James Moliterno is the Vincent Bradford Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University School of Law where he has a leadership role in the reformed third-year curriculum. For 21 years prior to joining the W&L faculty in 2009, he was the Tazewell Taylor Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Skills Program at the College of William & Mary, serving also as Vice Dean from 1997-2000. He has taught legal ethics courses and professional skills courses over the past thirty years. A member of the American Law Institute, he is author or co-author of six books and numerous articles on legal ethics and the teaching of legal ethics. The William & Mary Legal Skills Program, under his direction, was recognized as a model for the teaching of professional skills and ethics, receiving the inaugural ABA Gambrell Professionalism Award in 1991. He has engaged in substantial international legal ethics and legal education reform work, designing new lawyer and judge ethics courses, and training professors, judges and lawyers in various countries.
