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Milton C. Regan


Co-Director, Center for the Study of the Legal Profession, McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence

B.A., University of Houston; M.A., University of California, Los Angeles;  J.D., Georgetown

Areas of Expertise:

Legal Profession and Professional Ethics

Mitt Regan is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.  His work focuses on ethics, corporations, law firms, and the legal...

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Mitt Regan is Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Legal Profession.  His work focuses on ethics, corporations, law firms, and the legal profession.   Before joining Georgetown, Professor Regan clerked for Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. of the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked as an associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell in Washington, DC.  At Davis Polk he worked on matters relating to white-collar crime and the defense of attorneys and accountants. 

Professor Regan is the author of Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer (University of Michigan Press 2004); Alone Together: Law and the Meanings of Marriage (Oxford University Press, 1999); Family Law and the Pursuit of Intimacy, (New York University Press, 1993); co-author with Jeffrey D. Bauman of Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice (Thomson/West 2005); and co-editor with Anita L. Allen, of Debating Democracy's Discontent: Essays on American Politics, Law, and Public Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1998), and numerous articles and book chapters.



Featured Scholarship

  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Lisa H. Rohrer, Money and Meaning: The Moral Economy of Law Firm Compensation, St. Thomas L. Rev. (forthcoming).   
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Tanina Rostain, Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry (MIT Press forthcoming).   
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. Taxes and Death: The Rise and Demise of an American Law Firm, in 52 Studies in Law, Politics and Society: Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice 107-144 (Austin Sarat ed., Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press 2010).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press 2004).    [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Jeffrey Bauman, Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2005).    [BOOK]

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Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress

  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Tanina Rostain, Confidence Games: Lawyers, Accountants, and the Tax Shelter Industry (MIT Press forthcoming).   
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Lisa H. Rohrer, Money and Meaning: The Moral Economy of Law Firm Compensation, St. Thomas L. Rev. (forthcoming).   

Books

  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Judith C. Areen, Family Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press 5th ed. 2006).    [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Jeffrey Bauman, Legal Ethics and Corporate Practice (St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West 2005).    [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Eat What You Kill: The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press 2004).    [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Judith C. Areen, Family Law: Cases and Materials (New York: Foundation Press 4th ed. Supp. 2004).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. & Palmer T. Heenan, Supply Chains and Porous Boundaries: The Disaggregation of Legal Services , 78 Fordham L. Rev. 2137-2191 (2010).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Bruce MacEwen & Larry Ribstein, Law Firms, Ethics, and Equity Capital, 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 61-94 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Lawyers, Symbols, and Money: Outside Investment in Law Firms, 27 Penn St. Int'l L. Rev. 407-438 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Moral Intuitions and Organizational Culture, 51 St. Louis U. L.J. 941-987 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Lauren A. Weeman, Stephen Gillers, George W. Miller, John C. Keeney, Jr. & Mary Clark, Twenty Years of Legal Ethics: Past, Present, and Future, 20 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 321-346 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Risky Business, 94 Geo. L.J. 1957-1984 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Legal Ethics: A Corporate Compliance Model?, 19 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 313-315 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Teaching Enron, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 1139-1249 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Ethics, Law Firms, and Legal Education, 55 Me. L. Rev. 363-372 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Corporate Norms and Contemporary Law Firm Practice, 70 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 931-943 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Taking Law Firms Seriously, 16 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 155-173 (2002).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Separation Anxiety, 4 Green Bag 2d 319-329 (2001) (reviewing Norma Basch, Framing American Divorce: From the Revolutionary Generation to the Victorians (1999)).    [L] [W]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Calibrated Commitment: The Legal Treatment of Marriage and Cohabitation, 76 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1435-1466 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Law, Marriage, and Intimate Commitment, 9 Va. J. Soc. Pol’y & L. 116-152 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Foreword: Professional Responsibility and the Corporate Lawyer, 13 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 197-215 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., 55 J. Legal Educ. 454-471 (2005) (reviewing Jean Stefancic & Richard Delgado, How Lawyers Lose Their Way: A Profession Fails Its Creative Minds (2005)).    [HEIN] [W]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Milton C. Regan, Jr. Taxes and Death: The Rise and Demise of an American Law Firm, in 52 Studies in Law, Politics and Society: Law Firms, Legal Culture, and Legal Practice 107-144 (Austin Sarat ed., Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press 2010).    [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Bankrupt in Milwaukee: A Cautionary Tale, in Legal Ethics Stories 203-232 (David Jay Luban & Deborah L. Rhode eds., New York: Foundation Press 2006).    [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Between Justice and Commitment, in Just Marriage 67-74 (Joshua Cohen & Deborah Chassman eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004).    [BOOK]
  • Milton C. Regan, Jr., Morality, Fault, and Divorce Law, in Marriage in America: A Communitarian Perspective 219-231 (Martin King Whyte ed., Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2000).   

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