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D. Don Welch

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Associate Dean for Administration .Professor of Law

Voice: (615) 322-0164
Fax: (615) 322-0936
Email: don.welch@vanderbilt.edu
Office: 154 Centre

Research Interest(s)

Law and ethics; professional ethics; legal education

Education

Ph.D., M.A. Vanderbilt University
B.A. Baylor University

Biography

Don Welch is an active scholar and teacher in the field of ethics and public policy. He has authored four books, including a history of Vanderbilt Law School released in 2007, and written on legal education and the intersection of law, ethics and policy in a variety of law journals. Dean Welch joined the Law School as Associate Dean in 1984, and holds a secondary faculty position in the Graduate Department of Religion. In addition to his substantial administrative responsibilities at the law school, he teaches interdisciplinary courses on law, ethics and public policy, and his courses draw students from the Vanderbilt's Graduate, Divinity, Business, Nursing and Medical schools as well as Vanderbilt's Public Policy Studies program.

Representative Publications

Books

Articles

  • "Just Another Day at the Office: the Ordinariness of Professional Ethics," 2 Professional Ethics 3 (1994). Reprinted in Ethics in the Workplace, Robert A. Larmer, ed. (2d edition, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2002). Reprinted in Ethics for the Professions, John Rowan and Samuel Zinaich, eds. (Harcourt Brace, 2003). Reprinted in 15 Tennessee's Business 14 (2006)

  • "'What's Going On?' in the Law School Curriculum," 53 Houston Law Review 1607 (2004)

  • "Ruling with the Heart: Emotion-based Public Policy," 6 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 55 (1997)

  • "Legitimate Government Purposes and the State's Enforcement of Morality," University of Illinois Law Review 401 (1993)

  • “Walking in Their Shoes: Paying Respect to Incompetent Patients,” 42 Vanderbilt Law Review 1617 (1989)

Working Papers

  • "Ethical Principles and Public Policy"


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