Author Archives: Alice Woolley

About Alice Woolley

LL.M. (Yale), LL.B. (Toronto), B.A. (Toronto), Professor, University of Calgary, Faculty of Law, Member of the Alberta Bar. Alice Woolley is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law. She received her B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Toronto, where she was the gold medallist in law and recipient of the Dean’s Key for outstanding contribution to extra-curricular activities of an academic nature. She received her LL.M from Yale Law School. Professor Woolley’s research interests are in the areas of legal ethics and professional regulation, with a particular interest in the intersection of professional regulation, moral philosophy and moral psychology. She is the author of Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics in Canada (2011) and the co-editor and co-author of Lawyers’ Ethics and Professional Regulation, 2d ed. (2012). Her academic articles have discussed the good character requirement for law society admission, the regulation of extra-professional misconduct, access to justice, the regulation of civility, lawyer self-regulation and the theoretical foundations of the lawyer’s role.