Legal Ethics Global Perspectives
Resources and Links
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Send it to Professor Laurel Terry, who can be reached at lterry@psu.edu.
International Resources
- International Legal Ethics Conference (ILEC) Materials
- IAOLE Committee on Legal Ethics and Regulation Education Around the Globe (LEREG)
- International Conference of Legal Regulators
- International Forum on Teaching Legal Ethics and Professionalism
- IBA Cross Border Legal Services Report
- IBA Bar Issues Commission: Documents on the Regulation of the Legal Profession (Click on countries for legal ethics codes.)
- NOBC’s Global Resources Webpage
Regional Resources
- Asia-Pacific: APEC Legal Services Inventory
- Europe: CCBE Deontology Committee (includes a link to a table showing the Status of the CCBE Code of Conduct at a national level )
- Europe: CCBE Deontology Committee, List of National Codes of Conduct of CCBE Member States
- Oceania: Conference of Regulatory Officers (CORO) (of Australia and New Zealand)
Country-Specific Resources
(Listed alphabetically for countries for which contributions have been received. You can use this form to suggest additional resources and links.)
Australia:
- Law Council of Australia
- Law Admissions Consultative Committee
- Conference of Regulatory Officers (CORO)
- Law Council of Australia, Review of the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules (Feb. 1, 2018)
Canada:
- Canadian Association for Legal Ethics
- Federation of Law Societies of Canada: National Regulatory Initiatives
England & Wales:
- Solicitors Regulation Authority Handbook
- Consultations by LSB, SRA, & BSB
Japan:
United States:
- ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, Policy Implementation
- ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, Links to State Ethics Rules
- Conference of Chief Justices’ Resolutions (resolutions of the umbrella organization for the Chief Justices of U.S. state supreme courts, which regulate lawyers)
- National Conference of Bar Examiners (the umbrella organization for admissions authorities)
- National Organization of Bar Counsel (the umbrella organization for discipline authorities)
Issue-Specific Resources
- Law Council of Australia Money Laundering
- ABA Task Force on Gatekeeper Regulation and the Profession
- Application of Money-Laundering Rules of Lawyers
- CCBE Money Laundering Committee
- Federation of Law Societies of Canada, Model Rules to Fight Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing
- IBA Anti-Money Laundering Forum (information on the application of money laundering rules to lawyers)
- IBA Pro Bono
- Law Council of Australia, Anti-Money Laundering: Information for the Profession
- Law Society of England and Wales, Anti-Money Laundering
To add a legal ethics link or resource, please fill out this form (Note: This link to this form is currently broken. Please email your suggestions to Professor Laurel Terry, who can be reached at lterry@psu.edu).