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May 8, 2024 – A Debate on the Supreme Court Code of Conduct with Professors Michael S. McGinniss and John S. Dzienkowski

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Event: A Debate on the Supreme Court Code of Conduct with Professors Michael S. McGinniss and John S. Dzienkowski
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Time: 12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m.
Location: Arts District Mansion
2101 Ross Ave. | Dallas, TX 75201
CLE Credit: CLE and ethics credit pending

Michael S. McGinniss is Professor of Law and J. Philip Johnson Faculty Fellow at the University of North Dakota School of Law, where he joined the faculty in 2010 and served as the Dean from 2019 to 2022. Before entering the legal academy, Professor McGinniss served for twelve years as a Disciplinary Counsel for the Supreme Court of Delaware.  Professor McGinniss currently teaches Professional Responsibility, Federal Courts, Conflict of Laws, and Advanced Legal Ethics; and he serves as Faculty Advisor for the North Dakota Law Review and the UND Law Federalist Society student chapter.  Professor McGinniss graduated summa cum laude and first in his class from Washington College and received his legal education at the College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, where he graduated third in his class and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.  Upon graduation from law school, he served as the law clerk for the Honorable Randy J. Holland of the Supreme Court of Delaware. 

John S. Dzienkowski is the Dean John F. Sutton, Jr. Chair in Lawyering and the Legal Process at the University of Texas School of Law.  Professor Dzienkowski joined the Texas faculty in 1988 and teaches and writes in the areas of professional responsibility of lawyers, real property, international energy transactions, and oil and gas taxation.  Professor Dzienkowski is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a high honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law.  While in law school, John served as the editor-in-chief of the Texas Law Review and he received the honors of a member in the UT Chancellors and the Order of the Coif.  He served as a judicial law clerk for Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Joseph Sneed in 1983–84 and for District of Massachusetts Judge Robert Keeton in 1984–85.