LAWS 2190 Professional Responsibility

Name: Professional Responsibility
Rating: 3.64 (813 reviews)

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 overview

Department: Law
School: LAW
Credits: 2
Level: Graduate
Offered: Every Fall,Every Spring

Requirements fulfilled

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Official evaluation summary

3.64 / 5

Based on 813 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

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Course and evaluation data last updated 2026-08-02. Source details and limitations are documented in Data Sources and Methodology.

Instructors

Brandon White
Fall 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 3.83/5
Edward Cheng
Spring 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023 · Official rating 3.43/5
Glenn Cunha
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022 · Official rating 4.25/5
Nancy Kaufman
Spring 2022 · Official rating 3.80/5
Paul Tremblay
Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022 · Official rating 4.58/5
Stacey Best
Spring 2024, Spring 2023 · Official rating 3.03/5
Stacy Silveira
Fall 2025 · Official rating 2.38/5
Stuart Hurowitz
Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021 · Official rating 4.45/5
Thomas Maffei
Fall 2023 · Official rating 3.96/5

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