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Timothy P. Terrell Professor of Law constitutional law, professional responsibility
Timothy P. Terrell, a former Fulbright scholar, received another Fulbright grant-in-aid for scholarly research and teaching in England. Before coming to Emory, he practiced with the Atlanta law firm of Kilpatrick & Cody. His works include "Rethinking Professionalism" and "When Duty Calls" both published in the Emory Law Journal (1992), Thinking Like a Writer: A Lawyer's Guide to Effective Writing and Editing (Clark Boardman Company, 1992); "Transsovereignty: Separating Human Rights from Traditional Sovereignty and the Implications for the Ethics of International Law Practice," Fordham International Law Journal (1994); and "A Tour of the Whine Country: The Challenge of Extending the Tenets of Lawyer Professionalism to Law Professors and Law Students," Washburn Law Journal (1994); "Ethics with an Attitude," Law and Contemporary Problems (1996); "Professionalism as Trust: The Unique Internal Legal Role of the Corporate General Counsel," Emory Law Journal (1997); and several articles on legal writing and editing for West Publishing Company's Perspective periodical. Professor Terrell has organized conferences on topics such as "Rethinking Liberalism" and "Human Rights and Human Wrongs: Investigating the Jurisprudential Foundations for a Right to Violence." He is director of the Hugh M. Dorsey, Jr., Fund for Professionalism and also has been active in continuing legal education for practicing lawyers, presenting programs around the country for the American Law Institute and the National Practice Institute on legal writing and legal ethics. He served part-time as the director of professional development for the Atlanta law firm of King & Spalding, assisting that firm in developing its associate training program. He also helped produce two videotape-based educational programs on legal ethics, one for prosecutors and criminal defense lawyers, the other involving representation of clients in the healthcare industry. Professor of Law. B.A., University of Maryland, 1971; J.D., Yale University, 1974; Diploma in Law, Oxford University, 1980.
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