Stephen Gillers
Stephen Gillers has been Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law since 1978 and Vice Dean from 1999-2004. He holds the Emily Kempin chair. He does most of his research and writing on the regulation of the legal profession. His courses include Regulation of Lawyers, Evidence, and Law and Literature (which he teaches with graduate school dean Catharine Stimpson).
Professor Gillers has written widely on legal and judicial ethics in law reviews and the legal and popular press. He has taught legal ethics as a visitor at other law schools and has spoken on lawyer regulatory issues in the U.S. and abroad - often for legal ethics CLE credit - including at federal and state judicial conferences, law firms and general counsel's offices, ABA meetings, state bar meetings nationwide, before Congress, and in law school lectureships. Professor Gillers is the author of Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, a widely used law school casebook first published by Little, Brown, now Aspen, in 1985 and currently in its seventh edition. With Roy Simon, he has edited Regulation of Lawyers: Statutes and Standards, published annually by Little, Brown, then Aspen, since 1989. He is currently chair of the American Bar Association's Policy Implementation Committee of the ABA's Center for Professional Responsibility.
Following a clerkship with Chief Judge Gus J. Solomon in Federal District Court in Portland, Oregon, Professor Gillers practiced law for nine years in various settings in New York City before joining the Law School faculty.