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Normative, And Somewhere To Go? Reflections On Professional Responsibility, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
Normative, And Somewhere To Go? Reflections On Professional Responsibility, Richard F. Devlin Frsc
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In this article the author offers some reflections on professional responsibility. He straddles the optimist and pessimist perspectives espousing ''pessoptimism" as a more adequate position than either extreme. The author begins by deconstructing the title of the conference in which the paper was delivered: "A New Look: A National Conference on the Legal Profession and Ethics," which took place in Calgary, in June 1994. Pursuing a middle path between the optimistic and pessimistic approaches to professional responsibility, the author outlines the parameters of his ethical vision which provides some directions for legal practice. There are three elements to his restructured …
Some Thoughts On A More Humanist And Equitable Legal Education, A. Wayne Mackay
Some Thoughts On A More Humanist And Equitable Legal Education, A. Wayne Mackay
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This article starts with the premise that all teaching is a communication of values between student and teacher. An important challenge in confronting law is making it more inclusive and equitable. A critical step in this process is first recognizing one's own biases. Only then will genuine dialogue about the inherent biases in the legal profession and in law schools be possible. Making law schools more inclusive entails not only superficial changes, but an examination of what is taught, how it is taught and how students are evaluated.