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The Fordham Law Review, the Neuroscience and Law Center, the Center on Race, Law and Justice, and the Stein Center for Law and Ethics presents Mental Health and the Legal Profession Symposium November 6, 2020 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. CLE COURSE MATERIALS Table of Contents - Terry Harrell, ABA Working Group to 1. Speaker Biographies (view in document) Advance Well-Being in the Legal Profession Commission on Lawyer Assistance 2. CLE Materials Programs Standing Committee on Professionalism National Organization of Mental Health and the Legal Profession Bar Counsel, Am. Bar Ass’n. 105 (2018). (view in document) 1. Introduction: The Problem of Lawyers’ Mental Health in the Decade of the 2020s - Yair Listokin and Ray Noonan, Measuring - John Barkett, The Ethics of Lawyers Lawyer Well-Being Needing Assistance, in Section of Litigation Systematically: Evidence from the National & Solo, Small Firm and General Practice Health Interview Survey, __ J. Empirical Division CLE Conference (2019). Legal Stud. ___ (2020) (forthcoming). (view in document) (view in document) - Susan A. Bandes, Repression and Denial in Additional Resources (view in document) Criminal Lawyering, 9 Buff. Crim. L. Rev. 339 (2006 ). (view in document) - Susan A. Bandes, Empathic Judging and the Rule of Law, Cardozo L. Rev. De Novo 133 (2009). (view in document) - Susan A. Bandes, Why One in Three Lawyers Are Problem Drinkers, NAT’L L. J., (2 016) (view on web) (view in document) 2. Challenges for Lawyers of Color -Shelley C. Anand & Nelson R. Williams, Lawyering in Color: The Ethics of Diversity and Inclusion, 48 Lab. & Emp. L. 1 (2020). (view in document) - Brandon Greene, Mirror, Mirror: Anti- Blackness and Lawyering as an Identity, 35 Harv. B.L. Law J. 19 (2019). (view in document) 3. Challenges for LGBT & Women in the Law - Takeia R. Johnson, LGBT Attorneys of Color in the Legal Profession: A Discourse on Inclusion, 64 Fed. L. 48 (2017). (view in document) - Amanda Robert, Ethical dilemmas emerge when attorneys keep mental health struggles private, AM. BAR ASS’N. J. (2020) (view on web) (view in document) 4. Responses to the Problem - Peter H. Huang, Can Practicing Mindfulness Improve Lawyer Decision- Making, Ethics, and Leadership, 55 Hous. L. Rev. 63 (2017). (view in document) Mental Health and the Legal Profession – November 6, 2020 Speaker Bios Hon. Bernice Donald The Honorable Bernice Donald has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2011. Previously, she served on the U.S. District and U.S. Bankruptcy Courts. She received her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, her LLM from Duke Law School, and an honorary Doctorate from Suffolk University. She is a frequent lecturer and writer on implicit bias and diversity. Susan Bandes Susan A. Bandes is a scholar in the areas of criminal procedure and civil rights, and a pioneer in the interdisciplinary study of the role of emotion in law. Prior to joining the DePaul law faculty in 1984, she worked at the Illinois State Appellate Defender and then as staff counsel to the Illinois ACLU. She has written more than 70 articles, which appear in the Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Michigan and Southern California law reviews, as well as interdisciplinary journals like Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, and the Law and Society Review. Her book The Passions of Law was published by NYU Press in 2000. She is a member of the American Law Institute, a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and the founder of the Law and Society Association’s Collaborative Research Network on Law and Emotion. Joseph Bankman A leading scholar in the field of tax law, Joseph Bankman is the author of two widely used casebooks on the subject. His writings on tax policy cover topics such as progressivity, consumption tax and the role of tax in the structure of Silicon Valley start-ups. He has gained wide attention for his work on how government might control the use of tax shelters and has testified before Congress and other legislative bodies on tax compliance problems posed by the cash economy. He has written and spoken extensively on how we might use technology to simplify filing. He also worked with the State of California to create ReadyReturn—a completed tax return prepared by the state that is available to low-income and middle-income taxpayers. Professor Bankman is a clinical psychologist as well as a lawyer. He teaches mental health law and writes on the intersection of law and psychology. He has developed a course on anxiety psychoeducation that has been taught at Stanford and Yale Law Schools, and written on how insights from social psychology might be used in the effort to reduce tax evasion. Alex Bransford Alex Bransford serves as a law clerk to the Hon. Bernice Donald. Previously, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. Xavier Rodriguez of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio. Alex graduated from Cornell Law School in 2019. Previously, he was an English teacher in Las Vegas through Teach for America and completed a Fulbright teaching English in Bulgaria. Jenny Carroll Jenny E. Carroll is the Wiggins, Child, Quinn, & Pantazis Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law and Chair of the Alabama State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Professor Carroll graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law and received an L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center where she was a Prettyman Fellow. Prior to joining the academy Prof. Carroll clerked for the Hon. William Wayne Justice of the Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and worked as a public defender in Washington, D. C. and Seattle, Washington. In addition, she served as that Academic Director of the Ohio Innocence Project. Her areas of expertise are criminal law and procedure, juvenile justice, evidence and national security law. Meera Deo Meera E. Deo, JD, PhD, is Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation. Her research merges jurisprudence with empirical methods to interrogate institutional diversity, affirmative action, and racial representation. Professor Deo’s book, Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia (Stanford University Press, 2019), draws from her landmark Diversity in Legal Academia project, which examines how the intersection of race and gender affect interactions with faculty and students, tenure and promotion, work/life balance, and other aspects of the law faculty experience. The National Science Foundation (NSF), Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship, AccessLex Institute, and others have supported her groundbreaking research. Professor Deo has served as a Senate-appointed member of the California Commission on Access to Justice, an empirical research consultant to the ACLU of Southern California, and Chair of the AALS Section on Law and the Social Sciences. Michele Goodwin Michele Bratcher Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Irvine and founding director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. She is the recipient of the 2020-21 Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research, the highest honor bestowed by the University of California. She is also the first law professor at the University of California, Irvine to receive this award. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute as well as an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Hastings Center (the organization central to the founding of bioethics). She is an American Law Institute Adviser for the Restatement Third of Torts: Remedies. Darren Hutchinson Professor Hutchinson is the Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar at the Levin College of Law. He has written extensively on issues related to Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, Law and Sexuality, and Social Identity Theory. His publications have appeared in numerous legal periodicals. Recently, his scholarship has extensively analyzed the racist dimensions of punitive sentiment and the implications of this issue for criminal justice reform and antidiscrimination law. In addition to UF Law, Professor Hutchinson has taught at Southern Methodist School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the American University Washington College of Law. Professor Hutchinson received a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Yale Law School. He also clerked for the late Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York. Craig Konnoth Craig Konnoth, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School. An expert in health and civil rights law, Professor Konnoth teaches Health Law, Property Law and Sexuality and the Law. His publications have appeared or will appear in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, among others. He is also active in LGBT rights litigation, and has filed briefs in the Supreme Court, including Bostock, and the Tenth Circuit on LGBT rights issues. Professor Konnoth is formerly a Deputy Solicitor General with the California Department of Justice, where his docket primarily involved cases before the United States Supreme Court, in addition to the California Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He holds a J.D. from Yale, and an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. He clerked for Judge Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Tsedale Melaku Tsedale M. Melaku is a Sociologist, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of the 2019 book You Don't Look Like a Lawyer: Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism, which reflects the emphasis of her scholarly interests on race, gender, class, workplace inequality, diversity, and occupations.