Jon Lee on Sanctioning Lawyers Who Commit Crimes

In this episode, Jon J. Lee, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research and Frank Elkouri and Edna Asper Elkouri Professor in Law at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, discusses his article "Sanctioning Lawyer-Criminals," which is published in the Washington and Lee Law Review. Lee begins by explaining how the legal profession regulates itself and disciplines lawyers. He describes the history of how the legal profession has disciplined lawyers who commit crimes, including which crimes it has considered worthy of discipline and why. He presents an empirical study of how different jurisdictions currently discipline lawyers for criminal activity. And he reflects on how the legal profession ought to address criminality. Lee is on Twitter and Bluesky.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Spears-Gilbert Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye and on Bluesky at @brianlfrye.bsky.social. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.