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Developing Career Paths In Legal Academia: Prospects And Challenges, Christian N. Okeke
Developing Career Paths In Legal Academia: Prospects And Challenges, Christian N. Okeke
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Presentation given at the Academic & Career Advancement Symposium (ACAS) 2019 Held at the Faculty of Law, Enugu State University of Science & Technology, Friday, 5 July 2019.
Pulling Back The Curtain: Implicit Bias In The Law School Dean Search Process, Michele Benedetto Neitz
Pulling Back The Curtain: Implicit Bias In The Law School Dean Search Process, Michele Benedetto Neitz
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This Article stems from the author’s experience chairing multiple dean searches and research interest in the existence, genesis, and effects of implicit bias. Part II of this Article will review the role of a law school dean, with special consideration of the ways the Great Recession and its outcomes transformed the role of the dean. Part III will describe the typical dean search process and evaluate decanal diversity statistics to determine which candidates are selected for these powerful roles in today’s law schools. Part IV will introduce the concept of implicit bias, specifically focusing on ingroup favoritism. This part will …
Respect For Community Narratives Of Environmental Injustice: The Dignity Right To Be Heard And Believed, Helen H. Kang
Respect For Community Narratives Of Environmental Injustice: The Dignity Right To Be Heard And Believed, Helen H. Kang
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Part I of this article covers the history of the shipyard at Hunters Point in San Francisco and, as told through stories and voices of residents, the disregard government agencies overseeing the cleanup showed the community. Part I also discusses the massive cleanup fraud that has prolonged the cleanup of nuclear contamination at the shipyard. Part II of the article connects environmental injustice storytelling to the dignity of communities overburdened by pollution. Part Ill discusses how advocates and teachers, in particular professors of environmental clinics, can better integrate these narratives in environmental justice advocacy and teaching, in the classroom and …
From The Courtroom To The Classroom: How A Litigator Became A Transactional Drafting Professor, Amy Bauer
From The Courtroom To The Classroom: How A Litigator Became A Transactional Drafting Professor, Amy Bauer
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Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
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Mindfulness involves paying attention with curiosity in an intentional, open, and compassionate way to life as it unfolds moment to moment. Law students, lawyers, law professors, legal clients, and indeed all people can improve their lives through mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead to individual benefits and personal transformation. Mindfulness can also lead to societal benefits and social change. This invited symposium contribution exemplifies how mindfulness can facilitate the positive personal and professional development of law students by presenting excerpts of law students' answers discussing mindfulness to questions from the final examination of the course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Notably, none of …
Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
Mindfulness In Legal Ethics And Professionalism, Peter H. Huang
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Mindfulness involves paying attention with curiosity in an intentional, open, and compassionate way to life as it unfolds moment to moment. Law students, lawyers, law professors, legal clients, and indeed all people can improve their lives through mindfulness. Mindfulness can lead to individual benefits and personal transformation. Mindfulness can also lead to societal benefits and social change. This invited symposium contribution exemplifies how mindfulness can facilitate the positive personal and professional development of law students by presenting excerpts of law students’ answers discussing mindfulness to questions from the final examination of the course: Legal Ethics and Professionalism. Notably, none of …