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Law School Leadership And Leadership Development For Developing Lawyers, Louis D. Bilionis
Law School Leadership And Leadership Development For Developing Lawyers, Louis D. Bilionis
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A growing number of legal educators are calling for greater attention to leadership development as an element of legal education at American law schools. Some make the case directly in the name of leadership education. Others see leadership development as part of a broader law school responsibility to provide purposeful support for students in the formation of their professional identity. For yet others, development of leadership skills figures in a law school’s appropriate commitment to the professionalism, professional development, or wellness of its students. These educators, though employing different locutions, constitute a “coalition of the willing” – law school faculty …
Bringing Purposefulness To The American Law School’S Support Of Professional Identity Formation, Louis D. Bilionis
Bringing Purposefulness To The American Law School’S Support Of Professional Identity Formation, Louis D. Bilionis
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Ten years after the publication of Educating Lawyers, a growing number of American law schools are taking initiative to better support their students in the formation of professional identity. There is widespread recognition that success in these efforts requires an element of “purposefulness” on the part of law faculty and staff. Experiences, environments, and pedagogies that actually work for professional identity formation must be crafted and promoted with intentionality. Bringing the requisite purposefulness to the effort, however, will take a mindset about the education of a lawyer that will be new to many in legal education. This article explores that …
Professional Formation And The Political Economy Of The American Law School, Louis D. Bilionis
Professional Formation And The Political Economy Of The American Law School, Louis D. Bilionis
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This article proposes that a comprehensive model for doing professional formation in law school is now in sight. The model can work for formation – which is to say that it has the right vision of the fundamentals and the appropriate program features and pedagogies to effectively support students in the development of their professional identities. The model also can work for the political economy of the typical American law school – which is to say that its strategy and approach to roles and resources makes it congenial to postulates about power, resources, work, and governance that shape relations inside …
Looking Back In Pursuit Of The Art Of Law, Gordon A. Christenson
Looking Back In Pursuit Of The Art Of Law, Gordon A. Christenson
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As part of the centennial celebration of the Washington College of Law, I am pleased to accept the invitation of The Law Review to revisit those six fascinating years of my deanship from 1971 to 1977. It is time for a backward glance in light of the profound changes that have since taken place in society, as well as in the Washington College of Law (WCL).
Studying Law As The Possibility Of Principled Action, Gordon A. Christenson
Studying Law As The Possibility Of Principled Action, Gordon A. Christenson
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The study of law may be viewed as the critical analysis of a system of logically coherent rules governing action. In the United States, the responsibility for legal education has traditionally fallen upon the law schools. Within the legal profession and law schools a restive spirit now prevails, seeking to further clarify the meaning of that responsibility.' Two responses appear in the law schools, for good or ill.
In Pursuit Of The Art Of Law, Gordon A. Christenson
In Pursuit Of The Art Of Law, Gordon A. Christenson
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The following is the address given by the author upon his installation as Dean of The American University Law School, on October 31, 1971.