Suggested Reading from Gunderson Lecture

On Monday, October 28, Robert Keatinge presented the 2013 Clark Y. Gunderson Lecture at the Law School.  Held annually as a lecture or symposium with the support from the University of South Dakota Foundation, the Gunderson Lecture is the Law School's preeminent lecture honoring Clark Y. Gunderson, a USD School of Law faculty member from 1934 to 1963.  Robert Keatinge is an attorney of counsel with the law firm of Holland & Hart, LLP in Denver, CO and practices in the areas of business organizations, taxation, and professional responsibility.  He has also taught at the University of Denver College of Law, Suffolk University School of Law and the University of Miami School of Law.  The title of Keatinge's lecture was "There is No Right Answer to the Wrong Question: Whither the Law?" To accompany the presentation, Keatinge provided a list of books for recommended reading.  Available in the McKusick Law Library are the following titles:

Sol Linowitz, The Betrayed Profession (2003)

Richard Susskind, The Future of Law (1996)

Richard Susskind, Transforming the Law (2003)

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In addition to these titles, the following titles were also on Keatinge's recommended reading list:

Richard Susskind, Tomorrow's Lawyers (2013)

Richard Susskind, The End of Lawyers (2010)

Brian Tamanaha, Failing Law Schoools (2012)

Bruce MacEwen (President of Adam Smith, Esq.), Growth is Dead, Now What?: Law Firms on the Brink, an Inquiry Into the Economics of Law Firms (2013)

Steven J. Harper, The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession in Crisis (2012)

(This entry was originally written and posted by Sarah Kammer)