David B. Wilkins

Lester Kissel Professor of Law

Director, Program on the Legal Profession

Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession

Research Interests

• Structures, Norms, and Practices of the Legal Profession

Subject Areas for Supervising Written Work

• Legal Profession

Subject Areas for Accepting Press Inquiries

• Legal Ethics

Education

• Harvard College B.A. 1977, Government
• Harvard Law School J.D. 1980

Appointments

• Assistant Professor of Law, 1986
• Director, Program on the Legal Profession, 1991
• Professor of Law, 1992
• Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, 1996-2008
• Lester Kissel Professor of Law, 2008
• Vice Dean for Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, 2009

Other Information

2011-2012 Faculty Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities

Representative Publications

• Wilkins, David B. "Why Global Law Firms Should Care about Diversity: Five Lessons from the American Experience," 2 European Journal of Law Reform 415 (2000).
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• Wilkins, David B. "Everyday Practice Is the Troubling Case: Confronting Context in Legal Ethics" in Everyday Practice and Trouble Cases (Northwestern University Press, 1998).
  
• Wilkins, David B. & Mitu G. Gulati. "Reconceiving the Tournament of Lawyers: Tracking, Seeding, and Information Control in the Internal Labor Markets of Elite Law Firms," 84 Virginia Law Review 1581 (1998).
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• Wilkins, David B. & Mitu G. Gulati. "Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms?: An Institutional Analysis," 84 California Law Review 493 (1996).
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• Wilkins, David B. "Who Should Regulate Lawyers?" 105 Harvard Law Review 801 (1992).
  

Bibliography

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