David Wilkins

Ashish Nanda, David B. Wilkins & Bryon Fong, Mapping India’s Corporate Law Firm Sector, in The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The…

David B. Wilkins, Bryon Fong & Ronit Dinovitzer, The Women and Men of Harvard Law School: The Preliminary Results from the HLS Career Study (Harvard…

David B. Wilkins, David M. Trubek & Bryon Fong, Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem…

Mihaela Papa & David B. Wilkins, Globaliation, Lawyers and India: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis of Globalization Studies and the Sociology of the Legal Profession, 18…

David B. Wikins, Law Firms, in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences 578 (James D. Wright ed., 2nd ed. 2015).

David B. Wilkins, The Professional Responsibility of Professional Schools to Study and Teach About the Profession, 49 J. Legal Educ. 76 (1999).

David B. Wilkins & Maria J. Esteban Ferrer, The Integration of Law into Global Business Solutions: The Rise, Transformation, and Potential Future of the Big…

David B. Wilkins & Mitu G. Gulati, Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms?: An Institutional Analysis, 84 Calif. L. Rev.

David B. Wilkins, Straightjacketing Professionalism: A Comment on Russell, 95 Mich. L. Rev. 795 (1997).

David B. Wilkins, Race, Ethics, and the First Amendment: Should a Black Lawyer Represent the Ku Klux Klan?, 63 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1030 (1995).

David B. Wilkins, Making Context Count — Regulating Lawyers After Kaye, Scholer, 66 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1145 (1993).

David B. Wilkins, Presumed Crazy: The Structure of Argument in the Hill/Thomas Hearings, 65 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1517 (1992).

David B. Wilkins, Two Paths to the Mountaintop? The Role of Legal Education in Shaping the Values of Black Corporate Lawyers, 45 Stan. L. Rev.

David B. Wilkins, Who Should Regulate Lawyers, 105 Harv. L. Rev. 801 (1992).

Thomas B. Metzloff & David B. Wilkins, Foreword, Teaching Legal Ethics, 58 Law & Contemp. Probs. 1 (1995).

David B. Wilkins, How Should We Determine Who Should Regulate Lawyers? — Managing Conflict and Context in Professional Regulation, 65 Fordham L. Rev. 465 (1996).

David B. Wilkins, Legal Realism for Lawyers, 104 Harv. L. Rev. 468 (1990).

David B. Wilkins, Practical Wisdom for Practicing Lawyers: Separating Ideals from Ideology in Legal Ethics, 108 Harv. L. Rev. 458 (1994)(reviewing Anthony T. Kronman, The…

David B. Wilkins, Redefining the ‘’Professional” in Professional Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Professionalism, 58 Law & Comtemp. Probs. 241 (1995).

David B. Wilkins, Social Engineers or Corporate Tools? Brown v. Board of Education and the Conscience of the Black Corporate Bar, in Race, Law, and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and ideology of the legal profession. We will…

David B. Wilkins, On Being Good “and” Black, 112 Harv. L. Rev. 1924 (reviewing Paul M. Barrett, The Good Black: A True Story of Race…

David B. Wilkins, Team of Rivals? Toward a New Model of the Corporate Attorney-Client Relationship, 78 Fordham L. Rev. 2067 (2010).

David B. Wilkins, Rollin’ On the River: Race, Elite Schools, and the Equality Paradox, 25 Law & Soc. Inquiry 527 (2000).

David B. Wilkins, Is the In-House Counsel Movement Going Global? A Preliminary Assessment of the Role of Internal Counsel in Emerging Economies, 2012 Wisc. L.

David B. Wilkins & Mitu G. Gulati, Reconceiving the Tournament of Lawyers: Tracking, Seeding, and Information Control in the Internal Labor Markets of Elite Law…

David B. Wilkins & G. Mitu Gulati, What Law Students Think They Know about Elite Law Firms: Preliminary Results from a Survey of Third Year…

David B. Wilkins, John Robinson Wilkins and the Resources of the Law: Testing the Limits of Race, Law and Development, and the American Legal Profession,…

David B. Wilkins, A Systematic Response to Systemic Disadvantage: A Response to Sander, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 1915 (2005).

David B. Wilkins, From “Separate is Inherently Unequal” to “Diversity is Good for Business”: The Rise of Market-Based Diversity Arguments and the Fate of the…

David B. Wilkins, “If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Beat ‘Em!”: The Rise and Fall of the Black Corporate Law Firm, 60 Stan. L. Rev. 1733…

David B. Wilkins, Partner, Shmartner! EEOC v. Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1264 (2007).

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam As the seminar description indicates, in this seminar we will use a series of in-depth case studies to examine…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the discussion, and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the discussion,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will write 2-3 page response papers (which will be graded pass/fail) using the problem to highlight…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and ideology of the legal profession. We will…

David B. Wilkins, Five Reasons Why Law Firms Are Not Making Progress on Diversity, 13 CBA Rec. 20 (1999).

Ben W. Heineman, Jr. & David B. Wilkins, The Lost Generation?, 30 Am. Law. 85 (2008).

Ben W. Heineman Jr. & David B. Wilkins, Too Hot to Handle?, 33 Am. Law. 49 (2011).

David B. Wilkins, What’s in a Name? Sometimes Everything You Need to Know, 62 B.C. L. Rev. 2681 (2021)…

David B. Wilkins, David M. Trubek & Bryon Fong, Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies: The Rise, Transformation, and Significance of the New Corporate Legal Ecosystem…

David B. Wilkins, Justice as Narrative: Some Personal Reflections on a Master Storyteller, 6 Harv. BlackLetter L.J. 68 (1989).

David B. Wilkins, In Defense of Law and Morality: Why Lawyers Should Have a Prima Facie Duty to Obey the Law, 38 Wm. & Mary…

David B. Wilkins, Class Not Race in Legal Ethics: Or Why Hierarchy Makes Strange Bed Fellows, 20 Law & Hist. Rev. 147 (2002).