5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Wolfberg Courtroom | Administration Building
3737 Vartan Way
Harrisburg, PA 17110
Fourth Annual Justice Strong Lecture on Ethics and the Business Lawyer: "Outcomes-based vs. Compliance-based Regulation: Going Beyond Box-checking"
Widener University Commonwealth Law School will host the Fourth Annual Justice Strong Lecture on Ethics and the Business Lawyer on Monday, April 27, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. in the Wolfberg Courtroom. This in-person lecture will offer 1 CLE credit (ethics).
The lecture will be delivered by Professor Miriam Goldby, Professor of Shipping, Insurance and Commercial Law at the Queen Mary University of London School of Law and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas.
The Lecture will engage with the notion of outcomes-based regulation, contrasting it with compliance-based (“box-checking”) regulation, and comparing it with Justice Strong’s outcomes-based approach to the interpretation of legal texts including the Constitution. She will focus on an example of outcomes-based regulation found in the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)’s Model Laws and Conventions in the field of Electronic Commerce. Although these are instruments of private law, they contain a requirement that the methods used to transact electronically in accordance with them be “reliable”.
Professor Goldby will consider where this reliability requirement originates, why it is in the nature of an outcomes-based regulatory requirement, and why it has been greeted with some consternation by businesses across the globe. She will use this requirement to illustrate what may be some of the potential benefits of outcomes-based regulation.
1 CLE credit (ethics) will be available.
For CLE questions or additional information, please contact [email protected]
