For Immediate Release
November 29, 2006

Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

Professor Heidi Li Feldman

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University Law Center Professor Heidi Li Feldman has been selected as a 2006 Fellow of the National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism.

The National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism (NIFTEP) was established in 2005 as a consortium of centers on ethics and professionalism at Fordham University, Mercer University, the University of South Carolina, Stanford University, and Georgia State University.

NIFTEP conducts annual workshops that bring together leading academics and practitioners who promote the teaching of ethics and professionalism. The inaugural NIFTEP workshop took place in 2005. Feldman will participate in the 2006 workshop in Georgia from December 15-17.

Feldman joined the Georgetown faculty in 1997. Before coming to Georgetown, she served on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School. She currently writes and teaches in the areas of tort law, contracts, legal ethics and legal and political theory. Feldman has published numerous articles and essays on these topics and has presented her work at law schools in Canada, England, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and the U.S. She has also conducted Grand Rounds at the National Institutes of Health, speaking on "Medical Malpractice Law: The Physician's Best Friend."

Feldman received a B.A. in ethics and political philosophy from Brown University in 1986, a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1990, and a Ph.D. in philosophy with concentrations in ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of science and epistemology from the University of Michigan in 1993. In 1984-85, she studied philosophy at Cambridge University, where she sat for exams in ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

 

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