Professor Lynn Mather has been invited to deliver the keynote address for the conference “Regulating the Legal Profession,” on Nov. 25, at the University College Dublin (UCD) in Dublin, Ireland. The conference will focus on proposed reforms to the legal profession in Ireland within the wider context of changes to the provision and regulation of legal services internationally. Panels will include internationally distinguished specialists in the regulation of the legal profession as well as discussants from various bodies with interests in the regulation of the legal profession.
Mather, a Professor of Law and Political Science at the University at Buffalo, is a leading scholar in the field of law and society. She has published extensively on lawyers, legal professionalism, women in the legal profession, courts in popular culture, litigation against tobacco, trial courts and public policy, divorce mediation, plea bargaining, and the transformation of disputes. She was director of the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, an endowed academic center for interdisciplinary research on law and legal institutions from 2002-2008. Before moving to UB Law School in 2002, Mather held the Nelson A. Rockefeller Chair in Government at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. While at Dartmouth, Mather served as department chair, acting director of the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences and, in 1995, was awarded the Dartmouth College Distinguished Teaching Award.
