Mark Spiegel

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Mark Spiegel

At a glance...
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Professor
Law School

spiegelm@bc.edu

Office Location
Law School
EW424

617.552.4326
LAB/20255

    BACKGROUND

Mark Spiegel is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. Professor Spiegel received his A.B. from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School.

Professor Spiegel was a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow assigned to work in legal services in Chicago. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he directed the law school's clinical program.

At Boston College Law School, he has taught Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Civil Rights Litigation, Complex Litigation and Professional Responsibility.

He has also been Faculty Director of the Boston College Legal Assistance Bureau. During the Fall of 1991 he visited at Harvard Law School, teaching Civil Procedure. He has been on the Board of Directors of the Society of American Law Teachers and has served on the AALS Accreditation Committee. Professor Spiegel's research interests have focused on problems of professional ethics, particularly lawyer-client relations, and legal education. He recently published "The Case of Mrs. Jones Revisited: Paternalism and Autonomy in Lawyer-Client Counseling," in the Brigham Young Law Review.

EDUCATION

A.B., University of Michigan; J.D., University of Chicago.

RECENT ACTIVITIES

Presentations: "Legal Aid in the 1920s: Whither Law Reform," at the New England Clinical Teachers Conference at Boston University School of Law in April 2005.

Promotions: Promoted from associate professor to full professor of law.

Other: Taught at the University of Paris, in Nanterre, France, in April.

COURSES

Fall 2011: Civil Procedure; Federal Courts
Spring 2012: Civil Procedure

PUBLICATIONS
  • "The Boston Legal Aid Society, 1900-1925." Massachusetts Legal History 9 (2003): 17-48.
  • "The Story of Mr. G.: Reflections upon the Questionably Competent Client." Symposium: Case Studies in Legal Ethics. Fordham Law Review 69 (December 2000): 1179-1203.
  • "The Rule 11 Studies and Civil Rights Cases: An Inquiry Into the Neutrality of Procedural Rules." Connecticut Law Review 32 (Fall 1999): 155-207.
  • "The Case of Mrs. Jones Revisited: Paternalism and Autonomy in Lawyer-Client Counseling." Brigham Young Law Review 1997: 307-338.
  • "Lawyers and Professional Autonomy: Reflections on Corporate Lawyering and the Doctrine of Informed Consent." Western New England Law Review 9 (1987): 139-152.
  • "Theory and Practice in Legal Education: An Essay On Clinical Education." UCLA Law Review 34 (February 1987): 577-610.
  • "The New Model Rules of Professional Conduct: Lawyer-Client Decisionmaking and the Role of Rules in Structuring the Lawyer-Client Dialogue." American Bar Foundation Research Journal, 1980, no. 4: 1003-1015.
  • "Lawyering and Client Decisionmaking: Informed Consent and the Legal Profession." University of Pennsylvania Law Review 128 (November 1979): 41-140.