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Integrity and inclusion.<\/strong> These were the themes of a special Temple Law Review<\/em> Symposium\u00a0held Friday, October 24, 2014 at the Law School in honor of University of Wisconsin\u00a0emeritus professor Bill Whitford. I organized the Symposium, which was attended by nearly\u00a0150 lawyers, scholars, and law students.<\/p>\n

If you read that carefully, you may wonder: why would Temple Law School honor the\u00a0senior member of what is essentially a competitor law school? Why did so many people\u00a0attend an event honoring an emeritus law professor from Wisconsin?<\/p>\n

The answer turns on the integrity and inclusiveness of Whitford\u2019s contribution to teaching\u00a0and scholarship in his 50-year career, as well as the special joint venture forged by Temple\u00a0and Wisconsin in order to bring the project to fruition.<\/p>\n

Whitford is one of the nation\u2019s leading writers and teachers on consumer and corporate\u00a0bankruptcy, contracts, and \u201claw and society\u201d (an important school of legal scholarship). He\u00a0was an early empiricist, producing studies of contracting practices that inspired generations\u00a0of scholars to look at the \u201claw in action.\u201d The Bankruptcy Research Database he created\u00a0with UCLA law professor Lynn LoPucki radically altered the nature of research in corporate\u00a0failure and bankruptcy.<\/p>\n

The Symposium was designed to be \u201cnot just a series of tributes to Bill,\u201d I said in my\u00a0introduction, \u201cbut instead an opportunity for leading scholars from around the world\u00a0influenced by his work to reflect and build on his scores of articles, book chapters and\u00a0books.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Panelists included Douglas Baird (University of Chicago), Jean Braucher (University of\u00a0Arizona, who organized the Symposium with me), Robert Hillman (Cornell), Robert Lawless\u00a0(University of Illinois), Angie Littwin (University of Texas), Lynn LoPucki (UCLA), Melissa\u00a0Jacoby (University of North Carolina), Stewart Macaulay (University of Wisconsin), Katie
\nPorter (UC-Irvine), Iain Ramsay (University of Kent-UK), David Skeel (University of\u00a0Pennsylvania), and Jay Westbrook (University of Texas). In addition, Senator Elizabeth\u00a0Warren (D-MA), formerly a professor of contracts and bankruptcy, recorded a 6-minute\u00a0video about Whitford\u2019s impact on her teaching and scholarship.<\/p>\n

The Symposium covered three major aspects of Whitford\u2019s work: (1) corporate
\nreorganization, in particular the work he and LoPucki did in developing the Bankruptcy\u00a0Research Database, and the enormous body of scholarship that grew from that database; (2)\u00a0consumer bankruptcy and protection, in particular efforts to identify meaningful system\u00a0reforms that go beyond the courtroom; and (3) comparative law and methodologies, with an\u00a0emphasis on Whitford\u2019s role in creating the field of comparative consumer bankruptcy, a
\nsubject of growing importance as household debt increasingly influences social welfare and\u00a0economic growth.<\/p>\n

The prestige of the panelists, and the depth and breadth of Whitford\u2019s contribution, drew\u00a0the attention of both national media (the event was covered by Reuters<\/a> (subscription\u00a0required) as well as the National Bankruptcy Archives<\/a>, which will house video footage of the Symposium. The video is also available now on Temple\u2019s website at\u00a0http:\/\/www7.law.temple.edu\/events\/whitford-symposium<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although these scholars covered a wide range of topics, many focused on Whitford\u2019s\u00a0commitment to integrity in the legal process, in scholarship, and in the classroom, where\u00a0Whitford not only taught thousands of students over the years, but developed one of the\u00a0earliest and most successful broad-based diversity programs in a law school – one that has\u00a0been emulated by other schools, including Temple.<\/p>\n

Whitford\u2019s commitment to inclusion was recognized at the Symposium not only through his\u00a0commitment to diversity, but in the very structure of the program itself. Joint ventures\u00a0among law schools are rare. This one\u2014among Temple, the University of Wisconsin and the\u00a0University of Arizona\u2014reflected the essence of Whitford\u2019s ability to reach across many\u00a0different types of scholars, in many different fields, all of whom share his basic\u00a0commitments to principled scholarship, access to justice and opportunities for those often
\nignored by the legal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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