Current events in U.S. legal ethics, 2009-2010, according to my students (and benefit Tulane's PILF)

Posted by Alan Childress

Several students writing Independent Studies papers this spring on legal ethics for me, joined by some from an advanced ethics seminar taught by a colleague, have their work collected into a new digital book on current events May 2009 to present.  I edited the papers and wrote a Foreword to it, which explains its origins, topics covered, and other stories of the year, plus an ode to Mike Frisch here and John Steele at LEF as the leading bloggers for immediate ethics news and insights.  Mike breaks a ton of stories, you already know, and posts multiple times each day, and John among his regular posts does a nice annual roundup of the year's big stories, each December.  Some of those stories got covered, I explain, and some not, but in any event I think users will find the collection useful.  As the Foreword details, it is for a good cause.  Proceeds benefit the Tulane Public Interest Law Foundation, a nonprofit student org that sponsors indigent client representations and placements in public interest work.  Note:  Download FOREWORD here.

More details on the book itself and topics to come (and some chapters to be posted), if you do not want to read the Foreword, but mainly I wanted to preview the opportunity to buy this work.  Already it is available on Smashwords in multiple formats, such as ePub, PDF, HTML, rtf, and Palm, so anyone can read it without an app or Kindle. There the best format is PDF (footnotes do link) or the one for Sony readers, but we covered everything.

An even better format, with search function enabled and all links I added active, is on Kindle or its free apps for PC, iPad, Mac, iPhone, BlackBerry, and related devices or laptops.  The Amazon webpage for this timely book is now active and accepts downloads now, to an app.  But at least for now, Smashwords makes more money for PILF and also has the PDF, printable version, so that may be where you will go if you are not yet into Amazon ebooks.  Oh, on the iPad, use the Amazon app and the format should work great.  If not, let me know.

This is a followup to the post Publish Your Dissertation (but on topic for the blog!), and I can also help you publish other student seminar work and papers from academic conferences, preferably as part of the TPILF series.  The website for all this will be qpbooks.com, active tomorrow.  Submissions are on law and related subjects, not only legal ethics.  Much more info on proposals and other books sold are on the website.  For example, CLS scholar and Tikkun editor Peter Gabel did a digital version of The Bank Teller with me.