William C. Hubbard Conference on Law and Education
by Stanford Law School, Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, American Bar Foundation
The William C. Hubbard Conference on Law and Education is a biennial event dedicated to exploring significant developments in legal education and the legal profession. Organized collaboratively by Stanford Law School, the Deborah L. Rhode Center on the Legal Profession, and the American Bar Foundation, the 2024 conference was held on March 25-26 at Stanford Law School.
The conference focused on reviewing two decades of findings from the landmark "After the JD" research project and celebrated the release of the capstone book, "The Making of Lawyers’ Careers." Key sessions included discussions on emerging research questions, the future of legal services, mental health in the legal profession, and the evolving responsibilities of lawyers.
Notable speakers featured at the event were Honorable Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, who delivered a keynote address titled "The Many Faces of Legal Education," and William C. Hubbard, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law. The conference also provided opportunities for networking among legal scholars, practitioners, and educators.
This conference is particularly beneficial for legal educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in the evolution of legal education and the profession. Attendees gain valuable insights into current research, emerging trends, and challenges facing the legal field, fostering a deeper understanding and collaboration within the legal community.
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Speakers(15)
Bryant Garth
Affiliated Research Professor, American Bar Foundation at Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus, UCI Law School
Diego A. Zambrano
Professor of Law at Stanford Law School
Diego A. Zambrano’s primary research and teaching interests lie in the areas of civil procedure, transnational litigation, and judicial federalism. His work explores the civil litigation landscape: the institutions, norms, and incentives that influence litigant and judicial behavior. He also has an interest in comparative constitutional law and legal developments related to Venezuela.
Elizabeth Chambliss
Henry Harman Edens Professor of Law at University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
Elizabeth Chambliss presented on the vanishing rural lawyer.
Elizabeth Mertz
John and Rylla Bosshard Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School at Senior Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Fiona Trevelyan Hornblower
President & CEO at NALP Foundation for Law Career Research and Education
Honorable Diane P. Wood
Senior Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit at Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Law School
Honorable Goodwin Liu
Associate Justice at California Supreme Court
Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Nominated by Governor Jerry Brown, Justice Liu was sworn into office in 2011 and retained by the electorate in 2014 and 2022. Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Liu was Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and policy, and diversity in the legal profession.
Joseph Bankman
Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School
Mark C. Suchman
Research Professor and Executive Director at American Bar Foundation
Mark C. Suchman is a Research Professor and Executive Director of the American Bar Foundation. Before joining the ABF in 2023, Suchman was a Professor of Sociology at Brown University, where he led the Sociology Department’s Work, Organizations, and Economy faculty.
Matthew Clair
Assistant Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, Law at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences
Meera E. Deo
The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair | Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School
Meera E. Deo is a national expert on legal education, racial representation, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. She is also Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), which houses the largest repository of law student data and is based at Indiana University-Bloomington. Before joining Southwestern, she was a tenured Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego. Professor Deo has also held previous visiting positions at Berkeley Law, UC Irvine School of Law, UCLA School of Law, UC Davis School of Law, and New College of Florida. She teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Law & Society, and Race & Law. Her research utilizes empirical methods to interrogate institutional diversity, affirmative action, and Critical Race Theory. Professor Deo’s scholarship has been widely published in law reviews and peer-review journals and cited in numerous amicus briefs filed in the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2020, she was elected to the American Law Institute.
Mickey Trockel
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine
Robert L. Nelson
Director Emeritus and the MacCrate Research Chair in the Legal Profession, American Bar Foundation at Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University
Ronit Dinovitzer
Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto at Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation
Ronit Dinovitzer is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, where she co-directs the Research Group on Legal Diversity. She is also Affiliated Faculty in Harvard’s Center on the Legal Profession. She has served as a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ronit recently delivered the Annual Lecture on the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law, focusing on issues of diversity and inequality in the legal profession. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto.
Shaun Ossei-Owusu
Presidential Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law
Shaun Ossei-Owusu is an interdisciplinary legal scholar with expertise in legal history, criminal law and procedure, civil rights, and the legal profession. His work sits at the intersection of law, history, and sociology and focuses on how governments meet their legal obligations to provide protections and benefits to poor people and racial minorities. He also works on stratification in legal education and the legal profession.
Event Details
- Date
- March 15, 2024
- Location
- 🇺🇸 Stanford, United States
- Stanford Law School
- Audience
- Legal educators, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers