Deborah Rhode, Who Transformed the Field of Legal Ethics, Dies at 68
A Stanford professor, she pushed the legal profession to confront the ways it failed clients and to be more inclusive of women.
Deborah Rhode in 1993. She spent over four decades teaching at Stanford and was by far the most-cited scholar in legal ethics.Credit.Chuck Painter/Stanford News Service
Published Jan. 18, 2021Updated Jan. 25, 2021
Deborah L. Rhode, a law professor who transformed the field of legal ethics from little more than a crib sheet for passing the bar exam into an empirically rich, morally rigorous investigation into how lawyers should serve the public, died on Jan. 8 at her home in Stanford, Calif. She was 68.