It is important that all faculty members, deans and law students get together at the beginning of each semester to discuss matters such as placement, academic standards, the honor code, professionalism and ethics, and trends in legal education and the legal profession. This lecture series is required of all first-year law students. It is the first stage of each student's professional responsibility obligation as future members of the legal profession. Fourteen lectures are scheduled throughout the first year of study on topics related to professionalism, ethics, the fundamental values of the legal profession, issues of gender and race in the profession, public service, public interest law, the lawyer's responsibility to serve others, and leadership. The lectures are presented by leaders in the legal profession, justices and judges, the dean and associate deans, and members of the law faculty.
Students have the opportunity to meet with many guest lecturers either before or after each lecture.
Because the obligation to attend is a matter of professional responsibility, no academic credit is given for this lecture series. An Educational Continuum . Values addressed and explored in the Professionalism Lecture Series also reflect Campbell's Christian mission and tradition. Lectures explore the influence of Judeo-Christian values on the legal system and on the manner in which lawyers conduct themselves within the system. An analysis of the legal profession from the perspective of stewardship and the concept of spiritual fulfillment as a practicing lawyer are also explored.