10/01/09
Thomas D. Morgan - "The Last Days of the American Lawyer" Lane Lecture Series
Professor Thomas D. Morgan delivered the annual Lane Foundation Lecture at Creighton University School of Law on Thursday, October 1, 2009. Thomas D. Morgan has been the Oppenheim Professor of Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law at The George Washington University Law School since 1989. He has served as Dean at the Emory University School of Law, and on the faculties of Brigham Young University and the University of Illinois.
Professor Morgan has taught and written in the field of professional responsibility for over 30 years and is co-author of the widely-used casebook "Problems and Materials on Professional Responsibility" (10th Edition 2008). He served as one of two Associate Reporters for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law (Third): The Law Governing Lawyers, and as one of two Associate Reporters for the American Bar Association's Ethics 2000 Commission. In 1990, Professor Morgan served as President of the Association of American Law Schools, and his new book "The Vanishing American Lawyer: The Ongoing Transformation of the U.S. Legal Profession" will soon be published by Oxford University Press.
Listen to Lane Lecture here
09/25/09
Creighton Hosts Conference on Financial Crisis
Creighton University School of Law held a conference entitled “Lessons of the Financial Crisis: Implications for Regulatory Reform” on September 25, 2009. The day-long conference had three parts: (1) A morning business panel which featured an open discussion among nationally prominent business law scholars and leading local financial professionals and a regulator, moderated by Professor Bruce Aronson of Creighton, (2) A lunchtime keynote speech by Professor Larry Mitchell of George Washington University entitled “Is Financialism Destroying Capitalism? Finance for the Sake of Finance,” and (3) An afternoon academic panel which featured presentations by Professors William Black (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Adam Pritchard (University of Michigan) and Heidi Schooner (Catholic University), moderated by Professor Larry Mitchell. All of the panels will be included in an upcoming symposium issue of the Creighton Law Review on the financial crisis and regulatory reform, and podcasts of the morning panel and keynote speech are available on this website.
Listen to Keynote Speaker here
Listen to Panel here