wooley, University of Calgary & Professor Richard Devlin, Dalhousie University
International Legal Ethics Conference 2010 (ILEC 4)
“The Legal Profession in Times of Turbulence”
Stanford Law School, Stanford, USA
July 15-17, 2010
ILEC 4 took place at Stanford Law School in California. It brought together around 170 legal ethicists from around the globe. Under the leadership of Professor Deborah Rhode, ILEC 4 gave further impetus to the fledgling international legal ethics movement by founding in July 2010 the International Association of Legal Ethics (IAOLE).
International Legal Ethics Conference 2008 (ILEC 3)
“Integrity in Legal Practice”
Griffiths University, Australia
July 13-16, 2008
ILEC 3, co-hosted by law schools at Griffith University and the University of Queensland, met in July 2008 on the Australian Gold Coast. The number of delegates had more than quadrupled, with delegates coming from a much wider geographical base, though still underrepresented from Asian, African and Latin American countries. ILEC 3 chose as its theme Integrity in Legal Practice and actively incorporated into the program judges, legal practitioners, regulators and policymakers whilst bringing together eminent US and Australian keynote speakers. ILEC 3 was a hugely significant milestone that gave invaluable momentum and publicity to the ILEC series.
International Legal Ethics Conference 2006 (ILEC 2)
“Professional Ethics and Personal Integrity”
University of Auckland, New Zealand
July 23-25, 2006
ILEC 2, with roughly double the numbers attending ILEC 1, was organised by Professor Tim Dare in Auckland in June 2006, taking as its theme Professional Ethics and Personal Integrity with Professor William Simon of Columbia as its keynote speaker.
Conference Organizer: Professor Tim Dare, University of Auckland
International Legal Ethics Conference 2004 (ILEC 1)
“New Perspectives on Professionalism: Educating and Regulating Lawyers for the 21st Century”
University of Exeter, United Kindgom
July 23-25, 2006
The First International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC 1), held at Exeter University in July 2004, took as its theme New Perspectives on Professionalism: Educating and Regulating Lawyers for the 21st Century. Professors Julian Webb and Kim Economides, as Founding Editors of the international journal Legal Ethics, felt that more needed to be done in Europe to bring together a growing international community of legal scholars who were publishing, yet not physically discussing or sharing, critical and scholarly ideas for the development of legal ethics as an emergent sub-discipline. Despite the attraction of Professor Robert Gordon from Yale as our keynote speaker,only about 40 delegates attended, most coming from the Antipodes and North America, with a minority from the UK and Europe, which broadly reflected the provenance of material submitted to Legal Ethics. ILEC 1 was seen as a means of bringing together legal ethicists and practitioners so that we could learn from each other about how best to promote ethical awareness within, but also beyond, the law curriculum. The conference was considered a success and although numbers were modest the quality of the papers and discussion sufficiently high that it was decided to meet biennially and institute the ILEC series.
Conference Organizers: Professor Julian Webb, University of Westminster & Professor Kim Economides, University of Exeter
[The reports on ILEC 1-6 were prepared by Professor Kim Economides].
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