Professional Responsibility Comparing Law and Medicine

Course Information

Registration Information

Meeting Times

Day Time Location
TUE, THU 9:05 - 10:20 am TNH 3.129

Evaluation Method

Type Date Time Location
Floating take-home exam

Description

Modern professionals perform their duties in a rapidly changing world, subject to forces such as corporatization, consumerism, globalization, and the information revolution.  This course takes a comparative approach to the professional responsibilities of American lawyers by contrasting legal and medical professionalism.  After developing a theoretical framework for analyzing professional practice, the course explores the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications for both lawyers and physicians of organizational structures, scope of practice, compensation, representation and advocacy, confidentiality and communication with clients and patients, conflict of interest, access to professional services, competition involving professions, and professional malpractice and misconduct.  The course will include study of the rules governing both professions (e.g., the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the AMA’s Code of Medical Ethics).   

This course satisfies the Professional Responsibility degree requirement.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics *
Gillers
Wolters Kluwer , edition: 11th
ISBN: 978-1454891291
Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, Concise Edition, 2019 Supplement (optional)
GIllers, Simon, Perlman
Wolters Kluwer , edition: Concise 2019
ISBN: 9781543804300

Instructors

Headshot of Sage, William M Sage, William M
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Important Class Changes

Date Updated
12/17/2018 Course title updated