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Professor Kim Economides

Professor of Legal Ethics
BA (CNAA); LLM (Lond.); FSALS

email: K.M.Economides@ex.ac.uk tel: (+44) (0)1392 263379 fax: (+44) (0)1392 263196

Profile
Kim Economides is Professor of Legal Ethics and a former Head of Exeter School of Law (1999-2004). He was Acting Director of the Centre for Legal Practice (2005-2006) prior to the Centre's transfer to the University of Plymouth. Thirty years ago, before coming to Exeter he was a researcher on the Florence Access to Justice Project based at the European University Institute in Italy. He co-directed the ESRC-funded Access to Justice in Rural Britain Project (1983-1987) and from 1993-95 was seconded as Education Secretary to the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education & Conduct (ACLEC). He was Founding General Editor of the international journal Legal Ethics and in 2004 organised the First International Lawyers' Ethics Conference (ILEC 1) at Exeter, and in July 2008 opened ILEC 3 on the Gold Coast in Queensland. In May 2009 he spoke at the opening plenary of the International Association of Law School's conference at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He has chaired the Board of Trustees of the Hamlyn Trust since 2004 and been series editor of the prestigious Hamlyn Lectures. He has recently advised the Law Society of England & Wales on the reform of ethical training for future solicitors in anticipation of changes in the market for legal services brought about by the Legal Services Act 2007, having been appointed in 2006 as Specialist Adviser to the Joint Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill, and currently is advising Lord Hunt's Legal Regulation Review. From July 2009 he will be Professor of Law and inaugural Director of the Otago Legal Issues Centre based in the Faculty of Law at the University of Otago in New Zealand: http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/2009/08-06-09_press_release.html

External Positions and Appointments

• Distinguished Visiting Mentor and Fleming Visiting Fellow, John Fleming Centre for Advancement of Legal Research, ANU College of Law, Canberra, 2008: http://law.anu.edu.au/jfcalr/2008_visitors.asp
• Member, Team of Experts in Law, Evaluation Committee of Private Universities (ECPU), Republic of Cyprus, 2008: http://www.ecpu.ac.cy/index_en.htm
• Specialist Adviser, Joint Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill, (June-July 2006) supporting the inquiry of the Joint Committee on the Draft Legal Services Bill: http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/jcdlsb.cfm
• Member, International Scientific Council, Cologne Research School on the Internationalisation of Law, University of Cologne, 2006-
• Visiting Professor, School of Law, Flinders University, Adelaide, 2005.
• Chairman, Board of Trustees, Hamlyn Trust, 2004-09 http://www.law.ex.ac.uk/hamlyn/index.shtml ; Hamlyn Series Editor, 2005-09 (Cambridge University Press): http://www.cambridge.org/haml
• Member, Civil Justice Council sub-committee on Litigant Information, 1998-2003; sub-committee on Access to Justice 2003-05. http://www.civiljusticecouncil.gov.uk/index.htm
• Member, Law Society (Education &) Training Committee, 2003-06 http://www.lawsoc.org.uk ; Chairman, Ethics Education Forum, 2004; Panel Member, Children Panel Assessment Organisation, 2006.
• International consultant to United Nations Development Project (UNDP)/Latvian Ministry of Justice project advising on Policy Framework for Establishing Functional Legal Aid System in Latvia: ProjectLAT/01/004 'Support to Judicial Reform in Latvia', 2002-03. http://www.tm.gov.lv/index.php?aid=587
• International consultant to Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), advising on the establishment of a legal aid scheme in Serbia , 2003.
• Member, ISA/RCSL Working Group on Comparative Legal Professions, leader of sub-group on: Legal Education (1994-98); Legal Ethics (Deontology) (1998-); and Legal Professional Values & Identities (2006-). http://www.rcsl.iscte.pt/rcsl_wg_professions.htm
• 2002 Chapman Tripp Visiting Fellow, University of Victoria , Wellington , New Zealand .
• Member, Management Committee, Devon Law Centre, 2001-06. http://www.devonlawcentre.org.uk
• Vice-Chairman, Exeter District Racial Equality Council (1996-98); Exeter University representative on Executive Committee, Devon & Exeter Racial Equality Council (1998-2001) http://www.devonrec.org.uk/
• Founding General Editor, Legal Ethics 1998-08 http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/le/
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board of International Journal of the Legal Profession 1993- ; Butterworths Law in Context Series 1995-04; International Journal of Law in Context 2004- ; Law & Society Review 2003-07 and , Revista de Direito do UniFOA 2007- ; Consultant Editor, Amicus Curiae 1997-
• 1997 Canon Foundation Visiting Professor and Guest Professor, Chuo University , Tokyo . Fellow of the Canon Foundation 1997- http://www.canonfoundation.org/index.html
• Affiliated researcher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2000 -. ELK project (Education and Legal Knowledge) http://faculty.law.ubc.ca/ELK/Research_Affiliates.html#economides
• Fellow of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London , 1998-. http://ials.sas.ac.uk/society.htm
• Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2009-. http://www.heacademy.ac.uk
• Associate Senior Research Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2001-02; Member, IALS Library Committee, 2003-7.
• Member, Society of Legal Scholars (former SPTL) Libraries Sub-Committee, 2002-08. http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk
• Member, Board of Trustees, Instituto Direito e Sociedade (IDES).
• Member, Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA). http://www.slsa.ac.uk/
• Member, Law & Society Association (LSA). http://www.lawandsociety.org
• Secretary, Education Sub-Committee, Lord Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Legal Education and Conduct (ACLEC) 1993-95.

Teaching
Undergraduate

Introduction to Law
Legal Process (including Legal Ethics)

Postgraduate

From October 2007 Kim has offered new LLM modules:

Comparative Access to Justice (30 credits)
Comparative Civil Process (15 credits)
Comparative Legal Professions (15 credits)

PhD Supervision
Kim welcomes approaches from prospective doctoral students.


Research Interests
Legal Ethics, including socio-legal/comparative research on legal practice, with reference to professional regulation, rural legal services, legal education/skills and legal technology. Storytelling in legal organisations. Interdisciplinary research on the relationship between law and geography.

Publications

• Preparatory Skills Training for Trainee Solicitors (1991), with J. Smallcombe Law Society Research Study No.7, The Law Society, London. viii + 74 pp. ISBN: 1853280046.

• Justice Outside the City. Access to Legal Services in Rural Britain (1991), with M. Blacksell and C. Watkins, Longman, Harlow. xiii + 250 pp. ISBN: 0582042968.

• "Law and Geography: New Frontiers" in Legal Frontiers ed. P. A. Thomas in Applied Legal Philosophy Series gen.ed. T. Campbell, Dartmouth, 1996, pp.180-207.

• "Cynical legal studies" in Educating for Justice: Social Values and Legal Education eds. J. Cooper and L. Trubek, Dartmouth, 1997, pp. 26-38.

• "Educating lawyers for the new millennium - the ethical dimension" (Canon Foundation Visiting Professorship Lecture) 31:3 Comparative Law Review, 1997, pp.157-174.

• Ethical Challenges to Legal Education and Conduct, (ed.) Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1998, xxxiii + 366 pp. Foreword by Lord Steyn. ISBN: 1-901362-10-8 (hbk). "Legal Ethics - Three Challenges for the Next Millennium", in Ethical Challenges to Legal Education and Conduct, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1998, pp.xvii-xxxiii.

• "The Ethical Imagination", with J. Webb, Legal Ethics , Vol.1, No.1, 1998, pp.1-15. (Inaugural issue of a new journal published twice annually by Hart Publishing, Oxford, 1998-. ISSN: 1460-728X.) http://www.hartjournals.co.uk/le

• "Lendo as ondas do 'Movimento de Acesso à Justiça': epistemologia versus metodologia?" in Cidadania, Justiça E Violência ed. D.Pandolfi et al., Rio de Janeiro: Fundação Getúlio Vargas, 1999, pp. 61-76.

• "Learning the Law of Lawyering", Current Legal Problems 1999 , Vol.52, ed M.D.A.Freeman, OUP, 1999, pp. 392-418.

• "The Political and Ethical Economy of the New Lawyering", with J. Flood, Legal Ethics , Special Issue,Vol.2, No.2, 1999, pp. 105-108.

• K. Economides et al. (eds.), Fundamental Values. A Volume of Essays to Commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the Founding of the Law School in Exeter 1923-1998 . Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2000, xii + 359pp. Foreword by Lord Alexander. ISBN: 1-84113-118-0 (hbk).

• 'What are fundamental legal values?' in K Economides et al. (eds), Fundamental Values, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2000: 3-13.

• "New Horizons for Professional Regulation", with J. Webb, Legal Ethics, Vol.4, No.1, 2001.

• 'Lawyers on the long path to Enlightenment?', Legal Ethics , Vol.4, No.1, 2001.

• 'Legal Education' in International Encyclopaedia of Social & Behavioral Sciences Vol. 3.8, Article: 157 Elsevier, Amsterdam, (2001)

• “2002: A Justice Odyssey” Victoria University of Wellington Law Review, Vol.34:1, 2003, pp. 1-17. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=421620

• “Understanding Ethical Legal Behaviour”, with J. Webb, Legal Ethics, Vol.5, 2003, pp. 1-5.

• “Devon Law Bus” Legal Action, May 2003, pp 9-10.

• “Ethics of Public Legal Service”, with C. Sampford Legal Ethics (Special Issue), Vol. 6:1, 2003, pp.1-3

• "(Re-)Examining the Foundations of Legal Ethics and Conduct", with J. Webb, Legal Ethics, Vol.6:2, 2003, pp.1-5.

• "Now We Are Six: The Quest for Certainty in an Uncertain Legal World", with J. Webb, Legal Ethics, Vol.7:1, 2004, pp.1-4.

• "Ethinomics and the Determinants of Legal Professionalism” Legal Ethics, with J. Webb, Vol.8:1, 2005", pp.1-3.

• "In Celebration of Ethical Idealism", with J. Webb, Legal Ethics, Vol.8:2, 2005, pp.179-181.

• "The Road to Justice Revisited; Current Trends in Professional Legal Ethics", Recht der Werkelijkheid, Vol 27:1, 2006, pp.3-18. http://vsr.ruhosting.nl/page8/page36/files/RdW2006-1.pdf

• "Legal Ethics in Effective Legal Education" in Can Justice be Taught? Social Responsibility and Law School Education, ed. S. Brown et al. (Kwansei Gakuin University Press, 2006) [in Japanese] pp.47-78. English version: The Law Teacher , Vol. 41:2, 2007, pp. 155-168: http://hdl.handle.net/10036/65074

• “ Can Human Rights Survive? A Symposium on the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures”, with W. Twining, G. Phillipson, S. Chakrabarti and C. Gearty Public Law Summer, 2007, pp. 209-210.

• “The Moral of the Story: Toward an Understanding of Ethics in Organisations and Legal Practice.”, with M. O'Leary, Legal Ethics, Vol.10:1, 2007, pp.5-25. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1120226

• “The Ring of Gyges and Legal Ethics”, with J. Webb, Legal Ethics Vol.10:1, 2007, pp. 1-4.

• “The Impact of Ethical Climates on Changing Legal Landscapes”, with J. Webb, Legal Ethics Vol.10:2, 2008, pp.115-117.

•  “Should Lawyers Swear? ” , with J.Webb, Legal Ethics Vol.11:1, 2008, pp. 1-7.

•  Preparatory ethics training for future solicitors (2009) with J. Rogers, The Law Society, London. + 94 pp. http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/influencinglaw/policyinresponse/view=article.law?DOCUMENTID=41935