Eli Wald is a leading legal ethics and legal profession scholar. His work has examined topics such as conflict of interests and attorney disqualification, increased lawyer mobility, attorney-client communications, lawyers’ fiduciary duties to clients and the regulation of the corporate bar. Wald’s ongoing research into the causes and manifestations of prejudice at large law firms, as well as means of overcoming discrimination, has gained national attention. Recent work has been published by the Stanford, University of Colorado and Fordham law reviews and by peer reviewed journals such as Legal Ethics and the Journal of Legal Education.

Professor Wald joined the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2002. Wald graduated from the Tel-Aviv University School of Law in Israel in 1997 where he was a law review editor and a visiting fellow at the Max Plunk Institutes in Hamburg and Heidelberg, Germany. He went on to earn a masters and doctorate degrees at Harvard Law School, where he was a John Olin Fellow in Law and Economics, a fellow at the Center for Ethics and the Professions, and a Clark Byse Fellow. Prior to joining the Sturm College of Law, Wald was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. Professor Wald, in addition to being a CLE instructor, legal ethics expert commentator for LexisNexis, and expert witness, is a member of the Colorado Supreme Court Standing Committee on the Colorado Rules of Professional Conduct and a member of the Colorado Bar Association’s Ethics Committee. Wald is the 2009-2010 Hughes-Ruud Research Professor at the Sturm College of Law, a year-long appointment dedicated to law and society research.

The Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law was established in 1971 with a gift from Mrs. Elda Delaney, honoring her son, Charles Delaney, JD’35, who was killed during World War II. Thompson G. Marsh held the Delaney Jr. Chair from 1971 until his retirement in 1987 and was succeeded by William M. Beaney. David (Jake) W. Barnes, currently the Distinguished Research Professor of Law at the Seton Hall Law School, held the chair between 1993 and 2001 and was followed by Julie Nice, who was the Delaney Jr. Professor between 2002 and 2009 before she joined the University of San Francisco Law School as the Herbst Foundation Professor of Law.