Next semester, I'm teaching a geography class that has a section on #TOPIC. I'd like to have someone who deals with #TOPIC in the real world come in for a guest lecture in one class period. My wife happens to be a #TOPIC lawyer, so she would be suitable, except that I have a sense that it would be ethically dubious to have her as the speaker. Due
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What about having a panel and just including your wife on it as well as some other experts on the topic? That way, she won't feel slighted but you'd also have a range of points of view present.
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And, FWIW, I agree that your wife should forgo any honorarium.
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If you're worried, I'd give your department chair a heads up, and keep it sort of informal. Otherwise, I can't see any reason to be concerned.
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