Professor Wilkins
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WORK EXPERIENCE:
| 1986-Present | HARVARD LAW SCHOOL Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law, 1996-present Professor of Law, 1992-1996 Assistant Professor of Law, 1986-1992 Principal Courses: Legal Profession, Professional Service Firms in the Twenty First Century, Globalization and Diversity |
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| 2004-Present | Director of the Program on Lawyers and the Professional Service Industry | |
| 1991-Present | Director of the Program on the Legal Profession | |
| 1990-Present | Faculty Associate of the Center for Ethics and the Professions | |
| 1997-Present | AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION, Senior Researcher | |
| Fall 1995 | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Visiting Professor | |
| Fall 1995 | AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION, Visiting Researcher | |
| 1989-1990 | Fellow, Harvard University’s Center in Ethics and the Professions | |
| 1982-1986 | NUSSBAUM, OWEN & WEBSTER, Washington, D.C. Associate specializing in Civil Litigation |
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| 1981-1982 | SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Law Clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall |
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| 1980-1981 | UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT Law Clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg |
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
The Black Bar: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the Future of Raceand the American Legal Profession, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
Problems in Professional Responsibility for a Changing Profession,
Carolina Academic Press (4th ed. 2002) (with Andrew Kaufman)
Chapters in Books
Market Diversity, Diversity Marketing, and the Global Market for LegalServices, in Managing Law Firms, Laura Empson, ed. (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
Law Firms International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds., Pergamon, Oxford (2001)
Beyond "Bleached Out" Professionalism: Defining Professional Responsibility
for Real Professionals, in Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation, Oxford University Press (2000).
Everyday Practice Is the Troubling Case: Confronting Context in Legal Ethics, in
Everyday Practice and Trouble Cases, Northwestern University Press (1998).
Social Engineers or Corporate Tools? Brown v. Board of Education and the
Conscience of the Black Corporate Bar, in Race, Law and Culture: Reflections on
Brown v. Board of Education, Austin Sarat, ed., Oxford University Press (1997).
Introduction: Race in Context, in Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race by
K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Princeton University Press (1996).
Reports
The State of Black Alumni: Final Report of the Harvard Black Alumni Survey(with Elizabeth Chambliss, Lisa Jones, and Haile Adamson) (2002)
Articles
Doing Well by Doing Good? The Role of Public Service in the Careers ofBlack Corporate Lawyers, 41 Houston L. Rev. 1 (2004)
From "Separate is Inherently Unequal" to "Diversity is Good for Business":
The Rise of Market-Based Diversity Arguments and the Fate of the
Black Corporate Bar, 117 Harv. L. Rev. 1548 (2004)
A New Framework for Law Firm Discipline, 16 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 335 (2003)
(with Elizabeth Chambliss)
The Emerging Role of Ethics Advisors, General Counsel, and other Compliance
Specialists in Large law Firms, 44 U. of Ariz. L. Rev. 559 (Fall/Winter 2002)
(with Elizabeth Chambliss)
Promoting Effective "Ethical Infrastructure" in Large Law Firms: A Call for Research and Reporting, 30 Hofstra L.J. 691 (2002) (with Elizabeth Chambliss)
Professional Ethics for Lawyers and Law Schools: Interdisciplinary Education
And the Law School's Ethical Obligation to Study and Teach About the
Profession 12 Legal Ed. Rev. 47 (Australia) (2001)
What Law Students Think They Know About Elite Law Firms: Preliminary Results of a
Survey of Third Year Law Students 69 U. Cin. L Rev. 1213 (2001) (with G. Mitu Gulati)
Why Global Law Firms Should Care about Diversity: Five Lessons from the
American Experience, 2 Eur. J. L. Reform 415 (2000).
Partners Without Power? A Preliminary Look at Black Partners in Corporate
Law Firms, 2 J. Inst. Stud. Legal Ethics 15 (1999).
The Professional Responsibility of Professional Schools to Study and Teach
About the Profession, 49 J. Legal Educ. 76 (1999).
Reconceiving the Tournament of Lawyers: Tracking, Seeding, and Information
Control in the Internal Labor Markets of Elite Law Firms, 84 Va. L. Rev. 1581 (1998) (with G. Mitu Gulati).
Fragmenting Professionalism: Racial Identity and the Ideology of
"Bleached Out" Lawyering, 5 Int'l J. Legal Prof. 141 (1998).
Identities and Roles: Race, Recognition, and Professional Responsibility,
57 Md. L. Rev. 1502 (1998).
Do Clients Have Ethical Obligations to Lawyers? Some Lessons from the
Diversity Wars, 11 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 855 (1998).
Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms?: An Institutional
Analysis 84 Cal. L. Rev. 493 (1996) (with G. Mitu Gulati).
Redefining the 'Professional' in Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to
Teaching Professionalism, 58 Law & Contemp. Probs. 241 (1995).
Race, Ethics, and the First Amendment: Should a Black Lawyer Represent the Ku Klux
Klan?, 63 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1030 (1995).
Two Paths to the Mountaintop? The Role of Legal Education in Shaping the Values of
Black Corporate Lawyers, 46 Stan. L. Rev. 1981 (1993).
Making Context Count: Regulating Lawyers After Kaye, Scholer,
66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1145 (1993).
Who Should Regulate Lawyers?, 105 Harv. L. Rev. 801 (1992).
Legal Realism for Lawyers, 104 Harv. L. Rev. 469 (1990).
Review Essays & Commentaries
A Systematic Response to Systemic Disadvantage: A Response to Sander57 Stan. L. Rev.1915 (2005)
Class not Race in Legal Ethics: Or Why Hierarchy Makes Strange Bed Fellows
20 Law & Hist. Rev. 147 (2002)
Rollin' On the River: Race, Elite Schools, and the Equality Paradox, 25 L. & Soc.
Inquiry 527 (2000).
On Being and Black, a review of The Good Black: A True Story of Race in
America by Paul M. Barrett, New York: Dutton Press. 1999, 112 Harv.
L. Rev. 1924 (1999).
Straightjacketing Professionalism: A Comment on Russell,
95 Mich. L. Rev. 795 (1997).
Afterword: How Should We Determine Who Should Regulate Lawyers? -- Managing
Conflict and Context in Professional Regulation, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 465 (1996).
In Defense of Law and Morality: Why Lawyers Should Have a Prima Facie Duty to
Obey the Law, 38 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 269 (1996).
Practical Wisdom for Practicing Lawyers: Separating Ideals from Ideology in Legal
Ethics, a review of The Lost Lawyer: Failing Ideals of the Legal Profession
by Anthony T. Kronman, 108 Harv. L. Rev. 458 (1994).
Presumed Crazy: The Structure of Argument in the Hill/Thomas Hearings, 65 S. Cal.
L. Rev. 1517 (1992).
Newspaper & Magazine Articles and Editorials
Good Work: On professional norms and the treacherous temptation of "moral freedom"(reviewing Fischman, et. al., Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral
Dilemmas at work), Harvard Magazine (2004)
Affirmative Action's Real Value to a University, The Boston Globe,
(February 13, 2001 at A11)
The Affirmative-Action President's Dilemma, Chicago Tribune
(February 7, 2001 at 17)
Five Reasons Why Law Firms Are Not Making Progress on Diversity,
13 Chicago Bar Record 20 (1999).
"Each One, Teach One" (Law School Class Day Speech), Harvard Magazine
(July –August 1998)
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Nobler Tradition of the Harvard Law Review,
49 Harvard Law Bulletin 17 (1998)
Tributes
In Memoriam: Albert M. Sacks, 105 Harv. L. Rev. 20 (1991).Justice as Narrative: Some Personal Reflections on a Master Storyteller, 6 Harv.
BlackLetter J. 68 (1989) (Tribute to Thurgood Marshall).
NAMED LECTURES:
Thurgood Marshall Lecture, Roger Williams School of Law, 2004
Pope & John Lecture, Northwestern Law School, 2004
Frankel Lecture, University of Houston Law Center, 2003
Wythe Lecture, William & Mary School of Law, 2002
Martin Luther King Day Lecture, Seattle Bar Association, 2002
Van Arsdell Lecture, Univ. of Illinois School of Law, 2002
Allen Siegel Lecture, Duke Law School, 2002
Arthur W. Fiske Lecture, Case Western Reserve School of Law, 2001
Martin Luther King Lecture, Vanderbilt Law School, 2001
Iredell Lecture in Law and History, Lancaster University, England, 2000.
W.M Keck Lecture, Georgetown Law Center, 1998.
Stuart Rome Lecture, University of Maryland, 1997.
Francis X. Reilly Lecture on Professionalism, 1997.
Tanner Lecture (Commentator), Stanford University, 1995.
The Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Lecture Series, Boalt School of Law, 1995.
W.M. Keck Lecture, University of Texas Law School, 1995.
Lynn J. Gould Memorial Lecture, University of Vermont, 1994.
Charles L. Ihlenfeld Lecture on Public Service and Ethics, Third Annual, West Virginia Law School, 1993.
TEACHING AWARDS
Albert Sacks-Paul Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, 1998
EDUCATION:
| 1977-1980 | HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D. with Honors Harvard Law Review (1978-1980) Supreme Court Officer (1979-1980) Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review (1977-1978) Harvard Black Law Students Association (1977-1978) Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship (1979-1980) Legal Methods Instructor (1978 and 1979) |
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| 1973-1977 | HARVARD COLLEGE, B.A. with Honors John Harvard Scholar (1974-1975) Harvard College Scholar (1973-1974, 1975-1977) Dean's List (1973-1977) |
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| 1969-1973 | UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LABORATORY HIGH SCHOOL | |
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND BOARDS:
After the JD, Research Steering Committee, 1997 -
Open Society Institute, Program on Law & Society, Advisory Board
Chair, 1999-2000; Member 1998-2000
Law and Society Association, Board of Directors, 1994-1997
American Association of Law Schools
Civil Procedure Section; Executive Committee 1991-1993; Chair 1992-1993
Professional Responsibility Section; Executive Committee 1991-1992
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Member of the Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals of the Second
Circuit (1988)
Member of the Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit (1984)
BAR MEMBERSHIPS:
District of Columbia
United States District Court for the District of Columbia