Eric Singerman, '22, Wins the 2021 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition
Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion announces winners of 2021 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition
Notre Dame Law School’s Program on Ethics, Compliance & Inclusion has announced the winners of the 2021 Smith-Doheny Legal Ethics Writing Competition.
Eric Singerman, a rising third-year student at the University of Chicago Law School, was the first-place winner. Recent Notre Dame Law School graduate Daniel Judge ’21 J.D. took home the second prize.
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Singerman’s paper, “A Third Way: The Legal Ethics of Fugitive Slave Lawyers,” centers on the lawyers who defended fugitive slaves in trials that determined whether the “fugitives” would be sent back to slavery. He focused on the lawyers’ ethical beliefs, arguing that they exhibited a brand of professional ethics that were unique for their time but have mostly been glossed over by historians.
At the University of Chicago Law School, he is involved in the Global Human Rights Clinic, the Public Interest Law Society, and served as a student representative on the civilian review board for the University of Chicago Police Department. After graduation, Singerman will clerk for Judge Kathleen Cardone of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas.
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