William H. Simon

William H. Simon is an American legal scholar working as the Arthur Levitt Professor of Law and Everett B. Birch Professor in Professional Responsibility of Law at Columbia Law School.

William H. Simon
Academic background
EducationPrinceton University (AB)
Harvard University (JD)
Academic work
DisciplineLaw
Sub-disciplineProfessional responsibility
Social policy
Regulatory law
Legal profession
InstitutionsColumbia Law School
Harvard Law School
Stanford Law School
UC Berkeley School of Law

Education

Simon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1969 and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1974.[1]

Career

Simon's areas of expertise are professional responsibility and social policy. From 1981 to 2003, he was a professor at Stanford Law School. Simon was also a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and the UC Berkeley School of Law. He joined Columbia Law School as a visiting professor in 2001 and became a full professor in 2003.

He is best known for his public stance against unethical lawyers selling unjustified written legal opinions to clients who use such dubious advice to escape criminal consequences of their actions.[2]

Recent publications
  • "The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as An Example," Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2008);[3]
  • "Wrongs of Ignorance and Ambiguity: Lawyer Responsibility for Collective Misconduct," Yale Journal of Regulation (2005);
  • "Destabilization Rights: How Public Law Litigation Succeeds," Harvard Law Review (2004) (with Charles Sabel).

References
  1. "Columbia Law School - Full Time Faculty - William H. Simon". Retrieved May 30, 2008.
  2. Parloff, Roger (May 30, 2008). "Blowing the whistle on unethical lawyers ; Fortune Magazine". CNN. Retrieved May 30, 2008.
  3. Simon, William H. (2007-12-18). "The Market for Bad Legal Advice: Academic Professional Responsibility Consulting as an Example". Rochester, NY. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1025984. SSRN 1025984. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)


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