CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - David J. Luban of the Georgetown University Law Center will deliver the Paul M. Van Arsdell Jr. Memorial Lecture on Litigation and the Legal Profession on Feb. 24 (Tuesday) at 4 p.m. in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium at the College of Law, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign.
His lecture, "Lawyers as Upholders of Human Dignity (When They Aren't Busy Assaulting It)," will look at the moral foundations of advocacy, confidentiality and pro bono service from the standpoint of human dignity. He is the editor of "The Ethics of Lawyers" and author of "Legal Modernism." His research focuses on the social responsibility of lawyers, law and philosophy and social justice. He has taught at the law schools of Harvard and of Yale and has been a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
The lecture, endowed by the late University of Illinois law graduate Paul M. Van Arsdell Jr., is free and open to the public.