Laurel S. Terry
Harvey A. Feldman Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law

Education:
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
B.A., University of California, San Diego

Professor Terry is internationally known for her expertise in the field of legal ethics and the international and inter-jurisdictional regulation of the legal profession and maintains an active personal webpage with global legal practice resources. Recently, Professor Terry has been participating in, and researching and writing about, issues related to the application of the World Trade Organization’s GATS agreement to legal services, the application of EU competition policy to legal services, and the effect of the Bologna Process on legal education.

She serves on the International Bar Association’s World Trade Organization Working Group and has made presentations to the WTO and United Nations on the IBA’s behalf. She also provides the content for the ABA GATS-Legal Services webpage, is a special advisor to the ABA Task Force on GATS Legal Services Negotiations, is vice-chair of the Transnational Legal Practice Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law, and is a consultant to the Conference of Chief Justices’ International Agreements Committee. With respect to domestic issues, she is a member of the ABA Joint Committee on Lawyer Regulation, which is assisting states as they implement of the Reports on the ABA Ethics 2000 Commission and Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice. She also is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Legal Ethics Committee and is principal editor of The Pennsylvania Ethics Handbook. In the past, Professor Terry served as a consultant to the American Bar Association (ABA) committee that drafted the cross-border legal practice agreement between the ABA and the Brussels bars, served as an ABA observer at the 1998 Paris Forum on Transnational Practice for the Legal Profession, and submitted materials and comments to the ABA Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice and Commission on Multijurisdictional Practice, both of which cited her submissions in their reports.

Professor Terry’s scholarship has been informed by her study abroad on sabbatical leaves supported by Fulbright grants: in 2005-06, she spent the year in Cologne, Germany, as a Fulbright Senior Scholar studying the effect in Germany of the EU Competition Report on Professional Services; in 1998, she spent a year in Germany studying the regulation on multi-disciplinary professional practice, which was allowed in Germany; and in 1992 she studied comparative legal ethics and the CCBE Code of Conduct in Vienna. She has published extensively in law journals, including the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Minnesota Law Review, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, and the Washington University Global Legal Studies Law Review. Professor Terry teaches Professional Responsibility, Civil Procedure and a seminar on Cross-Border Legal Practice.

Contact Information:
E-mail: lterry@psu.edu
Phone: (717) 240-5262
Principal Office: Carlisle

Personal Web page

Selected Publications:
The European Commission Project Regarding Competition in Professional Services, 28 Nw J. Int’l L. & Bus. 1 (2009).

Transnational Legal Practice: 2006-07 Year-in-Review, 42 Int’l Law. 833 (2008).

The Future Regulation of the Legal Profession: The Impact of Treating the Legal Profession as 'Service Providers, 2008 J. Prof. Law. 189 (2008).

"The Legal World is Flat: Globalization and its Effect on Lawyers Practicing in Non-Global Law Firms," 28 NW J. Int’l L. & Bus. 527 (2008).

The Bologna Process and its Impact in Europe: Much More than Degree Changes, 41 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 107 (2008).

A 'How To' Guide for Incorporating Global and Comparative Perspectives into the Required Professional Responsibility Course, 51 St. Louis U. L.J. 1135 (2007).

The GATS and Legal Services in Limerick, 15 Mich. St. J. Int'l L. 635 (2007).

Current Developments Regarding the GATS and Legal Services: The Suspension of the Doha Round, "Disciplines" Developments, and Other Issues, 76 The Bar Examiner 27 (2007).

Living with the Bologna Process: Recommendations to the German Legal Education Community from a U.S. Perspective, 7 German L. J. 863 (2006).

U.S. Legal Ethics: The Coming of Age of Global and Comparative Perspectives, 4 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 463 (2005).

But What Will the WTO Disciplines Apply To? Distinguishing Among Market Access, National Treatment and Article VI: 4 Measures When Applying the GATS to Legal Services, 2003 The Prof. Law. 83 (2004).

Global Legal Practice Symposium: Foreword, 22 Penn St. Int'l L. Rev. 527 (2004).

GATS: A Handbook for International Bar Association Member Bars (2002).

MDPs, 'Spinning,' and Wouters v. Nova, 52 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 867 (2002).

GATS' Applicability to Transnational Lawyering and its Potential Impact on U.S. State Regulation of Lawyers, 34 Vand. J. Transnat’l L. 989 (2002).

MDPs: Reflections From the US Perspective, 8 Int’l J. Legal Prof. 151 (2001).

German MDPs: Lessons to Learn, 84 Minn. L. Rev. 1547 (2000).

A Primer on MDPs: Should the 'No' Rule Become a New Rule?, 72 Temp. L. Rev. 869 (1999) .

A Case Study of the Hybrid Model for Facilitating Cross-Border Legal Practice: The Agreement Between the American Bar Association and the Brussels Bars, 21 Fordham Int'l L.J. 1382 (1997). 

An Introduction to the European Community's Legal Ethics Code Part I: An Analysis of the CCBE Code of Conduct, 7 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 1 (1993).