LAWS2190 · Law
Boston College Law School
This course focuses on central issues of professional responsibility faced by most lawyers in the practice of law, whether in the public or private sector. Included may be problems of client confidences, conflicts of interest, behavior in court, obligations to represent unpopular clients and other restrictions on a lawyer's own speech and actions. Other topics focus on the fundamental moral responsibility of lawyers, analyzed in terms of the rules governing attorney conduct, principles of moral philosophy and the pressures that create ethical blindness.
Course experience
Averages use the original five-point historical evaluation scale.
Organization
4.3 / 5
How well the course was organized
Challenge
3.9 / 5
How intellectually challenging students found it
Attendance
4.0 / 5
How necessary attendance was
Assignments
4.1 / 5
How helpful assignments were
Weekly effort
~3.5
hours per week
Estimated from the original workload response buckets. Individual sections may differ.
Instructor options
Ratings below reflect only recovered evaluations connected to this course.
Clinical Professor, Law Faculty
4.7 / 5
4.3 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Law Faculty
4.4 / 5
3.9 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Law Faculty
3.5 / 5
3.2 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Law Faculty
4.3 / 5
3.9 / 5
Part Time Faculty, Law Faculty
3.1 / 5
2.8 / 5
Across time
Section-level results available in the recovered archive.
Spring 2025
1 sectionFall 2024
2 sectionsSpring 2024
4 sectionsFall 2023
3 sectionsSpring 2023
4 sectionsFall 2022
3 sectionsSpring 2022
3 sectionsFall 2021
2 sectionsSpring 2021
1 sectionFall 2020
2 sectionsSpring 2020
2 sections