When: Thursday, Nov. 14, noon
Where: Auditorium, Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and
Fair Street
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 7, 2002 -- Geoffrey Hazard, trustee professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, will present the University of Nebraska College of Law's 2002 Roscoe Pound Lecture at noon, Nov. 14 in the auditorium of Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Streets.
Hazard's topic will be "Modeling Class Counsel." He will argue that the present definition of ethical obligations of class counsel is not satisfactory, and that the analogy to "private attorney general" is misleading, as is the analogy to corporate counsel. The better approach, although somewhat paradoxical, Hazard said, is an analogy to counsel for a mentally impaired client. Hazard will explore these variations from the "normal" client-lawyer relationship.
The Roscoe Pound Lecture is named after one of the giants of American legal thought. Pound was born in Lincoln in 1870 and served as one of the early deans at the NU College of Law. While dean, he delivered his famous speech to the American Bar Association, "Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice." The first Pound Lecture, "New Paths of the Law," was delivered by Pound himself at the College of Law in 1950.
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