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Class of 1978, On the Internet (2 of 2): Tanina RostainFROM: New York Law SchoolTanina Rostain Professor of Law Codirector, Center for Professional Values and Practice Cochair, New York Law and Society Colloquium Tanina Rostain has devoted much of her career to thinking about the way that lawyers and the legal profession frame the issues of our time, an intellectual pursuit that follows naturally from her earlier graduate studies in ethics and political philosophy at Yale University. Professor Rostain’s current research focuses on how lawyers and accountants interpret legal questions, a topic that has assumed great visibility after the collapse of energy giant Enron and the subsequent investigation of its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen. Professor Rostain received a B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1981, an M.A. from Yale University in 1983, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1987, where she served as an articles editor on the Yale Law Journal. She returned to Yale Law School in 1996 as a Keck Foundation Fellow in Legal Ethics and Professional Culture. The result of her fellowship research was “Ethics Lost: Limitations of Current Approaches to Lawyer Regulation,” which argues that a regulatory approach to legal ethics that focuses exclusively on deterring lawyers from violating rules overlooks the importance of fostering shared professional commitments to upholding laws and the legal framework. Over the past five years, Professor Rostain has written in the areas of legal ethics, law, and social science. Before joining the New York Law School faculty, Professor Rostain taught in the clinical program at the University of Connecticut School of Law from 1992–1995. Prior to that, she was associated with the Stamford, Connecticut, law firm Silver Golub & Teitell. She has served on the Boards of Directors of the Connecticut Civil Liberties Foundation and the Yale Initiative for Public Interest Law. For several years, she was a member of the Connecticut Bar Association Committee on Gender Bias in the Profession. After law school, Professor Rostain spent a year clerking for Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Ellen Ash Peters, the first woman to be named a justice in that court and the first to serve as its chief justice. An important trailblazer in the profession, Justice Peters is both an inspiration and intellectual mentor for Professor Rostain. Professor Rostain sees herself as “part of a group of academics and practitioners around the country trying to deepen the conversation about professionalism.” She looks at law schools as an important place for such conversations to occur. As codirector of the Center for Professional Values and Practice, Professor Rostain’s goal is to create an institutional space where lawyers’ varied roles in society are explored and debated. As she notes: “The Center’s curriculum allows students to investigate, through study and experiential learning, what lawyers actually do. The Center’s program is organized around giving students the opportunity to appreciate the different types of work lawyers do and to develop what we call ‘reflective professionalism’—the capacity to articulate and be reflective about the varying ethical norms that govern lawyers’ conduct.” “What law school can do is nurture and reinforce the sense of professionalism that many students are attracted to,” she explains. “There is so much about the legal profession that is admirable. We must teach students to be clear-eyed and critical about the legal profession’s many problems, but also give them inspirational role models so that they will seek to contribute to society and lead meaningful professional lives.” SOURCE: http://www.nyls.edu/pages/393.asp |
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