The Legal Profession

Author and Speaker

 “Curricula for Legal Studies”

Paper presented by invitation at the International Bar Association Conference, The Hague, 1948

Advocating practical (clinical) legal training at a time when it was rare in law school curricula.

Resolution adopted by IBA House of Deputies: “That any system of legal education should provide for an adequate measure of practical training before a student is permitted to practice the profession of the law.”

Washington World Conference on World Peace Through Law

Washington, D.C., September 12-18, 1965

Selma Moidel Smith at the Washington World Conference on World Peace Through Law with Chief Justice Earl Warren, Conference Chair — U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., September 15, 1965.

Selma Moidel Smith at the Washington World Conference on World Peace Through Law with Chief Justice Earl Warren, Conference Chair — U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., September 15, 1965.

Delegate Representing —

International Federation of Women Lawyers,

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles,

National Association of Women Lawyers, and

Iota Tau Tau International Legal Scholastic Society.

Appointed to Language Committee —

to serve as host and Spanish interpreter for Latin-American judges and lawyers, including Fernando Baudrit, President of the Supreme Court of Costa Rica.

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American Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Division

Liaison from National Association of Women Lawyers

On opportunities for lawyers in the growing field of Elder Law:

“Elder law booms as nation ages”

Women Lawyers Journal 84:2 (Summer 1998): 18. Photo of Selma Moidel Smith with (l.-r.) ABA President Jerome J. Shestack, ABA Executive Director Robert A. Stein, SLD Chair-Elect Newton P. Allen, and SLD Chair Leigh B. Middleditch, Jr.