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The Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms
Based at Oxford University's Saïd Business School, The Novak Druce Centre for Professional Service Firms conducts research into the internal and external dynamics of professional service firms. Although the primary focus is on the management of such firms, and the issues faced by people working within them, the Centre is also concerned with the governance of professional service firms more generally, addressing policy issues of concern to both clients and regulators.
University of Alberta Center for Professional Service Firm Management
The Center is a leading organization in Canada dedicated to research into the management of professional service firms and the education of members of professional service firms on management issues.
Georgetown Law Center for the Study of the Legal Profession
The Center for the Study of the Legal Profession promotes interdisciplinary scholarship on the profession informed by awareness of the dynamics of modern practice. It provides students with a sophisticated understanding of the opportunities and challenges of a modern legal career; and furnishes members of the bar, particularly those in organizational decision-making positions, broad perspectives on trends and developments in practice.
Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
The Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics encourages teaching and research about ethical issues in public and professional life; helps meet the growing need for teachers and scholars who address questions of moral choice in architecture, business, education, engineering, government, journalism, law, medicine, public health, public policy and other professions; brings together those with competence in philosophical thought and those with experience in professional education; and promotes a perspective on ethics informed by both theory and practice.
Cardozo School of Law - Jacobs Burns Center for Ethics in the Practice of Law
The Jacob Burns Center sponsors courses, programs and lectures that provoke dialogue and critical thought on the ethical and moral challenges of legal practice. The Center helps prepare students to face with integrity the difficult and important questions that arise in all areas of legal practice.
Fordham Law Louis Stein Center for Law & Ethics
Through conferences, symposia, and continuing legal education programs, the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics has endeavored to make ethics and public service integral to the study and practice of law. In the process it has created and nurtured a legal community of scholars, students, jurists and practitioners dedicated to the exchange of ideas and problem solving in a field of ethics.
Hofstra University School of Law - Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics
Hofstra's Institute for the Study of Legal Ethics (ISLE) serves as a research center for the study of legal ethics issues. In addition to offering courses in professional responsibility, ISLE sponsors speakers, conferences, and symposiums and also provides opportunities for student and faculty research.
The Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions
Based at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, the Holloran Center
addresses the most compelling ethical question in professional education and in the business and legal professions: How can professional educational organizations assist individuals to develop their moral reasoning, judgment, and courage and become leaders in their professions and in society at large? With this question in mind, the Holloran Center unites leaders from a range of professions who work together to pursue practical solutions and create effective tools in confronting the challenge of creating ethical leaders.
Mercer University School of Law – Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
The Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism sponsors a variety of in-house and outreach educational activities with the purpose of improving the professionalism of students, lawyers and judges.
Miami School of Law Center for Ethics and Public Service
Founded in 1996, the Center for Ethics and Public Service is an interdisciplinary clinical program devoted to the values of ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and public service in law and society. Its in-house clinics provide legal representation to low-income communities in the fields of children’s rights, public health entitlements, and nonprofit economic development. The Center also provides legal ethics education and professional training to the Law School, University, and Florida business, civic, and legal communities.
The Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough Center on Professionalism at the University of South Carolina School of Law
Established in 1999, the Center sponsors conferences and provides a clearinghouse of resources for improving the character, competence and conduct of legal professionals.
Stanford Center on Ethics
The Stanford Center on Ethics promotes research, teaching, and public debate on fundamental moral issues. The Center is home to a distinguished undergraduate program on Ethics in Society, which in collaboration with professional schools in business, law, medicine, education, and engineering contributes to path-breaking interdisciplinary work. The Center aims to advance the foundational theory, moral reasoning skills, and social commitments necessary to address ethical issues through research support, seminars, conferences, curricular initiatives, community service, and public programs.
Stanford Center on the Legal Profession
The Stanford Center on the Legal Profession, founded in 2008, supports research, teaching, programs and public policy initiatives on crucial issues facing the bar. Building on the legacy of its predecessor, the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession, the Center focuses on issues of professional responsibility and the structure of legal practice. Central concerns include how to enhance access to justice, sustain ethical values, improve bar regulatory structures, and effectively respond to the changing dynamics of legal workplaces.
Stetson University College of Law – Institute for Litigation Ethics
The mission of the Florida Institute for Litigation Ethics is to educate attorneys involved in litigation and the judiciary about their ethical and, more broadly speaking, their professional obligations. The Institute carries out this mission primarily through the creation of original teaching materials for public and private use.
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