Pepperdine School of Law to Host 2015 Dean’s Forum on Advancing Professional Formation
Pepperdine University School of Law will host the 2015 Dean’s Forum on Advancing Professional Formation on Sunday, March 1, and Monday, March 2 at the Malibu campus.
Jointly sponsored by Pepperdine’s Parris Institute for Professional Formation and by the University of St. Thomas Law School, the two-day event features keynote speaker William M. Sullivan speaking about “Professionalism Education as a Social Movement.”
Sullivan was the co-director of the Carnegie Foundation’s Preparation for the Professions Program, and lead author of Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law. He recently completed a book tentatively titled, Exploring Self, World, and Calling: Finding Purpose through Liberal Education. Sullivan is senior scholar at the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts at Wabash College, in Indiana. Prior to working at the Carnegie Foundation, Sullivan was professor of philosophy at LaSalle University. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Fordham University.
To register for the event, please contact Danny DeWalt.