2020 Program
SCALL Institute 2020 TENTATIVE Schedule
For a list of speakers and program outline, visit the Speakers page.
Friday, March 6, 2020
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Registration |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Exhibits Open |
| 1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Ethics in Context: Scott Cummings |
| 2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Understanding the Ethics System: David Carr |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Exhibit Break |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Ethics of Investigation: Charles Frey |
| 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Exhibit Break |
| 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Reception |
Saturday, March 7, 2020
| Time | Program |
|---|---|
| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Exhibits Open |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Ethics of Service: Laurel Moran |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Ethics of Teaching: Femi Cadmus |
| 10:30 a.m. –11:15 a.m. | Exhibit/Check-Out Break |
| 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Ethics of Contracts: Martin Korn, Moderator + Panel |
| 12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Acknowledgments and Awards |
| 12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Closing Luncheon |
This year’s Institute is going to explore a variety of contexts in which librarians deal with ethics and ethical issues. Our keynote speaker will set a framework for the Institute by putting “ethics” in context. Scott Cummings is Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about the legal profession, public interest law, law and social movements, and community economic development. He is the faculty director of Legal Ethics and the Profession (LEAP), a program promoting research and programming on the challenges facing the contemporary legal profession. He is also a long-time member of the UCLA David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, a specialization training students to become public interest lawyers.
Professor Cummings’s research is focused on economic development, law and social movements, and the legal profession. His most recent book, Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (MIT University Press, 2018), examines the role of lawyers in a campaign by the labor and environmental movements to transform the trucking industry at the port of Los Angeles. An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, a sweeping study of how lawyers have helped to challenge inequality in one of America’s most unequal cities, is scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press. For more information and the rest of Scott’s biography, please see https://law.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty-profiles/scott-l-cummings/.
It has been over twenty years since the SCALL Institute has focused on ethics. In today’s tumultuous world, it seemed the right time to re-visit this critical topic. The Institute will be filled with interesting panels and programs focusing on timely and complex ethical questions we face daily.
- How do you talk to stake holders when they want you to do something outside your contractual limits?
- Do students and new lawyers really understand their ethical duties to clients concerning legal research and are we teaching them how to do this in today’s online based world?
- How do you balance service to individual patrons with service to an institution?
- How do I find legal ethics resources?
- Am I researching a client for the firm or cyberstalking?
These questions and more will be discussed at the 2020 SCALL Institute during the panels and programs.
- Ethics of Contracts
- Ethics of Teaching
- Ethics of Investigation
- Ethics of Service
- Finding Ethics