The Law Governing Lawyers: Model Rules, Restatement, and Other Sources of Law 2025-2026

Brad Wendel is the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law at Cornell Law School, where he teaches Professional Responsibility, Torts, Products Liability, and Mass Torts. Professor Wendel is the co-author of a casebook, Hazard, Koniak, Cramton, Cohen & Wendel, The Law and Ethics of Lawyering, and the author of a textbook, Professional Responsibility: Examples and Explanations. He has published two books on theoretical topics in legal ethics, Lawyers and Fidelity to Law (Princeton University Press 2010), and Canceling Lawyers (Oxford University Press 2024), along with numerous law review articles. From 2011 through 2012, Professor Wendel served as a Reporter to a working group within the ABA Commission on Ethics 20/20, which considered amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. He is currently a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct (COSAC).

Before joining the Cornell faculty, Professor Wendel clerked for the Honorable Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced law in Seattle, obtained a graduate degree in legal philosophy, and was on the faculty of Washington and Lee Law School.