Editor in Chief, Bryan O’keefe, of the Penn State Law Review is pleased to announce the Inaugural Alumni Guest Lecture and Reception.
The Penn State Law Review cordially invites you to an
Alumni Guest Lecture and Reception
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
6:00 p.m. Lecture ∙ 7:00 p.m. Reception
Lewis Katz Hall
333 West South Street ∙ Carlisle, PA 17013
(Lecture simulcast to University Park; Room TBA)
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2011 Guest Lecturer – William Henderson
Director of the Center on the Global Legal Profession at
Indiana University, The Maurer School of Law
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Following the lecture, students, faculty, and staff are invited to continue
the discussion with alumni and guests at a reception.
To attend, kindly R.S.V.P. by April 11 to alumni@law.psu.edu
or call 888-DSL-ALUM (375-2586)
About William Henderson
Professor Henderson is a nationally recognized expert on the legal profession and legal education. He has been widely cited in newspaper articles on the impact of the recession on the legal field and law schools, including the recent New York Times article, “Is Law School a Losing Game?” His latest feature article, “Lawyer Morality is No Match for the U.S. News Rankings” will appear in a forthcoming issue of National Jurist.
Professor Henderson joined the Indiana Law faculty in 2003 following a visiting appointment at Chicago-Kent College of Law and a judicial clerkship for Judge Richard Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He teaches various business law courses, including Corporations, Business Planning, and a class on law firms as business organizations.
In conjunction with other Indiana law faculty, Henderson is developing The Legal Profession, a new course which explores how different practice settings (e.g., corporate practice versus criminal defense versus government lawyers) influence the moral and ethical duties of lawyers.
Henderson’s scholarship focuses on empirical analysis of the legal profession and legal education. His published work includes articles in The North Carolina Law Review, The Indiana Law Journal, The Texas Law Review, The Michigan Law Review, and The Stanford Law Review. In the law firm context, he is currently examining a wide variety of market trends, including patterns of lawyer mobility, the relationship between profitability and associate satisfaction, the economic geography of large law firms, and attrition rates of female and minority attorneys. His recent legal education work explores the relationship between labor markets and the annual U.S. News & World Report law school rankings.