From the 2008 News Archive

Dean Karen Rothenberg Publishes Op-Ed on Ethics and Leadership in Legal Education

At a gathering during the recent Maryland State Bar Association's annual meeting, University of Maryland School of Law Dean Karen Rothenberg announced the law school's creation of LEAD, a new initiative that emphasizes leadership, ethics, and democracy in legal education.

In the June 25 edition of the Baltimore Sun, Dean Rothenberg published an op-ed outlining the importance of educating future lawyers in ethics and leadership.

Read Dean Rothenberg's op-ed.

"In recognition of the profound need for visionary civic leadership and courageous moral action in today's legal system, the University of Maryland School of Law is creating LEAD," she wrote.

"Thanks to a $1.6 million investment from the Fetzer Institute, the UM School of Law has recently launched a pioneering initiative that will emphasize ethics, moral formation and leadership development for lawyers. Through a coordinated series of curricular and co-curricular offerings, public service projects and clinical programs here and abroad, we will equip our students with new tool and analytical frameworks for confronting these most pressing challenges and responsibilities of our profession."

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