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The Contemplative Lawyer: On The Potential Contributions Of Mindfulness Meditation To Law Students, Lawyers, And Their Clients, Leonard L. Riskin
The Contemplative Lawyer: On The Potential Contributions Of Mindfulness Meditation To Law Students, Lawyers, And Their Clients, Leonard L. Riskin
UF Law Faculty Publications
This Article proposes that introducing mindfulness meditation into the legal profession may improve practitioners' well-being and performance and weaken the dominance of adversarial mind-sets. By enabling some lawyers to make more room for - and act from - broader and deeper perspectives, mindfulness can help lawyers provide more appropriate service (especially through better listening and negotiation) and gain more personal satisfaction from their work.
Part I of this article describes a number of problems associated with law school and law practice. Part II sets forth a variety of ways in which lawyers, law schools, and professional organizations have tried to …
False Dichotomies And Asking The Right Questions, John Wade
False Dichotomies And Asking The Right Questions, John Wade
John Wade
This is a comment on a recent article entitled Enacting and Reproducing Social and Individual Identity Through Mediation by Ho-Beng Chia, Chee-Leong Chong, Joo-Eng Lee-Partridge, Chantel Chu Shi Hwee, and Sharon Francesca Koh Wei-Fei, in Conflict Resolution Quarterly, 2000, 19(1).