E-mail wendelb@wlu.edu
Phone (540) 458-8028
Homepage http://home.wlu.edu/~wendelb/
Courses
Torts; Professional Responsibility; Ethical Issues in Civil Litigation; Legal Ethics Seminar.
Publications
Civil Obedience, 104 Colum. L. Rev. 363 (2004), available at Lexis; Westlaw.
A Moderate Defense of Hate Speech Regulations on University Campuses, 41 Harv. J. on Legis. 407 (2004) (Symposium: Hate Speech and Hate Crimes), available at Lexis; Westlaw.
Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations (Aspen Publishers 2004).
Busting the Professional Trust: A Comment on William Simon's Ladd Lecture, 30 Fla. St. U.L. Rev. 659 (2003), available at Fla.St.U.L.Rev.; Lexis; Westlaw.
Conflicts of Interest Under the Revised Model Rules, 81 Neb. L. Rev. 1363 (2003) (Symposium: Nebraska and the Model Rules of Professional Conduct), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
The Deep Structure of Conflicts of Interest, 16 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 473 (2003) (reviewing Andrew Stark, Conflict of Interest in American Public Life (2000) and Michael Davis and Andrew Stark eds., Conflict of Interest in the Professions (2001)), available at Lexis; ProQuest; Westlaw.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Lawyer-Bashing: Some Post-Conference Reflections, 54 S.C. L. Rev. 1027 (2003) (Professionalism Symposium: Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers for Unprofessional Conduct), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Informal Methods of Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers, 54 S.C. L. Rev. 967 (2003) (Professionalism Symposium: Enhancing the Accountability of Lawyers for Unprofessional Conduct), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Regulation of Lawyers Without the Code, the Rules, or the Restatement: Or, What Do Honor and Shame Have to Do With Civil Discovery Practice?, 71 Fordham L. Rev. 1567 (2003), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Symposium Introduction: Our Love-Hate Relationship With Heroic Lawyers, 13 Widener L.J. 1 (2003) (Symposium: When a Lawyer Stood Tall: Sharing and Understanding Stories of Lawyer Heroes), available at Lexis; Westlaw.
"Certain Fundamental Truths": A Dialectic on Negative and Positive Liberty in Hate-Speech Cases, 65 Law & Contemp. Probs., Spring 2002, at 33, available at ExpAcad; Lexis; Westlaw.
Ethics for Skeptics, 26 J. Legal Prof. 165 (2002) (Symposium: Recommitting to Teaching Legal Ethics -- Shaping Our Teachers in a Changing World) , available at J. Legal Prof.; Lexis; Westlaw.
Mixed Signals: Rational-Choice Theories of Social Norms and the Pragmatics of Explanation, 77 Ind. L.J. 1 (2002), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Teaching Ethics in an Atmosphere of Skepticism and Relativism, 36 U.S.F. L. Rev. 711 (2002) (Symposium: Teaching Values in Law School), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Free Speech for Lawyers, 28 Hastings Const. L.Q. 305 (2001), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Hate and the Bar: Is the Hale Case McCarthyism Redux or a Victory for Racial Equality?, 70 B. Examiner, May 2001, at 26.
The Ideology of Judging and the First Amendment in Judicial Election Campaigns (Symposium: The Ethics of Judicial Selection), 43 S. Tex. L. Rev. 73 (2001), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Morality, Motivation, and the Professionalism Movement, 52 S.C. L. Rev. 557 (2001), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Nonlegal Regulation of the Legal Profession: Social Norms in Professional Communities, 54 Vand. L. Rev. 1955 (2001), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Professional Roles and Moral Agency, 89 Geo. L.J. 667 (2001) (reviewing Arthur Isak Applbaum, Ethics for Adversaries: The Morality of Roles in Public and Professional Life (1999)), available at Lexis; ProQuest; Westlaw.
Preaching to the Choir: Law Students' Values and Motivations in Legal Ethics Education, 1 W&L Law: Wash. & Lee U. Sch. L. Mag., Fall 2000, at 16.
Value Pluralism in Legal Ethics, 78 Wash. U. L.Q. 113 (2000), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Public Values and Professional Responsibility, 75 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (1999), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Rediscovering Discovery Ethics, 79 Marq. L. Rev. 895 (1996), available at Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw.
Lawyers and Butlers: The Remains of Amoral Ethics, 9 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 161 (1995), available at Westlaw.