Chapman Dialogue Series: From Watts to Ferguson
Announced on March 21, 2016
From Watts to Ferguson: The Prophetic Wisdom of Ramsey Clark
Tuesday, March 29
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Room 237 AB
Join us for the next installment of the Chapman Dialogue Series featuring Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. on March 29. Brown is the A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism at the University of Georgia School of Law. He joined the Georgia Law faculty in the fall of 2002 and teaches courses in civil procedure, the law and ethics of lawyering, ethics in litigation and conflict of laws. From 2013 to 2015, he served as the law school’s associate dean for academic affairs.
Brown’s research concentrates primarily on legal ethics in the adversary system and he has authored various law review articles in this area. His scholarship also involves biographical research on former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and, to date, includes: “A Tale of Prosecutorial Indiscretion: Ramsey Clark and the Selective Non-Prosecution of Stokely Carmichael” in the South Carolina Law Review (2010), “Ramsey Clark” in the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (2009) and “Representing Saddam Hussein: The Importance of Being Ramsey Clark” in the Georgia Law Review (2007).
Brown currently serves on the Drafting Committee for the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam and on the State Bar of Georgia Formal Advisory Opinion Board. He also serves as the reporter for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia’s Local Rules Revision Project. In addition, he has been a member of the Executive Committee for the Professional Responsibility Section of the Association of American Law Schools, the AALS Committee on Bar Admission and Lawyer Performance, the American Bar Association’s Center for Professional Responsibility and the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers.
The Chapman Dialogue Series is a distinguished lecture program that includes some of the most innovative and thought-provoking scholars in the legal academy, as well as some of the nation’s most prominent practitioners.