Director, BA in Law - Master in Legal Studies Programs | Associate Scholar, Law
Keith Swisher is Professor of Legal Ethics and Director of the Bachelor of Law and Master of Legal Studies Programs at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Prof. Swisher teaches legal ethics and procedure, serves as ethics counsel and expert witness to lawyers, law firms, and judges, and represents indigent defendants in the Ninth Circuit. His scholarshiis regularly published and cited in the areas of legal and judicial ethics and disqualification, and he previously founded and edited the first blogs on judicial ethics and lawyer disqualification. He is a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility and has served on the Editorial Board of ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct. In 2011, he received the ABA's Rosner Rosner Young Lawyer Professionalism Award, and in 2016, he received the AJC's Learned Hand Emerging LeadershiAward.