Faculty News for Professor Christopher Hines
Christopher T. Hines
Assistant Professor
B.A., Yale University
J.D., Columbia Law School
Email: chines@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-9489
Professor Hines Re-Appointed to SALT Faculty Development Workshop Planning Committee
Professor Hines has been re-appointed for an additional one-year term as a member of the SALT/LatCrit Faculty Development Workshop Planning Committee per the invitation of colleagues in the academy. At present, the conference is scheduled to take place at the Hilton O'Hare in Chicago, Illinois on October 3, 2013.
Professor Hines Presents at Legal Conference
Professor Christopher T. Hines presented his work-in-progress Corporate Legal Ethics/The Corporate Gatekeeper in Ethical Perspective in connection with a panel on "Rethinking Financial Regulation" at the 2012 Annual Conference of the Canadian Law and Economics Association at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (September 28-29, 2012). Further, Professor Hines also chaired a separate panel on financial regulation and associated working papers at this conference.
Professor Christopher Hines Appointed to SALT Planning Committee
Professor Hines has been appointed by invitation for a one-year term as a member of the SALT/LatCrit Faculty Development Workshop Planning Committee, and associated planning/participation in the SALT Teaching Conference: "Teaching Social Justice, Expanding Access to Justice: The Role of Legal Education & the Legal Profession." The conference will be held at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law from October 5-6, 2012. Additional event information is available at the SALT home page.
Professor Christopher Hines Presents at Business Law Conference
Professor Hines presented his paper "Corporate Legal Ethics/The Corporate Gatekeeper in Ethical Perspective" at the Third Annual Meeting of the National Business Law Scholars Conference, formerly known as the Midwest Corporate Legal Scholars Conference, June 27-28, 2012. It was a presentation of works-in-progress on the intersection of corporate law and legal ethics, including the proposed third and final article in this series that will tentatively claim that normative questions as to the corporate form are increasingly becoming questions of legal ethics. Additional conference information is available at the University of Cincinnati College of Law home page.
Professor Christopher Hines Presents at Faculty Workshop
Professor Hines presented his paper "The Corporate Gatekeeper in Ethical Perspective" at the Junior Faculty Regional Workshop at Washington University School of Law on February 17, 2012. He presented a working draft of the paper to selected junior faculty from law schools located in the Greater Midwest.
Hines Paper Accepted for Publication
The Corporate Gatekeeper in Ethical Perspective by Professor Christopher T. Hines has been accepted for publication in Volume 77 of the Missouri Law Review (2012, forthcoming). This article is the second in a proposed series of three articles on the intersection of corporate law and legal ethics. More specifically, the argument presented is that cases involving conflicts of interest in the corporate and securities law space may be viewed as primarily calling into question the ethical rules of the corporate gatekeeper. In support of such an argument, this article sets forth a framework for conflicts of interest scenarios that takes into account four categories of legal rules -- activity rules, disclosure rules, liability rules and ethical rules. The working draft of this article is available on SSRN.