ACLPA Annual Legal Ethics Symposium
Scott Cummings (UCLA/ACLPA) on ‘Democracy in Legal Jeopardy: What Attacks on the American Bar Teach about Professional Resistance'
- Date
- 18 June 2026
- Time
- 15:00 -17:30
- Location
- Roeterseilandcampus - building A
- Room
- A3.15
About the speaker
Scott Cummings is the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about the legal profession, legal ethics, access to justice, and local government law.
A recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor Cummings is the founding faculty director of the UCLA Program on Legal Ethics and Democracy, which promotes empirical research and innovative programming on the challenges facing lawyers in the twenty-first century, and a long-time member of the UCLA David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
In 2021, Professor Cummings was selected as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute and a fellow at the Stanford Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences to study the role of lawyers in strengthening the rule of law. He was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship to study the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding.
Professor Scott Cummings guests as a distinguished visiting professor of Legal Ethics at the Amsterdam Centre on the Legal Professions and Access to Justice from April 2025 to the end of the academic year 2025-2026.
Read more about his work and research here.
