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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 …
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.